Drapetsona

A 43-year-old man was arrested in Piraeus near Athens on Friday on charges of sexual abuse, child pornography, and solicitation of minors.

The Samhain Athens Fire Festival returns this year to the Lipasmata Multifunctional Park in Drapetsona, Piraeus.

Ministry officials and representatives of shipyard workers have met and agreed on increased safety measures at shipyards during the summer, following a fatal accident on Monday.

A 47-year-old crane operator died and two others were injured in the accident, which took place during repair work on a ship.

Police arrested on Wednesday night a trolley bus driver after an anonymous tip informing them that the man he was carrying a weapon.

The driver, who serves route 20 from Faliro to Drapetsona, was detained  in Piraeus. During the search, officers found an air gun and a police baton which were confiscated. 

The suspect will be led before a prosecutor on Thursday.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis helped serve Christmas lunch to dozens of people in need at a soup kitchen in the Piraeus suburb of Keratsini on Friday.

Parents and even more so grandparents of students of Drapetsona's Second Primary School - at the junction of Georgiou Afara and Eleftherios Venizos Streets - may not be aware of methanethiol (methyl-merkaptani in Greek) but they can certainly recognise the odour in the air that they breathe.

The pictured building on Plapouta Street in Exarchia is one of 13 derelict structures that are to be demolished in the wake of concerns following last Friday's 5.1-magnitude quake in the capital. Municipal authorities have ordered that the buildings - in Exarchia, Monastiraki, Petralona, Aegaleo and Piraeus - be torn down amid fears for their stability following the temblor.

A 5.1-magnitude earthquake that hit the Greek capital on Friday afternoon damaged several buildings, while four people were hospitalized with injuries, none of them serious.

Two old buildings reportedly collapsed in Athens and two people were lightly injured after the 5.1-magnitude earthquake that hit the Greek capital on Friday afternoon, authorities said.
The Seismological Center of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki said the quake, which struck at 2:13 p.m., was close to the surface, which explains why it was widely felt in the Greek capital.

Two old buildings reportedly collapsed in two districts of Athens but there were no reports of any serious injuries after the 5.1-magnitude earthquake that hit Athens on Friday afternoon, Greek authorities said.