Emergency management

Dicing with disaster

It's been over a month since the Agia Zoni II tanker went down off the port of Piraeus and beyond the criminal delays of the political leadership and port authorities in dealing with the ensuing oil spill we still have no answers to the questions surrounding the causes of the accident, even though it's only a matter of time before disaster strikes again.

France Approves Tough New Anti-Terror Laws

France's lower house of parliament has approved a new anti-terrorism law intended to bring an end to a nearly two-year-long state of emergency, reported BBC. 

The law will incorporate several measures first authorised under the emergency arrangement.

They include easier searches of homes and confining individuals to their home towns, without judicial approval.

Fire threatening homes in Kassandra, Halkidiki

A wildfire that broke out near the seaside village of Moles Kalyves on the Kassandra leg of northern Greece's Halkidiki peninsula was threatening homes in the area, the fire service said on Friday afternoon.

The blaze started shortly after 2.30 p.m. and is being stoked by strong winds, reaching the front yards of several homes, according to local reports.

Salamina hit by oil slick

Workers try to clean up a beach on the island of Salamina, which has been hit by an oil slick after a small tanker went down near its coast on Sunday carrying 2,200 tons of fuel oil and 370 tons of marine gas oil. [Petros Giannakouris/AP]

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