Geography of Greece

By Margarita Pournara

According to the French Romantic artist Eugene Delacroix, the first virtue of a painting is that it be a feast for the eyes. This quality features prominently in the work of Greek artist Panayiotis Tetsis.

 Store employees said woman, 22, sought to buy chemical used in bomb making

Counterterrorism officers have been closely examining a handful of witness accounts detailing the alleged efforts of a 22-year-old woman believed to have been an accomplice to November 17 convict Christodoulos Xeros to procure large quantities of chemicals that are used in bomb making.

Police were on Wednesday questioning two suspected accomplices of November 17 convict Christodoulos Xeros including a 54-year-old man who formerly served with the Greek Police?s special forces unit (EKAM) and the force?s counterterrorism department.

Port authority officials on the eastern Aegean island of Chios were on Wednesday trying to identify a little girl whose corpse was discovered on a beach near the fishing retreat of Mylarakia on Tuesday.

Police in Alexandroupoli were on Wednesday investigating the circumstances of the death of a 37-year-old laborer who had been repairing the tiled roof of a house in the city in northeastern Greece on Tuesday.

The worker, an Albanian national, was transferred to the city?s general hospital after falling off the roof but medics declared him dead on arrival.

Two Albanian nationals were to face a prosecutor in Kalamata on Wednesday in connection with three burglaries in the region of Messini ? of two homes and a warehouse.

The suspects, aged 28 and 34, were caught after stealing 114 kilograms of olive oil from a warehouse in a Messini village.

Italian authorities have been unable to find any trace of a Turkish passenger that went missing following the Norman Atlantic ferry disaster on Dec. 28, 2014, even though he called his family from a lifeboat ostensibly following his rescue.

Gale-force winds and choppy seas prompted port authorities on Tuesday to issue a sailing ban at the three ports serving Athens, in Piraeus, Lavrio and Rafina.

Ferries will not be sailing to the islands of the Aegean on Tuesday and passengers must check with their ferry operators about ticket returns.

A new Manpower Organization (OAED) program offers to subsidize hotel enterprises so that they can retain their staff during the winter period.

A fresh deterioration in weather conditions on Monday caused problems across the country, with strong winds in northern Greece uprooting a number of trees in various parts of Thessaloniki and blowing road signs and scaffolding onto a section of the northern port city?s ring road, forcing its closure.