Macedonia

Four Greek universities - the Democritus University of Thrace, University of the Aegean, University of Western Macedonia, and Hellenic Mediterranean University - are forging partnerships with prestigious global institutions like Columbia, Boston, the Sorbonne, and the University of Zurich.

Interest by Greeks in purchasing a home has decreased compared to six months ago, but the imbalance between supply and demand remains as strong, as prospective buyers are at least twice as many as sellers.

A new wave of bad weather from Italy will affect our country with showers and thunderstorms being more towards the west, north and the islands of the eastern Aegean.

A fatal crash occurred early Sunday morning on the Serres-Dramas highway in northern Greece, about 25 kilometers from Serres.

At approximately 3.40 a.m., a car driven by a 21-year-old man with a 25-year-old passenger swerved off the road, struck a metal light pole and flipped over. 

Stable weather is expected for most parts of the country today, with locally heavy showers and thunderstorms accompanied by a high frequency of lightning and localized hail.

According to the updated Emergency Weather Bulletin, bad weather will hit today:

a) In the Dodecanese islands in intervals until the afternoon.

A 60-year-old woman, fired a shotgun to thwart a DEDDIE check for electricity theft in a village of Serres. She was sentenced to a total of 5 years imprisonment, a sentence which the court did not suspend or commute, but decided to serve.

The severe weather system Bora is expected to impact large parts of the country in the coming hours, with the Hellenic National Meteorological Service (HNMS) issuing a new emergency weather bulletin on Sunday afternoon.

Thessaloniki’s transportation system entered a new era as the Thessaloniki Metro was officially inaugurated.

An emergency alert via 112 has been issued for the Cycladic island of Tinos on Saturday, as a major storm sweeping in from the west pounded Greece, causing floods in several parts of the country. The message urged local residents to avoid traveling and follow the instructions of the authorities.

A sharp deterioration in weather conditions is expected in the coming hours, prompting the HNMS to update the emergency bulletin initially issued yesterday afternoon.