Subdivisions of Greece

The Attica Regional Authority gave the green light on Friday, following a meeting of its council, for a 32.5-million-euro project to build a water pipeline from the mainland to the island of Aegina.

The pipeline, to be laid at a depth of 95 meters, will be 14 kilometers long and will supply up to 30,000 cubic meters of water per day to the island?s residents.

Hellenic Seaways Company announced on Thursday that the Nissos Mykonos ferry will run an additional service that will include stops at the islands of Samos and Fournoi, until the damage in the engines of the Mytilene ferry is repaired at the end of February.

Experts on Wednesday continued assessing the damage done by flash floods in Epirus, northwestern Greece, over the last few days.

By Wednesday afternoon they had recorded damage to 329 buildings, 229 of which are homes, in Arta. Another 43 buildings, of which 16 are homes, were damaged in Ioannina.

Twelve Turkish mountain climbers have been reported missing in the Pierian Mountains of Greece.

According to the regional sources, the mountain climbers called Europe Emergency Call Center for help Jan. 24. The cellphone signal had come from a point near the village of Elatochori, around Katerini, a Greek town in Central Macedonia where the Pierian Mountains are located.

Authorities in Western Macedonia issued a warning on Tuesday about high smog levels in the region caused by the large number of households using fireplaces to keep warm.

According to regional authorities, atmospheric pollution in the municipalities of Kozani, Eordaia, Amyntaio and Florina have risen above the warning level.

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.

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.

 Islanders left without power, water as bad weather knocks out infrastructure

The Cycladic island of Tinos faces a third difficult day Friday after heavy snowfall disabled much of its infrastructure as well as isolating several villages, prompting the General Secretariat for Civil Protection to declare a state of emergency there Thursday.

A coroner?s report concerning the death of a 70-year-old woman whose body was found on Thursday in her home in the municipality of Alistrati in Nea Zichni near the northern city of Serres has suggested that the victim was probably murdered.

The 70-year-old, who was not named, appears to have died of suffocation, according to the coroner?s report.

A Civil Protection Authority helicopter has been dispatched to the Cycladic island of Tinos in the Aegean to locate parts of the power network that may have been damaged by snow and strong winds, leaving the entire island in darkness for the second day in a row on Thursday.