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BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — Unemployment in the eurozone fell in August to 7.4 percent, its lowest level since May 2008, according to official data released Monday. The figure, which brought the number of unemployed in the single currency bloc to 12.17 million, was lower than a forecast by financial data provider Factset, which predicted unchanged unemployment at 7.5 percent. Unemployment in the eurozone thus fell below the rate just prior to the world financial […]
https://youtu.be/RN8bYpnBgtg THESSALONIKI, Greece (AFP) — Thousands of fish washed up dead on the shores of Lake Koroneia in northern Greece on Thursday as a result of high temperatures and declining water levels, authorities said. A long period of drought and high temperatures left the fish high and dry, Dimitra Bobori, responsible for lakes in the Macedonia region, told AFP. The lake, 30 kilometres (18 miles) from the city of Thessaloniki, has experienced the phenomenon repeatedly […]
SHENZHEN, China (AFP) — NBA MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo was unable to save Greece as holders the United States reached the Basketball World Cup quarter-finals with a 69-53 win on Saturday. In front of a capacity 12,000 crowd in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, Gregg Popovich’s world and Olympic champions had two or sometimes three players on Greece’s danger man. Stop the 24-year-old from the Milwaukee Bucks and you stop Greece was clearly the mantra […]
PIRAEUS, Greece (AFP) — Olympiakos basketball coach David Blatt revealed on Monday that he had been diagnosed with primary progressive multiple sclerosis (PPMS). “Sometimes life throws things at you that really have no explanation or rhyme or reason. Those are moments that upon recognizing you have to make choices that test your true character,” the 60-year-old Israeli American said in a letter to the team. Blatt said he was diagnosed with PPMS a few months […]
by Angelos TZORTZINIS MAKRYMALLI, Greece (AFP) — Firefighters on the Greek island of Evia were still battling Wednesday to contain a fire that has caused massive damage to a pristine mountain wildlife habitat after threatening four communities. “It’s a huge ecological disaster in a unique, untouched pine forest,” said acting regional governor Costas Bakoyannis. The fire that broke out in the early hours of Tuesday on Greece’s second-largest island prompted the evacuation of the villages […]
A strong 5.3 magnitude earthquake jolted Athens on Friday, knocking out phone and cellphone service, with no immediate reports of damage or injuries. According to the Greek geodynamic institute, it was a 5.1-magnitude quake with an epicentre 23 kilometers (14 miles) northwest of Athens and was followed by aftershocks. The US Geological Survey, however, recorded it at 5.3 magnitude with the epicenter located some three kilometers north northwest of Magoula, Greece. It was depth […]
by Vassilis KYRIAKOULIS THESSALONIKI, Greece (AFP) — Seven people died and at least 23 were injured as a fierce storm ripped through beachfronts in one of Greece’s top tourist areas, terrifying thousands of holidaymakers caught in the open, authorities said Thursday. Six tourists including two children were killed — two each from the Czech Republic, Russia and Romania — in the northern peninsula of Halkidiki, near Greece’s second city Thessaloniki, in the storm late Wednesday. […]
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AFP) –Violent hail storms killed at least five tourists in northern Greece late Wednesday, police said. A Czech couple died when strong winds blew their caravan away while a Russian man and his son were killed by a falling tree, they added. Debris from a building killed a woman from Romania. ERT television said the region of Halkidiki, near the city of Thessaloniki, was declared a state of emergency and that the minister […]
by John HADOULIS ATHENS, Greece (AFP) — Greece’s conservative prime minister-elect Kyriakos Mitsotakis vowed that the country would “proudly” enter a post-bailout period of “jobs, security and growth” after winning a landslide victory in Sunday’s general election. Official results showed Mitsotakis on track to crush leftist premier Alexis Tsipras, who oversaw austerity meausures after Greece’s dramatic rescue by international creditors in the European debt crisis. “A painful cycle has closed,” Mitsotakis said in a televised […]
ATHENS, Greece (AFP) — A 5.2-magnitude quake jolted central Greece on Saturday, the country’s civil protection said, with no immediate reports of damage. The quake had a depth of around 14 kilometres (8.6 miles) and an epicentre near the town of Galaxidi in the Gulf of Corinth, some 200 kilometres (320 miles) northwest of the Greek capital, the authority said. The national geodynamic institute had earlier measured the earthquake at a magnitude of 5.3. […]
Scuffles broke out in central Athens Sunday as tens of thousands of people protested a planned name change for neighbouring Macedonia that parliament is due to ratify this week. After some 30 masked youths tried to force the closure of the parliament building by throwing stones, riot police responded with tear gas volleys to break up the crowd there. Hundreds of buses, especially from northern Greece, had brought protesters in for the rally, on […]
by Saska CVETKOVSKA Agence France Presse SKOPJE, Macedonia (AFP) — Macedonian lawmakers gather from Wednesday to vote on changing their country’s name to settle a decades-long dispute with Greece and open the way to NATO and EU membership. But the switch to “the Republic of North Macedonia” is an uphill task involving four constitutional amendments and the support of two thirds of the 120-member parliament. The Social Democrat-led ruling coalition does not itself have those […]
