Greece

The Greek Ministries of Defense and Citizen's Protection on Monday signed a Memorandum of Cooperation under which the procedures for the replacement of the infamous Korydallos prison complex will soon begin. One of the main pledges of the conservative government...

A few weeks after the sinking of Agia Zoni II tanker that caused immeasurable environmental damage to the Saronic Gulf, Greek authorities are trying to deal with a new wreck at the near-by area of Aspropyrgos. The cargo ship "Elefantas"...

Some disturbing news was announced at an event by the coordinator of CROME-LIFE, the Cross-Mediterranean Environment and Health Network who stated that people who live in Aspropyrgos within a 2-kilometer radius of a recycling factory which caught fire last year have...

Six people were seriously injured, while two of them are in critical condition, when a fire broke out at the Hellenic Petroleum refinery tank in Aspropyrgos, Greece on Friday, May 8. The injured have been transferred to Thriasio and...

On February 2014, Hellenic Halyvourgia company announced the shutdown of its unit in Aspropyrgos and the layoff of 90 from a total of 107 workers.  However, 74 of those workers left under the company's voluntary plan. The decision for...

Τhe steelwork factory Halyvourgiki burst into flames in Aspropyrgos, Greece. Some workers have been seriously injured and have already been transported to Thriasio Hospital. One of them has been reported to be in critical condition. According to information from the Fire...

The fires in the broader area of Arcadia in southern Greece continued their destructive path on Wednesday night and onto Thursday morning.

Greek police dismantled a huge contraband cigarette ring with 22 operating premises and confiscated tons of tobacco products in Attica. After months of investigating the criminal organization, police raided various points across Attica on Thursday and found two factories manufacturing...

A record 372 cases of the coronavirus were announced by Greek officials on Thursday, along with one death in a victim with the virus. This is the highest number of cases recorded in the country in a 24-hour-period since the...

Papastratos, Greece's largest tobacco manufacturer and distributor, announced on Thursday that it will give shares worth a total of €1.0 million in its parent company Philip Morris International to its workers. In the statement, the Papastratos company said that it...

On Monday, Greece's attempt to seal the deal in the privatization of Hellenic Petroleum was prevented by workers at the facilities who walked off the job for four hours to picket the entrance-way. Workers at Hellenic Petroleum managed to physically...

A Mykonos restaurant owner; who also manages a shipping company in Athens, is the owner of six speedboats that were used to transport tons of hashish from the coast of Albania to Turkey via Samothrace, Greek police say. According to...

The documentary "Greek Animal Rescue" by Menelaos Karamaggiolis, is a cinematic allegory of what has been happening in Greece in the last seven years; using as examples the stories of stray animals. The protagonist is Menios, a sick and terribly abused...

Three teenagers; two aged 17 and one aged 18 years old, were arrested as suspects for the racist assault and beating of the two Pakistani workers last Saturday at Aspropyrgos, west of Athens. According to police officers, the three are...

Pakistani national, Safak Mahmud, described to journalists on Monday how he and fellow patriot, Vakas Hussein, were the victims of a vicious attack by five men at their work in Aspropyrgos on Saturday. With injuries on his face that were...