Since inheriting the Democratic Party nomination for the presidency without a fight after US President Joe Biden’s exit on July 21, Vice President Kamala Harris’s honeymoon period was marked by rallies, optics of party unity and consistent positive coverage by mainstream media.  

The political noise that follows every natural disaster in Greece ends up distracting society from the real issue: Do we have a civil protection mechanism that works professionally, independent of political influences?

The National Meteorological Service (EMY) warns of thunderstorms on Monday in the northern Ionian region (Corfu – Paxos area) and the western parts of Epirus.

Three new arrests were made by police authorities on Sunday in connection with the shooting that occurred on Friday night at a beach bar in the Haniotis area of Halkidiki.

A wildfire broke out near a residential area in Litochoro, Macedonia.

Government spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis called on Sunday for SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis to expel MEP Nikos Pappas from the party after a private Instagram conversation in which Pappas appeared to make offensive remarks against a police officer was leaked online.

Relaying the government’s anxiety in the wake of the wildfire that struck Attica last week, a high-ranking official stressed, “The fire season is not yet over and conditions remain extremely difficult due to the particularly hot summer and prolonged drought.”

The fire that broke out in a forested area on Mount Falakro in Drama, northern Greece, is raging for a second day on Sunday.

The hitherto “privileged” parts of northern Attica have become a red zone for natural disasters. Despite their vulnerability, most peri-urban settlements that have developed near forests lack local fire protection action plans.

A rare fresco of the Virgin Mary recently discovered on the island of Naxos by the Ephorate of Antiquities of the Cyclades is expected to shed light on the history of Byzantine painting in the Aegean before the era of the iconoclastic controversy.

Greek health authorities are on heightened alert for the prevention and early detection of mpox (monkeypox) virus cases and have announced the establishment of more vaccination centers for high-risk groups.

Agora Labs, a two-year-old startup founded by two Greeks and an Italian, is developing a platform to allow pharmaceuticals firms, artificial intelligence firms and researchers access to voluminous real world data created by public hospitals, patients’ medical histories and an array of medical devices.

Promises made to restore the rule of law and deal effectively with the illegal construction on Mykonos, arguably the most famous Greek island, have not been carried out. At least not yet, and definitely not to the extent needed to start making things right.

Much better-than-expected tax revenue has seen the budget primary surplus significantly outpace the stated goals in the first seven months of the year.

The success of vocational education, whose graduates are quickly absorbed by the labor market, is also an indicator of the importance that alternative post-secondary education should acquire.

“How is it possible that humans have landed on the moon, but a machine hasn’t been invented to carry our groceries up the stairs?” comments a middle-aged woman from Ano Syros, known locally as an “Anosyriani.”

A man’s body was discovered with his legs bound with a trouser belt in an inaccessible part of the village of Pteleos in Magnesia, central Greece, on Saturday.

Main opposition SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis responded on Saturday to the social media posts of “hate and homophobia” directed against him on a site that published his wedding gift list, blaming the ruling conservative New Democracy party and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis himself.

According to a foreign consultancy, the data center market in Greece is expected to grow in value from €695 million in 2023 to €1.2 billion in 2029, expanding at an average pace of nearly 10% annually.

A wildfire broke out on Saturday afternoon on the island of Ikaria, the fire service said. The blaze is burning low vegetation in the Kamari area of the Fourni Korseon municipality.