Peloponnese

Landslides were recorded in many parts of the mountainous road network in the prefecture of Epirus, western Greece, on Saturday morning, due to the heavy rains that hit the area overnight.

In this picture with a long shutter speed stars move in the night sky during the Perseid meteor shower in the Pineios Lake near the village of Velanidi, Peloponnese, Greece, late Thursday. The Perseids are a prolific meteor shower associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle. The Perseids shower is visible from mid-July each year, with the peak in activity being between Aug.

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“We cannot understand why they prevent us from moving on. We left our tractors at Corinth, and police stopped us again here ” said the farmers of Peloponnese, who were stuck on the highway at Chaidari for hours since riot police did not allow them to pass through so as to participate in the mass protest in the center of Athens.

A massive farmers’ protest has been scheduled for Friday and Saturday at Syntagma square with farmers from Crete having already arrived in Athens while farmers from other regions and 65 blockades around the country heading to the capital.

Meanwhile, the police have set up their own road blocks across the national high ways to prevent farmers from driving their tractors to Athens.