Kathimerini

When the Turkish couple signed the contract around this time last year, they were thrilled with their new apartment and the area where it was located. It was situated in the heart of Exarchia, a downtown Athens neighborhood they had never explored despite numerous trips to the Greek capital.

The areas on the southeastern and eastern side of Mount Penteli, in northeast Athens, which have burned repeatedly in the last 30 years, are at risk of desertification. The part of the mountain that faces the towns of Nea Makri, Marathon, Drafi, Penteli and Dioni are areas that have been greatly affected by so many fires.

The toxicological tests and autopsy results are likely to show the actual cause of death on Thursday of the 48-year-old in Ilia, southern Greece, who, according to medics at the Ilia General Hospital where he was treated, was probably bitten by a spider.

The 40 hours between early July 22 and late on July 23, when Greek and Turkish naval forces faced off over an Italian research ship's operations south of Kasos in the southeastern Aegean, served as a stark reminder of the ever-present danger of a conflagration in the Eastern Mediterranean.

The government on Monday announced a reshuffle of the secretaries general across various ministries.

A third of the general secretariats, totaling 25 positions, have been changed, with six being filled through transfers. Women now represent 40% of the new secretaries general.

Stone-built, arched, proud or overgrown with weeds, the bridges of Epirus in northwestern Greece have carried thousands of stories of movement on their backs. Specifically, for the residents of the municipality of Pogoni, these bridges are not only linked to the general movement of the population but also to a word that carries heavy emotional weight: "xenitia" or Greek immigration.

A dot on he map southeast of Lefkada in the Ionian Sea, the uninhabited islet of Formikoula was an important haven for the endangered Mediterranean monk seal, for loggerhead turtles and for myriad seabirds, thanks to its craggy landscape and caves.

With Ursula von der Leyen securing another term as European Commission President, EU members are now vying for the top positions in the new Commission, with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides looking for posts that reflect their growing roles within the EU.

Wrapped around one of Athens' most spectacular monuments, the Panathenaic Stadium or Kallimarmaro, thrives a historic community park on Ardittos Hill.

As the last embers died out from a wildfire that ripped through one of Greece's most valuable wine regions last week, the grape-growers and winemakers of Nemea in the northern Peloponnese starting take stock of the damage to the crop over the weekend, before state officials prepare to visit the area this week to begin a formal assessment.