Palamas

The new tourist guide of Aitoloakarnania will be presented at a special event to be held on November 11, 2024, at the “Kostis Palamas” building of the University of Athens (48, Akadimias Street) at 7 p.m. in Athens.

We are marking 50 years since the dramatic events of July 1974 in Cyprus. We must never forget that the hours of great joy for the restoration of democracy in Greece were the hours of great sadness and tragedy for Cyprus. And also we must not forget to whom we owe a debt. As memories fade, the danger of forgetting is visible.

The residents of the municipality of Palamas in Karditsa, central Greece, took the initiative to safeguard their community in light of the new wave of bad weather, storm Elias, announced the president of the local community Dimitris Tsigardas on Tuesday. 

The Ministry of Rural Development and Food estimates that damage caused by the Daniel weather system to crop and animal production on the Thessaly Plain, a region famous for its agricultural production, will be three times worse than that which resulted from Ianos in 2020.

Some 73,000 hectares across Thessaly are under water, with 50,000-55,000 sown with cotton. 

The storm brought heavy rainfall that caused floods and landslides, and destroyed roads and bridges.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has postponed an annual economic policy speech scheduled for this weekend and will instead visit flooded areas hit by heavy rain since Monday, Reuters reported.

Eight new cases of West Nile virus and two patient fatalities were reported in Greece over the last week, highlighting the dangers of mosquito bites.

This summer, a total of 11 cases have been reported to the National Public Health Organization, 10 of which were more serious due to central nervous system symptoms.