Yiannis Tafyllis

Rescue workers on Wednesday found the body of a 73-year-old farmer from Magnesia who had been unaccounted for since Saturday when the tropical-type storm Zorbas battered parts of the Greek mainland.

The General Secretariat for Civil Protection on Sunday declared several municipalities in mainland Greece to be in a state of emergency after a powerful tropical-type storm pounded the region, causing widespread damage.

Main opposition New Democracy has called on the country's civil protection agency to be entrusted to an expert in the field, rejecting the government's new appointee to the job.

Two weeks after the catastrophic fires that ravaged coastal areas of Attica, killing at least 91 people and razing large tracts of forestland, the country's civil protection chief has resigned.

Yiannis Kapakis submitted his resignation on Monday to Interior Minister Panos Skourletis, who accepted it.

“Three strikes, you’re out!” is a baseball term — … amongst others — that the Greek defence ministry’s political leadership apparently isn’t aware of, given that no less than three ministry-related stories by Proto Thema have generated few answers but numerous threats.