Ano Liosia

One of the sweetest business marriages has now become a reality, with the announcement on Thursday of the completion of the acquisition of the Lavdas candy factory by the ION chocolate industry.

The relevant agreement was announced last June and provides that Lavdas will continue to operate as an independent company but with the development of significant synergies with ION.

A recent railway incident in Athens has raised fresh concerns about the country's train system, just 20 months after the tragic Tempe crash in central Greece.

Yet another safety breach on Greece's railway has prompted an urgent judicial investigation, with Athens' chief prosecutor, Apostolos Andreou, on Thursday seeking answers as to why a Suburban Railway (Proastiakos) train was routed onto a metro track.

A tourist uses a hand fan to cool down her friend sitting on a bench in front of the Parthenon at the ancient Acropolis, in Athens. The ancient site was closed to the public for five hours due to a heatwave with temperature soaring above 43 Celsius on Thursday in many areas of the eastern and southern parts of the country, as reported by Meteo.

The autopsy on the charred body of an elderly man that was found in the back yard of a house in northern Athens on Friday night has found that the deceased had been dead for around a month.

However, the medical examiner was unable to establish the cause of death of the 82 year old.

Police in the northern Athens district of Ano Liosia have arrested a man after finding the charred body of his elderly father in a yard at the back of a house.

Officers were alerted to the scene by neighbors, who complained of a stench coming from the property.

The funeral of the Kyriaki Griva, 28, who was murdered by her former partner outside Agioi Anargyroi police station in northern Athens on Monday night was held on Thursday in a climate of deep anguish and anger in the Church of Agios Nektarios in Ano Liosia.

Transport and Infrastructure Minister Christos Staikouras emphasized the importance of a project to build a new branch of the Proastiakos suburban railway in West Attica, from Ano Liosia to Megara, in an interview with the Athens-Macedonian News Agency.

Unknown assailants threw two hand grenades at a residence in Ano Liosia, northwest of Athens, in the early hours of Friday.

According to the police, at approximately 2.30 a.m., two individuals riding a motorcycle tossed hand grenades into the courtyard of a house occupied by Roma on Andrianoupoleos Street. Subsequently, they fled the scene.

The fires in Greece are continuing. Last night, a new fire broke out - on the island of Samothrace.

The flames in the Greek part of the Rhodopes are heading towards Komotini at this hour, reports the Greek public television ERT. Several villages in the area are being evacuated.

According to preliminary estimates, the fire has burned 380,000 acres.