Bomb disposal

Authorities are no longer under alert as the contents of the suspicious package do not pose a threat. A suspicious package, addressed to Education Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis, was found at the Education Ministry earlier on Wednesday. 

Authorities were put on high alert after receiving a call reporting the suspicious package.

Explosives sent to the northern port city of Thessaloniki's Courthouse earlier on Monday enclosed in an envelope were successfully defused by the bomb disposal unit, the police announced.

The Thessaloniki Courthouse was evacuated on Monday following the discovery of a suspicious package, according to local media reports.

The bomb disposal unit of the Greek Police (ELAS) has been dispatched to the scene.

As of now, no further information is available.

A joint endeavour by the Defense Ministry, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the European Union has concluded a three-year-long mine clearance project along Türkiye's eastern border.

Greece's Anti-Terror Service launched an investigation after an active bomb was found and defused on Kokkinopoulou Street, in the area of the Zografou University Campus, near the headquarters of the riot police on Monday.

Turkey's Defense Minister, Yaşar Güler, announced plans for Bulgaria, Romania, and Turkey to ink an agreement next month aimed at clearing mines lingering in the Black Sea, a fallout from the war in Ukraine. This initiative follows extensive discussions among NATO allies grappling with the ramifications of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

An army bomb disposal unit on Thursday neutralized a World War II 500lb bomb that was found in the southern Athenian suburb of Glyfada.

The army unit used thermite, a pyrotechnic composition of metal powder and metal oxide used, among others, to disable munitions without the use of explosive charges. 

An army bomb disposal unit was working on Thursday morning to set off a controlled explosion that will neutralize a World War II 500lb bomb that was found the day before in the southern Athenian suburb of Glyfada. 

The unexploded ordnance was found during construction work at the old Elliniko airport, the site of a major property development project.

ZAGREB -The Belgrade-based company Millennium Team will take part in a Zagreb international donors' conference on humanitarian demining in Ukraine on Thursday and Friday.

In the wake of the war in Ukraine, the port at Wilhelmshaven has emerged as a critical hub for German efforts to break the country's dependence on Russian energy. It is there, on the North Sea coast, that officials would like to build a giant new terminal to import liquefied natural gas from other sources.