Ioannina

Severe bad weather is expected to hit Corfu for the second time in a few hours, with a team of three men from the 5th EMAK arriving on the island in a hurry to reinforce the local fire service.

A 38-year-old man who confessed to the murder of his 62-year-old aunt in the northwestern region of Ioannina has been remanded in custody.

Citing his defense attorney, state broadcaster ERT said that the defendant outlined the reasons that led him to shoot his aunt with a hunting rifle inside her house, which is located in the village of Perivleptos.

Ntouskos began his defense of the gold medal he won in Tokyo on a positive note, securing his quarterfinal spot without significant difficulty. He finished second in the first group of the preliminary rounds with a time of 7:01.55.

The lowest score for getting a spot at one of Greece's public universities dropped in 62% of departments, the Education Ministry said on Thursday after publishing the list of entry grades.

The drop in the admission scores points to an overall poorer performance among the country's 73,161 candidates who sat the nationwide university entrance exams earlier this summer.

A truck caught fire on Egnatia Odos between Igoumenitsa and Ioannina in northwestern Greece, leading to a road closure.

According to state broadcaster ERT, the driver and passenger escaped safely before the vehicle was engulfed in flames. The tractor unit was completely destroyed, though the truck was not carrying a trailer.

The Fire Department has made an arrest and imposed administrative fines for fires in Chania, Corfu, Ilia, Ioannina, Thessaloniki and Evia.

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A major operation to rescue a 70-year-old British man took place on Friday afternoon in the Vikos Gorge in Ioannina.

Forces from the local fire department, the Special Disaster Response Unit and the Special Mountain Rescue Unit where dispatched to the scene and managed to rescue the 70-year-old man, who is reported to have suffered a heart attack.

A sitting Member of the European Parliament has told an Athens appeals court that he is a NazI and asked if he was going to be judged for that.

A 12-year-old student suffered a double fracture in his jaw after being punched by a 14-year-old at a high school in Thesprotia, northern Greece, on Wednesday.

The attack happened in the presence of students and teachers of the school in Filiata. The 12-year-old had to be hospitalised in Ioannina and is expected to undergo surgery.

Before the opening of the Egnatia highway in 2009, Epirus was cut off from the rest of Greece. The airport at Ioannina, often blanketed in fog, has regular flight cancellations. Most residents tell stories of desperation and being trapped in the snow at the Katara Pass, or of the difficult and time-consuming journey to Athens. But the latter is now a breeze since 2017 with the Ionia highway.