Patra

The Region of Western Greece will try to make the most of its friendship with the Chinese region of Fujian, including cooperation in various fields such as higher education, research and innovation, the head of the Regional Authority, Nektarios Farmakis stated on Wednesday in China.

With the price of gold recently surging above $2,500 per ounce, many owners of gold sovereigns are selling them.

But this higher supply still cannot match demand: In Greece, gold sovereign acquisitions from January to July topped 40,000, double the sales. This is the highest number of sales since the start of the financial crisis, in 2010, when gold was much cheaper.

Some 10,000 original pieces from a private collection of Olympic Games memorabilia are going on display in the western port city of Patra on Monday, in a show running until August 3 at City Hall.

The exhibits have been donated by Pantelis Kotzanoulis, who is believed to have the biggest collection of its kind in Greece, with more than 30,000 pieces.

One of the largest police operations against pirates of illegal streaming, not only by Greek but also by the European standards, was carried out a few days ago by authorities in Patra, dismantling a network with a presence in Athens, Viotia, Salamina and Patra.

Police in Patra made 25 arrests on Friday after a group of young people attacked police and wrote slogans on city buses.

A subsequent search of an occupied former building of the University of Patra yielded wooden bats, vessels containing petrol residue, fabric, masks and empty bottles.

Patra ranks as the second least walkable city in the world, trailing only behind Johannesburg, South Africa, a recent study has found.

Situated on the west coast of the Peloponnese, Patra is Greece's third-largest city, boasting a population of 211,593 as per the 2021 census.

Two men were to face a prosecutor in Patra, western Greece, Friday after police discovered half a kilogram of heroin hidden in the lights of the vehicle they were traveling in.
Working on a tip-off, officers of the local anti-narcotics division stopped the truck on the Patra-Corinth highway in Achaia and discovered the drugs with the help of a sniffer dog.

The toll in Greece from the new coronavirus rose to 10 after a fourth death in 24 hours was reported on Friday evening.

According to unconmfirmed eports, the latest victim is a 93-year-old woman who was being treated at a hospital in the Patra suburb of Rio in western Greece, which is where some of the country's first cases were recorded.

A ferryboat that had been carrying a possible coronavirus case docked at the port of Patra in western Greece on Friday evening after dropping off the patient at the port of Igoumenitsa further north.

A 23-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a wildfire that broke out on Monday in the area of Tsameika, near the port city of Patra in the western Peloponnese.
The man is facing charges of arson by negligence as he reportedly started the blaze accidentally while carrying out farm work, the Athens-Macedonian News Agency reported on Tuesday.