Patras

Apollon Patras is the second team to go down from the Basket League after Doxa Lefkadas, while Aris snatched the fourth spot of the regular season right at the end, on Thursday.

Alternate Minister of Education and Religious Affairs Kostas Fotakis said 20,000 young Greek scientists had left Greece between 2009 and 2014. During a speech at the opening of the 4th innovation quest expo “Patras IQ” said the number of young scientists choosing to go abroad had doubled compared to the period 2000-2005. Mr.

Until a few years ago, when before the leftist Syriza emerged as a dominant political power in her country, Sia Anagnostopoulou was best known as a professor of contemporary history with an emphasis on late Ottoman Empire.

A group of self-styled anarchists briefly occupied the office of ruling SYRIZA in the town of Patras in western Greece on Friday.

The group hanged a banner from the office on the corner of Gounaris and Al. Ypsilantou Streets, denouncing last week's evacuation of two squats in Athens by police.

They also distributed leaflets before they ended their symbolic sit-in.
 

The Greek Ministry of Environment and Energy approved the Strategic Environmental Impact Assessments for hydrocarbons research in two areas in Western Greece. This way the Parliament can now approve the activation of the contracts for Aitoloakarnania and Northwestern Peloponnese.

The carnival in the city of Patras in the Peloponnese is known as the carnival of carnivals. It is the largest in all of Greece. It goes back 182 years, and the time for the carnival goers has arrived for this year’s festivities.

Many sections of the Patras-Pyrgos national highway in the Peloponnese have been flooded due to the heavy rain, with a large part of the road covered in hail. It is the second day that the region of Ilia in the Peloponnese is experiencing heavy rainfalls, while areas in the Kampos plain are covered in snow.

A brawl broke out late Thursday between young migrants at an accommodation center for unaccompanied minors in Patras, western Greece.

According to the Praksis NGO, which has undertaken the operation of the center, the fight involved 15 teenagers and left one of them slightly injured.

A 2.5 magnitude earthquake was felt in the city of Patras in the north of the Peloponnese at approximately 9.30pm, Thursday. According to the Athens Geodynamic Institute, the earthquake had its epicenter at a 5km depth and was between Patras and Rio.

The Greek police arrested a 51 year old truck driver at the port of Patras, in the Peloponnese for drug trafficking. Officers of the regional narcotics units in conjunction with the port authorities apprehended the suspect when the Ancona to Patras ferry, which his freezer truck was on docked. After a search authorities found 143 kilos of hashish stashed in the sides of his palettes.