Komotini

The gradual maturation of investments in the concession sectors, as well as the improved profitability of the construction sector, have started bearing fruit for listed group GEK Terna, which, as it seems, will not have a significant decline in its financial performance after selling Terna Energy to the Masdar Group.

With average temperatures at 30.2C nationwide and a maximum of 36.3C, Wednesday was the coolest day in the country since July 4-5, the Meteo weather service of the National Observatory of Athens has said.

Data from the service showed that only four of the country's 496 weather stations recorded temperatures above 35C.

The Pan-Pontian Federation of Greece issued a statement at the weekend about a song sung by a Turkish-Cypriot singer Isin Karaca during an event organized in the central square of Komotini in northwestern Greece on August 4 as an "unacceptable provocation" and a "direct insult," as it references the destruction of Smyrna.

The sun was setting in the center of Komotini when suddenly cannon fire was heard. None of the numerous patrons at the local cafes was disturbed. What was it? "The sound signifies the end of the Ramadan fast that lasts from sunrise to sunset," a passer-by explained. "Muslims can now start eating. There is also a similar cannon that fires at dawn to herald the beginning.

Authorities removed squatters from the premises of Democritus University of Thrace in Komotini, northeastern Greece, during a police operation on Saturday morning.

A group of individuals had been occupying a space within the university premises since Friday morning. Police intervention occurred at the request of the university's rector authorities. There was no report of arrests.

Downtown Athens was briefly closed to traffic again on Monday evening, as students protested a police operation to end a sit-in at Aristotle University's School of Law in Komotini, northern Greece.

Border police in northeastern Greece blocked four separate attempts by illegal migrants to cross into the country on Friday and Saturday and arrested a total of four traffickers, all foreign nationals.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will head to Thrace after his visit to Athens in early December, as he does every time he visits Greece, before returning to Ankara.

This will be the third time Erdogan will visit Thrace during a visit to Greece.

With three new and more efficient natural gas units joining the national grid in 2025, the financial survival of older ones is at stake. 

However, if too many of the old providers quit the market, there will be a problem of sufficiency, the authors of the National Plan for Climate and Energy note. 

26 charred bodies were found in a burnt forest in the Evros region in northern Greece, the website In.gr reported. Found by the police in the Dadia National Park, they are believed to be illegal migrants.