Kalamos

A volunteer doctor speaks with an elderly woman in her home on the Ionian island of Kastos in a photograph released on Saturday.

Police on Wednesday were searching for a Brazilian maid in connection with the disappearance of 200,000 euros from the home she worked at on the islet of Kalamos opposite the Ionian island of Lefkada.

At 15.00 no information has been received about injured Bulgarian citizens as a result of fires raging in Greece, the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced, quoted by bTV. 

A fire occurred shortly before 4pm in a pine forest in Kalamos, Attica, towards the Holy Apostles area. As it has been known by the Fire Brigade, the fire, which is quite large, spread quickly, while there are scattered houses in the area.

The exact number of damaged houses has not been known, but the information speaks for 15-20, of which five have more serious damage.

This untamed Ionian Sea island is so much more than world-famous beaches and windsurfing spots

The submission of binding offers for the acquisition of National Bank's insurance arm appears to be just a matter of days, if not hours, following the rejection by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Competition of Greece's request to suspend the sale.

Two Greeks and a Pakistani man who were taken hostage on board the Kalamos oil tanker off the coast of Nigeria on February 4 have been released by their captors, the company that owns the ship said on Wednesday.

?Two Greek nationals and one Pakistani seafarer are currently in hospital in Nigeria being examined and treated as necessary,? said Aeolos Management in a statement.

Pirates have hijacked an oil tanker off the Nigerian coast, taking three hostages and killing the vessel's Greek deputy commander, a spokeswoman for the Greek coastguard said Wednesday.

Dozens of schools around the Greek capital did not open for the first day back after the Christmas break on Thursday due to the cold weather than has lashed the country for the past two weeks.

Deputy eastern Attica governor Petros Philippou on Wednesday announced that junior and high schools in certain parts of the region were to remain closed due to cold weather and icy conditions.