Greece holds major disaster response training exercise

The civil protection ministry said the three-day exercise named Minoas, which concludes on Wednesday, is the largest held in the country. The scenarios included tsunamis, industrial accidents and tourist rescues. "The feeling of safety is very important to us, our associates and our customers," Nikos Vlasiadis, general manager of a five-star hotel near Iraklio, told AFP. The hotel on Tuesday took part in a simulation exercise responding to a 7.2-magnitude earthquake emergency. A day earlier,...