March 22, 2023
Athens Taxis on 24-hour strike, on March 23
Τaxi union SATA has announced a 24-hour taxi strike for Thursday, March 23, 2023. The strike will be…
March 22, 2023
No more Covid-ICUs in Greece’s hospitals; where patients be treated?
Intensive Care Units for Covid-19 patients will be abolished in Greece’s hospitals. This was d…
March 22, 2023
META Manager was hacked with spyware and wiretapped in Greece
U.S. and Greek national, Artemis Seaford, who worked on Meta’s security and trust team while based i…
March 22, 2023
What bugged tourists who visited Greece in 2022
Greece received tens of thousands of comments by tourists who visited the country for vacations in 2…
March 22, 2023
USA returns 29 looted antiquities to Greece (pictures)
Twenty-nine Greek antiquities, products of looting and smuggling from Macedonia, Epirus, Central Gre…
March 22, 2023
Train and Proastiakos services gradually resume, passengers avoid front wagons
Some train services in Greece resumed on Wednesday for the first time since the deadly train collisi…
March 21, 2023
New case of child pimping in Athens; three arrests
Α new case of child pimping has been discovered on Tuesday, with the victim being a 14-year-old livi…
March 21, 2023
Greece sets clocks in daylight saving time on Sunday
Clocks in Greece will be set forward by one hour from 3 a.m. to 4 a.m. on Sunday morning, March 26, …
March 21, 2023
Lower electricity rates in April, yet Greece “most expensive in Europe”
The majority of Greek power providers have announced significantly lower rates for April, following …
March 21, 2023
Chicken ban in village yards ahead of tourism season
Chicken, goats, sheep and rabbit in your picturesque home yard in the village? Forget it! The Greek …
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Τaxi union SATA has announced a 24-hour taxi strike for Thursday, March 23, 2023. The strike will begin at 06:00 on Thursday morning and will end at 06.00 on Friday morning. According to the announcement of the union, there will be a gathering on Kavala Avenue at 11:00 in the …
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No more Covid-ICUs in Greece’s hospitals; where patients be treated?
Intensive Care Units for Covid-19 patients will be abolished in Greece’s hospitals. This was decided unanimously by the large committee of experts of the Ministry of Health, which consists of more than 30 scientists. According to media information, the suggestion was made by the Director of the Evangelical ICU at …
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META Manager was hacked with spyware and wiretapped in Greece
U.S. and Greek national, Artemis Seaford, who worked on Meta’s security and trust team while based in Greece was placed under a yearlong wiretap by the Greek national intelligence service and hacked with a powerful cyberespionage tool, according to documents obtained by The New York Times and officials with knowledge …
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What bugged tourists who visited Greece in 2022
Greece received tens of thousands of comments by tourists who visited the country for vacations in 2022. Greece maintained the satisfactory score of 2019 in both infrastructure and services. However, not all of the comments were positive. What are their main complaints? “Good Grades” seem to have been given by …
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Hooligans attack and injure man outside Court in downtown Athens
A group of hooligans attacked and injured a man outside the Athens Court of Appeal on Wednesday morning. The attackers were not even bothered by the presence of police squads in the area, which is supposed to be one of the most protected in downtown Athens.. According to media, a …
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USA returns 29 looted antiquities to Greece (pictures)
Twenty-nine Greek antiquities, products of looting and smuggling from Macedonia, Epirus, Central Greece, the Cyclades and Crete, were handed over by the Manhattan Prosecutor’s office in USA to Greek Culture Minister Lina Mendoni. The antiquities ended up in the USA, through the criminal networks of illegal trafficking of cultural goods. …
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Train and Proastiakos services gradually resume, passengers avoid front wagons
Some train services in Greece resumed on Wednesday for the first time since the deadly train collision that killed 57 people and injured dozens on February 28. The first train started at 4:45 a.m. from Larissis central train station in Athens for the village of Oinoi in north-western Attica. Even …
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Greece takes measures against Mykonos constructions after archaeologist beaten up
Greece’s government is taking measures against construction builders and mafia-gangs on the island of Mykonos after an archaeologist was brutally beaten for refusing to give the green light for an illegal construction. “In Mykonos the law will be applied. The State is not blackmailed”, said the Minister of Environment and …
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Greece among 7 allies to meet NATO spending target in 2022
Greece was among seven out of 30 allies to meet NATO’s military spending target of 2% of GDP in 2022, one country less than in 2021 before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to the alliance’s annual report for 2022. Speaking ahead of the launch, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg urged allies …
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New case of child pimping in Athens; three arrests
Α new case of child pimping has been discovered on Tuesday, with the victim being a 14-year-old living in a home for minors in a suburb of southern Athens. It was social workers who noticed that the child was leaving the facility and was absent for several hours. Last Sunday …
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Greece sets clocks in daylight saving time on Sunday
Clocks in Greece will be set forward by one hour from 3 a.m. to 4 a.m. on Sunday morning, March 26, 2023 as daylight saving begins, the Interior Ministry announced on Tuesday. European Summer Time has been observed from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October …
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Lower electricity rates in April, yet Greece “most expensive in Europe”
The majority of Greek power providers have announced significantly lower rates for April, following the easing of prices in the Greek energy exchange and in international markets. In many cases the prices are already lower than 15-16 cents per KWh, which is the target price for consumers after including state …
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META Manager was hacked with spyware and wiretapped in Greece
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Greece among 7 allies to meet NATO spending target in 2022
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Turkey will vote for Greece’s bid for “non-permanent member of UN Security Council
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Memorial march for Thessaloniki Jews murdered in Auschwitz
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Injured victim of train crash files criminal complaint also against politicians
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Regulatory Authority finds serious deficiencies in training of OSE stationmasters
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Greece and Israel sign Defense Cooperation Program 2023
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Riot Police attacks peaceful protesters, truck races through crowd (videos)
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Plevris removed from Bar Association over Nazi salute in GD trial
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Chief Supreme Court prosecutor requests OSE accidents files of the last 15 yrs
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Turkish ambassador thanks EMAK for earthquake assistance
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Lower electricity rates in April, yet Greece “most expensive in Europe”
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Chicken ban in village yards ahead of tourism season
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Stournaras: Greek banks’ exposure to Credit Suisse “almost zero”
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Greece’s tourism industry to hire 3. countries nationals to fill staff shortages
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Greece raises minimum wage to €780 from April 1