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An Amber Alert for 6-year-old boy Rainer Jason Pedersen, has been issued late on Tuesday night, May 24, 2022. There are fears the boy may leave Greece illegally for Norway. The boy has been allegedly abducted from the family home in Kifissia suburb of northern Athens by a man wearing …

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Turkey escalated verbal attacks against the Greek Prime Minister on Tuesday and Erdogan’s government partner,  nationalist Devlet Bahceli went so far to directly insult Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Speaking to his parliamentary group, the leader of the Nationalist Movement,  Bahceli, used very harsh word and called the Greek PM  “a pawn of …

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Greece’s National Vaccination Committee has drawn up a roadmap regarding vaccinations against the monkeypox. At the same time, the country’s health authorities are awaiting recommendations by the European ECDC regarding the strategy to be followed and the use of vaccines against smallpox, vaccines that seem to provide some protection against …

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“We will no allow anyone to illegally enter Greece,” Minister for Citizen’s Protection, Takis Theodorikakos,said on Tuesday after an increase of attempts by migrants to enter the country via the land and sea borders. In an interview with ANT1 TV, Theodorikakos blamed Turkey for it and accused the neighboring country …

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A second case of leprosy has been detected in Greece in the last couple of days. A 65-year-old woman is being treated in isolation in a hospital in Patras, north-western Peloponnese while the first case is hospitalized in Attiko hospital in Athens. According to state broadcaster ERT and local media, …

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A new tax for “recycling” of plastic with PVC will be imposed as of June 1, 2022, the Greek government has announced. The tax will be collected and forwarded to the public revenues with the sole purpose to finance recycling actions. The tax or “recycling fee” is set at 0.08 …

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A mini “heatwave” is forecast to hit Greece in the next days with temperatures expecting to reach up to 38 degrees Celsius, much above the seasonal average. The hottest days are expected to be Thursday and Friday, May 26-27. The heat wave will last until Saturday, May 28, where temperature …

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“For me, there is no Mitsotakis. I will never meet with him again,” an obviously fuming Turkish President saod on Monday. Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he has no intention of ever meeting with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis again, following the latter’s criticism of Turkey during his visit to the …

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Many of the Parthenon Sculptures removed by Lord Elgin’s agents were found “in the rubble” around the monument, they were not removed violently,” claimed Dr Jonathan Williams, deputy director of the British Museum during the annual meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on the Promotion of the Return of Cultural Heritage …

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Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis philosophized in front of the camera on a warm Monday morning in May 2022. He explained to young, underpaid Greeks how unimportant it is to “earn more money” when you have a “support mechanism by family and friends” for which our beautiful country, Greece, is famous. …

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The US State Department took position on the recent, massive overflights of Turkish fighter jets over uninhabited and inhabited small and big Greek islands in the Aegean Sea. Responding to a question by a journalist on how these actions impact the stability of NATO, State Department spokesperson Ned Price said: …

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The European Commission gave the green light for the disbursement of 748 million euros to Greece from the Eurogroup, based on the 14th report of post-memorandum enhanced surveillance that was released on Tuesday. In the report, the Commission noted that Greece has taken the necessary steps to reach the agreed …

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