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Two earthquakes rattled the island of Crete with 4.7 and 4.3 on the Richter scale on Friday afternoon. The first earthquake occurred around 5 o’ clock in the afternoon with its epicenter 70 km south-east of Chrysi in Lasithi Prefecture. Its focal depth was a depth of 24.7 km. The …

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The body of the 21-year-old German tourist Johann Williams who went missing a month ago while hiking near the Samaria Gorge in Cania region on the island of Crete has been found dead, local media reported on Friday. The body of the man, identified as Johann Williams, was discovered on …

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US Vice President JD Vance was booed by the audience as he attended a concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington on Thursday evening. According to a report in The New York Times, the concert featured the National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, …

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Conservative Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis proceeded to a cabinet reshuffle on Friday, the seventh since he came to power in 2019. For one more time, ministers remain in their posts or just changed to another ministry signaling that New Democracy does not have a robust arsenal to make bold moves …

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The National Gallery in Athens released on Thursday a video showing ultra-orthodox MP Nikolaos Papadopoulos and one co-worker how they bring down paintings the two considered as “blasphemous” to Greek Orthodoxy and Religion. The video shows how the two approach the area of the “The Allure of the Strange ” …

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US President Donald Trump has threatened a 200% tariff on any alcohol coming to the US from the EU in the latest twist in an escalating trade war. Trump made the threat in response to the EU’s plans for a levy on US-produced whiskey in retaliation for US tariffs on …

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A foreign national was found dead in an Airbnb apartment in downtown Athens early Thursday afternoon. The man was bound hand and foot and had a plastic bag over his head. The man was found by the apartment owner who entered the apartment to clean it. According to media information, …

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The prosecutor in the Second Instance trial of 21 defendants implicated for their role in a deadly wildfire that claimed 104 lives in the East Attica seaside town of Mati in July 2018 is seeking guilty verdicts for 12 of the state and political officials standing in the dock. In …

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Greece will spend more than 25 billion euros in arms procurement by 2036, including new submarines, drones, satellites and fighter jets, under a 12-year plan to be submitted to parliament in the coming weeks, three officials with knowledge of the plan told Reuters. The move is part of Greece’s bid …

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Konstantinos Tassoulas was sworn in as President of the Hellenic Republic on Thursday. Tassoulas succeeds Katerina Sakellaropoulou, Greece’s first woman president and former Chief Justice of the Council of State. 65-year-old Tassoulas, the former Parliament Speaker, was elected President of the Hellenic Republic on February 12, receiving 160 votes from …

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A public prosecutor has filed six felony charges and one misdemeanor against 61 individuals arrested in a large-scale police operation targeting dozens of petrol stations involved in fuel smuggling and meter tampering. The charges include forming, participating in, and managing a criminal organization, as well as aggravated fraud against the …

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A 28-year-old crane operator was electrocuted and died on Wednesday morning in Voula, suburb of southern Athens. One more worker was injured and is hospitalized. The crew was working on a construction site, and the victim was lifting material to upper floors of the building, when the crane got in …

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An underwater archaeological excavation was carried out near the ancient site of Asini, also an archaeological site, east of Tolo in Argolida. According to the Ministry of Culture, the site, which is located close to the present-day village of Tolo, was inhabited both in prehistoric and historical times, thanks to …

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A 53-year-old man stabbed several times his 44-year-old wife to death and jumped from the balcony to kill himself. The latest femicide in Greece took place in Sindos, suburb of Thessaloniki early afternoon on Wednesday. The victim was reportedly stabbed 11 times in the abdomen and police found her in …

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The European Union on Wednesday announced retaliatory trade action with new duties on U.S. industrial and farm products, responding within hours to the Trump administration’s increase in tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports to 25%. The world’s biggest trading bloc was expecting the U.S. tariffs and prepared in advance, …

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The Greek Foreign Ministry condemned atrocities in Syria, “atrocities inflicted on innocent civilians, including Christians and Alawites.” The previous statement issued two days earlier was sharply criticized on Greek social media. In a statement issued late on Monday, March 10, the Foreign Ministry said: “As the situation unfolds in Syria, …

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The plan “Agenda 2030” is a comprehensive approach to reforming the Armed Forces of Greece and a section of it includes the voluntary conscription of women, Greek National Defense Minister Nikos Dendias said on Monday at a General National Defense Staff event celebrating International Women’s Day (March 8). Women’s participation …

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Local government workers have called a national 24-hour strike on Friday, March 21, 2025, following a decision by their union POE-OTA, calling for permanent contracts of specific workers. The union is demanding that short-term employees on NSRF programs at municipalities be given permanent positions. The action concerns employees at social …

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Dozens of hotels, restaurants and cafes have systematically stole electricity causing 1.2 million euros damage to the Greek state in a period of only four months. From November 2024 to February 2025, a total of 700 inspections were carried out by the Hellenic Electricity Distribution Network Operator (HEDNO) in the …

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Outrage broke out on Greek social media on Monday, after a TV magazine presented cynically claimed “It’s better to be dead than in a wheelchair.” Dimitris Oikonomou was discussing live on Skai TV  magazine together with his colleague Akis Pavlopoulos on the occasion of the death of a 22-year-old driver …

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