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Traffic shutdowns and redirections will take place on Sunday, October 1, 2023  because of the “Greece Race for the Cure in Athens”. The race is a fundraiser for breast cancer and includes a running and a walking part. On Sunday, traffic will be gradually restricted and shut down as of …

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A big arsenal containing carbines, firearms magazines and 500 bullets was found in an apartment in noble district of Kolonaki in downtown Athens on Tuesday afternoon. The arsenal was found by a group of construction workers, when they entered the storage area of the apartment located on one of the …

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Storm Elias already started to hit Greece and the heavy rainfall in Aigio, northern Peloponnese, caused a landslide. The rocks fell on the Patras-Athens highway with the effect that the old highway has been closed to traffic and so are parts of the new highway. The landslide occurred at the …

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A 13-year-old school boy has been seriously injured when he leaned against the railings and fell on the ground from a height of 5 meters. the incident occurred at Monday noon in a high school of Lamia, Central Greece. According to local media reports, the boy was in the back …

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Greece’s Deputy Minister of Health Irini Agapidaki sounded the alarm about the health situation prevailing in the areas flooded by storm Daniel as cases of leptospirosis, gastroenteritis and lung infections are recorded almost daily, flood water remains stagnant and the carcasses of thousands of animals have not been fully collected …

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A new platform where Greek citizens can book an appointment for the issue of a new, higher-security, contactless police ID card is to open at the gov.gr portal on Monday, September 25, 2023. Citizens will be able to book an appointment at a police station, which will be confirmed through …

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Police in Athens has arrested a foreign national who visited the Acropolis and stole pieces of marble from the archaeological site. Arrested has been a 36-year-old Romanian citizen following a complain by another visitor. He was found to have stolen two pieces of marble from the archaeological site. According to …

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A German couple threw a dinner party for a whole village to say “thank you” for saving their house from the summer fires on the islands of Rhodes. “A beautiful and touching initiative by a German couple, who have chosen Rhodes as their second home, wanting to thank all the …

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A 35-year-old Romanian monk on Monday was charged with causing grievous bodily harm after beating up a fellow monk on Sunday night at the Serbian Orthodox Hilandar Monastery, part of the all-male monastic community Mount Athos in northern Greece. The suspect hit the 52-year-old Belarusian monk with his hands, feet …

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Prisons across Greece are ‘boiling’ and inmates have started a hunger strike in several facilities on Monday. Prisoners protest the inhuman conditions of detention and “illegal” extension of their sentence. According to daily efimerida ton syntakton, prisoners in Domokos prison announced the start of hunger strike and are followed by …

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Vehicles will use the E65 Aegean Motorway without paying tolls on the section between the Nikaia junction and Maliakos Bay until 6:00 on September 20, 2023, the Infrastructure and Transport Minister Christos Staikouras has announced. Also extended until September 20 is toll-free access for trucks (over 3.5 tonnes) on the …

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Five Greeks, members of the humanitarian mission of the Greek Armed Forces to flood-stricken Libya were killed in a traffic accident on Sunday. Another 13 people were injure with seven of them being in critical condition. The Armed Forces declared a 3-day mourning. The injured Greeks were transported back to …

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Three elementary school children were injured on Friday morning when plasters detached from the school ceiling and fell on the young pupils in an Athens neighborhood. Everything happened at the 149th Primary School of Petralona during the second break. Suddenly, a large piece of plaster fell from the ceiling of …

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Rising water levels at Lake Karla are threatening to inundate the few remaining parts of the Thessaly plain that have not been flooded yet. The reason is that the waters from Pinios River continued to feed into the lake on Friday. Villages on the shores of Lake Karla such as …

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A young Greek woman has died in Bordeaux, France, after dinner at a local 4-star restaurant. Her husband, an Irish national, and another 20 people, among them her parents got sick with botulism after consuming sardines, the owner himself had canned. The botulism outbreak took place in the famous restaurant …

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Forty of the 104 survivors of the deadly shipwreck off Pylos, in south-western Greece in June 2023, filed a lawsuit against all responsible persons at the Maritime Court of Piraeus on Thursday. The suit was filed by their lawyers, according to a joint statement by the Network for the Rights …

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The operation to locate the Austrian newly weds couple swept away in south Pilion by the storm Daniel beginning of the month seems to have a tragic end. Greek authorities are expecting the results of two DNA tests to identify the remains of a man and a woman who were …

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A total of 48 people in the regions of Larissa, Magnissia, Trikala, and Karditsa that experienced severe flooding were diagnosed with gastroenteritis and 65 with respiratory infections on Wednesday, according to a daily health report. The diagnoses were made at the 26 National Health System centers in the above regions, …

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Dozens of residents of floods-stricken village Farkadona, Central Greece, filed the first lawsuit against all  competent authorities including the Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection and the Regional government of Thessaly. The residents complained that “unknown people” deliberately broke the Enipea dam in two places, with the aim of …

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Police investigation into the mafia-style execution of six foreign nationals on Monday evening is being conducted in full speed by the Attica Security headquarters. Based on an initial police assessment, the killings appear to be a settling of accounts between rival criminal gangs, most likely Turkish nationals, involved in heroin …

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