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Some 299 children went missing in Greece in 2018, according to data presented on Monday for International Missing Children’s Day by the Hellenic Police, which said that 257 of them had been eventually found. The data was presented on the occasion of the International Missing Children’s Day on May 25 …

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A new online platform regulating and streamlining the adoption and fostering process in Greece received some 450 applications within just two weeks of going into operation, Alternate Social Solidarity Minister Theano Fotiou said beginning of May. Speaking in a radio interview, Fotiou hailed the platform’s success, saying that of the …

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The flu death toll in Greece has hit 150 from the start of the flu season last October until early May, Greece’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO) announced on Thursday. Four patients died this week from complications after contracting the influenza virus, according to KEELPNO’s statement. During the …

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A 12-year-old school boy was fined by the Municipality of Thessaloniki for illegal parking! The illegal parking took place in 2014, when the boy was 7 years old. No need to mention that the boy can neither drive nor has a driving license. The notice was sent to the child …

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Greek police has detained a 54-year-old man in connection with the stray bullet that seriously injured an 8-year-old girl on Easter Sunday. Police has found the gun the man processed illegally, while ballistic examination confirmed that the bullet was shot from this weapon. The man, a resident of Athens, was …

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Greeks are among the Top 5 of the world’s most stressed people. 151,000 people from 140 countries participated in a global research conducted by the Gallup 2019: Global Emotions Report. According to survey results, Greeks are emerging as the most “anxious people” in the world, with 59% of respondents admitting …

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An 8-year-old girl was seriously injured by a stray bullet in a village in Thiva on Easter Sunday. Police investigates to identify the owner of the weapon. Howeverr, 48 hours after the tragic incident neither the gun owner has turned himself to police, nor has the police identified him. Together …

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A 53-year-old cameraman was killed by a flare on Easter Sunday while he was filming the custom of flares war in Kalamata, south Peloponnese. Kostas Theodorakakis was filming the event when a flare hit him on the head. He was immediately transferred to the local hospital when he passed away …

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We hear a lot about the public health care system in Greece and it is mostly negative reports about shortage of personnel and stuff, delays in operations and appointments with doctors. Tessa Cross, an expat form the UK, has something different to report. In a e-mail to KTG, Tessa expresses …

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A social and political outrage sparked on Tuesday, after Alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis accused an New Democracy candidate for the European Parliament of making use of disability provisions in order to get a job in the public sector as he is a person with special needs. 34-year-old Stelios Kymbouropoulos …

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Two young British tourists lost their lives in a traffic accident in the broader area of Profitis Ilias mountain on the island of Santorini on Sunday. The couple was on a buggy that fell into a 200-meter deep ravine. For unknown reasons the driver lost control of the motorcycle that …

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A 40-year-old US citizen died in what it seems an accident during a climbing tour in Leonidio, Arcadia, Peloponnese. According to local media, it was around 1 o’ clock Sunday noon, when the man fell from a height of several meters while he was climbing the rock known as the …

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Local authorities are on alert about 64-year-old Andrzej Weber who arrived on the island of Crete on April 6 and went missing three days later. His last phone call to his family was on April 8, 2019. Weber went missing in the region of Sougia on Tuesday, April 9. According …

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The district of Exarchia in downtown Athens turned into a battle field on Friday night, when anarchists attacked riot policemen with fire bombs and police responded with tear gas and sound flares. One riot policeman was injured and one person was detained during the clashes. A group of people wearing …

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A global study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), released on Wednesday, shows that middle-class incomes in crisis-battered Greece for households hover from nearly 8,000 euros to just more than 21,000 euros per year, a figure amongst the lowest for European OECD member-states. The study, entitled “Under …

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Greek police has arrested an 82-year-old granny for selling greens without a vendor’s license at the open market in Katerini, West Macedonia. The woman was fined with 200 euros, for selling six kilos of wild greens she had collected from the fields. Total value of the “goods sold illegally” was …

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A 27-year-old father shot his toddle son dead with a rifle and he committed suspected suicide right afterwards in an apartment of Halandri suburb of North Athens on Sunday morning. It was the noise of the shotguns that alerted neighbors who called the police. Police officers managed to enter the …

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90-year-old Suzanna Iliadi was fined 200 euros for selling her handmade bootees without a vendor’s license in Thessaloniki. The amount is much to high for the woman who receives no pension. Despite the public outcry over her arrest last week, authorities most probably thought to create an example and also …

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“I will never sell my bootees again,” says the 90-year-old granny that spent twelve in a police station in Thessaloniki for selling her handmade garment without vendor’s license. Days after the arrest that triggered an outage in the Greek society, the woman is still in shock. Video: granny at police …

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A 90-year-old woman has been arrested and kept at police station for 12 hours after she was found to sell handmade bootees without a vendor’s license. The arrest has triggered an outrage with the woman’s daughter to denounce that the granny did not even receive water during the nightmare hours …

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