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Greek Police ordered an internal investigation against at least one riot police officer filmed using violence against a woman during a pro-Palestinian protest rally in central Athens on Monday. Multiple videos shot by other protesters and posted on social media, showed riot police officers approaching a woman protester. One of …

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Two teenagers brothers stabbed their cousin in the middle of a road in central Athens late on Monday. The victim, found by police on motorcycle in a lake of blood in Kypseli district of the Greek capital, died short time after he was transferred to a hospital.. The siblings, aged …

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A man has been missing and three people were rescued after a tourist boat sank off the island of Rhodes, in the south-eastern Aegean Sea on Tuesday afternoon. A big Search And Rescue operation was immediately launched with the participation of vessels from the Greek Coast Guard and Frontex, one …

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Greece’s population has been “steadily and consistently” declining in recent decades and the country’s low birth rate is the biggest challenge that Greece will face in the future, according to delegates at the 15th Panhellenic Conference of Small Islands held on October 4-6 on the island of Milos. They noted …

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British submarine “‘HMS Trooper” that disappeared in October 1943 while on secret mission in the Aegean Sea has been found at a depth of 253 meters in the Ikarian Sea, between the islands of Ikaria and Kos and near Turkey. The submarine is the eighth submarine to be located by …

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An unbelievable complaint regarding the hospital in Aigio, northern Peloponnese: the hospital asked 20 euro for tests to be conducted to a firefighter, member of an Albanian mission that came to Greece to help contain the big wildfire in Xylokastro. The firefighter, a member of the Albanian mission that was …

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Initial evidence gathered by the Fire Department has shown that the wildfire in Rozena by Xylokastro, western Greece, was started by a beekeeper smoking honeybees, the Crimes of Arson Directorate announced on Wednesday. The fire started on Sunday and killed two people, caused extensive destruction, as it burned for three …

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An explosive device detonated in the courtyard of a primary school in the town of Agrinio, western Greece, late on Tuesday. No injuries or damage have been  reported. Local residents who heard the blast shortly before 11 p.m alerted the police. Police officers discovered remnants of a homemade explosive device …

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A 29-year-old man was found dead in a cell of the Police station in Omonia in downtown Athens on Tuesday morning. The man, a national of Bangladesh, is the second dead in an Athens police station in less than a week. In the early morning Tuesday, a man was reported …

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Two local residents died, two firefighters were injured, houses were burned down, several acres of forest were extinguished and wildlife was killed as a wildfire has been raging near Xylokastro by Corinth in western Greece in the last 24 hours. The charcoal bodies of two men were found in a …

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A film-like robbery of a cash transporting van at gunpoint and a loot of over one million euros in cash took place in Lavrio, in southeastern Attica on Thursday. According to initial media reports, four robbers armed with Kalashnikov rifles, wearing white overalls and surgical masks held the two-men crew …

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Dozens of passengers of Athens urban train ISAP panicked on Wednesday afternoon when the wagons were filled with smoke. The train stopped, passengers opened the doors with their own hands,got off jumping out of the wagons and started walking on the tracks and next to them to the nearest station. …

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Αn elderly tourist was ran over by a motorcycle early Monday morning as he was walking to a bus stop for the airport to return to his country from the island of Crete. The 75-year-old German national died on the spot and doctors in the hospital could only confirm his …

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Four people died early morning Monday when a boat carrying migrants sank off the island of Samos in eastern Greece opposite the Turkish coast. The dead are two girls estimated to be 10-12 years old and two adult women. The number of missing people remains unclear with local media to …

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A total of 180 cases of West Nile Virus infection have been diagnosed and investigated and 24 people have died due to the mosquito-born disease in Greece in 2024, up until September 18, according to an epidemiological report released on Thursday by Greece’s National Public Health Organisation (EODY). West Nile …

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A 32-year-old Ukrainian woman, who was residing in Germany, was the tourist who died in Samaria gorge on Wednesday, state-run news agency amna.gr reported on Thursday, clarifying  initially confusing information about the rockfall victim. The woman was member of a group hiking through the gorge. Following a heavy rainfall, the …

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A mysterious theft in a building housing two ministries in downtown Athens: Thieves walked in early Tuesday morning, and walked out with 17 brand new  laptops still in their package from a room in the Ministry of Social Cohesion and Family. Police are investigating the theft of 30 laptops from …

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A tourist was killed by a rock slide in Samaria gorge on the island of Crete late Wednesday afternoon. Dozens of hikers are trapped in the gorge. According to initial information by local media,the rock crushed the woman’s leg and she died from uncontrollable bleeding. The victim was an Ukrainian …

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A fire at the Motor Oil facilities in Agioi Theodoroi, western Attica, on Tuesday afternoon had filled the area with black smoke and forced the evacuation of residents in the area. Vehicles and train traffic in the area has been suspended. Πυρκαγιά στη Motor Oil στους Αγίους Θεοδώρους – Μήνυμα …

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An explosion inside the passengers cabin of an airplane in boarding procedure at the Heraklio airport, Crete, caused panic early Tuesday afternoon. It was a power bank device in a passengers bag that exploded in the aircraft that would soon take off from Heraklio, Crete, for London, UK. The explosion …

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