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Greece’s Defense Ministry will distribute tablets to conscripts in the context of a program to “upgrade digital skills in the military service.” The cost for 10,000 tablets has been calculated to be over 56 million euros, that is over 5,600 euros per table excluding VAT. The initial announcement for the …

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Τhe quick and skilled intervention of a waiter managed to save the life of a woman who was choking on her food in a restaurant on the island of Zakynthos. With a Heimlich maneuver, waiter Nikos Solomos managed to relief the woman. The incident happened in a restaurant in Kalamaki, …

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Three police officers were arrested on the island of Mykonos for providing private security service to villas even during their shift hours at the local police station. Citing police sources, media report on Monday that the officers were providing the private security service for 12 euros per hour to the …

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Gorges in the Chania Prefecture, Crete, will remain closed to visitors also on Monday, August 14, 2023, local authorities have announced. Deputy Regional Governor of Chania ordered the shutdown of all gorges in the region after the earthquake on Sunday morning. The Samaria Gorge shut down at 11 p.m., immediately …

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The mayor of Nafplio has admitted throwing feces and garbage at the home of a rival candidate and thus ahead of the upcoming local elections in October. The battle for the mayor-ship in Nafplio, western Peloponnese, has gone out of control with the current mayor, Dimitris Kostouros, to have left …

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“If the Greek authorities were able to detain all 100 through some kind of “artificial detention”, this would contain elements of revenge or attribution of collective responsibility,” Croatian president Zoran Milanovic said with regards the detention of dozens of Croatian hooligans so far, involved in attacks outside the AEK stadium …

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Four people were injured when a sudden windstorm hit Nea Playia in Halkidiki peninsula in northern Greece on Sunday morning. The squall lasted only a few minutes, however, it was powerful enough to sweep the area including the beach, bringing “everything upside down” as eyewitnesses said, injuring four people and …

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The 45-year-old Spanish tourist, who suffered serious leg injuries during a hike in Samaria Gorge after the earthquake in Chania, was rescued and transferred to the local hospital. The man was injured when parts of a rock fell on him following the earthquake that stroke with 4.9 Richter on Sunday …

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A strong earthquake shook with a magnitude of 4.9 on the Richetr scale Chania on the island of Crete at 10:49 am on Sunday, August 13, 2023. The epicenter of the earthquake was located 11 km east-southeast of Sougia Chania, 22 kms east of Paleochora, Its focal depth is estimated …

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The most spectacular summer shower of shooting stars, the meteor shower of Perseids, reaches its peak in the night from Saturday, August 12, to Sunday dawn, August 13, 2023. The meteor shower is visible on the sky of Greece and on the north hemisphere sky in general. Those who will …

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New cases of Covid-19 infections increased in the week of July 31-August 6 when compared to the previous week, according to the weekly report by the National Public Health Organisation (EODY), published on Thursday. 11% of the new cases is owed to the new ‘Eris‘ strain of the coronavirus, it …

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A tragedy unfolded on the island of Fournoi by Ikaria, when the body of an 11-year-old boy was pulled unconscious from the popular beach of Plaka. For hours locals, visitors and coast guard were searching for the child whose mother had reported it as missing. According to media information, the …

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A “storm” of public hospital doctors’ resignations due to poor working conditions cause a new and intense pressure  on Greece’s National Health System (ESY), while the government does not take any substantial measures to prevent a collapse of the system. Reason for the resignations is the constant movement of doctors …

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The owners of three beach bars on the island of Naxos were taken into custody on Thursday afternoon for reinstalling dozens of unlicensed sunbeds and umbrellas. All three businesses had been ordered to remove items and structures that were in violation of beach zoning and public access laws during inspections …

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Overtourism in Halkidiki has affected water and electricity supply as well the biological cleaning networks. Black outs are daily, locals, tourists and professionals are angry. Faucets ran dry, the circuit breakers went down and the biological cleaning “short-circuited” for another year in Halkidiki due to overtourism, daily ethnos.gr reported citing …

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Hardly had inspectors left the island of Naxos and the sunbeds and the umbrellas returned to the island’s beaches. Shortly after the controls carried out at the beaches about violations regarding illegal sunbeds and umbrellas , some business people put the sunbeds back in their old places again, even in …

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A very high fires danger (risk category 4) has been forecast for Thursday, August 10, in five Greek islands, according to the Fire Danger Forecast Map issued by the General Secretariat for Civil Protection of the Climate Crisis and Civil Protection ministry. The remaining islands across the country are marked …

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Greek Coast Guard rushed to rescue a French family in sea distress off the Kathisma beach on the island of Lefkada on Tuesday afternoon. The parents, two teenager boys and one guide/driver in four canoes-kayaks were swept away by the high waves and the strong winds. It was a lifeguard …

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Nine persons accused of organizing illegal adoptions linked to an assisted reproduction clinic appeared before a public prosecutor in the city of Chania, Crete on Wednesday. Among the nine persons are a 73-year-old well-known gynecologist in Chania, doctors, clinic staff, a woman from Romania and two women from Georgia. Authorities …

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Seven senior officers in the Greek Police will immediately be removed from their positions following the serious incidents between soccer hooligans in Nea Philadelphia on Monday, in which one person was killed, Citizen Protection Minister Giannis Oikonomou announced on Tuesday. A day after 29-year-old AEK fan, Michalis Κatsouris, was stabbed …

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