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One 16-year-old boy died, two of his sisters are intubated in ICU, while a third sister and his mother are hospitalized in a normal ward after what it seems a gas leakage in their home in village Magiko byi the city of Xanthi in north-eastern Greece. The tragedy took place …

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The Christmas Tree in Greek capital Athens was lit in Syntagma Square early Thursday evening in the presence of hundreds of Athenians and visitors, Mayor Haris Doukas and a music program. The 20-meter fir came from Taxiarhis, Halkikidi in northern Greece and is adorned with 20,000 LED lights and decoration …

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Deputy Minister of Transport, Nikos Tachiaos, filed a lawsuit for sabotage threats in the Metro of  Thessaloniki  during its inauguration scheduled on Saturday, November 30. Fans of a local football team have expressed threatening mobilizations on the day of the Metro inauguration. Nikos Tachiaos filed the lawsuit on Thursday morning, …

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Greek capital Athens was named “World’s Leading Cultural City Destination” during the Grand Final Gala Ceremony of the World Travel Awards (WTA) 2024 which took place in Madeira, Portugal on Nov. 24. Athens was awarded for its rich cultural heritage and the unique experiences it offers millions of travelers who …

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The government unveiled on Thursday a new plan to install 1,388 advanced traffic cameras nationwide to improve road safety and enforce traffic laws more effectively. The initiative seeks to reduce the number of accidents, particularly in urban areas where traffic fatalities have risen despite improvements in highway safety. The traffic, …

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MP Yiannis Sarakiotis, elected with SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance in Fthiotida, sent a letter to the Parliament speaker on Thursday announcing that he leaves the party’s parliamentary group and goes independent. SYRIZA reportedly urged him to return his seat to the party. Sarakiotis did not vote for the new SYRIZA leader on …

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Another tragedy in the Aegean Sea, again off the island of Samos: a speedboat carrying migrants crashed on a rocky beach leaving behind four dead, with the  victims being again women and children. 16 persons have been rescued, while the total number of people onboard is not known. State broadcaster …

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“With Alexis Tsipras, Greece was now saved,” German chancellor at the peak of the Greek economic crisis, Angela Merkel, notes in her memoirs book, entitled “Freedom.” Talking about the “Greek crisis” in 35 pages, Angela Merkel recalls the events 2010-2018, the negotiations, the referendum and the exit from bankruptcy as …

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A series of incidents regarding patients in Greece’s public hospitals as well as the promotion of a doctor convinced for manslaughter of three patients have raised serious concerns about the safety of hospitals in the country. Reports of a patient’s death and a year-long delay in communicating a cancer diagnosis …

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“There is no way we accept fait a compli,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told Turkey responding to provocative statements of Turkish Defense Minister Yasar Guler regarding exploration in the Aegean Sea. “We believe that the mild climate that permeates Greek-Turkish relations can favor the restart of talks on the Cyprus …

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Two people were arrested during a police operation in Alimos, suburb of southern Athens, where 172 ancient artifacts were discovered. According to the Hellenic Police, the arrests followed intelligence gathering and analysis that led to the identification of three apartments in the same building. During searches of the apartments on …

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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis expressed the unwavering support for Ukraine and the need for even greater support from NATO in a meeting the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Alliance, Mark Rutte, in Athens on Tuesday. In joint statements both Mitsotakis and Rutte refrained from commenting on the consequences …

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A birthday cake with sparklers set a well-known bar on fire when the sparkles  touched the ceiling decoration. Customers fled in panic breaking the window glasses with the help of the personnel. Six people were transferred to a nearby hospital. It was in a well-known bar in Pangrati district of …

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Domestic violence against women has shown a spike in the first ten months of 2024 compared to the same period in 2023, the Greek Police said on Sunday. Police records show that 18, 427 incidents were recorded in January-October 2024 compared to 9,860 in the same period of 2023. The …

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The Christmas Tree of the City of Athens will be lit in Syntagma Square at 18:00 on Thursday, November 28, and launch a series of festive events in the Greek capital. The 20-metre tree arrived in Athens last week, late on Thursday night, and its decoration began immediately. The tree …

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MP Sokratis Famellos has been elected the new leader of  SYRIZA party on Sunday. The election means a new page for the left-wing party that has suffered the loss of 18 lawmakers since the parliamentary elections in summer 2023 and lost its status of “Greece’s main opposition party” earlier this …

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The seas in Greece hit their warmest level in 40 years in the summer of 2024,  a report by Greek researchers at the universities of Thessaloniki, Aegean, and Thrace has found. The researchers studied temperature reports for the Greek seas from satellites as of 1982 before concluding that the entire …

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Deposed SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis announced on Saturday his new party. Its’ name is “Movement for Democracy” (Kinima Dimokratias/Κίνημα Δημοκρατίας), a name it was voted in a poll by his supporters. The party is neither left or right, and it moves somewhere between Left and Center, Kasselakis said without specifying …

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A police officer in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, filed a lawsuit at the Military Court on Friday, because he was informed that he was suffering from advanced cancer one whole year after his operation. Speaking to media on Friday, the non-commissioned officer described in the lawsuit how his nightmare began when …

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Passenger traffic in Greek airports are heading for a new record, with the numbers in the first ten months of the year already surpassing the annual total for 2023, Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) chief Giorgos Saounatsos has said. Passenger traffic totaled 72.8 million from January to October, an 8.9% increase …

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