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Τik Tok took down a video showing main opposition leader and former Prime Minister, left-wing Alexis Tsipras, playing basketball with children from the SOS Village in Vari, East Attica, on the Easter Sunday. According to SYRIZA affiliated daily “Avgi”, the 13-second-long video in question received massive reports which claimed “violation …

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Greeks rushed to public power company on Easter Wednesday to arrange payment settlements for unpaid bills and avoid being completely cut off from the electricity supply, as providers keep issuing disconnections orders and push for their implementation. With the wholesale price among the highest in Europe and a government that …

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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has called an emergency meeting with ministers in charge on Wednesday after Russian energy giant Gazprom halted natural gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria. Goal of the meeting is to discuss the sufficiency of natural gas in the country and the impact of the Russian …

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A strong earthquake jolted with a magnitude of 5.2 on the Richter scale the island of Kythera, south of Peloponnese, on Wednesday morning. So far, there have been no reports of injuries or material damage. While some international seismic institutes gave the preliminary magnitude with 5.4-5.5 R, the Geodynamic Institute …

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Daily coronavirus cases in Greece remain well below 10,000 in the last couple of days as many have left the big cities for the 4-day-long Easter weekend. On Tuesday, health authorities announced 4,727 new cases and 41 Covid-related deaths in the last 24 hours. The number of intubated Covid-patients across …

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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has traveled to Scotland on Tuesday, following an invitation by Charles, the Prince of Wales. At a meeting with the heir to the British throne in the Dumfries House in Ayrshire, they discussed  ideas to develop the former royal estate at Tatoi in north-western Athens. …

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Greek wine production grew 8.13% in 2021 compared with the previous year, totaling 2,468,945 kilolitres, the National Agricultural Cooperative of Wine Products said in a report released on Tuesday. This figure was in full contrast with the first estimate sent to the European Commission in September 2021 which envisaged a …

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Greek mafia boss and notorious criminal Giannis Skaftouros was gunned down by two assailants while he was enjoying Easter Monday with relatives and friends in his summer house in the regional unit of Viotia. The man who was known as one of the bosses of the Greek Mafia and his …

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With their cholesterol at the usual Easter-high levels thousands of Greeks returned home after a long an relaxing weekend in the countryside or the islands a mass exodus after two years of lockdown and movement restrictions. Ferries and ships docked at full capacity at the ports, intercity buses, airplanes and …

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With two hours delay, the Holy Fire arrived from Jerusalem at Athens international airport in the evening of the Holy Saturday. The delay was reportedly due to pandemic safety controls by the Israeli authorities. This was also the reason that for the first time no representative of the Greek Church …

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The online platform where people can apply to receive the subsidy for fuel, which will range between 40-55 euros, is to open on the Tuesday after Easter, on April 26. Applications will initially be staggered based on the tax identification number (AFM), opening on April 26 for tax IDs ending …

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Greeks are leaving the big cities for the countryside where they can enjoy the Easter traditions with relatives and friends in a village or an island, after two years of lockdown and moving restrictions that spoiled the fun on the biggest celebration of the Orthodoxy. With private cars, intercity buses, …

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