At least fifteen people were injured in a car crash involving more than 50 vehicles on Egnatia highway on Sunday. The pile-up in which initially five cars were involved took place near the Polymylos toll on one of the country’s largest highways,  in the section leading from Veria to Kozani. …

A 69-year-old man was arrested late on Sunday for beating his wife to death. The victim, a 79-year-old woman from the USA was found dead in the couple’s home in the city of Ioannina, Epirus in north-western Greece. According to local media and state broadcaster ERT, the ambulance service received …

A 21-year-old truck driver from Belorussia was rescued from the still burning Euroferry Olympia on Sunday morning. “Tell me I’m alive,” the man told his rescuers unable to believe that he managed to survive over 50 hours in the burning ferry with high temperatures and toxic fumes. The man was …

A police officer is one of the two suspects arrested and taken to prosecutor on Tuesday for the death of a 44-year-old man, a member of the Roma community, in the suburb of Menidi, west Athens. According to media reports, the man was attacked and beaten on Sunday afternoon and …

Dozens of people and vehicles remain stranded on Attiki Odos ring road of Athens still early Tuesday afternoon, as Army, Fire Bridges and Police try to evacuate them. After having been trapped in a car struck in snow for over 26 hours, five people suffered hypothermia and were taken to …

Greece’s health authorities announced on Thursday 18,869 coronavirus cases and 81 deaths in the past 24 hours. The number of intubated Covid-patients in hospitals increased to 688. A 52-day-old baby lost the battle against the coronavirus in Thessaloniki on Wednesday night. The baby was born on Nov 30 and was …

A 46-year-old man who brutally beat his partner and sent her to the ICU with very severe injuries appeared at the police in Athens today after the expiration of the 48-hour inflagranti deadline that sends criminal directly behind bars. The man was accompanied by his lawyer. With punches and kicks …

A two-month old baby girl was abandoned in a backpack at a playground in Chalandri suburb of northern Athens on Wednesday afternoon. The baby was found by a police officer assigned with the protection of a lawmaker. Footage from security cameras in the area show a person carrying the bag …

Finance Minister Christos Staikouras and Health Minister Thanos Plevris presented on Wednesday the donations collected since last April in the special account for the repayment of extraordinary expenditures for the treatment of Covid-19 disease. FinMin Staikouras said, among others, that “in this critical effort, no one is left out. In …

Health Minister Thanos Plevris announced that the Ministry will hire 4,000 nurses and 910 doctors to strengthen the Greek health care system. The Minister made the announcement during a visit of the new health center in Patras, wester Peloponnese on Sunday. He said that the pandemic is at its peak, …

Scenes from the Wild Far West took place in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on Monday morning: A woman was shot while she was buying bread in a bakery. She died short time later. The shooter was reportedly another woman who fled the scene right after the murder.. The victim was transferred …

Femicide in Greece, the 16th in 2021: A man brutally beat his wife and took the severely injured woman to the hospital emergencies in Alexandroupolis, in the North-East of the country. There he claimed she had fallen down the stairs. Four days later, the 29-year-old victim and mother of three …

Greece’s health authorities announced on Wednesday 5,899 new coronavirus cases and 81 deaths in the past 24 hours. The number of intubated Covid-patients in hospitals increased further to 709. 8 pregnant women infected with Covid-19 are being currently treated in the maternity clinic of Ippokratio hospital in Thessaloniki. Two of …

Hospital workers in Greece accused the conservative government on Wednesday of reserving Intensive Care Units (ICU) beds for “Vre Important Patients”, Greeks now call VIP-ICU. The allegations come as over 100 intubated patients are been “treated” outside ICUs in hospitals across the country. President of Hospital Workers Federation (POEDIN). Michalis …

A well-known anti-vaxxer Bishop of the Greek Orthodox Church was infected with Covid-19. It needed a prosecutor’s order to be transferred from his home to the public hospital. Until the very last moment, the 80-year-old Bishop and but also his relatives were opposing his intubation which doctor considered as essential. …

Greece’s top court the Council of State ruled on Friday that the mandatory vaccination for health workers and rescuers of EMAK at the Fire Service is constitutional and in accordance to supra-legislative provisions. Furthermore, it rule that also the suspension from work for the unvaccinated staff and thus without pay …

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced an extra Christmas bonus to health workers, low-pensioners and people with disabilities who receive allowance. The extra bonus is aiming to absorb price hikes for the benefit of those combating the pandemic and the vulnerable groups of the society. The bonus is one off payment. …

Greece’s health authorities announced on Wednesday 7,105 coronavirus cases and 70 Covid-related deaths in the past 24 hours. The number of intubated Covid-patients in hospitals has slightly increased further to 489. It should be noted that the 7,105 confirmed cases were detected by almost half of the tests carried out …

At least 300 people have died of COVID in Macedonia and Thrace hospitals in northern Greece over the last fortnight. 85-87 percent of them were unavaccinated. The total number of fatalities due to the pandemic in the last two weeks is 479 across the country. The situation in the hospitals …

Α well-known Greek marathon-runner died in a horrible traffic accident on Tuesday morning, when her bike was hit and carried away by a truck at a crossroads in Thessaloniki. The cyclist was 42-year-old marathon-runner and triathlon athlete Dimitra Iordanidou. Eye witnesses told local media that the woman was cycling on Grigoriou …