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Life imprisonment Babis Anagnostopoulos for the murder of young British-born mother Caroline Crouch and another ten years behind bars for the killing of the family dog, the Mix Jury Criminal court in Athens ruled early Monday evening. In addition, the 34-year-old defendant received 11.5 years in prison for the dog …

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Unprecedentedly tragic accident:: An automatic dumpster crushed the body of a man in the center of Alexandroupolis in northern Greece at Monday noon. The man was looking inside the dumpster when the compactor mechanism was activated and closed automatically thus trapping and crushing his body. Fire service staff and paramedics …

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The European Commission has revised its forecasts for the Greek economy downwards, envisaging a GDP growth of 3.5% in 2022 and 3.1% in 2023, from 4.9% and 3.5% respectively in its winter forecasts made in last February. On Monday, the Commission released its spring 2022 report on economic growth in …

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The “White Arrow” Intercity Express, the fastest train in Greece, completed its very first trip on Sunday, May 15, 2022. With a capacity at 60% the first ICE left Athens for Thessaloniki at 7:22 a.m. and reached the port city in northern Greece in 3 hours and 55 minutes. There …

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“Today we took a big step to bring hope back to our country,” president of Greece’s main opposition party, left-wing SYRIZA-Progressive Allianc, Alexis Tsipras, stressed late on Sunday after the closing of the ballot boxes for the elections of the party leaders and members of the Central Committee. The former …

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Greek hotels will be looking to staff 55,000 positions this summer, at what is expected to be a very busy summer, according to hoteliers in the country. 22% or over 1 in 5 available positions will remain unfilled, hoteliers say, speaking to state-run news agency amna. According to data provided …

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Amanda Georgiadi enchanted audiences and viewers with “Die together” and won 8th place in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. The representative of Greece on the stage in Turin was applauded by the audience and won the impressions by entering the top ten. The Greek-Norwegian singer collected a total of 215 …

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Greece is “ready to welcome Sweden and Finland in the NATO family,” Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said in Berlin Saturday. Greece has always had “excellent relations” with the two countries, Dendias said on arriving at an informal dinner of foreign ministers of NATO countries at Germany’s foreign ministry. “I am …

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An elementary school teacher has bitten one of her pupils, an 11-year-old child with disabilities. The teacher is also the principal of the Special School in Arta, western Greece. She did not inform the mother of the incident. And it was the  It was the victim’s mother who found out …

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The Greek State will sue big pharmaceutical corporation Novartis, claiming compensation for illegal practices, Health Minister Thanos Plevris announced on Friday. In a statement Minister Plevris said: “Implementing our government commitment to claim compensation from the company Novartis for all illegal practices and according to the minutes of the NSC, …

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Longstanding NATO member Turkey opposes Finland and Sweden seeking to join the North Atlantic Alliance and president Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatens with veto. He also accused Greece, a NATO ally, of using the alliance against Turkey, saying Ankara did not want a repeat of that “mistake,” when the NATO accepted …

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Shipping has operated and continues to operate as “a beacon of stability in a volatile global environment,” the president of the Union of Greek Shipowners, Melina Travlos, said on Thursday. In a statement on the occasion of the Posidonia international shipping exhibition, to be held in Athens on June 6-10, …

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