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Strong winds blowing in the Aegean Sea with intensity of up to 9 Beaufort have disrupted sea traffic already since Tuesday night, march 28, 2023. Ferries scheduled to depart from Piraeus port on Wednesday morning have been delayed. Check with KTG weather post here. Passengers who are planning to travel …

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The World Health Organization has tailored its Covid-19 vaccination recommendations for a new phase of the pandemic, suggesting that healthy children and adolescents may not necessarily need a shot but older, high-risk groups should get a booster between 6 to 12 months after their last vaccine. The UN agency said …

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The Prime Minister’s office in Israel issued a press release late on Tuesday regarding the arrest of terrorists targeting Israeli targets in Greece. The Press release was issued on “behalf of the Mossad”, the National Intelligence Service in Israel, the PM’s office stressed. PM’s office press release In response to …

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A bear raided a bee farm on Mount Paiko, northern Greece, destroyed 15 to 20 hives and ate around 40 kilos of honey. It is the first appearance of a bear in the area in the almost a decade. The adult honey-thief was captured on a video footage released by …

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A voluntary scheme by European Union member states to accept unaccompanied migrant children from Greece officially ended Tuesday, raising concern over delays still facing the bloc in hammering out a comprehensive new migration agreement. Fifteen minors from Somalia, Gambia and Pakistan boarded a plane in Athens bound for Lisbon, Portugal, …

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Greece’s National Intelligence Service and the Anti-Terror Department of the Hellenic Police have dismantled a terrorists’ network that was preparing attacks in the country. According to an announcement by authorities on Tuesday afternoon, two foreigners were arrested. The building that the terrorists would target for their attack and cause the …

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A 17-year-old boy stabbed his mother and went to the street half-naked shouting “I killed them all!” The 45-year-old mother was found seriously injured in the family apartment and was transferred with an ambulance in a hospital in Athens. Citing preliminary information by the Police media reported that the teenager  …

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A digital application for mobile phones to support women facing violence at home, called ‘Panic Button’, has been introduced in Athens and Thessaloniki. The free app is downloaded on a smartphone and activates the service by pressing on a button which sends a text message (sms) to the operational center …

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Professors in the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Ioannina, western Greece, submitted their resignations en masse to the rector in order to show support to students. Reason for the mass resignations is that faculty graduates are not being granted professional rights. The decision was taken at the General …

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Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis finally announced the date for the parliamentary elections on Tuesday. “2023 elections will be held at the end of the four-year legislative period, on May 21,” Mitsotakis said in a live broadcast from a meeting with the Council of Ministers, the last one before the …

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Meteorologists in Greece have been warning of a weather deterioration with strong rainfalls and storms locally, a significant temperature drop and stormy north-west winds up to 8 and 9 Beaufort in the seas and in continental areas. The bad weather front will hit Greece from the West from Monday afternoon, …

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The chief traffic manager at the Greek Railways Organization (OSE), Konstantinos Chrysagis, died following a motorcycle crash on Sunday. The 66-year-old died instantly on the spot. he was a key person in investigations for the deadly train collision in Tempi. According to traffic police, the accident took place at the …

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