February 6, 2023
Earthquake Diplomacy: Greek PM calls Turkish President
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis expressed his sadness over the devastating earthquakes in Turkey …
February 6, 2023
Athens braces for second snow-wave on Tuesday (schools, measures)
Schools in some suburbs of Athens will remain closed also on Tuesday and workers can go to work not …
February 6, 2023
Turkey’s earthquake will not affect Greece, says leading seismologist
“We still don’t know if the 7.7 Richter earthquake that hit southern Turkey on Monday mo…
February 6, 2023
Greece sends rescue teams to earthquake-ridden Turkey
Greece is sending special search and rescue forces to Turkey after a 7.8 Richter earthquake devastat…
February 5, 2023
Attica to paralyze due to snow: Closed schools, stores, courts, tele-working
Schools and kindergartens in Attica will remain closed on Monday and public servants can do tele-wor…
February 5, 2023
3 children, one woman die when migrants’ boat capsizes off Leros
Three children and a young woman died when a boat carrying migrants capsized off the island of Leros…
February 5, 2023
Ferries, ships docked in Attica, islands due to gale-force winds
Ships and ferries remain docked at the Attica ports of Piraeus, Rafina and Lavrio on Sunday, Februar…
February 3, 2023
Ancient artifacts, products of illegal trafficking, return to Greece from Switzerland
Fifteen ancient objects dating from the prehistoric to the Roman period are being repatriated to Gre…
February 3, 2023
Greece Weather Warning: Dense snowfalls, stormy winds, frost
Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY warns of cold weather front “Barbara”…
February 3, 2023
Coast Guard fires warning shots at speedboats carrying migrants to Kos
The Greek Coast Guard has announced it stopped two speedboats carrying a total of 37 migrants off th…
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The European Commission has called on Greece to include in its national legislation directives on fighting children’s sexual abuse on the conditions of reception of asylum applicants, it said on Thursday, among other directives the country needs to implement. The Commission is also referring Greece and another five EU member …
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“Turkish nationalists” send threatening e-mails to Athens Airport, hospitals, church
Greek police was set on alert on Friday morning after new threatening e-mails were sent again to Athens International Airport “Eleftherios Venizelos” as well as several hospitals and one church in the Greek capital. The e-mails warned of the existence of explosive devices, i.e. “mines” at the airport and the …
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First medical cannabis plant inaugurated in Greece
Greece’s first-ever pharmaceutical cannabis production plant was inaugurated at Examilia, in Corinth, on Thursday. The investment by Tikun Europe, subsidiary of Israel-based Tikun Olam, exceeded 40 million euros in a privately owned area of 6 hectares (60 stremmas), which includes an area of 21,000 sq.m. with state-of-the-art hybrid greenhouses, as …
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Greece’s parliament honors memory of Holocaust victims
Greek Parliament honored the memory of the victims of the Holocaust ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Thursday evening by displaying the slogan “We remember” on its facade. The logo displayed a photograph of prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp. January 27 marks the 78th anniversary of the liberation …
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Greece weekly: 168 coronavirus deaths, lower infection rates
Infection rates for Covid-19, along with hospitalizations and intensive care dropped during the week of January 16-22, National Public Health Organization. EODY said on it weekly report issued on Thursday. The rate of influenza infections did not present a great change, EODY added. The weekly report presents information on viral …
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Greece’s power rates among Europe’s highest
Greece remained among the most expensive wholesale electricity markets in Europe in 2022, a year when the average price of electricity increased by 141% compared to 2021. In the same year, the cost of natural gas imports more than doubled compared to 2021, while it almost quintupled compared to 2018. …
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Heavy rainfall floods Athens main streets; Updated Weather Warning
Main roads in Athens were closed to traffic and motorists trapped in the waters and flooded schools were evacuated following a heavy rainfall on Thursday morning. Kolonaki, downtown Athens: I stood 20 minutes in the rain, unable to cross the street as volumes of waters were coming down like an …
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Wiretapping scandal: Tsipras tables censure motion against government
Main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance leader Alexis Tsipras tabled a motion of censure against the conservative government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday afternoon. Tsipras tabled the motion “in defense of democracy, transparency and justice” one day after he received an official response regarding the confirmed wiretapping of six people – politicians …
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Weather warning sent to residents of Zakynthos, Achaia
Residents on the island of Zakynthos in the Ionian Sea and the Achaia prefecture in western Peloponnese were alerted of upcoming dangerous weather phenomena with an emergency warning sms via <112>. The message urged them to minimize travel and take protective measures due to strong rain and gale-force winds. The …
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Earthquake rattles with 5.9R Rhodes, Aegean islands
Greece’s Geodynamics Institute of the National Observatory of Athens corrected the magnitude of the earthquake off the island of Rhodes to 5.9 on the richter scale, from 5.7R initially. The earthquake recorded at 14:37 in the sea southeast of Lindos on Rhodes raised concern among the residents but no damages …
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Russian man arrested for threatening e-mails to airport, hospitals in Athens
Police officers have arrested a Russian national in northern Greece for having sent threatening e-mails to Athens International Airport and six public hospitals in the Greek capital a day earlier. The 42-year-old Russian man was arrested in Thessaloniki in the early hours of this Wednesday by officers of the Sub-Directorate …
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Turkey postpones indefinitely NATO talks with Sweden, Finland
NATO has indefinitely postponed talks with Finland and Sweden at Turkey’s request. The talks were scheduled for February. Their applications have already been approved by 28 alliance countries, but Hungary and Turkey have not ratified them. NATO membership negotiations between Turkey, Sweden and Finland have been postponed indefinitely at Ankara’s …
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Earthquake Diplomacy: Greek PM calls Turkish President
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis expressed his sadness over the devastating earthquakes in Turkey in a … Read More » -
Greece sends rescue teams to earthquake-ridden Turkey
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Turkey: Western states gave it no evidence to back up security threat reports
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Amendment to exclude electoral candidates with criminal past at the Parliament
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Senators ask Biden to link F-16 sale to Ankara to NATO enlargement
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SYRIZA to abstain from Parliament voting, demands elections date
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Greece and Japan sign Joint Statement of Strategic Cooperation
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Corruption: High-ranking Police Officers offering protection to criminal bosses
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Foreign Ministry: Turkey ‘once again distorts reality’ regarding Muslim minority
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Censure motion against government defeated by 156 ND votes
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Commission calls on Greece to apply EU directives properly
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Tax inspectors shut down gas station illegally operating for 12 years
Tax inspectors have shut down an illegal gas station in Western Attica that sold €18 … Read More » -
Inflation in Greece to fall to 7.2% in January, Eurostat says
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Greece heavily cuts down electricity subsidy in February
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No plans for another “Fuel Pass” subsidy at present, says Minister
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First medical cannabis plant inaugurated in Greece