February 10, 2025
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Larissa appellate-level examining magistrate Sotiris Baikamis ordered on Monday an urgent investigation of the three videos handed over to the Tempi train crash investigation by the company responsible for the video surveillance of railway line, on behalf of the Hellenic Railways Organisation (OSE). The court-appointed fact-finders will examine the authenticity …
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June 30, 2024
environment, FEATURED
A wildfire on the island of Serifos in the Cyclades has burned down or just damaged houses, storage buildings, cottages and small chapels and had 8 settlements in the south of the island evacuated. Of all islands Serifos where the highest wild growing plants are oregano, thyme and parsley! The …
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June 19, 2024
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Α journalist reporting live from the wildfire in Vari-Koropi on Wednesday was brutally punched and beaten by three workers of a business on fire. The unprecedented incident against Frixos Drakondidis, reporter at protothema.gr took place in the yard of a Jet Ski business that was already engulfed by flames. The …
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May 9, 2024
FEATURED, weather
Streets turned into rivers in the center of Thessaloniki on Thursday afternoon as a heavy rainstorm hit Greece’s second biggest city. The rainstorm caused not only traffic chaos but it also uprooted trees and flooded houses and businesses. Fire Service and Police have so far received over 50 calls for …
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February 20, 2024
Greece, Politics
A total of 138 tractors have lined up in front of the Greek Parliament in downtown Athens on Tuesday. Thousands of farmers from across Greece but also unionists from several sectors and a crowd of ordinary citizens join their voices for a common cause. #ΑΓΡΟΤΕΣ #Συνταγμα #αγροτες pic.twitter.com/ctXECSFk55 — newsbreak.gr …
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January 15, 2024
Society, Very Mix
Two police officers were arrested on Monday afternoon for leaking to media a video with the body of fatally shot V.Z. shortly after the mafia-style murder in Neos Kosmos in the early hours of Sunday. The police officers were arrested on the charge of recording and leaking to the media …
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January 7, 2024
FEATURED, Lifestyle, Society
Greeks celebrated the Epiphany on January 6 with the suitable glory and the tradition dictating that people jump in the cold water to catch the Holy Cross and be blessed for the rest of the year. It is a custom that assigned priest throws the Cross into the sea, in …
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November 27, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Questions are being raided about the sinking of cargo vessel RAPTOR and the reasons the captain did not ask for help on time as there was water ingress hours earlier. The only survivor reportedly told authorities that the vessel’s destination was the Ukraine and not Turkey. Meanwhile, Search And Rescue …
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November 13, 2023
FEATURED, Social, Society
Horror for two young people with disabilities: they were abused and filmed and the videos were uploaded in live streaming on a platform where sick individuals -see: subscribers– paid money in order to watch. A total of 554 videos were uploaded by a 42-year-old man in Keratsini suburb of Piraeus …
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November 2, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Neo-Nazis wearing hoods threw gasoline inside a Metro wagon full with commuters in Monastiraki station in downtown Athens on Wednesday evening, recorded the attempted arson of citizens on a video and uploaded it on social media. Eye-witnesses told media that they were throwing oil and gazoline shouting “we are going …
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October 18, 2023
FEATURED, Politics, Refugees
Greek police arrested five people in the closed migrants structure on the island of Samos around Tuesday midnight after a big crowd of migrants and refugees gathered to protest the attack at the Gaza hospital that killed over 500 people patients, medical and nursing personnel but also people who had sought …
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October 16, 2023
Arts, Culture, FEATURED
Hollywood star Angelina Jolie is filming in Greece for the needs of her new film “Maria.” The actress is portraying the great Greek soprano Maria Kallas. a biographical drama directed by Pablo Larrain. The film is reportedly set during Callas’ final years in the 1970s when she was living in …
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October 2, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
The sound of air raid sirens and church bells was heard with intervals across Greece on Monday morning in a military drill that lasted 2 hours 11 o’ clock sharp on Monday morning sirens across Greece started their penetrating alarm sound for 60 seconds. After a short break, they started …
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September 6, 2023
FEATURED, weather
Storm weather Daniel reached Greek capital Athens with a heavy downpour on Wednesday afternoon that lasted no longer than 15 minutes, however, they were enough to flood many streets in downtown and the suburbs, mostly main streets. Ποτάμια οι δρόμοι στο κέντρο της Αθήνας #ΚΑΚΟΚΑΙΡΙΑ_DANIEL #κακοκαιρια #ΑΘΗΝΑ #Αττικη pic.twitter.com/3EPj77x5Z3 — …
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August 8, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics, Sports
A 29-year-old Greek man was stabbed to death by Croatian hooligans and fans of Dinamo Zagreb FC in a violent brawl in North-West Athens on Monday night. Eight people are being hospitalized due to injuries, among them a 17-year-old boy with serious head injuries, state broadcaster ERT reported. The brawl …
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July 22, 2023
FEATURED, Tourism, Travel
Carrying children on their arms and dragging their suitcases in a suffocating atmosphere and the flames behind them, tourists and locals on the island of Rhodes walked to a safer place after they were ordered to evacuate on Saturday afternoon. Chaotic scenes unfolded as the evacuees had to abandon the …
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July 20, 2023
environment, FEATURED
Fires in Mandra and Dervenochoria in West Attica, on the island of Rhodes and Lefkochoma near Sparti in Lakonia reignited on Thursday afternoon and citizens were again ordered to evacuate as the flames started to spread out of control. Western Attica Video: Agios Ioannis Korakas, west of Mandra. The fire …
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July 11, 2023
Society, Very Mix
Some 40 patients, among them a woman in labor and a patient on a surgery table, as well as staff members were evacuated when a fire broke out in a private clinic in Thessaloniki on Tuesday morning. The Fire Service responded immediately and ambulances rushed to the clinic to transfer …
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July 7, 2023
animals, FEATURED, News
The owner of the carriage horse that collapsed and died while pulling a tourist carriage through a downtown street on Corfu on early Thursday afternoon has been arrested and fined 30,000 euros for animal abuse. At the same time, animal welfare societies stage a protest on Corfu on Friday morning …
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June 27, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Well-known English rapper Russ Millions was attacked by furious young tourists in Kavos area on the island of Corfu was Sunday evening. It is unclear what caused the incident. Russ Millions robbed and car runs down ops UNCUT#russmillions #Greece pic.twitter.com/2B711DWt4v — RUDEBOY FM (@rudeboy_fm) June 26, 2023 A video posted …
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