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Greek police has arrested a 76-year-old German citizen was arrested at international airport of Athens Eleftherios Venizlos for having 4,270 grams of heroin well hidden in his luggage. The drugs distributed in four packages were placed in a special case of his luggage. Thursday afternoon, the man arrived in Athens …

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Customs authorities at Macedonia Airport in Thessaloniki stroke a blow against illegal human organ and tissue trade on Friday. They intercepted a female passenger carrying a complete, full-thickness corneal ring used in cornea transplants. The discovery was made whule the customs authorities were checking the baggage of passengers arriving in …

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187 books of important Greek writers and poets are waiting to be read at the passengers’ lounge of the International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos in Athens. The books to be read by passengers while waiting for their flight are in Greek and in English. The action “Athens as a Book” was …

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Four metro stations in downtown Athens will be closed for several hours, Metro and Proastiakos lines to/from Airport will be disrupted during the two-day visit of German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Greece. On Thursday, Jan 10, Metro station <Evaggelismos> closes for the public at 4: 00 pm, stations <Megaron Mousikis>, …

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One picture from “Nikos Kazantzakis” airport in Heraklio, Crete, …1000 words. The message to English-speaking travelers is clear: Do not water the plants, they are made of plastic. Apparently the Fraport management had watched tourists pouring water to revive the neglected plants and it decided to post a message to …

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A child suffered extensive injuries after it was “blown away” by an airplane that was about to take off from “Alexandros Papadiamantis” airport on the island of Skiathos. The child aged between 10 and 11 was outside the airport together with his father in the area where locals and tourists …

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Hundreds of tourist who had booked their holidays on the island of Rhodes found themselves on the islands of Kos and Crete and even in Turkey, due to a operational problem in the airport “Diagoras” last Sunday and Monday (July 29 and 30 2018). The electronic systems of the airport …

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Greek police has arrested a total of 59 people who tried to leave Greek airports with fake documents. The arrests were made between 9-15 July at the airports of Herakleio and Sitia on the island of Crete. The 59 people, 39 men and 18 women were trying to reach several …

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Workers at Greece’ Train company Hellenic Railways (OSE) have announced to launch  rolling work stoppages as of July 11th and these work stoppages will culminate in a 24-hour strike on July 20th 2018. The train workers mobilization will affect all schedules of TrainOSE, the Proastiakos as well as the Metro …

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More than two hundred passengers on a flight from Zakynthos (Zante) to London experienced the hell on earth, a living nightmare, at the airport of the Ionian Sea island. 214 passengers of Thomas Cook Flight MH1805 had to stay on the ground for three hours in a plane without air …

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Buses and trolley buses in Athens will not operate from 12 o’ clock noon until 5 o’ clock afternoon on Thursday, June 14th. The work stoppage is to take place following a decision by the union of workers at the the Athens Urban Transportation Organisation (OASA). Reason for the stoppage …

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Workers at Proastiakos train in Athens and broader Attica will launch several work stoppages and one 24h-hour strike  respectively on Thursday and Friday, June 7-8, 2018. The workers’ mobilization will affect also the  Metro link to and form the Athens Airport. June 7, 2018 Work-stoppages 05:00 am – 08:00 am, …

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Greek authorities have seized 11 kg of heroin hidden in the luggage of a British citizen at the Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport in Athens, police said on Friday. Police said the 38-year-old man, who flew to Athens from the Pakistani city of Lahore via Doha, is part of a broader …

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A group of anti-authoritarians staged a protest in solidarity with the people of Afrin and blocked the check-in counter of Turkish Airlines in Macedonia Airport in Thessaloniki on Monday morning. Aim of the action was to draw attention to the Turkish operation against Kurdish militias and “the upcoming Kurdish genocide …

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There will changes and cancellations on all railway services in Athens, Thessaloniki and Patras, as well as the trains to Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos, on Monday and Tuesday due to work stoppages held by railway employees. According to the Panhellenic Railway Employees Federation, three-hour work stoppages will be held …

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Mayor of Thessaloniki Yiannis Boutaris has proposed the change of the name of the international airport “Macedonia” in the city of Northern Greece. It should be named “Nikos Galis,” he said claiming that tourists arriving in the city believe they arrive in Skopje and FYROM. Speaking at a meeting of …

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“We are prepared for a geographic qualifier,” Prime Minister of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Zoran Zaev announced on Tuesday. He added that FYROM will rename Skopje’s airport and the highway linking the capital of FYROM to the Greece border. Under the previous nationalist government, the airport was named …

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A high level meeting between Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his counterpart from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Zoran Zaev on the margins of the World Economic Forum in Davos showed that both sides are keen to finally solve the name dispute. In the joint press conference that …

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The port of Piraeus is finally getting a direct rail link to Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos, starting next month. According to daily Kathimerini, starting on February 1, Piraeus will become a terminus for the Proastiakos suburban railway, connecting the port to the airport at Spata, northeast of the capital. …

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