May 17, 2022
Very Mix
The former mayor of Bucharest convicted of corruption has been arrested in Athens on an international warrant. Sorin Oprescu, 70, who served as mayor in the Romanian capital from 2008 and 2015, was found guilty by the Romanian courts of bribery, setting up a criminal organization and abuse of power. …
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May 16, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
The mysterious death of a 14-year-old boy in his family home on Friday night, just hours before participating in a competition sports game, has set authorities on alert and the prosecutor ordered an urgent investigation on Monday. The boy was found hanging from the ceiling of his room with a …
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May 11, 2022
Arts, Culture
Thirty-seven Athenian art galleries will be open to the public until evening for the annual Gallery Walk on Thursday and Friday, May 12-13. Organized by the Athens Culture Net of the Municipality of Athens and the Hellenic Art Galleries Association, the event will keep the galleries open as late as …
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May 4, 2022
Society, Very Mix
A luxury watch stolen during an armed robbery in Denmark five years ago was located in Greece when a woman brought it to a store for repair in Athens. The robbery was attributed to international jewel thief network Pink Panthers. As its serial number was registered, the store technician identified …
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May 4, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A tax driver pulled out a gun and shot a Pakistani migrant in the head in the center of Athens on May 2. The bullet hit the man just a few centimeters away from his eye. He was taken with the ambulance to hospital where doctors removed the bullet and …
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April 29, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Strikes
Public Transport in Athens will be disrupted on Sunday due to the workers’ strikes on Labor Day, May 1, while affected will be also ferries and ships and trains across the country.. In an updated statement on Friday, transportation unions said that the Athens metro and tram will not run …
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April 21, 2022
Lifestyle, Society
Dozens of vegans gathered at Syntagma Square in downtown Athens to protest against the slaughter and consumption of lamb on Easter Sunday. Holding placards reading “I have pain” and “Slaughter is not love” the protesters lined up in rows at Syntagma Square to express their opposition to the long-standing Greek …
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April 20, 2022
Society, Very Mix
The Central Council of Architecture (KESA) has approved a plan submitted by the Athens Municipality for the renovation of the lower part of Ermou Street in the historical center of the Greek capital that stretches from Kapnikarea Church to Thiseio train station . The plan reportedly includes the widening of …
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April 19, 2022
Social, Society
With vulgar comments and in outrage a priest in a suburb of southern Athens denied a transgender woman with financial problems to get meals from the parish soup kitchen. The woman had been going to the soup kitchen of a parish in Kallithea suburb for the last two weeks, when …
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April 18, 2022
Greece, Politics
Greek capital Athens and the US city of Boston are to become ‘Sister Cities’ after Athens mayor Kostas Bakoyannis and mayor of Boston Michelle Wu decided over the weekend. Bakoyannis and Wu agreed on the issue during the official visit of Athens mayor to Boston, where he handed over to …
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April 14, 2022
environment, FEATURED
The drastic pruning of trees in downtown Athens in the month of April has triggered an outrage in the community and organizations dealing with environmental and animal and bird welfare issues. The unprecedented pruning took place in the middle of the spring and the time when birds are nesting and …
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April 13, 2022
Social, Society
The prosecutor in the trial over the 2018 beating death of Greek-American gay rights activist Zak Kostopoulos on Wednesday sought the exoneration of four police officers and guilty verdicts for two local businessmen. In his closing arguments, prosecutor Sotiris Bougioukos pointed to expert evidence and witness testimonies that he said …
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April 12, 2022
Society, Very Mix
Greek law enforcement authorities were on alert on Tuesday after a makeshift explosive device went off outside the home of a high-ranking officer of the Hellenic Police (ELAS) in the northern Athenian suburb of Halandri. The rudimentary bomb comprised four cooking gas canisters taped together and set off by some …
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April 8, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
Wearing a bulletproof vest and his handcuffed hands on his back, Babis Anagnostopoulos crossed the door of the Mixed Jury Court of Athens short before 8:30 Friday morning. The trial for the murder of his 20-year-old wife Caroline Crouch, a UK national, started almost a year after the heinous murder …
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April 5, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Strikes
Public transport, sea and air traffic will be heavily disrupted or just paralyzed on Wednesday, 6. April 2022, as several transport workers unions have declared to participate in the 24-hour general strike. For 24 hours, ferries will remain docked at the ports and airplanes will be grounded at the airports, …
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April 4, 2022
Greece, Politics
Waving Russian and Greek flags and having the symbol “Z” on their cars, hundreds of demonstrators staged a motorcade in solidarity with Russia in the center of Athens on Sunday afternoon. Honking their horns and making insulting gestures, the pro-Russian demonstrators started at Syggrou-Fix metro station and drove by Syntagma …
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March 30, 2022
Arts, Culture, FEATURED
The monumental spider sculpture Maman by French-American artist Louise Bourgeois has been installed at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) and is available to the Greek public for viewing. The iconic giant spider Maman (1999), one of the works that made Bourgeois internationally famous , will be on display …
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March 27, 2022
Earthquake, FEATURED, Society
An earthquake with magnitude measuring 3.9 on the Richter scale occurred in the north-east of Thebes at 8:32 Sunday evening. Although the tremor was moderate it was felt in many areas of Greek capital Athens, some 60 km away. According to the automatic solution of the Greek Geodynamic Institute, the …
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March 27, 2022
CORONAVIRUS
The first lawsuit for the death of a patient who contracted Covid-19 in a hospital and died was filed by the family of the deceased patient. The lawsuit was filed by the widow of the 59-year-old man. The patient was admitted to a well-known private hospital in Athens on April …
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March 27, 2022
Economy, FEATURED
Greece’s capital Athens has been picked as the fourth best European city to start a business enterprise, a survey by UK website Takepayments has found. Only Cambridge, Tallinn and Warsaw scored higher than the Greek capital. Starting a business in Athens can take as little as four days and there …
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