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The Great Walk: Protesters vandalize new “anti-graffiti” planters in Athens

A group of protesters vandalized flower boxes newly installed in the center of Athens as part of the Great Walk project. They sprayed slogans on the boxes and even removed and overturned one. The tin planters were praised by the Athens Municipality as “anti-graffiti” and “up to one-tonne heavy” to …

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Three new metro stations open July 7, connect Piraeus suburbs with Athens

Three metro stations in Athens metro are to open on Tuesday, July 7, 2020, the Urban Rail Transport SA (STASY) announced on Friday. The new stations will extend the blue line (Line 3) westward by 4 km, and they are named after the suburbs of Aghia Varvara, Koridallos and Nikea. …

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The Great Wither: Athens Municipality calls on citizens to water the new trees

The Municipality of Athens invites the citizens to “adopt” a newly planted tree that is to undertake the cost for watering. The Municipality of Athens admitted in a statement the huge shortcomings it has in terms of watering the green spaces. And there is the solution! Roll the responsibility over …

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Anarchists throw water and coffee at Mayor of Athens

A group of some twenty people verbally attacked the Mayor of Athens, Costas Bakoyannis on Sunday afternoon and hurled coffee and water at him. Bakoyannis was attending an event at the church of Petros and Pavlos in Metaxourgeio district of the Greek capital and chatted with local residents. He left …

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Pepper Robots to inform public at Athens airport on coronavirus protection measures

Pepper robots will inform arriving passengers at the Athens international airport Elfetherios Venizelos about coronavirus protection measures at the airports and during flights. The application has been reportedly developed by the Mobile Technology company In a statement with the message “Your health is our priority”, Greece’s largest airport said that …

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Breathtaking orange sunset in Athens after rainstorm

A stunning sunset turned the sky in Athens into a glorious veil of orange on Monday. The amazing phenomenon occurred right after a heavy thunderstorm  in the West, while rain continued to pour down in the South, the East and the North. Athenians could not resist but taking pictures from …

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Champions League, Europa League group draws in Athens in October

The Champions League and Europa League group draws will be held in Athens in October, government spokesperson Stelios Petsas announced on Wednesday. He added that the awards for top football players of the year would also take place there as well. “The UEFA executive committee unanimously decided that the group …

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Athens Riviera: Beach bar fined €20K and shut down due to crowding

More than 1,000 people gathered on Wednesday night at a well-known beach bar in Alimos suburb located in the Athens Riviera. The people crowded without keeping social distancing, danced, drunk and flirted under the sound of loud music and the smoke of fireworks. It was the first party of the …

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Athens Great Walk and “red carpet” for pedestrians

The Great Walk of Athens, the project that overhauls the city center “to encourage on-foot exploration by tourists” – as it is official said – has been pilot tested on Thursday. The testing affected the several streets including the avenues of Vassilissis Olgas and Irodou Attikou, where the first zones …

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Police detains main suspect in acid attack against young woman on May 20

Greek police has detained a woman on Thursday morning as the main suspect for the acid attack against a 34-year-old woman in Kallithea suburb of southern Athens on May 20. The suspect, a woman aged 35, is being held at the offices of Athens’ Security Subdivision and is being questioned …

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American Airlines to resume flights to Athens on August 5

Initially slated to resume service to Athens in early July from its Chicago hub, American Airlines has announced it will cancel all of July’s flights and resume service to the Greek capital on August 5. In a company statement, American Airlines admitted that although domestic travel is slowly bouncing back …

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Taxi fares from Athens, Thessaloniki, Kavala airports reduced

Fixed taxi fares to and from the airports of Athens, Thessaloniki and Kavala to the corresponding city centers are now reduced, in line with broader cuts in public transport fares introduced on June 1, the Transport Ministry announced on Friday. In Attica, taxi rides from or to the Athens International …

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Athens: Solidarity rally for George Floyd and Black Lives Matter

Students organization, citizens, leftist parties and collectives, some 3,000 people marched through from Syntagma Square in downtown Athens and to the US Embassy on Wednesday afternoon to express solidarity with protesters in USA and demand justice for George Floyd. The main slogans to be heard in this anti-racism, anti-fascist rally …

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