Just in case you’re interested in space and sky. The Space Station will be visible from Athens. With naked eye tonight, March 31st 2016 at 20:55. Enjoy! Hello Athens 🇬🇷 The @Space_Station is visible naked💥eye at 20:55 ⏰ @karhilam @vassiouti @SiaKossioni @rafredarrows pic.twitter.com/Sm2flkdc3S — Ignazio Magnani (@IgnazioMagnani) March 31, …
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Greek police: “map of Brussels airport” in terrorist’s apartment in Athens
A computer and a memory stick with maps of Brussels’ Zaventem Airport was found in a flat in Athens where one of the suspected Paris attacks organisers was staying, Greek private Skai TV revealed on Friday. The revelation comes after the terrorist attacks in Brussels airport and metro and the …
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Greece’s Independence Day: Evzones: 60 nails per clog, 400 pleads per occupation year
With an impressive military parade Greece celebrates the Independence Day on March 25th. As every year, the parade starts with Evzones, the members of the Presidential Guard, a historical elite light infantry and mountain units of the Greek Army that now has a ceremonial role. Evzones’ march style consists of normal …
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Anarchists damage two metro stations in Athens
A group of some 20 people, wearing hoods and holding sledge hammers caused severe damage at the metro station of Monastiraki on Saturday night. They destroyed eight automatic ticket sellers, an ATM, five ticket machines, broke the windows of management office. They sprayed slogans and threw flyers demanding the release …
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Leftists occupy EU diplomatic representation over Refugee Crisis
Members of Left Unity occupied the diplomatic representation of the European Union in downtown Athens. Their goal was to protest the EU policy that turns Greece into a huge refugee camp but also the policies of austerity. Former SYRIZA ministers Panagiotis Lafazanis and Dimitris Stratoulis were heading the group of …
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Exhibition of German WWII atrocities in Athens Metro
Rare photographic documents have been displayed in the Zappeion Hall and in nine metro stations in Athens. The exhibition with 360 historical photographs runs under the auspices of the Ministry of Infrastructure, Transport and Networks. The title of exhibition: “I don’t forget. A picture speaks a thousand words.” What do …
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Tsipras: “We will not become a warehouse of souls”, Tusk tells Migrants to stay away from Europe
European Council President Donald Turk is visiting Athens today to talk about the Refugee Crisis. He met with Prime Minister Alexisi Tsipras and both men agreed that Unilateral actions by European Union member states to deal with the migrant crisis troubling the bloc is hurting solidarity and must stop. “We …
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+++ Items Collection for Refugees: Syntagma Sq in Athens, Mar 6/2016
The Social Solidarity Network in Athens will collect items refugees and migrants urgently need. The items are divided in four categories and the organizers ask the donors to have them packed accordingly. the donated items will be distributed to refugees and migrants stranded at the port of Piraeus – an …
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+++ Appeal: Volunteers, Food, Drugs, Items Donations for 2,000 stranded Refugees in Piraeus
This is an urgent appeal by the Pan Piraiki Initiative Group of volunteers assisting refugees and migrants arriving at the port of Piraeus on daily basis. Today, Monday, February 29th 2016, there are more than 2,000 people, children, women, men, elderly awaiting to leave for the borders. They cannot. FYROM …
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Press Release: U.S. Democrats living in Greece – Voting Presidential Candidate, Mar 6/16
This is a Press Release by the US Democrats Living in Greece – Voting for Presidential Candidate. Please, read instructions and share. PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release 27 February, 2016 Americans in Greece help select Democratic Presidential candidate U.S. Democrats living in Athens can vote in person for …
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Two young migrants attempt suicide in downtown Athens
A strange story: two young men from Pakistan, migrants attempted to ‘commit suicide’ in the middle Victoria Square in downtown Athens on Thursday noon. The two men had made loops from blouses and scarves and attempted to hang themselves from the trees on the square. Refugees and migrants hanging around …
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UPD Popular singer Pantelis Pantelidis, 33, killed in car crash
Singer and songwriter Pantelis Pantelis, 33, killed in a car crash at 8:30 p.m. Thursday morning near the gate of the old Athens airport Ellinikon. Two young women who were also with him in the car have been taken to the hospital, one of them is reportedly seriously injured. According …
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Racism incident in Athens train: Security guard harasses African passenger (video)
A security guard tries to have a passenger out of the train wagon of Urban train ISAP. The guard tells the passenger that his suitcase is big and is disturbing the other passengers. “I am in charge here, you should move to another wagon at the end of the train …
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Member of Golden Dawn arrested for demolishing police car during farmers’ protests
A 30-year-old man had been brought to the prosecutor and face charges for damaging state property. The man was shown in a footage to demolish a traffic police car with a stick during the farmers’ protests in Chaidari suburb of western Athens on Friday. According to Greek media, the man …
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Impressive! Farmers’ tractors outside the Greek Parliament
Unprecedented. In an impressive convoy with the sound of constant honking and chanted slogans, twenty tractors entered downtown Athens early Friday evening and parked outside the Greek Parliament. Thousands of farmers who had gathered for the Big Protest of Friday were rhythmically moving left and right to open the way …
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Athens: Protesting farmers throw tomatoes & stones, clash with riot police
Tension is high outside the Agricultural Development Ministry in Athens, with angry farmers to have surrounding the building demanding a meeting with the minister. Thousands of farmers have come to Athens form several parts of Greece to make their voice heard as the oppose the planned social security contribution and …
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Protesting farmers to camp with tractors outside Greek Parliament
Tension is high on the agenda and escalation is highly possible as protesting farmers threaten to camp outside the Greek Parliament together with their tractors. The farmers plan to come to Athens on Friday and raise their voices protest against the planned social security contributions and tax hikes. Despite the …
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German Neo-Nazis open flag of “3. Reich” at the Acropolis
Members of the German neo-nazi organization Der Dritte Weg (The Third Way) raised the flag of the #. Reich on Acropolis. The group has been visiting Athens upon an invitation of the Greek extremists Golden Dawn on the occasion of the Imia conflict anniversary, end of January. According to Greek …
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Molotov & teargas in Athens during big anti-austerity rally as 24h strike paralyses Greece (pcts, videos)
it was short around one o’ clock Thursday noon, when a raging crowd of some 60 people wearing hoods started to hurl molotov cocktail bombs at riot police squads around the Syntagma Square in downtown Athens during the big protest march against the pensions reform. Within minutes the raging crowd …
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Mass Protest against Greek Pensions Reform, lawyers hand their ties outside Parliament
Thousands of self-employed took to the streets of Athens on Thursday morning to protest the Greek Pension Reforms. Layers, doctors, engineers, pharmacists, notaries, accountants, young scientists and other self-employed professionals move to downtown Athens to express their opposition against a s0-called Reform that will swallow up to 80% of their …
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