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A drone show with iconic Greek images, symbols and slogans took place over central Athens starting at 21:00 on Sunday to celebrate Greek Independence Day. The show included 250 drone formations through coordinated lighting including 3D figures, logos, and words that alternated. They included images of a warship, 19th-guns, the …

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School children in Greece paraded on Sunday to mark the Greek Independence Day and the 1821 Greek War of Independence on March 25 and thus a day before the military parade, on Monday. At total of 1,500 students from 230 primary and secondary schools paraded in front of government and …

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For the first time, the Unseen Museum in Athens presents the “stele of the twin babies”, a fragment of a funerary monument found in a torrent at Menidi suburb of western Athens. The fragment preserves in relief two bundled twin babies in the arms of a female figure and is …

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Emergency traffic restrictions are in effect in downtown Athens, starting at noon on Thursday, March 14, 2024, due to a protest rally organized by student associations and educational unions against the bill for private universities. In order to ensure the right of the citizens to assemble, the Greek police will …

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Twelve vehicles, among them five school buses, private cars and motorbikes were set ablaze in an arson attack in the Zografou district of central Athens, shortly after 3 a.m. on Thursday. Nobody was injured and no one has been arrested. The fire is believed to have started from the school …

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Εight students were transferred to hospitals with injuries in the head and the arms they sustained by police batons during the big protest rally against the bill for “private universities.” The students were injured when a group of protesters clashed with riot police forces outside the Greek Parliament opposite the …

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Fans of Israeli football club Maccabi Tel Aviv have beaten a foreign national in downtown Athens, media report on Thursday. the victim has been taken to hospital with an ambulance. According to initial reports, the victim, a young man of Arab origin, was holding a Palestinian flag and was exiting the …

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Traffic restrictions will be implemented in Athens on Sunday, March 10,due to the Athina Half Marathon race and related events. The traffic restrictions will be in effect from 6:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. The half-marathon will follow a course roughly resembling a ‘V’ and will include Syntagma Square and the …

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The first 140 electric buses from Chinese company Yutong may have arrived in Athens on Sunday, however, there is a major issue: their chargers are missing. The State Audit Council considers a procurement contract concerning bus chargers to contain irregularities, so for the time being the four charging stations of …

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Stabbing of what it seems a random victim in downtown Athens early Friday afternoon: a foreign national stabbed with a knife a young woman near her work place on Ermou street, the most popular and crowded street in the center of the Greek capital. The crime took place in Ermou …

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Gruesome finding in a gutter in downtown Athens: a sewage worker found a dead fetus in a pipe of the draining system on Solonos Street on Monday evening. The worker located the fetus via a camera while he was working under the building where the NGO Doctors Without Borders. He …

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Bomb threats were reported at the embassies of the United States, Israel, and Egypt and the Greek Parliament in Athens on Friday. The warning calls were made to Skai channel this morning for the placement of an explosive device at the United States embassy in Ilisia, to Kontra Channel for …

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Beekeepers from around Greece flocked to Athens on Thursday to protest demanding solutions for the serious problems their sector has been facing. Among them is the unfair competition from imported honey labelled as “Greek”, prohition to enter forests or smoking the beehives in certain times and high production cost. Wearing …

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The colors of the night sky in Athens were changed into green when a “fireball” meteor passed through the atmosphere on Sunday night and thus towards the dawn of Monday. As seen in the video uploaded by Forecast Weather, the impressive meteor appeared for a few seconds over the sky …

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They came to Athens on Tuesday, they honked in front of the Parliament and left at noon on Wednesday. At least 6,600 farmers with over 160 tractors and agricultural machinery as well as 112 buses gathered at Syntagma Square demanding from the government to meet their demands for lower production …

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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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Greek police announced on Monday the traffic restrictions to be implemented when farmers will arrive by tractors and buses in Athens on Tuesday, to demand more measures for the high cost of production. Police representatives said the main concern was to ensure there was no excessive interruption of traffic in …

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Determined to continue their struggle, farmers decided on Thursday for a mass protest rally with tractors and agricultural machinery in Athens, next week. At the same time, they will continue the road blockades including the “shut down” of trucks’ access to customs and ports. The rally in Athens is scheduled …

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Children’s hospital Aglaia Kyriakou in Athens announced on Thursday it will no longer be able to perform surgeries on a regular basis starting February 12, due to critical under-staffing. Surgeries will only be performed for “critical emergencies, due to lack of staff, specifically of doctors, anesthesiologists, as well as surgical …

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Athens taxi drivers will launch a 48-hour strike on February 27-28, 2024, their union SATA announced on Wednesday. They call on their colleagues across Greece to join the action. The decision was made during an emergency meeting of the Administrative Council on Wednesday and it is the second of this …

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