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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March 6, 2022
FEATURED, Politics, World
Russia’s Foreign Ministry went one step further towards a deeper deterioration of the Greek-Russian relations, directly accusing the conservative government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis of “hypocricy” and a “defamation campaign against Russia.” The verbal attack was launched by Maria Zakharova, the information and press director of the ministry in Moscow. According …
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March 2, 2022
Economy
The City of Athens has filed a lawsuit against a private electricity supplier for deliberate overcharges in municipality fees that are collected via the electricity bills. The company has been doubling the rate of calculating the fees private citizens and businesses have to pay per square meter of home or …
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March 1, 2022
Society, Very Mix
With a clear message in support of Ukraine thousands of people gathered at syntagma Squate in downtown Athens on Tuesday evening. Holding banners reading “Not To War” and chanting “Stop Putin – Stop The War – We Want Peace!” members of the Ukrainian community but also Greeks, Georgians, but also …
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February 26, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Four more ethnic Greeks are killed in eastern Ukraine raising the total fatalities to ten on a single day. The Greek Foreign MInistry announced late on Saturday that four more ethnic Greeks were killed in Sartana, eastern Ukraine. Another four were killed Saturday afternoon in the village of Bugas, some …
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February 17, 2022
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED, Tourism, Travel, Very Mix
Athens Metro lines 2 and 3 will extend their operating hours on Fridays and Saturdays and trains will run until 01:30 in the morning, managing company STASY announced on Friday. The extension will be in effect from March 4, 2022. According to STASY the last trains will depart from Syntagma …
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February 17, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
An elderly woman was caught in a big supermarket chain in Athens to have stolen food items worth some 40 euros. The store manager called the police, had the granny arrested and filed a lawsuit. Despite pleads by other customers and even police officers as well as a public outcry, …
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February 15, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A police officer is one of the two suspects arrested and taken to prosecutor on Tuesday for the death of a 44-year-old man, a member of the Roma community, in the suburb of Menidi, west Athens. According to media reports, the man was attacked and beaten on Sunday afternoon and …
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February 13, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
A man and a woman were arrested in Athens for killing the woman’s 7-year-old child in January 2017, buried the body in a make-shift grave and later kept the bones into a tool box. The crime took place in the apartment the couple was renting in Kypseli district of Athens. …
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February 9, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
“Miracles” happen in churches in Athens and one of them is the icon of Virgin Mary that has been shedding tears for the last one and a half year. The icon is in Agios Dimitrios church in the suburb of Vyronas. The miracle of tears started on September 8, 2020, …
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February 8, 2022
FEATURED, Lifestyle, Society
Cannabis use in Attica is among the highest in Europe and Athens ranks fifth or sixth in Europe, said professor of analytical chemistry at the University of Athens, Nikos Thomaidis. Increase is also the us of antidepressants, anti=psychotic drugs and of cocaine, especially in the winter months during the pandemic …
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February 4, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society, Uncategorized
The Greek Education Ministry on Friday opened an investigation into a report that a middle school teacher insulted a male student because he showed up in class wearing a skirt. Media reports said the incident happened at the Ilion Musical Middle School in western Athens on Tuesday, February 1. The …
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February 2, 2022
animals, FEATURED
The sick and injured young whale that recently stranded at a beach of Athens Riviera was found dead on Wednesday, the Environment Ministry announced. The small cetacean mammal was found in the shallow waters of Selinia Bay in the east of the island of Salamina in the Saronic Gulf by …
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January 28, 2022
animals, FEATURED
A huge rescue operation has been launched at the Eden beach of Palaio Faliro in south Athens since early Friday morning to save the life of an injured and sick mammal. The whale appeared in the swallow waters of Batis part of the beach early Friday morning. It looks as …
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