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Greece’s government spokesman, Pavlos Marinakis, left open the options for the tragedy in Libya where three members of the Armed Forces and two civilians were killed in what is attributed to a road accident on Sunday. “First of all let me express my sorrow for the loss of these five …

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A young woman was attacked by a stranger who stuck a syringe needle in her leg. The incident took place in a popular street of Kaisariani suburb of Athens and while other people were walking on the pedestrian street as well. The 26-year-old victim was transferred to hospital where the …

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UN peacekeepers on Friday were assaulted while trying to block the unauthorised construction of a road from the Turkish Cypriot side inside the buffer zone near Pyla, UNFICYP said. In an announcement, the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) reported assaults against peacekeepers and damage to UN vehicles “by …

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Greece’s Health Minister Thanos Plevris was attacked with yogurt, while he was having lunch with his wife and children in a tavern of Petralona district of Athens at Sunday noon. In a post on Twitter, minister Plevris uploaded two pictures and blamed “brazen leftists” for the attack adding that also …

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The brutal, racist attack against a Roma man with mental disabilities in Patras is shocking. The 35-year-old man who singing the carols on New Year’s Eve was forced by a group of thugs to get on his knees and sing. Then they threw some inflammable liquid at him and set …

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Turkey’s ballistic missile test ‘scares’ Athens, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, adding it “will not sit idly if Greece continues to arm the Aegean islands.” It is the first time in the last few months, that the Turkish president does not reiterate his favorite threat “we’ll come suddenly …

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Frosty atmosphere between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at the European Political Community summit in Prague, where the two leaders did not even exchanged a glance  when they headed to the group photo opportunity. Once again Erdogan verbally attacked Greece accusing it of creating …

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Footage obtained by state broadcaster ERT shows how the Cretan bullies rammed with their 4×4 truck the car of the German tourists, made a turn and literally “ride” on the tourists’ vehicle. It is only due to the persistent intervention of local people who run on the street in the …

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A 50-year-old man lurked his 49-year-old former wife and attacked her with acid liquid. The victim suffered a serious burn trauma in her one eye and is hospitalized. It is the fourth case of violence against women in Greece in just four days. The attacked took place in Messini, western …

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Greece unequivocally condemns the Russian attack on Ukraine that threatens the stability in Europe, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement just hours after the sirens of war rang alarm after decades in the old continent. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis chaired an emergency meeting of the National Foreign Affair and …

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A 14-year-old student fell victim of an unprecedented and horrifying racist attack at a high school of Istiaia, in central Greece. The boy was dragged outside the classroom by a group of older students wearing hoods. According to the mother’s complaint to newspaper avgi,, initially a group of 5-6 youngsters …

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“She looked at me in the eyes and threw the vitriol. I started to melt,” 35-year-old Ioanna Paliospiroy told the court in Athens on Thursday. With incredible courage she described to judges, the members of the jury, and the woman who ruined her life 18 months ago, the horrifying moments …

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With incredible courage and surrounded by her layers and her family, the victim of the vitriol attack, Ioanna Paliospyroy, appeared to court where the trial against the attacker was finally launched. 37-year-oldvictim  Ioanna was wearing a special protection mask on her face, gloves and a hat and it was the …

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Police on Monday arrested a 58-year-old man after he attacked a woman with a corrosive liquid. The incident took place outside the Nikaia General Hospital, near Piraeus, shortly after 10 a.m. The man sprayed a so-far unknown substance on the 64-year-old woman after an argument they had in front of …

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A “mob” of some 15 men attacked a crew of private Open TV

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Protesters against coronavirus measures and vaccines in Cyprus attacked television station SIGMA and torched cars outside the building in Nicosia on Sunday evening, the station said. So far, police arrested five people. Police confirmed the incident at Sigma TV and said around 2,500 protesters went to the network after a …

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A TV host and publisher has been been initially detained by police and later arrested and is accused for faking an armed attack at his own house after police withdrew protection he received as a private citizen. There have been also allegations of having taken out a contract on the …

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A group of some 4 to 5 people vandalized the offices of Action24 sports TV station on Monday evening, police reported.  They threw paint and stones at the entrance and damaged the glass front. They also threw printed flyers in solidarity to convicted “17. November” terrorist Dimitris Koufontinas currently in …

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A double explosive device exploded outside the house of New Democracy MP Konstantinos Bogdanos short before 8 o’ clock on Tuesday evening. The blaze reportedly burned down the MP’s car as well as the vehicle that belonged to his wife. Firefighters and experts on explosives rushed to the spot of …

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Greek police has identified and detained a 38-year-old man and his 14-year-old son as suspects for the attack at the accommodation center for unaccompanied refugee minors in Oraiokastro on second Christmas day. The two were detained after a complaint filed by a 15-year-old Syrian who stays at the camp. Authorities …

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