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Greek intelligence and security officials are worried that the recent events in Israel and Gaza might trigger violent events, including terrorist attacks, in the country. An eight-page classified document shown to Kathimerini describes the activities of four Palestinian organizations in Greece and of seven “persons of interest” with alleged ties …

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Greece’s health and civil protection ministries as well as doctors associations issued guidelines to citizens, ahead of the upcoming heatwave forecast to hit the country with temperatures reaching up to 43 degrees Celsius as of Wednesday, July 10, 2023, and for at least six days, if not even longer. According …

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Thirteen summer bungalows right at the seaside suddenly “sprung up” inside the national park of Schinias, a NATURA 2000 protected area in East Attica. Local authorities declared that they were not aware of the constructions violating the laws and vowed to launch a probe. The illegal constructions in a privately …

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With an urgent request, the president of Greece’s Anti-money Laundering Authority has asked authorities in Panama to provide information on whether an amount totaling 20 million euros have been transferred from Qatar to bank accounts, which may have been opened in the name of Eva Kaili and partner Francesco Giorgi. …

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A little known sect organized an admittedly “unique” event on the central Aristotelous square in Thessaloniki: exorcisms performed outdoors. A big screen was displaying “exorcisms” and a crowd of people curiously watching a new …transcendental experience.The exorcisms were held also in English so that tourists could understand. Alarmed by the …

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Greece’s Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE) has said it has identified 14 restaurants and cafes around the country that failed to issue receipts for 449,000 orders with a total value of €5.15 million. In addition to hiding their income, the businesses collected €592,000 in Value Added Tax from their …

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How many friends are you supposed to have as a person? Five? Ten? Fifty? Greece’s Health Ministry believes to know better. “If authorities tally up  more people than taking into consideration at the New Year’s Eve party, they will fine you,” TV channels report with emphasis on Thursday citing sources …

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Greek authorities are seeking the German partner of a Greek real estate agent whose body was found on Thursday in the apartment the couple was renting in Chalandri suburb of northern Athens. It was the penetrating bad smell coming from the apartment that had the owner to call the police. …

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Twelve days after the deadly wildfires in Athens and the list of errors apparently committed by Greek authorities is seemingly getting longer. Fire Service, Police and Regional Government are throwing responsibilities about the tragedy with 87 dead in East Attica on 23. July 2018 on each other. Based on fire …

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Greek health authorities are on alert after 45 out of 60 students in a regional high school went sick on Monday. The director of the high school in Akraifnio, in the Viotia Prefecture, north of Attica, decided to close the school Closed the Akrafnaio school by Orhomenos. According to preliminary …

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“I estimate that 10,000 stremmata has been burned down in the last three days,” mayor of Zakynthos Pavlos Kolokotsas told media on Monday, as the wildfires on the island continue to rage for third consecutive day. “It is a major ecological disaster, a perennial pine forest is on fire right …

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An unbelievably tragicomic incident although  it is in fact just tragic. A woman was drowned in Glyfada area on the island of Corfu in the Ionian Sea. Neither the Port authorities nor the police not even the ambulance appeared at the scene and let the corpse floating in the sea …

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Citizens (?) wearing military uniforms have occupied the premises where the Mosque is planned to be built in Votanikos district of Athens. The group of so-called “citizens opposing the Mosque construction” reportedly consist of some twenty people who voluntarily “work there” and  have established a kind of make-shift shelter for …

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Authorities investigate the capital controls imposed end of June 2015 in Greece. The investigation has been ongoing for the last two months and is being conducted “secretly” [sic]. Dozens of citizens have reportedly filed complaints claiming “economic hardship”  due to capital controls as they were unable to cover basic needs …

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