July 28, 2023
Society, Very Mix
A private helicopter crashed on the runway of Samos airport on Friday morning thus leading to delays in air traffic. The helicopter operator, a Turkish national, is reported to be in good health. The helicopter of Turkish Mavi Air had taken off from the island of Paros and stopped to …
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July 25, 2023
environment, FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A water-dropping aircraft Canadair has crashed near Karystos, in south Evia, a few minutes before 3 0 clock early Tuesday afternoon. The Canadair CL215 was operating against the wildfire in the area. In statement released at 6 p.m., Greece’s General Staff officially announced the death of the aircraft captain and …
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May 30, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
For second consecutive day the exams platform, that is the data bank providing exam questions, crashed causing havoc among thousand of high school students and teachers. New Democracy, even though no longer in power but the one that set up the data bank, claimed it was the “historically biggest hackers …
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March 20, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
A woman who was injured in the deadly train collision at Tempi filed a criminal complaint at the Athens prosecutor’s office on Friday, demanding the full investigation of the accident. Filed through court lawyers, the complaint calls for investigating the criminal liability of every person in a position of responsibility …
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March 17, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
The Hellenic Railway Regulatory Authority (RAS) has found serious deficiencies in the training of stationmasters of the Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE). In a press release on Friday and followed investigation, the RAS said that an inspection of the theoretical and practical training attended by the stationmaster at Larissa, central Greece, …
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March 16, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Hellenic Train has announced that it will make advance payments to the families of the victims and to the passengers injured in the train crash on February 28, 2023 in Tempi, in order to cover their immediate financial needs. According to the announcement on Wednesday, the following has been decided: …
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March 10, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
The Greek government announced on Friday a total of eleven support measures to help relatives of victims, injured and passengers in the Tempe train collision on February 28. Among others, the government announced a special pension, in favor of the families whose member or members have died, to write off …
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March 8, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Hundreds of thousands of people, a human river of rage, flooded the streets of big and small cities across Greece, demanding justice for the victims of the fatal train collision a week ago. it was intiailly unions that had called for protests and a 24-hour strike. Chanting slogans “Murderers” and …
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March 8, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
DNA tests have confirmed the identity of a man’s body found in the wreckage of the passenger train. The man was a Syrian migrant. involved in the train collision near Tempe in central Greece on February 28 which killed 57 people. Authorities said he was a migrant from Syria and …
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March 7, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Minister of Citizen Protection Takis Theodorikakos ordered an investigation on the police actions during the Sunday’s protest rally for the train collision in Tempi. The Minister of Citizen Protection, Takis Theodorikakos, ordered an immediate investigation into the actions of police officers during the rally and protest march for the fatal …
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March 6, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
The station master of Larissa was remanded in custody after a testimony that lasted over seven hours until late on Sunday. The 59-year-old man is being charged with endangering transport safety and multiple counts of negligent homicide and bodily harm. The transport safety charge, a felony, potentially carries a life …
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March 3, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
As anger in the society grows, thousands of Greeks took to the streets of several cities on Friday to protest the tragic death of 57 people caused by a head-on train collision on March 1. As no other expected, in some cities, protests turned violent. In Athens, Thessaloniki and Larissa …
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March 2, 2023
FEATURED
“Call me when you arrive” A phrase many parents tell their children before they leave for a trip. Using their back-bags as tool and the school yard as background, students several schools across the country pay tribute to all the young people who found a tragic death in the train …
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March 2, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Greece’s Police announced on Thursday evening, the death toll from the deadly train collision in Tempi rose to 57. Since early in the morning, firefighters recovered a total of 14 bodies from inside the third carriage of the passenger train. The bodies were completely burned. “The total number of dead …
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March 2, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Riot police beat people and fired tear gas and sound flares at students who gathered outside the headquarters of Hellenic Train in Athens on Wednesday to protest the deadly train crash in Tempi and commemorate the victims, most of them students returning home after a long weekend. Angry protesters smashed …
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March 1, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
In unprecedented fast track procedure and despite the ongoing investigation, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis came to the conclusion that the train crash was due to human error. In his address to the nation 20 hours after the deadly collision in central Greece, PM Mitsotakis announced: “Everything points to the fact …
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March 1, 2023
Editor, FEATURED, Opinion
Authorities in Greece arrested the station master in Larissa on Wednesday afternoon for the deadly train crash that costed the lives of at least 45 mostly young people and had dozens injured. According to the Larissa traffic police department that is conducting the investigation, the arrest order has been signed …
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March 1, 2023
Greece, Politics
Greece’s Infrastructure and Transport Minister Kostas Karamanlis submitted his resignation on Wednesday afternoon, 17 hours after the deadly train tragedy in Tempi. His resignation comes following public fury and immense pressure on social media and thus as elections near. Karamanlis submitted his resignation after he returned from a visit to …
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February 8, 2023
Society, Very Mix
A traffic accident occurred between a public bus and a private vehicle injured twelve people in downtown Athens on Wednesday morning. The accident occurred around 8:15 a.m. at the junction of Vasilissis Sofias and Soutsou avenues in the center of Athens. According to the police, a bus on the Palaio …
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February 1, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
The pilot of the F-4 Phantom has died after the fighter jet crashed in the Ionian Sea in western Greece, the Hellenic Air Force (HAF) confirmed early Wednesday afternoon. According to a HAF statement, analysis of evidence from the crash site confirmed that Captain Efstathios Tsitlakidis, 31, died in the …
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