July 15, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
A 49-year-old man sought a hospital in Patras due to heavy chest pain and breathing difficulty. He was turned away though, as the hospital staff claimed it was not on emergency duty. He died short time later. Greece’s health minister has ordered a preliminary investigation into “Agios Andreas” hospital in …
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June 28, 2022
Society, Very Mix
Port authorities in Halkidiki are investigating the cause of death of a 64-year-old German tourist who was found dead in the sea off the coast of Ouranoupolis on Monday afternoon. The body had signs of injuries in the head and the abdomen. The body was found by another swimmer who …
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June 13, 2022
Politics, Refugees
Greece’s Minister for Citizen Protection denied any involvement in an alleged incident where an Afghan national was killed inside Turkish territory by shots fired from within Greece in the area of the Evros river, the natural border between the two countries. Turkish media claimed on Monday, the incident took place …
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May 22, 2022
Society, Very Mix
A cruise ship passenger has been found dead in her cabin on Sunday morning. The 63-year-old woman was found while the ship was anchored off the island of Santorini. The body of the tourist was transferred to the hospital on the island where doctors could only confirm her death. It …
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May 20, 2022
Society, Very Mix
Α foreign tourist was found dead in the caves of famous Matala in south Crete on Friday afternoon. The man was found unconscious and local called the ambulance that sought the assistance of the Fire Service as the body was laying on a difficult to access area. When the rescuers …
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May 4, 2022
Greece, Politics
The Azov “is part of the Ukrainian army. The Nazis are the Russians.” With a month delay Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said about the video presence of two fighters of the controversial neo-Nazi brigade in the Greek parliament beginning of April, an act that had provoked a storm of reactions. …
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April 17, 2022
FEATURED, Politics, Turkey-GR
One migrant woman from Africa was shot in the back and died on Saturday night as she was trying to cross the Evros river and reach Greece from Turkey together with other migrants. Her body was found floating in the river, close to a boat carrying migrants to Greece. The …
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March 24, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
An elderly man in Thessaloniki saw his home being destroyed by a fire in the early morning hours of Thursday. The man, who could not afford heating, was burning papers to warm his hands in the cold March night. Speaking to media after the disaster, the tenant of an apartment …
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March 23, 2022
Social, Society
A 33-year-old Polish national being held for the murder of his partner’s seven-year-old son was found hanged in his cell in a prison on the island of Corfu. Prison guards found him hanged with a bed sheet around his neck when they opened up the cells for the prisoners’ yard …
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March 1, 2022
Very Mix
A shipwreck with six dead so far has occurred in the sea off the coast of Lesvos, near the PPC factory in Epano Skala, Mytilene. It is suggested that there was a shipwreck as so far, the boat has not been located, nor was there any distress signal to authorities. …
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February 24, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
One more body was discovered by a fire brigade disasters team (EMAK) on the burnt ship Euroferry Olympia later on Thursday, the third in a day. The discovery of the three male bodies raised the number of confirmed fatalities to 5, while another 5 people, truck drivers, are reportedly still …
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February 9, 2022
Social, Society
The body of a newborn baby boy was found in a dump inside the cemetery of Thermi by Τhessaloniki, northern Greece. the body was found at 8 o’clock Wednesday morning by a cemetery clerk. The shocked man immediately alerted the Greek police. The man has said that the body was …
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February 3, 2022
Greece, Politics
Former Greek president Christos Sartzetakis passed away at the age of 92 after long hospitalization. He was widely known for rigorously investigating the 1963 murder of left-wing MP Grigoris Lambrakis by right-wing extremists. Sartzetakis had been treated for pneumonia in the intensive care unit of Laiko General Hospital since December …
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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 13, 2022
Refugees
A woman who went missing in a mountainous area in Serres regional unit, northern Greece, on Wednesday while trying to cross a swollen torrent amid rainstorms along with a group of migrants was found dead on Thursday. The 24-year-old Iranian national was accompanying her 37-year-old husband who drowned while trekking …
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January 3, 2022
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Well-known for his stance against Covid-vaccines, the Bishop of Aetolia and Akarnania, Kosmas, has died on Covid-19 on Monday morning. The 76-year-old bishop was hospitalized since the beginning of December and his transfer to an ICU bed in Athens had triggered an outrage as other patients were not given this …
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December 26, 2021
Refugees
63 people were rescued and another 16 lost their lives when a boat carrying migrants capsized off the island of Paros on Friday night. At least one person is missing. It is the third shipwreck in the Aegean Sea in 72 hours where over 30 people have died. The boat …
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December 14, 2021
Social, Society
Τwo children died and a toddler was seriously injured in a house fire in Kamatero suburb of North-West Athens on Tuesday morning. The bodies of two boys aged 12 and 13 were found in the bedroom by fire fighters called to the scene by neighbors. The 2-year-old child was carried …
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November 26, 2021
Society, Very Mix
A 65-year-old man was found dead after his car was swept away by the waters of a swollen stream during a rainstorm in Ilia, southern Peloponnese on Friday. His body was found by rescuers some 300 meters away from the vehicle. According to local news site ilialive, the victim, a …
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November 19, 2021
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Seven migrants were killed and another eight were injured when the car that was transporting them crashed on Egnatia highway by Xanthi in northern Greece. Two of the injured are reportedly in critical condition. According to local media, the mini van was driving on the Komotini-Xanthi section, when police made …
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