April 3, 2023
Arts, Culture
Rena Koumioti, one of the most significant singers of the New Wave genre in Greece passed away at the age of 81. Her death was announced in a post on Facebook on Monday. Koumioti was one of the foremost representatives of the Greek New Wave in the 1960s and 1970’s. …
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March 12, 2023
FEATURED, Social, Society
Aimilia Kamvysi, the last survivor of the famous three “grannies of Lesvos”, passed away at the age of 93, it was announced on Sunday. She was one of the three “grandmothers of Sykamnia,” whose picture in the summer of 2015 amid the refugee crisis went viral worldwide. The three grannies …
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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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February 17, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
The Mayor of Ioannina, Moses Elisaf, passed away at the age of 68 on Friday. The first Jewish mayor in Greece lost the battle against cancer. Moses Elisaf has been battling cancer for the last few months and his health has seriously deteriorated recently. The Municipality of Ioannina had announced …
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January 23, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
A refugee has claimed that the 5-year-old girl’s death on an islet of the Evros river at the borders with Turkey “was set up.” Traffickers said to have suggested the allegedly fake story that became a media sensation last August. The girl had allegedly died after she was bitten by …
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January 11, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Formed king of Greece, Constantine II, will be buried as a private citizen and not with honors of a state leader as his family requested, an inter-ministerial meeting chaired by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday morning has decided. The funeral protocol for Greece’s former king, Constantine, relays on decisions …
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December 13, 2022
Social, Society
Carrying banners and shouting “Murderers” thousands of Greeks protest in Athens, Thessaloniki and other cities for the death of 16-year-old Kostas Fragoulis, an unarmed Roma boy shot in the head by a police officer. At the time, angry members of Roma communities across the country have started fires and …
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December 13, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
16-year-old Roma boy Kostas Fragoulis, shot in the head by a police officer on December 5, died on Tuesday morning Ippokratio General Hospital in Thessaloniki announced. For nine days, the teenager who was also a father of a baby, was struggling for life, intubated in the ICU. However, from the …
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December 12, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
A 17-year-old girl stabbed to death her 22-year-old partner in Marousi suburb of northern Athens on Sunday afternoon. She used a kitchen knife and sustained multiple wounds to the victim. The victim was hosting the perpetrator in her family home. Citing police sources, media report that the minor said she …
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November 10, 2022
Society, Very Mix
Famous Greek seismologist Vassilis Papazachos, the emeritus professor who was inextricably linked to Thessaloniki and its residents with the great earthquake of 1978, died at the age of 92 on Thursday morning. Vassilis Papazachos was born in 1930 in Smokovo, Karditsa, where he finished Primary School and graduated from the …
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October 27, 2022
Social, Society
The mysterious death of an high-ranking clergyman in his home in downtown Athens is puzzling the Greek Police that examines the possibility of a homicide. 52-year-old archimandrite Chrysostomos Levogiannis was found in his home at Amerikis Square in Kypseli district of the Greek capital by his cleaner at Wednesday noon. …
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October 4, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A young woman, allegedly a tourist, died after she fell 20 meters off the rock of Areios Pagos, north-west of the Acropolis of Athens short after noon on Tuesday. The woman estimated in her 30’s was unconscious when the fire service and an ambulance arrived, and did not respond to …
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September 23, 2022
Society, Very Mix
The body of a missing German mountain climber was recovered from the Vorizia gorge on the island of Crete on Thursday, The 53-year-old man pn vacations on Crete went missing on September 2 Firefighters and police were alerted on Thursday after a body, believed to be that of the missing …
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September 14, 2022
Archeology, Culture
The president of the board of directors of the new Acropolis Museum and Archaeology Professor Dimitris Pandermalis, has died at the age of 82. He died in Thessaloniki following a few days of hospitalization. “History can make us wiser,” the emblematic archaeology professor said once about people’s relationship with the …
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August 2, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
A young woman was beaten to death by her partner. Her body was found in her home in Peristeri suburb of western Athens short before Monday midnight by her mother and her sister. It is the third case of femicide in Greece in just two days. According to preliminary media …
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August 1, 2022
Social, Society
Femicide: Two women were stabbed to death by their husbands within twelve hours. The victims were living on the islands of Crete and Zakynthos in the family homes. One woman had asked for divorce, the other one had filed to local police against her husband for domestic violence. A 56-year-old …
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July 27, 2022
Uncategorized
A 59-year-old man in northern Greece brutally beat his 84-year-old bed-ridden mother to death on Tuesday. The body was discovered by the second son of the woman who informed the police. The perpetrator had chronic issues with alcoholism and aggressive behavior and he was treated in a psychiatric clinic in …
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July 6, 2022
Society, Very Mix
Greece’s National Health Care organization EODY announced the death of a child from acute hepatitis on Wednesday afternoon. The victim was a baby just 13-months old. It is the first death of acute hepatitis recorded in the country. EODY statement: Today, the first death of a child was recorded in …
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June 13, 2022
Arts, Culture
Marina Lambraki-Plaka, the long standing director of the National Gallery in Athens, passed away in hospital on Monday at the age of 83. Having served at this post for 30 years, she was called the “Iron Lady” of the Greek Arts. Two days ago, she was reportedly submitted to a …
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May 19, 2022
Arts, Culture, FEATURED
Famous Greek composer Vangelis has passed away at the age of 79 in France. Vangelis Papathanasiou was hospitalized in Paris after he was infected with Covid-19, state broadcaster ERT reported. Vangelis died on Tuesday but his family announced it just today, Thursday, as it wanted privacy in their mourning. He …
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