April 28, 2023
animals, FEATURED
A C-130 aircraft of the Greek Air Force carrying 20 Greeks , 19 foreign nationals and 6 dogs flew directly from Sudan’s capital Khartoum to Athens and landed at Elefsina Air Force base in western Attica late on Thursday. Together with the human evacuees were also six dogs. A Greek …
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December 12, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
The head of the Greek authority against money-laundering ordered on Monday morning the freezing of all assets owned in Greece by European Parliament Vice-President and MEP Eva Kaili, her partner and her immediate family such as parents and siblings. it is recalled that Kaili’s father was reportedly detained outside a …
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August 26, 2022
Society, Very Mix
The Cretan bully from Mylopotamos has been ordered to temporary detention for the attack of the German family and their exposure to danger a week ago. The 38-year-old gave a testimony that lasted six hours on Friday. He tried to convince the judicial authorities that it was the German tourists …
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August 21, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A German family experienced the sheer horror in Mylopotamos on the island of Crete when their car was chased by two locals on a vehicle who considered as an “insult” the fact their vehicle was overtaken by the tourists. The tourists, a father and his three children aged 20-27, were …
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June 17, 2022
Society, Very Mix
Six people charged with the beating death of US citizen Bakari Henderson at Laganas on the island of Zakynthos in July 2017 were found guilty by a second-level court on Friday. Five defendants were found guilty of intended fatal bodily harm, and one was found guilty of fatal bodily harm. …
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May 10, 2022
Arts, Culture
Disney Plus has released the trailer for “Rise,” a film based on the real-life story of the Nigerian-Greek Antetokounmpo family that produced the first trio of brothers to become NBA champions in the history of the league – Giannis and Thanasis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Laker …
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March 5, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society, Uncategorized
The main suspect for the quadruple murder of a family including of two toddlers in Andravida was arrested late Friday night. The 60 year-old landlord has reportedly shot the parents and suffocated the children over “unpaid rent,” as he claimed. Police, however, investigates also a racist motive. Media report on …
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March 2, 2022
Society, Very Mix
A tragedy took place in north-western Peloponnese, where a man, his wife and two underage children were brutally killed on Wednesday evening. One 10-year-old child, a boy, from the mother’s previous marriage survived the carnage because he was not at home when the tragedy took place in the family’s home …
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February 27, 2022
FEATURED, Politics, Refugees
The first refugees from Ukraine arrived in Thessaloniki early Sunday morning, seeking refuge from Putin’s bombs. The family from Vinnytsia in north-central Ukraine needed 66 hours drive to reach the city in northern Greece where they made a short stop before continuing their journey to their final destination: a town …
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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 11, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Prosecutors in northern Greece investigate a family of anti-vaxxers but also monks on Mouth Athos opposing vaccinations. Authorities intervened after a father of six told media that he does not send his children to school due to the Covid-tests obligation and the masks. On Mt Athos, it was the abbot …
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September 16, 2021
Greece, Politics
Τhe mother and brother of Giannis Antetokounmpo, Veronica and Alex, were granted honorary Greek citizenship in a decision signed on September 6 by the President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou. Veronica and Alex were sworn in during a ceremony hosted by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday. Present was …
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July 18, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
An unbelievable incident took place on the Cyclades island of Paros, when six teenagers got infected with coronavirus and there was no place to be accommodated and isolated. They had to spend 16 hours in the parking lot of the parking place of the Health Center, until the state broadcaster …
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May 21, 2021
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
“If a man beats his wife or abuse her and yet be a good father,” said MP from the ruling party ND, Yiannis Loverdos adding that “a child has the right to be raised by both parents” even in such a case. Loverdos made this incredible statement during a debate …
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December 4, 2020
Social
While citizens are being tested in the most severe way due to the economic impact of the pandemic, power cuts continue leaving low-income families without light, heating and even education. Due to debts to the Public Power Company PPC, a single-parent family with three children was left in the darkness …
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June 19, 2020
Very Mix
The inquest on the brutal murder of 60-year-old American biologist Suzanne Eaton in July 2019 on Crete is now officially concluded and the man who admitted to have killed her will be standing trial, the Greek lawyers representing Eaton’s family said on Thursday. In their statement, the family’s lawyers Vasso …
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April 13, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
This Easter will be different, without any traveling, gatherings or visits to the churches, while visits to relatives’ and friends’ houses to celebrate are not permitted, Greece’s government spokesperson Stelios Petsas warned on Monday, right at the beginning of the Holy Week. “We disapprove incidents like those in Koukaki and …
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April 9, 2020
Sports
Giannis Antetokounmpo and his family donated 10,000 surgical masks for the coronavirus pandemic to Zografou, the suburb east of Athens where he started playing basketball. Giannis, Thanassis, Kostas, Alex and their mother said they wanted to acknowledge the influence of the city’s sports team, Filathlitikos, on the path of ‘the …
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February 19, 2020
Social
Greece’s Justice Ministry has launched an investigation on the coroner seeking to determine whether he committed a “disciplinary offense.” He had had falsely claimed that the 11-month-old refugee baby girl from Syria was “sexually abused,” contrary to the official autopsy report that found no signs of abuse of any kind. …
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December 8, 2019
Social
A woman of unknown identity data, most probably of German origin, was found wandering around in West Attica at the end of October. She has been hospitalized in Athens ever since with health and communication problems. He name is given as GEMUA DORA. The Greek service for missing persons has …
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