February 16, 2024
FEATURED, Social, Society
The first same-sex couple to get married in Greece has already published their wedding notice on a newspaper as required by law and thus just hours after the Parliament passed the legislation late on Thursday. A legislation that was met with the resistance of a large part of the Greek …
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September 27, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
The first nationwide public opinion poll after Stefanos Kasselakis won the leadership of main opposition party, left-wing SYRIZA was published on Wednesday evening. Conducted by Opinion Poll on behalf of Action24 TV showed that ruling party New Democrasy is losing in the preference of respondents, who were also not particularly …
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February 20, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A 6-year-old girl died suffered a septic shock and died in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, last Monday, February 13. Blood culture revealed that the girl was infected with streptococcus that claimed the life of several children in UK and other European countries. It is recalled that the girl was intubated by …
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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 11, 2023
FEATURED, weather
The first snow of the year has covered landscapes in northern Greece’s ski resorts as a result of the temporary deterioration of weather conditions. This is the first snow to fall on the slopes and may not be enough for skiers, however it gives fans of winter sports a reason …
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November 27, 2022
FEATURED, weather
The first snow of the year fell in several regions in northern Greece on Sunday, turning the landscapes into scenery from fairy tales, as snow-romantic Southerners love to describe. Snow-covered and Christmas-like Nympfaio in Florina, western Macedonia. The village of Nymfaio is a mountain settlement that has been designated since …
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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 8, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
The first case of monkeypox has been confirmed in Greece, national health care organization EODY announced late on Wednesday. Infected with the virus is a man with a recent trip to Portugal, health authorities said.. The patient is 49-years-old and returned from Portugal 15 days ago, ANT1 TV reported Thursday …
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May 21, 2022
FEATURED, Very Mix
The first monkeypox suspicious cases has been detected in Greece. Affected is reportedly a 29-year-old foreign national who together with his partner was having vacation on the island of Kefalonia in the Ionian Sea. According to media reports on Saturday night, the man from the United Kingdom has skin rashes …
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February 7, 2022
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
The first ever photograph of the Parthenon on the Acropolis of Athens was taken in August 1839, two months after the presentation of Daquereotype. The picture was shot by Pierre-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, a French businessman and amateur daguerreotypist, famous for being the first to photograph the Acropolis of Athens …
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January 18, 2022
Greece, Politics
The first 6 of 24 Rafale fighter jets for Greece’s Air Force are expected to arrive in the country on Wednesday. They will take off from Istres in France and will land at the 114 Tanagra Air Base. The Rafale jests are scheduled to fly over the Acropolis shortly after …
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May 18, 2021
Tourism
The first cruise ship to visit Greece after the reopening of the country to tourism, Mein Schiff 5, arrived at the port of Piraeus on Tuesday, carrying nearly 1,000 passengers. The Piraeus Port Authority has provided three halls in the cruise ship terminal for use by the health authorities, as …
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September 11, 2020
Very Mix
Katherine Crummer (nee Katerina Georgia Plessos). Did you know that the first free Greek migrant to Australia was a woman? 185 years ago, at a time when few Greek women would venture so far outside the nascent Greek state, Katerina Georgia Plessos travelled across the globe, becoming Australia’s first Greek-born …
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February 26, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, Very Mix
The first case of coronavirus has been confirmed in Greece on Wednesday. It was announced by Sotiris Tsiodras, in charge for the conoravirus infections on behalf of the National Health Organization short before noon. The infected patient is a 38-year-old Greek woman who recently returned from a trip to North …
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June 4, 2019
Greece
Moses Elisaf is the first Greek Jew ever elected as mayor in Greece. He was elected in the city of Ioannina, north-west Greece, once the heartland of Romaniote Jewish tradition. The 65 -year-old professor of medicine at the University of Ioannina Medical School ran as an independent candidate. He won …
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July 31, 2018
Social
The first lawsuit by a private citizen over the devastating fire in eastern Attica on July 23 was filed with the chief prosecutor of the Athens Appeals Court Antonios Liogas on Monday, by retired navy officer Panagiotis Stamatis. The plaintiff also asked that the plenum of appeals justices be convened …
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January 3, 2018
Social
The first baby of 2018 born in Germany is a Greek. Philippos-Georgios came into the world 8 minutes after the arrival of the New Year. He is the son of a Greek couple that migrated to Germany a few years ago due to the economic crisis. We were already hearing …
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April 8, 2015
Politics
What a picture! Hanging shoulders, legs apart, relaxed and kind of bored? Like in a company of men hanging around at the traditional coffee shop in a Greek or Caucasian village. Only thing missing here is a string with beads making the usual clack! clack! clack! sound, sweeping the worries …
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