February 3, 2023
FEATURED, weather
Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY warns of cold weather front “Barbara” that will hit the country with main features locally dense snowfalls even in lowland areas, freezing temperatures,stormy north winds of up to 8-9 Beaufort and frost. Cold air masses will be moving to the south from northern Europe and …
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February 3, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
The Greek Coast Guard has announced it stopped two speedboats carrying a total of 37 migrants off the island of Kos and arrested three alleged Turkish nationals traffickers on Thursday night. Video released by the Greek Coast Guard Both boats ignored warnings to stop and tried to ram Coast Guard …
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February 2, 2023
CORONAVIRUS
Τhe number of Covid-19 hospital admissions and intubations decreased in the week of January 23-29, while the number of coronavirus deaths stayed the same as in the previous week, said the National Public Health Organization (EODY) in its weekly statistics report on Thursday. A total of 1,112 Covid-19 patients were …
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February 2, 2023
FEATURED, weather
The month of January 2023 was one of the warmest on record for the greater part of Greece, according to data collected by the 53 weather stations of the National Observatory of Athens weather service meteo.gr. In an announcement on Thursday, meteo.gr said that the average maximum temperature in January …
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February 1, 2023
FEATURED, weather
Head of National Meteorological Service Thodoris Kolidas painted “dragons in the clouds” and trolled Greek meteorologists and weather presenters for their claims of “heavy snow weather.” The snow weather “controversy” erupted already last week, the moment the heavy rain weather was over and some meteorologists immediately started heralding an upcoming …
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February 1, 2023
Economy
Greek annual inflation rate is projected to slow to 7.2% in January from 7.6% in December 2022, with the inflation rate in the Eurozone projected to fall to 8.5% from 9.2%, over the same months respectively, Eurostat said in its flash estimate report. The report said that energy will continue …
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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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January 31, 2023
Economy, FEATURED
State subsidy on household electricity tariffs for February, for 90% of consumption up to 500 KWh per month was set at 4 cents per kilowatt hour or 40 euros per megawatt hour, Greece’s Energy Minister announced on Tuesday. For higher consumption over 500 Kwh, the subsidy is linked to energy …
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January 31, 2023
Greece, Politics
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida at the prime minister’s residence in Tokyo, where they signed a Joint Statement of Strategic Cooperation between Greece and Japan. “With this statement, our countries significantly upgrade their strategic relations and we inaugurate a field of close cooperation over a …
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January 30, 2023
FEATURED, Sky
A new magma chamber discovered beneath the Kolumbo underwater volcano, near the Greek island of Santorini, is a sleeping menace, a study found, even thought eruption is not expected immediately. The new magma chamber was announced in a recent paper published in the journal Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems by a team …
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January 30, 2023
Economy
Fuel prices are expected to stay low in the coming period and therefore there are no plans for another ‘Fuel Pass’ subsidy at present, Development and Investments Minister Adonis Georgiadis said in an interview with public broadcaster ERT on Monday. “Half of the winter is gone and fuel consumption was …
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January 30, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Dialogues between high-ranking officers of the Greek Police EL.AS. with bosses of criminal gangs were published by newspaper To Vima on Sunday. According to the newspaper claims, a total of 27 police officers seem to have been involved in criminal activities offering protection to gangs mostly active in fuel trafficking. …
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January 30, 2023
Greece, Politics
Turkey is once again “distorting reality in order to serve other purposes and certainly not to promote the rights and welfare of the Muslim Minority in Thrace,” the Greek Foreign Ministry said in an announcement on Sunday. The Foreign Ministry in Athens was responding to Turkish posts concerning the Muslim …
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January 30, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Two pilots are missing after a two-seat F-4 Phantom fighter jet of the Greek Air Force crashed into the sea during a training flight on Monday morning. A big Search and Rescue operation is underway to locate the pilots as well as the fighter jet. A statement from the Hellenic …
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January 27, 2023
FEATURED, Social, Society
These pictures with children crossing a make-shift bridge over a swollen river are not from some remote village in wild Nepal. These pictures with young students risking their lives walking on a hanging wire footbridge over the rushing waters of Evinos river are from Western Greece in January 2023. The …
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January 27, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
The European Commission has called on Greece to include in its national legislation directives on fighting children’s sexual abuse on the conditions of reception of asylum applicants, it said on Thursday, among other directives the country needs to implement. The Commission is also referring Greece and another five EU member …
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January 27, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Greek police was set on alert on Friday morning after new threatening e-mails were sent again to Athens International Airport “Eleftherios Venizelos” as well as several hospitals and one church in the Greek capital. The e-mails warned of the existence of explosive devices, i.e. “mines” at the airport and the …
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January 27, 2023
Economy, FEATURED
Greece’s first-ever pharmaceutical cannabis production plant was inaugurated at Examilia, in Corinth, on Thursday. The investment by Tikun Europe, subsidiary of Israel-based Tikun Olam, exceeded 40 million euros in a privately owned area of 6 hectares (60 stremmas), which includes an area of 21,000 sq.m. with state-of-the-art hybrid greenhouses, as …
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January 27, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Greek Parliament honored the memory of the victims of the Holocaust ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Thursday evening by displaying the slogan “We remember” on its facade. The logo displayed a photograph of prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp. January 27 marks the 78th anniversary of the liberation …
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January 26, 2023
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Infection rates for Covid-19, along with hospitalizations and intensive care dropped during the week of January 16-22, National Public Health Organization. EODY said on it weekly report issued on Thursday. The rate of influenza infections did not present a great change, EODY added. The weekly report presents information on viral …
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