November 1, 2024
FEATURED, Mixed Grill, Society, Very Mix
A three-year-old boy has been shot in the head while in a car with his parents on Friday morning. The bullets came from a gun in a car driving by, initial reports claimed. The toddler did not survive. According to preliminary police information, the incident took place in Markopoulos village …
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March 29, 2024
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
The head of a beardless young man crowned with a wreath of laurels, most likely belonging to a statue of Apollo, is among the findings in Philippi excavation site in northern Greece. The head dated to the 2nd or early 3rd century AD, the culture ministry said in a statement. …
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March 28, 2024
Greece, Politics, Uncategorized
The president of the National Organization for the Investigation of Aviation and Railway Accidents and Transport Safety (E.OD.A.S.A.A.M.), Athanassios Binis, has resigned, media reported on Wednesday afternoon. The resignation became known when a SYRIZA MP brought the issue to the Parliament during the debate for the Tempi train disaster. He …
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March 8, 2024
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Εight students were transferred to hospitals with injuries in the head and the arms they sustained by police batons during the big protest rally against the bill for “private universities.” The students were injured when a group of protesters clashed with riot police forces outside the Greek Parliament opposite the …
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October 30, 2023
FEATURED, Social, Society
The First Instance Prosecutor’s Office will investigate the circumstances behind the serious injury of the 16-year-old girl that occurred during an anti-fascist event that ended in clashes with police in Neo Heraklion suburb of western Athens on Saturday night. The head of the First Instance Prosecutor’s Office requested an urgent …
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September 13, 2023
Greece, Politics
Head of Greece’s National Organization for Public Health (EODY), Theoklis Zaoutis, resigned on Wednesday,and thus amid a situation of high health concern in flooded areas. The Professor for Children Epidemiology was EODY head since October 20212. He was forced to resign, media reported. His successor is Professor of Health and …
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July 19, 2023
Society, Very Mix
Police in Crete are investigating the discovery of a human head and other body parts at a waste sorting facility in Chania on the island of Crete. First it was the head found in a garbage bag on Tuesday. According to media information it belonged to a man in the …
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October 31, 2022
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
A sacrificial bull’s head found at a Minoan cemetery associated with the palace of Petras in eastern Crete is further evidence of an elite society with complex rituals of death, Minoan civilization archaeologist Metaxia Tsipopoulou said in an interview with state-run news agency amna. This finding of a bull’s sacrifice, …
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July 21, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A 22-year-old British tourist has been admitted to the intensive care unit in Zakynthos General Hospital after being severely beaten in the island’s port area. The young man received multiple blows to the head and was taken to hospital with serious head and brain injuries. He was intubated. This latest …
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June 20, 2022
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
A greater-than-lifesize marble head of a man with a beard, which is identified as the Farnese type of Herculeswas found during the latest underwater excavation of the Antikythera shipwreck that dates to round 60 BC. The head could provide a fit with the headless statue no. 5742 at the National …
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October 12, 2021
Archeology, Culture
The head of a statue dating back to Roman times was pulled out of the sea near Preveza, at a depth of about 10 meters. According to a statement by the Greek Culture, the head of a Roman-era statue, was probably sculptured at the time of the emperors Antoninus or …
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August 16, 2021
Greece, Politics
Head of Greece’s Civil Protection and Deputy Minister for Crisis Management Nikos Hardalias was hospitalized on Monday after an ischemic event. With a new fire on Monday morning in eastern Attica, Hardalias was at the Civil Protection Operations Center when the event occurred. He was transferred to Agia Olga public …
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March 18, 2021
Economy
Reforming the tax system is imperative to avoid upsetting fiscal balance in the post-pandemic period, Bank of Greece’s governor Yannis Stournaras said on Wednesday, addressing the Academy of Taxation and Accounting of the European Organization of Civil Law. In his speech, the central banker said it is necessary to change …
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November 15, 2020
Archeology, Culture
A crew of Athens municipality unearthed the head of a Hermes statue in downtown Athens on Friday. The crew was carrying out roadworks in Aiolou street in downtown Athens when it revealed the head, part of a Herma column. The Culture Ministry said in an announcement that the finding is …
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July 31, 2019
Greece
Greek businesswoman Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki was assigned to head the committee for “Greece 2021” a fiesta to celebrate the 200 years of liberation from the Ottoman occupation. Known as the Greek Iron Lady, Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki was the head of the committee that organized the Olympic Games 2004 in Athens with magnificent …
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October 26, 2017
Greece, Politics
The former head of powerful financial crimes units (SDOE), Ioannis Diotis, was handed down a 10-year suspended sentence. He was convicted of failing to investigate information on the so-called “Lagarde list” containing more than 2,000 names of potential tax evaders. Ioannis Diotis was handed down a suspended 10-year sentence this …
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May 9, 2017
Archeology, Culture
Russian constructors have found the head of a 2,500-year-old terracotta statue of a Greek god during underwater construction operation off the Crimean Peninsula, according to recent media reports in Russia. Chief of the underwater archaeology unit of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Sergei Olkhovskiy has announced that the discovery of …
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February 14, 2015
animals
With incredible patience and soft gestures a fire fighter tries to free a kitten whose head is stuck in a tin can. His colleague holds the kitten down and they both talk to it to keep it calm. The kitten endures the live-saving efforts silently and stoically anticipating rescue from …
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October 22, 2014
Archeology, Very Mix
One surprise follows the next: archaeologists discovered the head of one of the Sphinxes guarding the entrance of the ancient tomb in Amphipolis. The head made of marble was found in behind the wall after the third chamber in the inner of the tomb. The head is 0.60m high and …
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June 12, 2014
Society
The leadership of Greek police ordered an internal investigation against a riot policeman who hit a protesting cleaner on the head. Caught red-handed on a video, the footage shows an arm to be raised behind a shield and to hit cleaner Fotini Nikitara on the head. For no reason. At …
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