April 5, 2022
environment, FEATURED
A forest fire is raging on the island of Rhodes near the village Soroni on Tuesday and there is fear the blaze could get out of control due to strong winds blowing in the area. The blaze on Rhodes is only one of the three forest fires raging on Tuesday. …
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February 7, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
The Minister for Agriculture Development in Mitsotakis government was forced to resign and a former deputy finance minister in Karamanlis government, now mayor in the town of Sparta, was expelled from conservative New Democracy on Monday. Reason for the “drastic measures” was a video showing the Minister, the mayor and …
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November 26, 2021
Society, Very Mix
A 65-year-old man was found dead after his car was swept away by the waters of a swollen stream during a rainstorm in Ilia, southern Peloponnese on Friday. His body was found by rescuers some 300 meters away from the vehicle. According to local news site ilialive, the victim, a …
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September 3, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Greece’s authorities imposed a mini lockdown to the island of Ikaria, Deodecanse, as well as the regional units of Achaia and Ilia, Peloponnese with the aim to contain the spread of the coronavirus. At the same time, they extended the restrictions in the regional unit of Messinia, Peloponnse, and of …
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November 30, 2020
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
Eight ancient Greek tombs were discovered in a land plot in Ilia, south Peloponnese, the Culture Ministry announced on Monday. The tombs of various types were discovered and investigated during a recent rescue excavation by the Ephorate of Antiquities of Ilia on a privately owned land plot at the location …
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September 24, 2020
weather
A British tourist was injured when a tree fell during a storm on her tent in Giannitsochori by Ilia in the early morning hours of Thursday. A wind hose hit the camping site while the woman was sleeping. According to local media, the woman suffered fractures in the legs and …
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March 4, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, Very Mix
Greece’s Health authorities announced on Wednesday evening preventive emergency measures against the coronavirus for the prefectures of Achaia and Ilia, in Peloponnese, as well as for the island of Zakynthos. The measures are considered as preventing and are implemented following the latest coronavirus case confirmed earlier today. According to National …
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October 3, 2019
weather
Homes and businesses were flooded, waterspouts were formed and power outages have taken place as a bad weather front stroke West Greece on Thursday. The island of Corfu, the regions of Messologhi and Agrinio in western mainland as well as Ilia in West Peloponnese were badly hit. Here comes the …
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September 24, 2019
weather
Thunderbolts have killed two men in West Peloponnese as severe thunderstorms have been striking West Greece since Tuesday morning. Homes and streets were flooded in Ilia Prefecture, large areas without power. On the island of Kefalonia, mud floods covered the streets of seaside village Agia Efthymia. A 35-year-old man was …
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April 16, 2018
environment
A 46-year-old foreign national was arrested by police in Pyrgos, following charges by the Fire Service that he accidentally caused a fire in the Frixa area in Andritsena-Krestena, in Ilia Predecture in South-West Peloponnese. The man will be led before a prosecutor on Tuesday morning, athensnewsagency reported. The nationality of …
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April 16, 2018
environment
Firefighters worked all through the night, and areal means started operation early Monday morning to take the raging wildfire in the areas of Frixa and Skyllountia, in Ilia Peloponnese, under control. The fire broke out on Sunday afternoon near the archaeological site of Olympia, the birthplace of the ancient Olympic …
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September 24, 2017
environment
Eighty five wildfires broke out in the 24 hours from Friday to Saturday across the country, the Greek Fire Service said in a statement. From Peloponnese in the South up to Halkidiki and Serres in the North the wild fires burned down thousands of acres of forest land – and …
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August 16, 2017
Very Mix
Greece’s Fire Service said on Wednesday it was close to containing a wildfire that is burning north-east of Athens for a fourth day as well as the wildfires on the island of Zakynthos and Ilia in South Peloponnese. According to a statement issued 2:30 pm on !6. August, the Fire …
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September 13, 2016
Society
Miracles happen! A 78-year-old man who had been missing since the stormy weather stroke Greece last week, has been found and rescued. The man had been missing since September 7th, when he left the area of Ilia in Peloponnese to drive to his home in a suburb of Athens. At …
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June 4, 2013
Society
Residents of Tragano in Ilia, southern Peloponnese, were badly surprised to find out the Regional Medical Center was closed due to lack of printer ink. Locals in need of medicine were confronted with a closed door and a notice saying: “The center will be closed on Monday , June 3/2013 …
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April 27, 2013
Society
There has been lots of discussions in my environment about why jobless Greeks do not go strawberry picking. Of course, it’s not only strawberries growing in Manolada, Peloponnese. It’s the peaches in Naousa, Macedonia or the apples in Zagora, Pilio just to mention a few of the agricultural products flourishing in Greece. But …
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September 3, 2012
Society
Greek state is broke and in need of every penny and cent it can get. Therefore, it cut the poverty-pension to an over-aged widow, when it found out, the home she was living in was in her name. Even though she had inherited it after her husbands’ death, even though the land-house was …
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February 5, 2012
Very Mix
A woman, 80, lost her life last night in Ilia, when she was trying to get out of her home and escape tons of rushing water. The woman had a tragic death. She was found drown, trapped at the wire fence of her house. Due to torrential rains that fell in …
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