March 28, 2023
Greece, Politics
Professors in the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Ioannina, western Greece, submitted their resignations en masse to the rector in order to show support to students. Reason for the mass resignations is that faculty graduates are not being granted professional rights. The decision was taken at the General …
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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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December 11, 2022
FEATURED, weather
A significant landslide phenomenon is underway near the town of Arta in Epirus, western Greece. has caused structural damages to two homes. The local mayor has alerted the state authorities. The phenomenon has swept away one house that ended up on top of another causing serious material damages. Nobody has …
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November 11, 2022
Economy
The natural gas deposit in Ioannina, western Greece, could potentially cover the consumption of Greece for 10 years, Environment and Energy Minister Kostas Skrekas said on Friday. Test drilling onshore will be in 2023, he added. Speaking to SKAI TV, Skrekas said “when we talk about a possible deposit of …
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August 30, 2022
animals, FEATURED
The young donkey, a victim of brutal abuse, has been located by a local animal welfare society and will be transferred to Attica for treatment. The animal was tied to a pick-up truck of the deputy mayor of the area and was dragged over 700 meters through the village of …
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February 21, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
A 69-year-old man was arrested late on Sunday for beating his wife to death. The victim, a 79-year-old woman from the USA was found dead in the couple’s home in the city of Ioannina, Epirus in north-western Greece. According to local media and state broadcaster ERT, the ambulance service received …
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December 1, 2020
FEATURED, Social
Esther Cohen, the oldest Greek survivor of Auschwitz passed away in her hometown Ioannina at the age of 96. Cohen had managed to survive the hell of Auschwitz-Birkenau and returned to her home town in Epirus, western Greece, after the collapse of the Nazi regime. Cohen carried the number of …
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November 29, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
A 102-year-old woman won the battle against the coronavirus. She was discharged from the general hospital on the island of Corfu on Saturday after hospitalization that lasted 20 days. The woman was one of the 56 elderly infected with Covid-19 in a nursing home in Ioannina, Epirus, beginning of the …
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March 13, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, Very Mix
Greek police arrested the owner of a cram school (frontistirio) in Ioannina, north-western Greece, for opening the school despite government orders to suspend operation of all schools including those offering tutorial classes. The 53-year-old school owner was arrested on Thursday afternoon reportedly following a tip off. Police arrested him, while …
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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 18, 2018
Earthquake
Three earthquake tremors rattled the Prefecture of Ioannina and some area in Epirus in Western Greece on Wednesday morning. The first earthquake with magnitude 4.2 R occurred at 09:49 a.m. with epicenter 13km North-West of the city of Ioannina in the area between Kalpaki and Zitsa. The earthquake had a …
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March 25, 2018
animals
The General Staff of the Greek Land Forces has ordered an urgent investigation after a video posted on social media shows the horror abuse of a dog by soldiers. In the video posted on Facebook on Sunday morning, the two soldiers grab a dog from the legs and throw him …
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February 15, 2018
environment
Four butcher shops, one fish shop, an animal transport truck and a hunter’s vehicle became the target of so-called “Green anarchists” in Ioannina in Epirus, West Greece. The perpetrators wrote slogans on the stores windows and caused material damage. A group calling itself “Black and Green Flasks” claimed responsibility for …
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December 24, 2017
Arts, Culture
Impressive nativity scene in a natural cave. Members of the Culture Association of Kastritsa in Ioannina, Epirus, set the the nativity scene in a natural cave. According to epirustv.gr, the culture club used the natural scenery of a cave on the hill of Kastritsa for the reconstruction of the nativity …
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May 25, 2017
Politics, Refugees
In the context of the migration crisis in Europe, many refugees are nowadays blocked in camps or towns in Greece for an indeterminate length of time and with few future perspectives. Young people are often full of energy and enthusiasm, but they lack the opportunity to make use of it. …
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October 16, 2016
Earthquake, Very Mix
A 5.5R earthquake and several aftershocks 4.9-3.2 had the residents of Ioannina and surrounding areas to spent the night on the streets. The main earthquake of 5.5R occurred at 23:14 Saturday night with epicenter the village Pogoni, 12km north-west from the city of Ioannina in Epirus, North-Western Greece. The earthquake …
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February 21, 2012
Society
The parade in Ioannina was full of suspense: Animal farmers clashed with riot police and high-school students turned their heads away the politicians attending the celebrations to mark 99 years after the city’s liberation from the Turkish occupation. Some students even hailed the politicians with a typical Greek gesture – the …
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