They were supposed to collect snakes from the fields and bring them to the church of Virgin Mary of the Snakes – Snakes Panagia – on the eve of her Dormition Day on the island of Kefalonia in the Ionian Sea. However, the three men accidentally picked up also a …
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Greek man and foreign national missing on Crete found
Τwo young men, a Greek and a foreigner, who have been missing since Tuesday in north-eastern Crete were found at a rocky outcrop by volunteers on Thursday morning. The two men left with the lifeguard’s boat from the hotel where they worked in Hersonissos in order to reach the island …
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Three Greeks, two foreigners arrested for sexual abuse of minor girl
Greek police arrested five more men linked to the sexual abuse and pimping of a 12-year-old girl from the Athens district of Kolonos. The suspects are three Greek men aged 65, 49 and 44 and two foreigners, Pakistani nationals, aged 50 and 23, media report citing police sources. Among the …
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Weird rally in Athens, in support of misogynist Tate (video)
Α weird march with some one hundred young men, among them also minors, took place in downtown Athens on Sunday night. The crowd gathered to express support for the controversial British-American “influencer” and misogynist Andrew Tate, currently in Romanian prison on charges of human trafficking, rape, criminal organization with the …
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Epiphany and”Blessing the Waters” remains a males-only tradition
The Greek Orthodox tradition to throw a Holy Cross into the waters on the Epiphany Day remains largely a males-only issue even in the 21st century. Dozens of men, as young as 8 years old and as old as 89, jumped into the cold sea, into a river or a …
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Cretan “bullies” located and arrested for the attack on German tourists
The two Cretan men sought in connection with an assault on three German tourists in Rethymno, Crete, last week have been located and detained, the Greek police announced on Tuesday. One was taken into custody on the basis of a warrant for his arrest and the second will be brought …
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Greece lifts decades-old blood donation ban on gay and bisexual men
Greece lifted on Monday the ban of blood donations imposed to gay or bisexual men since the 1980’s. Men who have had same-sex sexual relations will be able to donate blood in Greece as soon as the relevant Health Ministry decision is published in the Government Official Gazette. On Monday, …
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MeToo in Greece moved to world of Arts, denouncements take a form of avalanche
The MeToo movement in Greece has moved from the world of Sports to the world of Arts and Entertainment with female and male actors denouncing sexual harassment and abuse but also bulling by directors in theater and the film industry. Actresses Jenny Botsi, Angeliki Lambri and Loukia Michala joined their …
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Mask-deniers beat metro worker in station in downtown Athens (video)
An employee of the Athens metro was hospitalized on Wednesday after he was beaten by two young men who had earlier refused to wear the mandatory masks inside the metro. According to a statement by the metro managing company STASY, the employee, a station manager, asked the two men on …
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Tragedy in Loutraki: Four men found dead in old German bunker
Tragedy in Loutraki: The bodies of four men were found in a cave ravine in the area of Ano Karbounarι at Saturday dawn. According to preliminary information, the men aged 35 to 70 were searching for a treasure and had a generator with them. Their bodies were found in a …
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HRW: Asylum-seeking women detained together with men unrelated to them
Greek authorities are routinely confining asylum-seeking women with unrelated men in the northern Evros region, at the land-border with Turkey, putting them at grave risk of sexual violence and harassment. Authorities should immediately stop holding asylum-seeking women and girls in closed facilities with unrelated men. Human Rights Watch research in …
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Lightning kills shepherd and motorcyclist in Northern Greece
Lightning during heavy thunderstorms in Northern Greece reportedly killed two men over the weekend. A 22-year-old shepherd in Kozani and a 58-year-old motorcyclist on Egnatia Highway died on Saturday and Sunday respectively. The shepherd was found by another shepherd on Saturday night. The 22-year-old of Albanian origin was working near …
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Two FYROM nationals accused in wiretap scandal arrested in Greece
Two FYROM nationals accused in a wiretap scandal that helped bring down the previous government in Skopje have been arrested in Greece, police said. Greek authorities on October 19 said the men were arrested the day before at the airport in Thessaloniki, traveling on fake Bulgarian documents and apparently attempting …
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Turkish Uni Rector: “Shaking hands with women is more horrific than…”
A university rector in the southeastern province of Adıyaman has claimed that shaking hands with an unrelated woman was “more horrific than holding fire.” In a post shared on social media, Professor Mustafa Talha Gönüllü, the rector of Adıyaman University, asked whether it was religiously permissible to hold a woman’s …
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Two men perform prayers inside Hagia Sophia to protest its closure to Muslim worship
Two people have performed prayers inside Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia in order to protest its closure to prayers, comparing it to measures taken by Israeli forces at the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. The two identified as Halil Akyaman and Mahmut Alan arrived at the museum and suddenly began to pray inside. …
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UPD 202 people deported from Greece to Turkey in a “dawn operation” (videos, picts)
The mass deportation operation started as early as 6 o’ clock in the morning, although it was originally scheduled for 10 a.m. The first 136 migrants from Lesvos were already in Dikili, Turkey at 9:30 a.m.It is more than obvious that the Frontex did not want much media around, for …
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Chania: Two Men Commit Suicide on a Single Day
Society in Chania is shocked after two suicides that took place on a single day. On Friday noon, a young man jumped from the balcony of his home. The paramedics who rushed with ambulance on the spot could only find out that the man had suffered fatal head injuries. In another incident, …
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Athens: Five Men Infected with HIV After Contact With S*x Workers
Five men who had “unsafe” intercourse with HIV-positive street prostitutes were infected with the disease, Greek caretaker health minister Andreas Loverdos revealed on Wednesday. “Five out of one hundred men tested on AIDS at the premises of Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (KEEPNO) were founded positive, ” the minister said, adding that “in private …
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Survey: Greek Men More Often Victims of Domestic Violence than Women!
Poverty, unemployment and insecurity bring Greece in the first place among eight European countries with regard to physical and psychological violence between couples. These data are derived from a survey among citizens of Spain, Hungary, Belgium, UK, Sweden, Portugal and Greece. According to the survey, «the rates of both physical …
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What Should A Greek Wear in Times of Austerity?
Nice and clean underwear, like a sexy boxer! It is a must-have, claims STAR.gr. And I add, that a debt-ridden Greek man should keep , if nothing else, at least his underwear dignity! Star advises men to avoid underwear with hearts, teddy bears or cartoons, not even animal print or a … string [ …
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