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A Cypriot national has been arrested while he was trying to steal stones and pieces of marbles from the Acropolis of Athens. The 26-year-old man was arrested on Sunday, March 5. It was a guard who saw the man in action and informed the police that a man was trying …

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Tons of rocks flooded the village Assos in the west coast of Kefalonia, trapped people in their homes, buried vehicles, destroyed houses and businesses. The picturesque harbor of the village is practically non-existent. The torrential rainfalls of medicane Ianos brought rocks, mud and other debris from the mountain. There is …

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Residents of Trikala in central Greece vented their anger at the doors of a 5-century-old mosque as a “retaliation” for the decision of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to convert Hagia Sophia into a mosque. According to local media trikalanews, a group of citizens went to the mosque and threw stones …

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Stones flew through the air,  tear gas and sound flares were fired when a group of angry young protesters attacked riot police during the protest rallies on the General Strike day, on Wednesday. Holding batons with red flags a leftist group attacked a police bus. A little earlier, a group …

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A most probably American tourist who stole a handful of stones from the ancient site of the Acropolis many years ago, returned them per mail to the Greek National Tourism Organization in New York. The four small stones were put in a plastic bag and had a handwritten note in …

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Horror on the Ionian Highway. Brainless perpetrators threw stones at trucks driving through the Ionian highway. The attacks occurred late Monday night. According to information obtained by  local media agriniopress.gr, five trucks suffered damages. The attacks occurred at the height of  the city of Messolonghi. Truck drivers are upset and …

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Tension is high outside the Agricultural Development Ministry in Athens, with angry farmers to have surrounding the building demanding a meeting with the minister. Thousands of farmers have come to Athens form several parts of Greece to make their voice heard as the oppose the planned social security contribution and …

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Stones flew through the air and tear gas was fired when angry milk producers broke into a dairy company in Ioannina, western Greece. Hundreds of milk farmers gathered on Friday morning outside “Dodoni” milc factory demanding their money. “We have been unpaid for four months, we cannot feed our families,” …

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Several hundreds high-school students gathered outside the Greek Parliament at Friday noon to protest the conditions in the education and the general situation of the country due to the harsh austerity. The students were chanting slogans, holding banners and even had a sit-in protest. However, tension rose as they started …

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