February 28, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Hundreds of passengers on Athens-Thessaloniki remain stranded at the Palaiofarsalo station, central Greece, in one more incident of the apparently troubled Hellenic Train company. According to λοψαλ media, some 450 passengers remain for over an hour inside the train after electric cables fell on the train. According to preliminary information, …
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August 18, 2022
Politics, Refugees
The third vessel in the last 48 hours, carrying 67 migrants of various nationalities was located early Thursday at Limnionas on the island of Kythera early Thursday morning. Three Turkish nationals have been arrested as alleged human traffickers. Together with another 166 migrants, mainly from Afghanistan who arrived on Wednesday, …
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July 29, 2022
Tourism, Travel
Passengers of Greece’s fastest train, the “White Arrow”, were stranded in the fields just 22 km away from Athens. An alleged A blackout in parts of the Greek railway network forced hundreds of passengers to spend several hours without air-condition and without any information about what had happened and when …
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June 11, 2022
FEATURED, Tourism, Travel
Over 600 British tourists were stranded at the airport of Chania on the island of Crete on Friday due to disturbances in UK airports. A total of 614 British tourists were bound to leave for Manchester and London. However, the three flights were cancelled due to lack of necessary ground …
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February 23, 2022
environment, FEATURED
The Greek branches of Greenpeace and WWF and a number of marine life protection organizations have sounded alarm as three whales stranded on the island of Corfu in the Ionian Sea. The incident took place in the last few days and it coincides with the operation of the seismic research …
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February 2, 2022
animals, FEATURED
The sick and injured young whale that recently stranded at a beach of Athens Riviera was found dead on Wednesday, the Environment Ministry announced. The small cetacean mammal was found in the shallow waters of Selinia Bay in the east of the island of Salamina in the Saronic Gulf by …
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January 24, 2022
FEATURED, Very Mix, weather
The head of the Athens Prosecutor’s Office has ordered an investigation on Monday evening into the failures of Attiki Odos highway ring road of Greek capital Athens as hundreds of motorists remain stranded in the snow since the morning. For a distance to cover in 20 minutes they need over …
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August 14, 2019
Tourism
Hundreds of tourists remain stranded on the island of Samothraki – Samohtrace – in the North Aegean Sea, since a week due to failure of ferries to transfer them to the port of Alexandroupolis on the mainland. The situation is a drag for visitors and locals who report of shortages …
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February 5, 2019
Tourism
Berlin-based Germania Airline has filed for bankruptcy, and canceled all flights with immediate effect on Tuesday, February 5, 2019. The low-cost airline provided routes to some 140 destinations in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, and offered full-service flights including food and baggage. The 37-aircraft airline flew around 4 million …
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January 5, 2019
Tourism
Dozens of Ryanair passengers were shocked to find themselves in Romania instead of Greece on Friday night. The plane from London to Thessaloniki landed in Timisoara airport in west Romania on Friday evening, as the pilots could apparently not land in Macedonia airport in Northern Greece due to low cloudiness. But …
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October 19, 2018
Tourism
Cypriot budget airliner Cobalt Air suspended all its operations late on Thursday leaving hundreds of tourists stranded in Greece and Cyprus and others just with the flight ticket on their hands. Colbat Air is the third European airliner to go bust, after Danish Primera Air last month and UK’s Monarch …
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October 2, 2018
Tourism
Budget airline Primera Air ceased operation over night leaving thousands of stranded holiday makers in twenty countries around the globe. Four hundred tourists have stranded at the airport of Chania on the island of Crete, local media report. Nordic budget airline Primera Air has become the latest European carrier to …
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September 4, 2018
Tourism, Travel
Thousands of travelers have been stranded on Greek islands due to the 48-hour strike by the Greek Seamen’s Federation PNO. Locals and holidaymakers are not able to leave the islands because for many islands the sea offers the only way to connect with the mainland. Many tourists are at risk …
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July 13, 2018
animals
Swimmers and sunbathers were shocked to see a big fish stranded at the beach of Aptera between Golden Beach and Nea Chora by Chania on the island of Crete last Sunday. A fish that looked like a shark had stranded right next to them. A video obtained exclusively by local …
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July 10, 2018
Tourism
Greek and foreign tourists have been stranded on the small islands North off Corfu in the Ionian Sea since Saturday. A mechanical failure of the small ferry boat that connect the islands Mavraki, Erikoussa and Othoni with Corfu has halted the service. By Tuesday, locals are also desperate as they …
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December 22, 2017
weather
Professional truck drivers and private motorists, families with children on their way to Christmas holidays, stranded for several hours on Athens-Lamia Highway due to the snow fall. Media report of a 14-km long queues from the 118th to the 132th km on the lanes to Lamia, at the height of …
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February 29, 2016
Refugees, Very Mix
This is an urgent appeal by the Pan Piraiki Initiative Group of volunteers assisting refugees and migrants arriving at the port of Piraeus on daily basis. Today, Monday, February 29th 2016, there are more than 2,000 people, children, women, men, elderly awaiting to leave for the borders. They cannot. FYROM …
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February 17, 2016
Society
Hundreds of trucks and cars are stuck at the key Greek-Bulgarian Promahonas border crossing, after a blockade by Greek farmers was met with a retaliatory blockage by angry Bulgarian truck drivers on the other side. the retaliation started at 11 a.m. on Wednesday. Greek media report Wednesday noon, of 600 …
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May 5, 2012
Tourism
Dozens of Danish tourists were stunned (and probably angry) to learn at the Chania airport on Friday that the airliner Cimber Sterling to take them back home had gone bankruptcy. Local news website Cretalive.gr reported that the tourists were unable to return home and that local tour operations were doing their best to find alternatives …
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