March 3, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
As anger in the society grows, thousands of Greeks took to the streets of several cities on Friday to protest the tragic death of 57 people caused by a head-on train collision on March 1. As no other expected, in some cities, protests turned violent. In Athens, Thessaloniki and Larissa …
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March 2, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Riot police beat people and fired tear gas and sound flares at students who gathered outside the headquarters of Hellenic Train in Athens on Wednesday to protest the deadly train crash in Tempi and commemorate the victims, most of them students returning home after a long weekend. Angry protesters smashed …
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February 8, 2023
Arts, Culture, FEATURED
A total of 42 teachers at the Drama School of the National Theater of Greece’s (NTG) resigned en masse on Wednesday in solidarity with their students over a controversial presidential decree. Protests were held on the same day with main slogan demanding the resignation of culture Minister Lina Mendoni. Δυναμική …
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January 27, 2023
FEATURED, Social, Society
These pictures with children crossing a make-shift bridge over a swollen river are not from some remote village in wild Nepal. These pictures with young students risking their lives walking on a hanging wire footbridge over the rushing waters of Evinos river are from Western Greece in January 2023. The …
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November 28, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Four students were injured when a part of the wooden stage of the Municipality theater of Piraeus collapsed during a rehearsal on Monday afternoon. Dozens of children were at the theater watching the rehearsal by students from the local Music School Ensembles for a concert later in the evening. The …
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November 15, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Greece 2.0 just a few kilometers away from Patras: Early in the morning students are holding tight to keep balance as the tractor wheels rev up on the rough, muddy road and then uphill to civilization. They go up and down the hill on tractor four times per day: for …
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September 5, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Protesting students clashed with riot police at the campus of Athens University in Zografou suburb on Monday evening. Riot police was deployed in the area to protect the so-called “campus police” from protesting students. According to media reports and posts on social media, riot police attacked the students, firing tear …
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May 8, 2022
Economy, FEATURED
A guide on how electricity consumers in Greece will receive the state aid for ‘inflated electricity bills in the last six months has been issued and and posted on several media. The guide refs to beneficiaries, how to apply on the special platform as well as how to calculate the …
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December 22, 2021
FEATURED, Social, Society
A group of young men in Chania got together their money and booked a hotel room for a homeless man. The exemplary act of solidarity with someone in need took place last Saturday, on one of the coldest nights on Crete and the country. According to reports, the young men …
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October 31, 2021
FEATURED, Social, Society
A 14-year-old student fell victim of an unprecedented and horrifying racist attack at a high school of Istiaia, in central Greece. The boy was dragged outside the classroom by a group of older students wearing hoods. According to the mother’s complaint to newspaper avgi,, initially a group of 5-6 youngsters …
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October 22, 2021
Greece, Politics
Chaos and confusion prevailed on Friday, when local authorities in Thessaloniki and the government in Athens disagreed on the traditional students’ and military parades on October 28. the local government has requested the cancellation of the students parade and to limit the military one as coronavirus infections surge and Intensive …
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October 4, 2021
FEATURED
Hundreds of students returned to lecture theaters, labs and classrooms on Monday after an academic year of remote education in 2020-2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Several public universities started opening their doors for in-person teaching again after 18 months of online education. According to kathimerini, Athens University’s schools of …
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September 29, 2021
FEATURED, Society
Riot police fired tear gas and flash grenades into a high school yard in Stavroupoli, Thessaloniki, after neo-nazi youth started throwing stones and petrol bombs at them. Riot police was deployed to the vocational school EPAL on Wednesday morning to separate fascist and anti-fascist youth groups, while it is not …
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September 28, 2021
Social, Society
High school pupils and university students clashed outside an EPAL vocational school in Stavroupolis suburb of Thessaloniki on Tuesday morning. At least, two people were injured. Eyewitnesses speak of an ideologically motivated clash as the attackers are known to belong to far-right front. The brawl started when a group of …
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September 14, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
A local high-ranking clergyman in northern Greece created a during the blessing ceremony at the new school year, when the director urged students keep their face masks on while kissing the Holy Cross. Archimandrite of Amyntaio Sevastianos slammed the director of the Lyceum saying “should I hold the holy cross …
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August 11, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Schools in Greece will reopen on Monday, September 13, the Education Ministry said on Wednesday. Teachers will be required to present a certificate of completed vaccination, or one of having contracted coronavirus within the last six months, or a negative laboratory test result that must be presented to the schools …
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June 4, 2021
Very Mix
The head of the Athens Prosecutor’s Office has ordered a preliminary investigation in order to prosecute a professor at the the National Kapodistrian Univesity of Athens (EKPA), who allegedly took advantage of his position to sexually harass female students. Part of the investigation will be, among others, whether he committed …
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May 10, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Almost 3,000 pupils and teachers were tested positive in Covid-19 self-tests ahead of the schools reopening on Monday morning, SKAI TV reported. Covid-19 testing kits were distributed free of charge by pharmacies across the country to pupils and teachers in the last days. They had to register the test results …
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April 12, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Teachers and students of lyceums returned to schools on Monday morning after five and a half months of pandemic lockdown and just 5 weeks of in person education in the school year 2020-2021. In addition to mandatory mask and other protection measures, teachers and students had to have Covid-19 self-tests …
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April 8, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Students who are foreign nationals will be issued a provisional social security identification number (AMKA) so they can buy a self-testing kit ahead of the reopening of schools on Monday, a senior official of the Education Ministry told Kathimerini on Thursday, responding to complaints from private schools that several pupils …
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