September 28, 2022
Social, Society
Twenty tons of firewood for the needy residents villages in northern Greece disappeared from the Community Forest of Livadi. The firewood was aiming to be distributed to some 70 families in villages of surrounding mountainous areas who have problems with heating with other means. According to local website grtimes.gr, the …
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September 28, 2022
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
More antiquities have been unearthed during the construction works of the metro in Thessaloniki, northern Greece. The finding span from the Proto-Byzantine to the Middle-Byzantine era, that is from from the 4th to 11th centuries AD. According to local media, the antiquities were discovered during works at the southern access …
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September 17, 2022
Greece, Politics
Greek riot police fired tear gas and made use of a water cannon during clashes with students in Thessaloniki on Friday night. The clashes in the city center and main Egnatia road erupted after police fired tear gas on a concert attended by some 5,000 people in the campus of …
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September 14, 2022
Economy, FEATURED
How much does it cost to produce ice cubes in times of high energy cost? Apparently much more than before the energy crisis. So now some businessmen charge extra even the ice cubes in the drink… Customers of a bar-restaurant in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, were surprised to see that they …
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September 7, 2022
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
More than 300,000 archaeological artifacts were discovered during the construction of the Thessaloniki metro system, Culture Minister Lina Mendoni said at a press conference on Wednesday. Many of them will be exhibited at several metro stations, turning them also to museums. She added that a large selection of these artifacts …
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September 5, 2022
Society, Very Mix
Α young Briton who was arrested at the international airport of Thessaloniki for forcing an airplane to divert and do an emergency landing was released by Greek authorities without conditions. The incident occurred last Friday on a commercial flight from London to Paphos, Cyprus. The 22-year-old became drunk and harassed …
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September 5, 2022
FEATURED, weather
A heavy rainstorm hit the urban complex of Greece’s second biggest city Thessaloniki turning streets into rivers, sweeping away vehicles, flooding homes and shops, and even the landmark of the city , the White Tower. Power outage recorded in some of the residential and commercial areas. The rain started around …
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August 25, 2022
FEATURED, Lifestyle, Society
A little known sect organized an admittedly “unique” event on the central Aristotelous square in Thessaloniki: exorcisms performed outdoors. A big screen was displaying “exorcisms” and a crowd of people curiously watching a new …transcendental experience.The exorcisms were held also in English so that tourists could understand. Alarmed by the …
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August 12, 2022
Archeology, Culture
The Acropolis Museum and the National Archaeological Museum as well as the Museum of Byzantine Culture in Thessaloniki are only some of the Greek museums celebrating the August full moon on Friday, August 12, 2022 with special events with entrance free of charge. 105 archaeological sites, museums, historical monuments will …
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August 8, 2022
Social, Society
A 57-year-old man and his 26-year-old daughter are facing charges of domestic violence on Monday after the daughter stabbed the man with a knife. Τhe daughter accuses him of sexual assault.She faces charges of possessing and using a weapon. The father is also facing charges of domestic sexual abuse. Father …
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July 6, 2022
Social, Society
A 42-year-old man killed his mother in Crete, while another case of matricide was discovered in Thessaloniki. The 50-year-old man was staying in the family home with the body of his mother in the bathtub for some five days. Both cases bring again to the limelight the absence of proper …
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July 1, 2022
Society, Very Mix
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla has donated the $1 million he received as the recipient of the 2022 Genesis Prize to the Holocaust Museum of Greece, which is being built in his native city of Thessaloniki. The annual $1 million Genesis Prize, dubbed the “Jewish Nobel” by Time magazine, honors extraordinary …
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June 27, 2022
Social, Society
A family tragedy is behind the two passengers of a car that jumped into the sea in Neoi Epivates fishers’ port in Thessaloniki, northern Greece. The 72-year-old mother and her 50-year-old son decided to put an end to their lives on Monday noon. It was a swimmer who saw …
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June 27, 2022
Society, Very Mix
A group of robbers threw a 400-kg-heavy private safe off the balcony of an apartment building in Thessaloniki located on the sixth floor. They rushed down to the sidewalk, loaded it on their vehicle and fled the scene. The perpetrators reportedly broke into the home of a local businessman well-known …
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June 26, 2022
environment, FEATURED
After the purple jellyfish, it is now the turn of their blue cousins to enjoy the Greek waters. Swarms of Blue jellyfish or Rhizostoma pulmo, commonly known as the barrel jellyfish have arrived in Thessaloniki and swim in the shallows the waters of Thermaikos Gulf in the last couple of …
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June 22, 2022
Very Mix
A young man in Thessaloniki proceeded with an extremely dangerous venture: he crossed the Ring Road with a skate, without wearing a helmet. He was moving in a very high speed, at about 90 km/hour, and at the same time h was making dangerous maneuvers between cars and trucks. According …
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June 10, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A huge blow to a cocaine trafficking ring in Thessaloniki ended with the arrest of four British nationals, who have been living in Greece for about one year. Police seized 300 kilos of cocaine shipped to Greece’s second largest port in a freight of bananas. The seizure of cocaine had …
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May 27, 2022
Society, Very Mix
Over 44 people were evacuated, eleven people have been rushed to hospitals and two have been intubated after a big fire broke out in the building housing the Thessaloniki Chamber of Industry, on Aristotelous Square in the center of the city in northern Greece. The fire broke out short before …
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May 26, 2022
Greece, Politics
A student of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki lays on the ground as blood is flowing under his head. The young man was hit by a flash grenade fired directly at him by a riot policeman on Thursday afternoon. The injured youn man is surrounded by co-students as they all awaiting …
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May 19, 2022
Society, Very Mix
A 43-year-old man died on a chair in the emergency room of a big hospital in Thessaloniki and his body was discovered hours later, when the medical staff changed shift. The man had gone to the hospital with a pain in the leg, the doctors did not find anything wrong …
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