January 13, 2025
FEATURED, weather
Greek patent one of a kind: A heavy truck was parked on a manhole lid to stop sewage flooding again Poseidonos Avenue in Alimos part of the Athens Riviera. Heavy rainfall on Monday morning had for one more time flooded the area and the manhole cover was opened letting the …
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July 30, 2024
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A truck driving on the regional road near Glyfada in Evia crashed on railway tracks and collided with a passing train of the Hellenic Train traveling on the Halkida-Athens route. The train No. 1551 was carrying 130 passengers onboard. Three of them, a 59-year-old man and two boys aged 12 …
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June 8, 2024
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A truck loaded with fuel overturned and went in flames on the Athens – Corinth highway on Friday night. The accident severely damaged a bridge and had Greece ‘cut’ into two, as voters have been heading to their hometowns and villages in Peloponnese. The accident took place near the Isthmus …
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August 17, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Thousands of vehicles have been trapped in the Athens-Corinth highway and dozens of passengers are stuck in the Proastikos train for over 7 hours due to a fire in a tank truck earlier on Thursday. Απίστευτη ταλαιπωρία καταγγέλλουν οι οδηγοί που παραμένουν εγκλωβισμένοι στην #Εθνική Οδό Αθηνών – Κορίνθου, κατόπιν …
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August 30, 2022
animals, FEATURED
The young donkey, a victim of brutal abuse, has been located by a local animal welfare society and will be transferred to Attica for treatment. The animal was tied to a pick-up truck of the deputy mayor of the area and was dragged over 700 meters through the village of …
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August 28, 2022
animals, FEATURED, News
A 63-year-old man, the deputy mayor of Zitsa municipality in Epirus, was arrested on Sunday over unprecedented abuse of a donkey. The man dragged the donkey tied with a rope to the bed of his pick-up truck for almost one kilometer as the heavily injured young animal was bleeding and …
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October 4, 2021
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A man drove a pickup truck in front of the Greek Parliament in downtown Athens at 10 o’ clock Monday morning, stopped it in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and threatened to detonate an explosive device. Police and bomb disposal experts rushed to the spot and the …
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June 18, 2021
Very Mix
A fire broke out in a truck tanker in Aspropyrgos, western Attica, on Friday, prompting the evacuation of a residential and industrial area and an Alert Warning by the Civil Protection. The fire broke out in a tanker transporting propane. The incident occurred in Neoktista settlement near the Aspropyrgos refineries. …
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April 26, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
A concert on a truck initiated by the Mayor of Athens and the crowding outside the Prime Minister’s residence amid lockdown have angered Greeks who have been complying with the anti-coronavirus measures for over a month. Singer Alkistis Protopsalti and some musicians on the back of a truck toured the …
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November 4, 2019
Refugees
Greek police released 80 migrants from a container truck near the town of Xanthi in north-eastern Greece on Monday morning. Due to suffocating conditions many of them suffered respiratory problems. The truck driver was arrested. Several people lay on the asphalt. It was short after the tolls on Egnatia highway …
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October 24, 2019
Very Mix
A hotel employee on Crete risked his life to catch a thief. He jumped on the back of the thief’s pickup truck until the driver made dangerous maneuvers and threw him over the board and on the street. Together with an accomplice, the thief had stolen a 500-euro worth motor …
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September 25, 2019
Refugees
A 5-year-old Afghan boy was ran over by truck near the hot spot of Moria on the island of Lesvos on Tuesday. The boy was playing with a cardboard box and he was inside it when the truck came down the road and turned into a parking lot of a …
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October 23, 2018
Social
This is not a picture shot in some remote area in undeveloped world. This picture has been shot in Greece on 18. October 2018. Fifteen children are been transported on an open farmer’s truck. This is the only way for the elementary pupils to reach their school in Chrysopigi, 6 …
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October 22, 2018
Sports
A modern Hercules. For Nikos Politis few things seem impossible. The young man from the island of Lefkada is certainly daring and loves to reach his own limits. After a his 70-meter Zulu Bungy in the Canal of Corinth two months ago, he took a new challenge: to pull a …
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November 2, 2017
animals
A video showing a small truck dragging a dog on a road in Peloponnese outraged animal lovers in Greece. The truck owner keeps driving, while the body of the poor animal tied on the truck is being dragged on the rough asphalt of the land road. The dog dies a …
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February 12, 2017
Politics, Refugees, Society
Greek soldiers safely defused a 250-kilo bomb from the World War II found under a petrol station in Thessaloniki. Prior to the bomb neutralization operation, more than 72,000 people, including refugees and migrants form a hot spot nearby, were evacuated. “End good, all good!” Sunday afternoon, Regional Governor Apostolos Tzitzikostas …
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December 30, 2014
Very Mix
Although it is strictly forbidden, drivers were so to say “allowed” to sleep in their trucks and lorries in the car deck of the Norman Atlantic ferry. Speaking live to private Mega TV, driver Yiannis Vlyssidis admitted that he and his wife, but also quite a number of other drivers …
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