September 17, 2024
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
An explosion inside the passengers cabin of an airplane in boarding procedure at the Heraklio airport, Crete, caused panic early Tuesday afternoon. It was a power bank device in a passengers bag that exploded in the aircraft that would soon take off from Heraklio, Crete, for London, UK. The explosion …
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July 5, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Greece’s conservative prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis congratulated Keir Starmer after the Labour party achieved a landslide victory in the UK’s general election, ending 14 years of the conservative Tory government. “Congratulations to Keir Starmer on winning the UK general election. The Greek government is ready to work together to further …
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April 5, 2024
Society, Very Mix
Former judge and a fugitive for 19 years, Antonia Ilia, was returned to Greece from the UK late on Thursday night. She was convicted to 13 years imprisonment for money laundering and for her role in criminal ring granting favorable court decisions in exchange for bribes. The former judge had …
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November 27, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
In a surprised and totally undiplomatic move, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak cancelled a meeting with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis scheduled to take place on Tuesday morning. Prior to the literally last minute cancellation on Monday evening, there were statements by the Sunak’s spokesperson who ruled out any possibility …
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September 5, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Authorities on the island of Corfu have said that tainted alcohol may be behind the UK police officer ‘s fatal fall and consequent death last week. The 22-year-old police officer was found dead with a head wound on the first day of her holiday at Kavos in South Corfu. According …
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September 1, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A 22-year-old British tourist was found dead on a side street in the area of Kavos on the island of Corfu on Friday morning. The tourist was working as police officer in London, UK, and was on the island in the Ionian Sea for vacations together with a colleague. The …
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August 30, 2023
FEATURED, Tourism, Travel
Passengers for flights headed to UK or whose flight crossed UK space faced cancellations or delays of several hours Monday due to what Britain’s National Air Traffic Service (NATS) said was a technical issue that it had identified and remedied by late afternoon Monday. Holidaymakers returning from Greece, Israel, Portugal, …
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August 13, 2023
Society, Very Mix
A foreign national was arrested at Kipi, the border station with Turkey, when she tried to leave Greece with her underage child, which has been registered in the United Kingdom as “missing”. The woman was arrested by passport control police belonging to the Alexandroupolis Directorate, on a Red Alert warrant …
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June 7, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Missing British submarine “H.M.S. Triumph”, whose true fate had been shrouded in mystery ever since the vessel and its entire crew disappeared in 1942, has finally been discovered on the bed of the Aegean Sea by Greek researcher Kostas Thoktaridis and his team. Τhe search lasted roughly 25 years. The …
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May 29, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A 26-year-old tourist from Great Britain was struck and killed by a lightning, while he was swimming on the island of Rhodes early afternoon Monday. The man was in the sea area of Agia Agatha and incident occurred short before 2 o’ clock During the rain the young tourist was …
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May 2, 2023
Archeology, Culture
Vienna museum is in talks aimed at lending two marble pieces of the Parthenon to Greece, Austria’s foreign minister said on Tuesday, a development his Greek counterpart said he hoped would help in talks with Britain over its much larger hoard. The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna has a tiny collection …
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April 21, 2023
Tourism
Arrivals of British tourists in Greece are expected to exceed 4 million in 2023, Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias said on Thursday at meeting with UK’s Ambassador Matthew Lodge at the Cycladic Museum of Art. Kikilias thanked United Kingdom Ambassador to Athens Matthew Lodge for his contribution to the record numbers …
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March 27, 2023
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
The British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles and the Greek community are seeking to raise £35,000 to symbolically repay the UK Parliament. The amount is the one the UK Parliament paid to Lord Elgin to buy the Marbles. Fundraising – Press Release Over two hundred years ago …
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March 13, 2023
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ruled out changing a law which prohibits the British Museum handing the Parthenon marbles permanently back to Greece. Sunak said there are no plans to amend the legislation, which states the museum can only dispose of objects within its collection in limited circumstances. However, the …
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September 5, 2022
Greece, Politics
The Greek Foreign Ministry congratulated newly elected British Prime Minister Liz Truss on Monday. “Congratulations to Liz Truss on becoming the next British PM. During her tenure as Foreign Secretary, our bilateral relations gained a renewed momentum by signing with Nikos Dendias the MoU on Strategic Bilateral Framework between Greece …
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June 26, 2022
FEATURED, Tourism, Travel
Tourists from the UK could be refused entry to European countries such as Spain, France, Greece and Portugal under a new waiver scheme set to launch next year. Because of Brexit, British holidaymakers will soon have to obtain a new visa waiver to enter EU nations. A fee will have …
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June 8, 2022
Arts, Culture, FEATURED, Tourism, Travel
British artists will not need a Schengen work visa to enter Greece, if they come to the country for an event or performance a circular by the Foreign Ministry in Athens has regulated. This initiative is part of the deepening of bilateral relations in the post-Brexit era, the Ministry said …
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May 29, 2022
Social, Society
UK national on vacations on the island of Samos, ARCHIBALD GREEN, 73 years old, went missing on May 26, 2022. He went missing On Thursday morning in the area of Marina by Pythagorio, Greece’s Silver Alter service said in a Missing bulletin. Green has blue eyes, is 1.90 m tall and …
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May 22, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
The foreign national currently treated in an Athens hospital is not infected with the monkeypox virus but with chickenpox, first results of laboratory tests showed on Sunday night. The 29-year-old tourist was considered the first suspected case of monkeypox in Greece. In laboratory tests conducted at the Attikon hospital and …
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May 21, 2022
FEATURED, Very Mix
The first monkeypox suspicious cases has been detected in Greece. Affected is reportedly a 29-year-old foreign national who together with his partner was having vacation on the island of Kefalonia in the Ionian Sea. According to media reports on Saturday night, the man from the United Kingdom has skin rashes …
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