November 26, 2021
FEATURED, Social, Society
A new video from the tragic incident where an 8-year-old Roma girl was crashed by a sliding factory door in Keratsini shows a shocking behavior by 6 to 7 people towards a girl dying in front of their eyes. Footage from security camera broadcast by Star TV on Thursday evening …
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November 16, 2021
FEATURED, Very Mix
Busy cafes and restaurants, traditional souvlaki grills and snack bars in Athens and other big cities but also in towns and small villages were shut down on Tuesday to participate in 24-hour strike of the food service sector. The strike is a protest move as the sector seeks financial support …
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October 27, 2021
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Video footage show an riot police officer in full gear running into a shop’s window and smashing the glass with his fist and his club. He throws a baton with what it seems an ‘anarchists’ flag.”. Inside the shop are the terrified staff and customers who shout in fear calling …
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October 15, 2021
FEATURED, weather
The public bus trapped under a bridge on the old Poseidonos Avenue in Athens Riviera remains stuck in the flood still 27 hours after the incident on Thursday noon. The water height is hardly down and thus only due to workers pumping water. A prosecutor ordered an investigation on Friday …
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September 13, 2021
FEATURED, Very Mix
Τhe bodies of two Israeli nationals have been recovered short after 9 o’ clock Monday evening following the crash of a small Cessna aircraft off the island of Samos, eastern Aegean Sea. According to state broadcaster ERT, rescuers located first the body of one passenger, a woman, and short time …
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September 7, 2021
Society, Very Mix
Scuffles between crowd waiting to pay respect to Mikis Theodorakis and police took place outside the chapel of the Athens Cathedral early Tuesday evening when the latter attempted to close the church as scheduled at 7 p.m. The decision to close the chapel at Athens Cathedral angered the people outside …
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August 20, 2021
FEATURED, Society, Strikes
Video footage captured arsonists as they fired flares in the middle of the night starting a fire close to the settlement of Daskalio by Keratea in south-eastern Attica. One of the flares fell in the settlement and one into the sea nearby, an eye-witness told state broadcaster ERT TV. He …
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August 12, 2021
FEATURED, Very Mix
All 11 passengers and 7 crew members from the British-flagged shipwreck have been rescued and transported to the island of Milos, the Greek Coast Guard said early Thursday afternoon. One person was slightly injured in the head when the 28-meter-long chartered yacht sank and everybody found himself in the water, …
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August 9, 2021
environment, FEATURED, Social
For the 7th consecutive day the flames in northern Evia are swallowing forest, wildlife, villages, houses, farming animals and agricultural land and force thousands of horrified people to flee. Over 6,000 acres are estimated to have been burned down since the blaze started a week ago. In cooperation with the …
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July 19, 2021
environment
More landslides occurred in the Canal of Corinth last week creating headache to the experts trying to restore the previous ones that they have forced the shut down of the Canal since January. A new, big landslide occurred on Thursday, July 16, 2021, on the slope of the Peloponnese side. …
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April 14, 2021
FEATURED, Social
Another case of police violence against citizens this time outside a football stadium in western Macedonia: a group of officers fell over a 58-year-old man and his 28-year-old son. They beat them and drag them injured to police station, the elderly passes out, he later suffers a hear attack while …
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April 7, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Students of the last three high school grades – lyceums- will return to classrooms as of Monday, April 12, 2021, Greece’s Education Minister Niki Kerameos announced on Wednesday. During the regular live briefing on the pandemic, Kerameos said that grades 10-12 were the first to return to class because they …
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March 25, 2021
Greece, Politics
With an impressive military parade Greece celebrated the 200th anniversary of the start of the War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire in 1821. Troops of the Navy, the Air force and the Army marched and tanks rolled in front of state leaders and foreign dignitaries, military aircraft and helicopters …
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February 12, 2021
Greece, Politics
The Public Prosecutor of Thessaloniki ordered investigation by the internal affairs department of Greek Police after riot policemen were filmed to hit a citizen in the face with the elbow and kick him, while they moved with baton against another one. The incident took place in the center of the …
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January 30, 2021
Social
A little girl is standing in the cold at the door of the kindergarten class and screams. She begs her teacher to let her inside, she shouts for her mum. She is just 4 years old. She wears just a pink dress, no coat or anorak in a freezing day. …
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January 16, 2021
FEATURED, weather
Snow weather front “Leandros” dressed white many regions in north and central Greece, parts of the Peloponnese and even the mountains surrounding the Attica basin and the northern suburbs of Athens. Temperatures dropped significantly. Some parts of the national Athens-Thessaloniki highway have been reportedly closed for heavy trucks since 5:45 …
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January 14, 2021
FEATURED, Politics, Turkey-GR
With high speed and dangerous maneuvers a Turkish coast guard boat harasses a Greek fishing boat in the broader sea area of the islets of Imia neat the island of Kalymnos. The Turkish boat sails by at a “breathing distance” from the bow of the fishing boat setting the crew …
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December 3, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Greece’s health authorities announced on Thursday, 100 more deaths in past 24 hours and 1,882 new coronavirus cases. The number of intubated Covid-19 patients has hit a new record and rose to 622. Death toll has reached 2,706 and the total cases stand at 111,537. The number of the daily …
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November 25, 2020
animals
Thousands of starlings are currently seen along the coastal road between Napflio and Nea Kios in north-eastern Peloponnese. They fly at sunset, accompanied by a loud crackling noise along with the sound of their wings. Forming a huge mass, the birds fly incredible maneuvers in the air, over an area …
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November 22, 2020
FEATURED, Lifestyle
I needed to watch just a few seconds from a video featuring 86-year-old Giorgos Hatziparaskos from Crete making phyllo pastry the old, traditional way to have vivid flashbacks from my childhood: Me walking with my grandma three blocks away from our home to buy hand-made phyllo for baklava. We would …
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