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He was humming down data and figures, interest and inflation rates, his monotonous voice had already hypnotized his audience to close eyes and softly dose away. Suddenly, a screaming Erinys, an infernal Fury, a revenge-seeking goddess from an antique Greek drama jumped in front of him, hurling confetti and shouting …

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UPDATE: The French who was found by the police wandering in Glyfada a couple of days ago, was reconnected with her family. According to a statement issued by Silver Alert, the reconnection was done with the aid of the French Consulate in Athens. The name of the woman is given …

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A quadriplegic woman died after Greek Public Power Company cut off the electricity supply due to debts and the life supporting oxygen machine stopped working. The bed-ridden woman was alone at home, when the PPC team came to cut the electricity supply. The life supporting machine worked for one more …

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More than 1,3 million people living in Greece are without a job. this number refers only to employees. Self-employed are not recorded in the official unemployment numbers. People without work have no health insurance. But they have diseases and conditions that need treatment. “Three million people living in Greece have …

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The Greek Finance Ministry has a new hobby: to chase grannies for debts to the state or the insurance funds. Just days after police arrested a 90-year-old Alzheimer’s patient for a debt to the tax office in Athens, another granny, 79, found herself in the detention cell in Chalkida, in …

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Everything was set for the traditional blessing the waters ceremony. Local officials had lined at the waterfront of Rhodes port and so had done the young divers in swimming suits – eager to jump into the cold sea and catch the cross. However, the moment the priest threw the cross …

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A fired ERT3 employee jumped to her death from the fifth floor of an apartment building in Thessaloniki on Wednesday evening.  The ambulance and the medical team that rushed to the spot could not save the 46-year-old woman. The mother of a daughter had lost her job when the Greek …

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A moment of unprecedented racism right under the glory of the Acropolis. At Dionysioy Aeropagitoy Street. A street full of tourists, street vendors and musicians. A young Roma girl is playing the accordion. She must be six or seven years old. Tourists pass by and drop half a euro or …

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A woman, 45, with cancer cannot afford to pay for chemotherapy drugs worth 4,450 euro. The Metropolitan Community Clinic in Elliniko, south Athens, made an urgent appeal seeking for donations. “The woman’s life is in danger, if she doesn’t start a course of chemotherapy drugs immediately,” said the MCC – …

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A very angry woman entered the tax office of Chania in Crete at 9 o’clock on Monday morning. In real outrage, she was shouting and brandishing a cleaver she was holding. She threatened the tax office staff. She was reportedly shouting “Give me my money back!” She managed to enter …

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An unbelievable tragedy occurred Friday night, when a 25-year old woman came in crossfire between armed robbers and police. The woman was driving in the Isthmia area when she accidentally came in the crossfire between Greek police and robbers armed with kalashnikov weapons. A blind bullet hit the car and  wounded her on the …

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Independence Day parade on the islands of Rhodes turned bloody. A woman stabbed a member of the city council, while a protester punched the local police director right in the face. According to local news portal rodiaki.gr, the incidents started with a group of protesters verbally attacking local and regional …

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The monster who raped, abused and set a young woman on fire in Xanthi, confessed his hideous crime. The 27-year-old Greek was a neighbour to the parents’ home of the victim, a woman of 34 years old who was visiting her parents over Christmas holidays. He was captured on Thursday evening, …

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The screams of a woman set on fire woke up the residents of a building at 5 in the morning Thursday morning in 40 Ekklisies area of Xanthi in North-East Greece. Some of them rushed to the woman and tried to extinguish the fire. However, there wasn’t much they could do. The …

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A young nurse jumped from the sixth floor of a building in Pangrati district of Athens. According to Greek media, the nurse was recently fired.  Dramatic details come into light with her sister reportedly to have desperately tried to prevent the woman from committing suicide. “She was holding her with both hands, but …

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 A dark street. A scream. A flame. A muffled noise. Then silence. And a few words on a newspaper. No name. But just the age: 20 years old. A new tragedy in a recession-hit country. According to Democratia newspaper, a young jobless woman set herself on fire on Tuesday night …

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An anti-terror investigation of ‘highest national interest’ is taking place in Thessaloniki as the police found a whole ammunition arsenal after a grenade exploded in the hands of a man of Kurdish origin. The explosion occurred on Tuesday night in an apartment rented by two Kurdish men, who reportedly weren’t in the flat …

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A suspected outbreak of gastroenteritis of the new E.coli was reportedly found in a German tourist on vaccation on an Ionian Greek island. According to radio Vima 99,5 FM, the 53-year-old tourist was spending her vacation on the island of Paxoi. She suffered of bloody diarrhea and complained to the …

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