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“Turkey has become a travel agency for jihadists, transports them to several areas of tension in the broader area,” Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said during a meeting with visiting Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov. Dendias was referring Turkey’s “export” to Syria and Nagorno-Karabakh. He stressed that Turkey has neo-ottoman expansion …
Read More »Portuguese container ship rams minesweeper of Greek Navy, two injured
Two sailors were injured when a container ship rammed a minesweeper of the Greek Navy outside the port of Piraeus in the Saronic Gulf on Tuesday morning. Minesweeper KALLISTO was heavily damaged in the stern and took in water, crew members fell into the sea and suffered minor injuries. The …
Read More »Greece Weather Service issues Red Alert Warning Oct 27-29
Greece’s National Meteorological Service EMY issued a Red Alert warning of a weather deterioration with heavy rainfall and thunderstorms locally intense that will be accompanied by hail and powerful winds. The weather deterioration is forecast to set in in West and South-West on Tuesday evening, October 27, 2020. The bad …
Read More »Greece records 715 new coronavirus cases, 7 more deaths, 95 intubations
Greece’s health authorities announced 715 new coronavirus cases and seven deaths on Monday evening. The new cases on Monday were the results of some 11,000 tests with a high positive rate, at 5.97%. The total cases exceeded 30,000 and have increased to 31,496,782. Death toll reached 581. Among the new …
Read More »Greek PM under fire for “free mammography screening”
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis came under fire on the World Breast Cancer Day when he announced free mammography tests for women aged 49 and 50 every two years. Left-wing SYRIZA and socialist KINAL/PASOK weren’t just mad to heavily criticize the PM for the free test that could save lives of …
Read More »Weather: Storms in Zakynthos, Kefalonia, Evia, Crete and Attica
The rapid change of weather brings strong bad weather with rains and thunderstorms. See which areas will be hit by the severe weather. The weather changes abruptly and brings extreme weather events throughout Greece, such as rain, thunderstorms and hail. In fact, the Civil Protection and the EMY issued an …
Read More »Greece:- Coronavirus daily report for Monday 26/10
The new cases of coronavirus in our country remain in high numbers while the concern for the patients with Covid-19 who are intubated is intensifying. In particular, EODY announced 715 more infections on Monday (790 yesterday), with 93 of the new positive diagnoses being associated with known influxes of virus …
Read More »Greece says Turkey is an “unreliable interlocutor”; EU against Erdogan for insulting Macron
Greece said Monday that Turkey plans to carry out a maritime military exercise on Oct. 28, a Greek national holiday, just hours after NATO’s secretary general said both Greece and Turkey had called off war-games on each other’s national holidays. Government spokesman Stelios Petsas said Ankara’s move showed it was …
Read More »UK forces storm Greek oil tanker after stowaways turned hostile
All crew members of the Liberia-flagged and Greek-operated tanker “Nave Andromeda” – among them five Greeks – are safe and well, the Greek shipping ministry announced on Monday. British special forces stormed the oil tanker in the English channel on Sunday to wrestle control of the vessel from seven stowaways …
Read More »When it comes to “blessed” crowding, Greece turns a blind eye (videos)
Greece’s ruling conservative party and local authorities gladly turn a blind eye when it comes to crowding in churches and the breaking of coronavirus restrictions in the nameof a higher, spiritual purpose. On the Eve of Saint Demetrios celebration day, the patron of Thessaloniki hundreds of faithful gathered at the …
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