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Greek officials charged over train crash, PM vows ‘transparency’
Greek prosecutors on Thursday charged three more railway officials in connection with the country’s worst train crash, as the prime minister vowed “absolute transparency” in the probe into the tragedy. …
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Over 50,000 protesters in Greek train tragedy demos
Over 50,000 people were demonstrating around Greece on Wednesday, police said, in a mass outpouring of anger over last week’s rail disaster that claimed 57 lives. The protests were held …
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Vatican returns three Parthenon fragments to Greece after two centuries
Greece and the Vatican finalised the last part of the return on Tuesday (Greece time) of three sculpture fragments from the Parthenon that have been in the collection of the …
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Acropolis Museum presents ‘Venus in a gold bikini’ in celebration of IWD
In honour of International Women’s Day (IWD) the Acropolis Museum presents a new series of exhibitions titled ‘Temporary and unexpected visitors’ to the sounds of Lena Platonos poems performed by …
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Greek MP Kostas Karamanlis will again run as election candidate despite resignation following train disaster
Greece’s former Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Kostas Karamanlis, who resigned his post on 1 March following the deadly train disaster at Tempi; will again stand as a candidate for New …
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Greek PM asks high court to expedite cases linked to rail disaster
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday urged the country’s Supreme Court to speed up investigations into last week’s deadly train crash, that left at least 57 dead and sparked …
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Mitsotakis asks collision victims’ families for forgiveness as 12,000 protest outside parliament
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Sunday asked for forgiveness from the families of victims of Greece’s worst rail disaster, which killed 57 people and has sparked widespread outrage. “As prime …
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Greek station master jailed pending train crash trial
A Greek railway employee has been jailed pending trial over a deadly train crash that killed at least 57 people as Greeks seethed with anger over the worst rail disaster …
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First victims of Greek rail disaster buried; Story of twin sisters among tragic narratives emerging
Demonstrators held more rallies on Saturday to protest the causes of Greece’s worst-ever train disaster, as the first of the crash victims were laid to rest. Thousands of protesters have …
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Anger boils in Greece: Protesters, police clash at Athens train crash vigil
Thousands of Greek students staged sit-ins and demonstrated in Athens and other cities on Friday to demand justice for the victims of the country’s worst train tragedy. In the capital, …