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Karpathos father commits suicide after shown footage of son with a man
A 59-year-old father allegedly killed himself with a shotgun after friends and fellow villagers showed him video footage of his son having sex with a man. They allegedly mocked him …
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COVID-19 restrictions in Greece to be further eased
Greece’s government has agreed to ease several ongoing measures pertaining to the handling of the pandemic, after convening with the committee of expert health advisors on Wednesday. As of 1 …
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Couple charged with gruesome murder of 7-year-old boy jailed
A 33-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman who had been charged with co-committing the murder of the woman’s seven-year-old son, were taken to jail on Tuesday, the Hellenic Police reported. …
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Experts sense major shift in British Museum’s stance on allowing Parthenon Marbles’ return to Greece
Experts believe that the British Museum has made a “massive shift” in its policy regarding the loaning of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece, possibly opening the way for the first …
University of Athens launches full English medical course in September
The School of Medicine of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) is launching an English medical degree programme for international students in September this year. The university said …
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Gruesome murder of 7-year-old boy in Athens revealed
A 29-year-old Greek woman and her former 33-year-old Polish partner confessed on Saturday to the killing of the woman’s 7-year-old boy in 2017, said the Hellenic Police. Police sources told …
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Greece records 19,154 new infections, 93 deaths
The number of new coronavirus diagnoses has dropped by 8 per cent in Greece, health committee member and doctor Gkikas Magiorkinis said during a regular briefing on Thursday. In addition, …
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Seven arrested over multiple deaths in Cretan aged care home
Following a Greek prosecutor’s investigation into the deaths of 68 elderly residents of Agia Skepi care home at Chania, Crete, who died within a period of 12 months, seven suspects …
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Alkis Kampanos’ murder suspect presents himself to Albanian authorities
Three more suspects in the stabbing murder of 19-year-old Alkis Kampanos that took place in Thessaloniki on 1 February were remanded in custody following their appearance before a prosecutor on …
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Statue of Athena from Acropolis Museum to be exhibited in Palermo for the next four years
A 4th century B.C. statue of Athena from the Acropolis Museum in Athens was delivered to the Antonino Salinas Regional Archaeological Museum in Palermo, Sicily during a ceremony, Greece’s Culture …