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Huge forest fire threatens homes near Athens
Athens :: Greece | 3 months ago
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A raging forest fire threatened homes near Athens on Saturday, causing authorities to declare a state of emergency and order residents to evacuate as they worked to bring the blaze under control. "This is one of the worst fires ever to strike the eastern...
Tags: Athens News Agency, Greece, near athens, Grammatiko, forest fire
Bomb explodes near Athens police building
Athens :: Greece | 8 months ago
Credibility A large car bomb exploded Thursday night near the Chief Directorate of the Greek Police in Athens. Investigators were unsure how the bombers got into the heavily guarded area or how long the car had been parked outside the building before the bomb detonated,...
Tags: Athens News Agency
Renewed violence hits Greek capital
Athens :: Greece | 11 months ago
Credibility Hundreds of rioters have again clashed with the police in central Athens, a fortnight after officers shot dead a 15-year-old boy. Saturday’s unrest followed a memorial gathering at 21:00 local time [19:00 GMT] at the site where Alexandros Grigoropoulos...
Tags: Athens Polytechnic, Athens News Agency, christmas tree, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, Greek, tear gas, petrol bombs
Greek protesters rally outside police headquarters
Athens :: Greece | 11 months ago
Credibility Greece – Youths protested outside of Athens' main police headquarters today, pelting riot police with flour and other objects to protest the shooting death of a teenager...Some 2,000 youths at the rally blocked one of the capital's main avenues, chanted...
Tags: police, athens, teenager, Athens Police, Athens News Agency, riots, Greek, riots police, police headquarters
Greek opposition leader calls for change
Athens :: Greece | 11 months ago
Credibility Greek opposition leader George Papandreou Sunday reiterated his call for Greece to change course, blaming the government for recent riots. The Athens News Agency reported Sunday that violent street protests in Athens and other parts of the country following...
Tags: athens, police, teenager, riots, opposition leader, Athens News Agency, Greece
Greece's Olympic to cancel 100 flights Wednesday
Athens :: Greece | about 1 year ago
Credibility Most of those affected are domestic services but international flights to destinations including London, Paris and Istanbul will also be hit...The protest is also set to halt Athens' metro and intercity rail services for 24 hours, and disrupt other public...
Tags: Greek Olympic Airlines, Athens News Agency, Athens Metro
Greek police arrest 3 women over illegal kidney transplants
New Delhi :: India | about 1 year ago
Credibility Police in Athens say they have arrested three Greek women on suspicion of involvement in an illegal kidney transplant ring based in India. The suspects, who include a doctor, allegedly talked Greek patients into having kidney transplants in India, using...
Tags: Dr Amit Kumar, CBI, Athens News Agency, kidney transplants, Greek, illegal kidney
TV: Strong earthquake jolts southwest Greece
Athens :: Greece | about 1 year ago
Credibility A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.5 on the Richter scale struck southwestern Greece Sunday, local television reported. The quake struck at 15:30 local time (1230 GMT) with its epicenter close to the ground surface at a depth of 10...
Tags: Southern Greece, Athens Geodynamic Institute, strong aftershock, Athens News Agency, Patras, port city, Richter, seismologists warn, richter scale, strong earthquake
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