About 20 people attacked the Kessariani police precinct, in eastern Athens, with firebombs and rocks early Sunday afternoon.
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Another 70 rooms in Athens hospitals will be converted to coronavirus-specialized Intensive Care Units to ease the pressure on the health system from the continuing high transmission rates
Several banks and shops were vandalized across the Athens area overnight, police say.
The strategic debate on the Eastern Mediterranean and the EU-Turkish relationship will take place in March, according to the president of the European Council, Charles Michel.
The first two seaplane terminals will be built in the cities of Iraklio, on the island of Crete, and Volos, in central Greece.
Greece on Saturday reported 1,630 new cases of the novel coronavirus, 29 deaths and 379 patients on ventilators.
The health of Dimitris Koufodinas, a convicted terrorist of the now-disbanded November 17 group who is on hunger strike, “seriously deteriorated,” the General Hospital of Larissa, where he is being treated, announced on Saturday afternoon.
The town hall of Moschato, a district in southwestern Athens, was targeted with petrol bombs early Saturday morning, police said.
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A group of unknown assailants vandalized the family home of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Crete, as well as the local chapter of ruling New Democracy and the offices of a local Conservative lawmaker in a series of incidents on Friday night.
A 33-year-old man was arrested on Friday on charges of drowning a dog in the sea on the central Aegean island of Skiathos.
Α preliminary investigation was ordered by an Athens prosecutor on Friday in response to complaints of sexual harassment and other forms of abuse filed by 285 graduates of the Arsakeio school group in Athens.
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Striving to control the rising number of coronavirus infections and to relieve the national health system of mounting pressure, the government announced on Friday an extension until March 8 to the existing lockdown in Attica and other parts of the country.
The war against the coronavirus continues, but “victory is now visible on the horizon,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in an article he penned for the Saturday edition of Greek daily Ta Nea.
An eight-month pregnant 27-year-old Afghan woman in Lesvos facing arson charges after she self-immolated in the eastern Aegean island’s temporary migrant camp on February 21 was released from detention on Friday on the the condition that she doesn’t leave the country.
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A group of unknown assailants barged into the office of Sports Minister Lefteris Avgenakis in Iraklio, Crete, on Friday, where they destroyed property and sprayed slogans on the walls in support of jailed terrorist Dimitris Koufodinas.
A draft bill on the restructuring of the Foreign Affairs ministry was approved in Parliament’s plenary on Friday, following legislative amendments by Minister Nikos Dendias and a 12-hour discussion.
A makeshift incendiary device containing several gas canisters, two of which exploded, was placed outside the Konstantinos Mitsotakis Foundation at Thiseio, central Athens, on Friday evening, police reported.
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Greek Citizen Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis paid a visit to Skopje on Friday, where he met with North Macedonia’s Minister of Interior Affairs Oliver Spasovski, responsible for police, and Prime Minister Zoran Zaev.
Police on Friday were seeking the perpetrators behind arson attacks on ATMs in the central Athens neighborhood of Pangrati and in Elefsina, west of the capital, that caused damage but no injuries.
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Prosecutors ordered on Friday that the former director of Greece’s National Theatre be remanded after hearing his plea over child rape allegations, his lawyer said.
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Three out of five Greeks (60%) say that the quality of life is worse now than a year ago before restrictions were imposed due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new survey by Focus Bari.
Greek authorities extended the hard lockdown currently in place in greater Athens through March 8, as the daily number of new infections remained above 1,000 and intensive care units treating patients with Covid-19 were close to capacity.
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