The government is expected to survive a no-confidence vote on Thursday, pushed forward by opposition parties, but pressure is growing over the Tempe train crash.
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A 17-year-old pupil was electrocuted on Wednesday after he came into contact with a light fixture located in the staircase of his school in Patras, western Greece.
Five people, most of them senior managers at state-run Hellenic Railways Organisation (OSE) which operates the rail network, gained access to the organization’s audio files from the night of the train collision at Tempe in the early hours of March 1, 2023, railway executives told Kathimerini on condition of anonymity.
The three-day parliamentary debate on a no-confidence motion against the government will be concluded on Thursday night with a roll-call vote. The motion was tabled by socialist PASOK and backed by SYRIZA, New Left, communist KKE and nationalist Greek Solution. The result of the vote is a foregone conclusion given the majority enjoyed in Parliament […]
The government’s former transport minister, Kostas Karamanlis, dismissed accusations that he is shirking responsibility for the February 2023 Tempe railway disaster during a debate in Parliament on a no-confidence motion against the administration over its handling of the deadly crash.
A claim by Justice Minister Giorgos Floridis on Wednesday that one of the reasons why the site of last year’s railway disaster in Tempe was covered up shortly after the accident was because a gas pipeline runs directly beneath it was dismissed as a “lie” by an opposition MP.
A 52-year-old motorcyclist was killed in the early hours of Monday after colliding with a car on the Thessaloniki-Edessa highway, some 40 kilometers southeast of the northern port city.
The government accepts the challenge of a motion of no confidence by opposition parties, spokesman Pavlos Marinakis said Sunday.
On the afternoon of January 24, 2022 – that is 13 months before the deadly railway disaster at Tempe last year – engine trouble brought the InterCity 54 passenger train to a halt about a kilometer and a half from Livadia station in the middle of a snowstorm.
Two executives of ERGOSE, the projects branch of the Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE), were ordered to post a 600,000-euro and 500,000-euro bail, respectively, before being released from jail on Thursday as part of a European probe into a deadly train collision last year, and specifically the implementation of Contract 717 for the automatic operation and signaling of the railway network.
Greek Defense Minister Nikos Dendias spoke over the phone with his Turkish counterpart Yasar Güler on Wednesday after the crash of the F-16 fighter jet, off the small island of Psathoura, in the northern Aegean.
A Greek Air Force F-16 (Block 52+ variant) fighter jet crashed into a sea off the small island of Psathoura, in the northern Aegean.
Α baby was found dead in a house in Patras, a city in western Greece, on Wednesday.
Greek lawmakers on Wednesday will discuss the findings of a House committee probe into the deadly Tempe train crash, in what is expected to be a tense debate amid accusations of a cover-up by opposition parties.
A day ahead of a debate and vote on the findings of a parliamentary committee probe into the Tempe train crash, the government spokesman has rejected allegations that there has been a cover-up of the incident, accusing opposition parties of “instrumentalizing the pain of the victims’ relatives.”
A Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt to Dubai has been diverted to Rhodes where it landed just before 6 p.m. Monday.
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