The Mon Repos villa where Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh was born on June 10, 1921, on the Ionian island of Corfu, in a picture taken on Friday.
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Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis expressed his condolences over the death of Prince Philip by sharing a photo of his letter to Queen Elizabeth II on Twitter on Friday.
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Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou expressed her condolences to Queen Elizabeth II, and the British public following the death of Prince Philip on Friday.
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Buckingham Palace officials say Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, has died. He was 99. Philip spent a month in hospital earlier this year before being released on March 16 to return to Windsor Castle.
The police was called into an Athens hospital on Thursday to help investigate the mysterious death of a Covid-19 patient in an intensive care unit.
Three members of a work crew laying underground power lines for the Public Power Corporation (PPC) were lethally electrocuted Thursday on the island of Evia.
A 48-year-old man has committed suicide with a hand grenade at the northern town of Giannitsa.
![A patient with Covid-19 is treated in the intensive care unit at the University Hospital in Brno, Czech Republic, on November 27, 2020. More than 20,000 white crosses painted on a Prague street highlight a stark death toll in the Czech Republic as the coronavirus sweeps across the region. [Laetitia Vancon/The New York Times]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/virus_NYT-320x200.jpg)
More than 20,000 white crosses have appeared painted on the cobblestones of a medieval square in central Prague, each representing a victim of Covid-19 – an effort highlighting the ravages of a pandemic that has in recent weeks battered Eastern and Central Europe.
An elderly woman was hit and killed by an incoming Intercity train in Athens on Friday.
Kathimerini has released exclusive footage of the fatal road accident that occurred at the entrance of the Greek Parliament between a 23-year-old motorcyclist and a vehicle belonging to the police escort of New Democracy lawmaker Dora Bakoyannis.
Traffic police are examining footage of the fatal road accident that occurred on Friday at the entrance of the Greek Parliament.
The parents of an infant who became the youngest victim of Covid-19 in Greece have lodged a criminal complaint with the Prosecutor’s Office of First Instance in Athens requesting an investigation into possible negligence on the side of the hospital and its medical staff where the baby was being treated.
Greece’s fire department says three migrants have been found dead following a fire in an abandoned building in the center of the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki.
The first person to die on the eastern Aegean island of Covid-related complications was a 92-year-old woman who was admitted to the local hospital last Monday.
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Greek health authorities announced 1,913 new SARS-CoV-2 cases on Wednesday, raising the total number reported in the country to 184,686.
Greek authorities announced 2,147 new cases of coronavirus and 22 fatalities in the past 24 hours Tuesday.
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