According to towleroad.com, “Stafilidis, who was accompanied by a friend, initially thought that the three masked men following them were going to rob them. However, the black-clothed men started yelling homophobic insults at Stafilidis and his friend, calling them “dirty faggots”, and started punching and kicking them on the head and body. They then fled the scene without stealing anything from their victims. The number of violent attacks on homosexuals has risen in Greece since the debt-crisis started three years ago.” Read Article
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As covered by shanghaidaily.com, “The influenza virus has caused 12 fatalities in Greece so far this winter, the Greek Center for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Thursday.” Read Article
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As reported by infomobile.w2eu.net, “Between October 2011 and December 2012 more than 200 racist attacks were recorded by the racist violence recording network headed by UNHCR and the National Commission for Human Rights…Greece came under pressure Friday from the Council of Europe to defend its democracy, faced with neo-Nazis and widespread xenophobic violence. ‘We are […]
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As reported by kclu.org/npr, “Like many of the estimated 350,000 undocumented migrants living in Greece, Mohammad Afzaal is trapped in a devastated economy. He slipped into Greece 11 years ago, when he was 24, and found good work in Athens as a house painter. He wired a chunk of his earnings to his family in […]
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According to guardian.co.uk, “In the space of just a couple of weeks Greece’s largest shopping mall has been targeted in a bomb attack, gunmen have fired on the headquarters of the ruling New Democracy party, and gas canisters have been set off outside an array of political party offices, banks and the homes of journalists.” […]
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Kathimerini reports of a 62 year-old Norwegian man who disappeared during a day hike on Sunday near Chania, Crete. He set out from Sougia around Noon, heading straight to Palaiochora. Read article
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A bus carrying Russian tourists to an airport in northeast Greece lost control on a wet road and turned onto its side, killing four passengers and injuring around 30 others. The bus transporting 49 Russian tourists and a Russian guide was a few kilometers from the airport near the city of Thessaloniki when it hit […]
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Five cases of West Nile virus have been reported since early July in a seaside suburb of Athens, the Greek centre for disease control and prevention (Keelpno) said Friday. Since July 7, three 60 year-olds, one 40 year-old and an 18 year-old man have been diagnosed with the mosquito-borne disease, said the centre. While the […]
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The Greek Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO) has informed about a recent case of autochthonous Plasmodium vivax malaria. On 22 June 2012, a case of locally acquired malaria infection was reported in Greece. The case is a78 year old Greek citizen who presumably acquired the infection close to Marathon, Attica region; onset of […]
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A British holidaymaker has been killed by a dustbin lorry in Greece as a result of what may have been a prank. Ben Matthews, 30, may have gone under the truck as part of a bet with friends, witnesses told police in Faliraki. He was run over by the lorry and died of a haemorrhage […]
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