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Cartoon (28/02/2025)

Sat, 03/01/2025 - 01:03

Crowd-counting app suggests almost 430,000 attended Tempe rally in Athens

Sat, 03/01/2025 - 00:43
A crowd-counting app developed to estimate how many people might be in a given area suggests almost 430,000 people attended the Athens rally marking the second anniversary of the Tempe railway disaster.

Faith in Greek justice closing in on rock bottom

Sat, 03/01/2025 - 00:15
The ongoing, labyrinthine investigation into the tragic train crash at Tempe, central Greece, on the night of February 28, 2023, undermines its already vulnerable credibility.

Athens police make 57 arrests in riots after Tempe rallies

Fri, 02/28/2025 - 23:46
Police in Athens have said they detained 125 people during the protests and subsequent riots on Friday marking the second anniversary of the Tempe railway disaster.

Samos’ ‘safe zone’ leaves migrant kids in limbo

Fri, 02/28/2025 - 23:46
Greece faces legal pressure over the treatment of unaccompanied migrant minors in an overcrowded reception center on the eastern Aegean island of Samos.

Aerial photographs reveal massive turnout at Tempe rally in Athens

Fri, 02/28/2025 - 23:03
Aerial photographs reveal the massive turnout at Friday’s demonstration in the Athens center, marking the second anniversary of the Tempe railway disaster that claimed 57 lives.

Tempe train crash still in judicial limbo

Fri, 02/28/2025 - 22:41
Actions and oversights dating from several years before two trains crashed head-on in the Vale of Tempe, central Greece, on the night of February 28, 2023 to the days and hours after the tragedy are still in the judicial spotlight.

Political parties react to mass rallies for Tempe and riots

Fri, 02/28/2025 - 22:28
Political parties have reacted to the mass protests that saw hundreds of thousands of citizens take to the streets in nationwide demonstrations marking the second anniversary of the Tempe railway disaster and the riots that followed them in Athens.

Karystianou demands justice in emotional Tempe rally speech

Fri, 02/28/2025 - 21:43
The president of the Tempe Victims’ Association, Maria Karystianou, demanded justice in her speech before hundreds of thousands of people who flooded Syntagma Square to mark the second anniversary of the Tempe railway disaster.

Kurdish militants in Iraq, Syria must lay down weapons, Erdogan’s party says

Fri, 02/28/2025 - 21:33
All Kurdish militants in Iraq and Syria, including US-allied Syrian Kurdish forces, must lay down their weapons after the peace call from the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Turkey’s ruling AK Party has said.

Cyprus failed to effectively probe British teen’s rape claims, ECHR rules

Fri, 02/28/2025 - 20:59
Cyprus’ law enforcement authorities failed to live up to their obligation to thoroughly and effectively investigate a British teenager’s claims that she had been gang-raped by a group of Israelis while on a 2019 vacation in a popular resort town, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday.

Prominent lawyer Alexis Kougias dies

Fri, 02/28/2025 - 20:30
Prominent lawyer Alexis Kougias has died, aged 74. Kougias, who was admitted to the intensive care unit of a private hospital in Athens some days ago, had been diagnosed with cancer.

Crew member, captain convicted in drowning of Blue Horizon passenger

Fri, 02/28/2025 - 20:13
A court in Piraeus handed a 12-year prison term to a sailor accused of causing the death of a passenger by pushing him into the sea as he tried to board a ferry in Piraeus in September 2023, and another seven years to the ship’s captain.

Protesters return to Athens square after violent clashes 

Fri, 02/28/2025 - 19:47
A smaller number of protesters were returning to the main square of Athens on Friday, following violent clashes between hooded individuals and riot police during a massive protest to demand justice on the second anniversary of the country’s deadliest train crash.

Trump threatens to hit the EU with 25% tariffs

Fri, 02/28/2025 - 19:13
Maria Demertzis, the chief economist for Europe at the Conference Board in Brussels, joins Thanos Davelis to look into the European reaction to President Trump’s announcement that he plans to hit the EU with 25% tariffs.

Androulakis on Tempe anniversary: Families ‘fighting for vindication’

Fri, 02/28/2025 - 18:48
The leader of the main opposition, Nikos Androulakis, welcomed the mass rallies organized across Greece to mark second anniversary of the 2023 rail disaster at Tempe on Friday, adding that the families of the victims are "fighting for vindication."

Clashes break out in peaceful rally on train crash anniversary

Fri, 02/28/2025 - 18:30
Clashes broke out in central Athens on Friday, as a group of unidentified individuals started hurling petrol bombs towards a large unit of riot police stationed in the yard of the Greek Parliament, as a massive peaceful protest rally was being held to mark the two year anniversary from the country’s deadliest train crash.

Mitsotakis says government will work to make trains safe

Fri, 02/28/2025 - 18:12
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Friday his government is working to modernize the Greek railway network and make it safer, as hundreds of thousands gathered in Athens and numerous cities across the country to mark two years since the country’s deadliest train collision and protest the official handling of the case.

Exports by fewer and larger enterprises

Fri, 02/28/2025 - 17:54
Fewer small businesses sold their products to buyers outside Greece in 2023 compared to 2022.

Photos: Thousands flood the streets across Greece on Tempe crash anniversary

Fri, 02/28/2025 - 17:33
Hundreds of thousands of people rallied in cities and towns across Greece on Friday to demand justice on the second anniversary of the country’s deadliest-ever train crash.

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