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Saturday 30 September 2023 Dublin: 11°C

# Athens

Last month
August 2023
# Alexandroupoli wildfires
Firefighters in Greece struggle to tame wildfires raging for a sixth day
The wildfires are now the largest in the EU on record for 2023 and the second largest since 2000, according to the EU.
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Aug 24th 2023, 3:53 PM
# Athens
Fan fatally stabbed before Champions League qualifier in Greece
Ninty-six people were arrested in violent clashes between supporters of AEK Athens and Dinamo Zagreb.
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Aug 8th 2023, 8:58 AM
This year
2023
# Greek Wildfires
Wildfires reach outskirts of Athens as strong gusts of wind cause flare-ups around Greece
Firefighters also battled flames on Rhodes for a 10th successive day.
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Jul 27th 2023, 1:59 PM
# hot hot hot
Athens Acropolis closes at hottest hours as Greece hit with heatwave
Temperatures reached 39 degrees in Athens yesterday, and parts of the country could see highs as much as 44 degrees today.
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Jul 15th 2023, 8:28 AM
# Athens
Conservatives sweep back to power in Greek election
Voters in Greece gave the conservatives their widest winning margin in almost 50 years yesterday.
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Jun 26th 2023, 7:36 AM
# Acropolis
Vatican returns sculpture fragments taken from Parthenon to Greece
The fragments will be added to the collection at the Acropolis Museum, which opened in 2009 at the foot of the ancient site in Athens.
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Mar 24th 2023, 9:35 PM
# Athens
Greece faces fresh protests in wake of fatal train crash
57 people, many of them students, were killed when a passenger train and freight train collided head-on last month.
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Mar 12th 2023, 12:33 PM
# Train Collision
Greek station master's court date delayed as protests continue over train crash
Thousands of protesters have demonstrated across the country since Tuesday’s collision which killed at least 57 people.
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Mar 4th 2023, 12:58 PM
Last year
2022
# Greece
New York-bound Emirates flight returns to Athens with fighter jet escort after US terror alert
Security sources in Ireland told The Journal that the flight’s route was due to see it transit near or across Irish airspace en route to the US.
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Nov 10th 2022, 10:32 PM
All time
# Athens
Firefighters grapple with more wildfires near Greece’s capital
A number of villages near Athens have been evacuated.
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Aug 16th 2021, 5:32 PM
# Athens
'We're talking about the apocalypse': Thousands flee wildfires burning out of control in Greece
Firefighters are battling 56 active wildfires, Civil Protection chief Nikos Hardalias said.
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Aug 6th 2021, 10:14 PM
# Controversy
Galatasaray fly home from Greece after allegedly refusing further Covid tests
The visitors were due to play against Greek champions Olympiakos on Tuesday.
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Jul 13th 2021, 4:12 PM
# Medea
Three people dead after heaviest snow in a decade hits Greece
The ‘Medea’ cold front brought gale force winds, resulting in power outages and a delay to Athens’ vaccine rollout.
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Feb 16th 2021, 5:58 PM
# Raids
Greek police arrest over 140 people during raid on Athens squats
The squats had been occupied for several weeks.
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Aug 26th 2019, 9:20 PM
# Earthquake
Athens settles for uneasy night after 5.1-magnitude quake
A government spokesman later Friday said “life in Athens is back to normal”.
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Jul 19th 2019, 10:00 PM
# Extreme Weather
Temperatures plunge to -23C in Greece as Athens experiences rare snowfall
The snowfall in Athens prompted authorities to close schools and courthouses, while many public offices and banks provided minimal services.
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Jan 8th 2019, 8:24 PM
# the sweet spot
This is how much sleep you should be getting every night for maximum heart healthiness
Much less than six hours, and anything more than eight puts you at a significantly higher risk of heart trouble, new research suggests.
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Aug 26th 2018, 10:00 PM
# join the club
Eight years and €289 billion later, Greece exits its final bailout today
The country is not out the woods though and its people are still feeling austerity.
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Aug 20th 2018, 9:05 AM
# mati
Greek wildfire death toll climbs to 88
Forensics experts have faced a difficult task trying to identify the bodies.
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Jul 28th 2018, 2:15 PM
# national tragedy
79 dead and 187 injured: Rescuers search Greek towns after deadly wildfires
An Irish couple are reported to have been caught up in the giant wildfires which broke out on Monday.
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Jul 25th 2018, 7:15 PM
# groom missing
Irish newlyweds separated in Greek fires: 'He'd be the type to ensure Zoe was safe and go back to help others'
Brian O’Callaghan-Westropp married Zoe Holohan last Thursday and they had just gone on their honeymoon.
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Jul 25th 2018, 1:26 PM
# Wildfires
Department of Foreign Affairs updates travel advice for Greece as Irish honeymoon couple caught up in wildfires
While the woman has since been hospitalised, the man remains missing.
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Jul 24th 2018, 8:53 PM
# Athens
Flames ravage Greek seaside as wildfires kill 74
Authorities said that 26 bodies were discovered at a seaside resort this morning.
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Jul 24th 2018, 6:40 PM
# freak downpour
Elderly people stuck in their homes among 15 to die in 'waterfall' floods in Greece
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has declared a state of mourning.
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Nov 15th 2017, 9:16 PM
# All aboard
A woman going to Denmark fell asleep on her flight and woke up in Greece
The ticket mix-up at Charles de Gaulle airport was not noticed by airline staff.
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Jul 29th 2017, 8:45 AM
# anti-austerity protests
Rubbish is piling up on Athens' streets as temperatures soar
Greek workers are protesting against staff shortages that have resulted from terminating hundreds of short-term contracts.
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Jun 22nd 2017, 8:35 PM
# left with nothing
This I can carry - Irish exhibit shows the meagre possessions refugees hold following a harrowing journey
Dutch-Irish artist Annabel Konig spent a month in the migrant accommodation centres in Athens in early May.
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Jun 20th 2017, 6:15 AM
# Athens
Former Greek Prime Minister 'seriously hurt' in bomb attack
ERT said Papademos, PM from 2011 to 2012, had been targeted by a letter bomb.
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May 25th 2017, 5:15 PM
# Greece
Policeman injured after grenade thrown at French embassy in Athens
The grenade left a tennis ball-sized hole in the pavement, and shrapnel marks on the embassy gate and guard post.
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Nov 10th 2016, 10:25 AM
# Parliamentary Drachma
Greece passes spending cuts and tax hikes in order to unlock billions in bailout funds
EU Economic Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici hailed the deal.
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May 23rd 2016, 9:51 AM
# flame on
Pictures: The Olympic flame begins its long journey to Rio
The flame was kindled in the 2,600 year-old Temple of Hera at Ancient Olympia today.
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Apr 21st 2016, 12:50 PM
# crisis
Homeless in Athens: 'Greece never dies. But the Greeks will die.'
“No home, no bathroom, no life.”
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Jul 20th 2015, 6:10 AM
# Nick of time
The EU have now officially received Greece's bailout proposals
But will the proposals be sufficient to see a deal being done to keep Greece in the EU?
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Jul 9th 2015, 10:28 PM
Voices
The Greek people have said no – so what's next?
Yesterday’s result will have inspired millions across Europe that the forces of the 1% can be taken on.
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Jul 6th 2015, 5:32 PM
# to the streets
Greek PM Tsipras speaks to 25,000 as food and medicine supplies run low
Around 25,000 people gathered to hear PM Alexis Tsipras speak this evening.
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Jul 3rd 2015, 11:00 PM
# little help
Greece will accept the troika's bailout terms... but says it hasn't capitulated
Germany is still demanding the country go through with its planned referendum.
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Jul 1st 2015, 12:25 PM
# Austerity
Thousands of people are rallying in the centre of Athens right now
They are braving bad weather as they make their feelings clear over the upcoming referendum.
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Jun 30th 2015, 6:57 PM
# TOUGH TALK
Joan Burton: Syriza has been "lecturing the rest of Europe"
The Tánaiste added that Syriza was yet to “persuade us” they can run the Greek economy.
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Jun 25th 2015, 11:18 PM
# Don't Drachma Down
Greece's relationship with the euro is hanging by a thread
The IMF last night walked away from talks on the future of the Greek bailout, which has hit the euro hard in international trading.
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Jun 12th 2015, 7:43 AM
# bailout brinkmanship
Germany thinks Greece is 'insulting' countries like Ireland
Europe and Greece are racing to reach a deal to avoid a catastrophic ‘Grexit’. It’s expected Greece will seek a six-month extension deal today.
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Feb 18th 2015, 8:32 AM
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