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Two Killed in Mafia Style Execution at Athens Café

Two Albanian men, aged 41 and 44 years old, were shot dead in an execution-style killing by an unknown person late on Sunday at a café in the Athens district of Nea Smyrni. A 31-year-old woman sitting at a nearby...

Roma Teen Shot by Greek Police in Thessaloniki Last Week Dies

The 16-year-old Roma who was shot by Greek police last Monday in Thessaloniki sparking nationwide protests died on Tuesday morning, the hospital announced. Kostas Fragoulis was hospitalized at the Hippocrates Hospital of Thessaloniki and remained in critical condition with a...

Riots Spread to Athens Following Police Shooting of Roma Youth

A Greek policeman was shot in the head on Tuesday during riots in the Roma district of Menidi west of Athens. He was rushed to the hospital where surgeons removed shrapnel under the eye. He was discharged on Wednesday. He...

Greece Launches Panic Button Amid Wave of Femicides

Greece is putting the panic button into law, introducing a bill to be voted on today on November 17th in the plenary session of the Parliament. The program is provided for by an amendment submitted to the bill of the Ministry...

Greece Kicks-off Three Day Celebration of the Polytechnic Uprising

A three-day celebration on the anniversary of the 1973 Polytechnic uprising kicked off in Greece on Tuesday an annual event that commemorates the students who rose against the military junta. On Tuesday, the Athens Polytechnic, or the National Technical University...

Arkansas Police Officers Caught on Video Beating Suspect

Arkansas police launched an investigation on Sunday into the beating of a suspect under arrest, an incident caught on video. Three Arkansas policemen were suspended over the video widely circulated on social media. The video depicts three law enforcement officers...

Mosquito Helps Police Arrest Burglar

In China, two dead mosquitoes have helped police arrest a burglar after they bit and drank his blood which was then used in DNA testing to find him. On June 11th at around 1 pm, a thief broke into a...

Leaked Video Shows Delayed Police Response in Uvalde Shooting

A security camera video leaked by the Austin American-Statesman newspaper on Tuesday painted a disturbing picture of the police response to the Uvalde shooting. The video shows the halls of the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on May 24,...

Police Killing of Black Man in Ohio Sparks Protests in US

Several hundred protesters poured into the streets of Akron, Ohio on Sunday to demonstrate against yet another police shooting of a black man. Body camera footage showed police fatally shooting the victim with several dozen rounds of bullets. The man...

Victoria’s First Undercover Cop was Greek-Australian

What does the history of gambling in Victoria have to do with Greece? In a name, 89-year-old Nick Cecil. Cecil, a Greek-Australian, was Victoria's first undercover cop. In his heyday, he tackled the illegal off-course gambling industry when it was...