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Greek-Australian Teen Dead After Car Crash

Greek-Australian teen Ivana Clonaridis, 18, lost her life on Wednesday January 27, in a suspected drag race. She was the passenger in a car that drove off EJ Whitten Bridge in Keilor East, Melbourne. The young woman was the...

Refugee Baby Passes Away at Registration Camp in Lesvos

A seven-month-old Syrian baby temporarily staying with his/her family in a refugee registration camp on the island of Lesvos, Greece died today of natural causes. Health officials are trying to determine the exact cause of the baby's death. Lesvos,  is...

Hooded Anarchists Raid Teiresias Head Quarters

According to Ekathimerini newspaper suspected members of an anarchist group raided and vandalized the offices of Teiresias, the electronic database for insolvent borrowers. A group of about 14 men believed to be members of Rouvikonas  (the Greek name for the...

Attacks and Molotov Cocktails in the Center of Athens

Shortly before 13:00 pm around 30 masked men attacked police officers with stones damaging shop windows in the center of Athens during demonstrations by the General Confederation of Workers of Greece (GCWG)  and the Civil Servants Supreme Administrative Council (CSSAC)....

Migrants Clash With Police on Greek-FYROM Border

About 1,500 Pakistanis, Moroccans and Iranians have been stuck in Idomeni -- a little town which is the border between Greece and FYROM -- for weeks after non-EU Balkan states began filtering migrants and granting passage only to refugees...

FYROM Begins Construction on Border Fence Amid Migrant Tension with Police

The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) has initiated the process of sealing its southern border with Greece by erecting a fence, resulting in clashes between migrants and police at the border on Saturday. Migrants located on the Greek side...

Italian Police Creates Picture of Child Jesus

Italian police investigators created a picture depicting the face of the world’s most famous religious figure as a child with the use of modern-day computer forensics. The launch pad element for this ambitious project was the Turin Shroud, the  the 4-meter sheet made of herring-bone linen...

Amnesty International: 'Unlawful Greek Police Violence Must End and Perpetrators Held Accountable'

Amnesty International released a public statement condemning the "unlawful practices" used by the Greek police to control protests in Greece, urging the Greek government to hold perpetrators accountable. The organization describes multiple incidents in which excessive and "unlawful" force was...

Greek Police Brutality Against Immigrants

Greece is a key entry and transit point for African, Asian and Middle Eastern migrants desperate to get to Europe in search of security and a better life. Now more than ever, the Greek state is under enormous pressure...

Greece One of EU's Most Policed Countries

Recent INTERPOL statistics detailing the number of policemen per national capita has revealed that Greece is among the most policed countries in the EU, falling just behind Cyprus and Spain. The map's creator, Ramiro Gómez, used data from Wikipedia's list of police...