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1. Protesting farmers continue roadblocks Dec 28-30

   Christmas holidaymakers returning to Greek capital Athens from the north have been facing kilometer-long queues along the Athens-Lamia national highway on Sunday, December 28, as farmers and livestock breeders continue their protests and road-blockades. In some areas, traffic has being restricted and the blockades will continue also until Tuesday, December 30, as the second wave […]

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2. Rainfalls collapse banks of Pikrodafni stream in SE Athens

   Heavy rainfalls on Christmas Eve caused a 10-meter-deep cliff of the bed of the Pikrodafni stream that runs dangerously close to residential areas of Agios Dimitrios municipality in south Athens. Residents are upset and some of them sleep in the cars at night fearing the worst, that is that part of the ground on which […]

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3. Elderly man stabs his dementia sick wife, takes his own life

   A 74-year-old man stabbed his 67-year-old wife in the neck and then took his own life jumping from the roof of a multistory residential building in the Gyzi district of Athens on Sunday afternoon. The victim has so far survived the stabbing, is in critical condition and is being hospitalized in a hospital in the […]

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4. The ugliest Christmas tree is to find in Samaria gorge

   A huge plastic and metal tree aims to be the tallest in Europe in Christmas 2025. The problem of this “monster” is that it has been installed in one of the most beautiful forests and natural landscapes of Greece, in Samaria Gorge on the island of Crete. The lighting of one of the largest Christmas […]

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5. Tragedy on Christmas day: Four climbers die on Vardousia Mt

   A group of climbers, three men and a woman, set out from the village of Athanasios Diakos in the morning of the Christmas Day with the aim of reaching the Korakas peak of the Vardousia mountain in Phocida, central Greece. The team had started the climb under good weather conditions, however, the weather changed due […]

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