Youth, 16, charged over severe hit-and-run accident

Youth, 16, charged over severe hit-and-run accident

[InTime News] An Athens prosecutor on Monday brought criminal charges against a 16-year-old motorcyclist over a severe weekend hit-and-run accident that left a teenage girl critically injured. The youth, who has been identified as a Sudanese national, was formally accused of dangerous driving that resulted in severe injuries, driving without a license and abandoning the …

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Judicial probe after car tumbles into Thessaloniki building site

Judicial probe after car tumbles into Thessaloniki building site

A Thessaloniki prosecutor has ordered an investigation after ground subsidence during a cable-laying project led to a parked car tumbling into a fenced construction site Monday. The incident beside what used to be the Papafis stables in the city’s Toumba district reportedly came after a water main was ruptured during work to lay optical fibres …

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Teenage girl hospitalized after fall from school balcony in Haidari

Teenage girl hospitalized after fall from school balcony in Haidari

File photo. A 13-year-old student was hospitalized in critical condition Monday after falling from a first-floor balcony at a school in the Athens suburb of Haidari, authorities said. The incident occurred at around 11 a.m. at the 7th Middle School of Haidari. The girl was initially taken by ambulance to Attikon Hospital and later transferred …

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Parliament panel backs lifting immunity of 2 ND lawmakers in subsidies probe

Parliament panel backs lifting immunity of 2 ND lawmakers in subsidies probe

Parliament’s ethics committee has recommended lifting the immunity of New Democracy lawmakers Charalambos Athanasiou and Anastasios (Tasos) Chatzivasileiou, whose names appear in a case file from the European Public Prosecutor’s Office related to an investigation into OPEKEPE, the Greek agency responsible for distributing and auditing EU agricultural subsidies. A plenary vote on the two lawmakers, …

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Georgiadis to sue former ND lawmaker over corruption claims

Georgiadis to sue former ND lawmaker over corruption claims

[InTime News] Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis said Monday he will file a criminal complaint and civil lawsuit this week against former New Democracy lawmaker and current independent MP Marios Salmas over recent public remarks he described as defamatory. “I have been thoroughly investigated by everyone. I have nothing to hide,” Georgiadis said in an interview …

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Farm scandal continues to weigh on political scene

Farm scandal continues to weigh on political scene

Lawmakers listen to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis during a plenary session of Parliament in Athens, on March 4. [Nikos Halkiopoulos/Intime News] Parliament will vote Wednesday on whether to lift the immunity of 13 lawmakers from the ruling New Democracy party who are allegedly implicated in a farm subsidies scandal. However, some members of the ruling …

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Croissant conceals cocaine in food delivery to detainees in Crete

Croissant conceals cocaine in food delivery to detainees in Crete

File photo. [AP] Police arrested a 27-year-old man after a small quantity of cocaine was found hidden in food intended for detainees at the Iraklio Police Headquarters on the island of Crete, authorities said. According to police, the man had delivered a bag containing various items for foreign detainees, including a croissant. During a routine …

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Bulgaria’s Kremlin-friendly ex-president set for landslide election win

Bulgaria’s Kremlin-friendly ex-president set for landslide election win

SOFIA – Pro-Russian former President Rumen Radev is set for a runaway victory in Bulgaria’s election, official results showed, potentially ending years of weak coalition governments and sidelining long-dominant political forces. The performance, surpassing opinion polls, is one of the strongest results by a single party in a generation and may end, for now, the …

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Runaway cow causes traffic chaos on highway near Thessaloniki

Runaway cow causes traffic chaos on highway near Thessaloniki

[Screengrab/ERT] Traffic chaos erupted Monday morning on the Athens-Thessaloniki national highway near Sindos, about 14 kilometers northwest of Thessaloniki in northern Greece, after a young cow wandered onto the roadway, authorities said. The incident caused significant disruption as the animal ran uncontrollably between passing vehicles, forcing drivers to slow abruptly and creating hazardous conditions. It …

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