“Two days ago in Samos! (…) Normal landing of 20 to 25 recruits normally!!!!”, said this Facebook post from September 22, 2024, which has since been shared more than 750 times.
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Tilos is home to fewer than 1,000 permanent residents, and is a popular tourism destination in the Dodecanese group of islands in the Aegean Sea. A recent rescue of dozens of migrants and refugees by the port authorities on Tilos led to a clash between the island’s mayor, Maria Kamma-Aliferi, and a tourist, who the mayor claimed had called for the displaced people to be thrown into the sea. The tourist denied this in a Facebook post.
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The FKNK said rangers could be breaking the law by donning recording devices
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September 6, 2024 With the tourist season in full swing, the debate over the type of tourists arriving in Malta, and their impact on Malta’s economy, has once again hit the front pages. Tony Zahra, the president of the Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association, one of Malta’s main tourism lobby groups, was the first to
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The fire broke out near the village of Varnavas, north of Athens and reached the northern suburbs of the capital the following day. Authorities evacuated several towns around Athens, as well as hospitals. Meanwhile, the Greek fire service said 702 firefighters and 35 aircraft were battling the flames.
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August 30, 2024 Have you recently received an “urgent” WhatsApp message from your friend asking you to send them a code? That ‘friend’ is no friend at all but a scammer trying to worm their way into kicking you out of your WhatsApp account. Police have urged the public to take more care as reports of WhatsApp
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The shop says it has been inundated with calls about a series of false adverts
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“Soon neither 1 nor 2 but 92 wind turbines are expected to be installed from North to Central Evia, thus reaching the ‘magic’ number of 700. You read that right. 700 wind turbines. The burnt-out Evia of 550,000 acres has become… the battery of Greece’, reads a Facebook post from August 13, 2024, and shared over 2,100 times since.
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August 16, 2024 Just after Nicolette Ghirxi was found fatally stabbed in her Swatar home in the early hours of Monday 12 August, police were locked in a dangerous showdown with her ex-partner, Edward Johnston, on the pitch-dark St Julians’ shoreline. Johnston is believed to have murdered Ghirxi earlier in the night. The negotiation ended in
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A seemingly discriminatory advert for an apartment rental raised questions about the limits of property owners’ right to handpick their tenants
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