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Crime
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...
Greek News
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...
Crime
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...
Crime
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...
Crime
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,...
USA
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...
Australia
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...
Crime
The 10 Deadliest School Shootings in the US
In this year alone, the US has already experienced 27 school shootings, one of which occurred just yesterday, on Tuesday, and ranks amongst the deadliest to have taken place in the country.
In the wake of such unimaginable tragedies, people...
Archaeology
The Private Detective Who Devoted His Life to Saving Greece’s Heritage
George Tsoukalis, the private detective who has devoted his life to saving and protecting Ancient Greece's cultural heritage, talks exclusively about his rare profession.
Tsoukalis is the famous "hunter" of the illicit dealers of antiquities and has solved 65 of...
Greek News
Greek Immigrant in Germany Giorgos Zantiotis Dies in Police Custody
Greeks in Germany are searching for answers after the death of immigrant Giorgos Zantiotis while in police custody in the city of Wuppertal, in western Germany.
The cause of death for the man, who was only 25 years of age,...