Source: The Mainichi An Acropolis Museum staff places a male head on the frieze of the Acropolis museum during a ceremony for the repatriation of three sculpture fragments, in Athens, on Friday, March 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) ATHENS (AP) — Greece on Friday welcomed the return […]
Source: Japan Today Thousands of protesters filled downtown Lisbon on Saturday to demand higher wages and pensions, as well as government intervention to cap soaring food prices they say are strangling already tight budgets. Metalworker Paula Gonçalves, 51, said people were “protesting against low wages, precariousness and for more justice” for workers. “We, the workers, […]
Source: Japan Today Australian Open champion Aryna Sabalenka beat Maria Sakkari 6-2, 6-3 in a Stadium Court slugfest on Friday to reach the final of the Indian Wells WTA and ATP Masters 1000 hard court tennis tournament. World number two Sabalenka, who took her 2023 WTA record to 17-1, notched her fifth win in eight […]
Source: The Mainichi Kosuke Kitajima. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) — Japan’s Kosuke Kitajima, the winner of two breaststroke gold medals at each of the 2004 and 2008 Olympics, was on Tuesday named among this year’s 13 inductees to the International Swimming Hall of Fame. The 40-year-old, who […]
Source: The Mainichi Peter Starostecki and his kids Sadie, center, and Jo Jo, pose behind their car with the vanity license plate that the state of Maine has deemed in appropriate, in Poland, Maine, on March 8, 2023. The vegan family’s car will soon have a randomly selected […]
Source: Japan Today A Greek railway employee was jailed on Sunday pending trial over a deadly train crash that killed at least 57 people, as Greeks seethed with anger over the worst rail disaster in living memory. Protests continued to reverberate days after a head-on collision of a passenger train and a freight carrier on […]
Source: The Japan Times Athens – Thousands of people demonstrated across Greece on Friday to demand justice for at least 57 people killed in the country’s worst rail disaster, with some protesters condemning the tragedy as “a crime.” Police clashed with some of the demonstrators at a handful of protests, as public anger grew over […]
Source: The Mainichi Debris of trains lie on the rail lines after a collision in Tempe, about 376 kilometres (235 miles) north of Athens, near Larissa city, Greece, on March 1, 2023.(AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos) TEMPE, Greece (AP) — Rescuers searched late into the night Wednesday for survivors […]
Source: Japan Today Sixteen people were killed and least 85 were injured after two trains collided head-on in Greece late on Tuesday, the fire brigade said, while the circumstances of the crash remained unclear. A passenger train traveling from Athens to the northern city of Thessaloniki, and a cargo train from Thessaloniki to Larissa, collided […]
Source: The Japan Times A train derailment between the Greek cities of Athens and Thessaloniki killed at least 16 people on Tuesday night and left 85 injured, according to local fire officials. “At least 16 people have been found dead so far,” a fire services spokesman said, adding that rescue operations were still ongoing. “Eighty-five […]