Snapshot: Balos Beach, Crete
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Strong quake hits Greece’s biggest island of Crete, one person killed
Athens, GreeceReuters A strong earthquake measuring 5.8 shook Greece’s largest island Crete on Monday and one person was killed when a church dome collapsed, authorities said. The quake, which sent people out of their homes and public buildings and caused considerable damage, was described by a Greek seismologist, Efthymios Lekkas, as a “thunderbolt” with strong […]
Greece begins giving COVID-19 vaccines outside churches
Archanes, GreeceAP Greece has begun administering vaccinations for COVID-19 outside churches in a pilot program recently announced by the government as a means of encouraging more people to get the shots. Mobile National Health Organization units began administering shots Monday in a church yard in Archanes, a town near the city of Heraklion on the […]