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To Kafeneion => Grapevine / News Briefs => Topic started by: Maik on Thursday, 15 April, 2021 @ 00:19:50
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Greece will welcome back tourists without travel restrictions from next week despite the UK still refusing to allow holidaymakers to go abroad until at least May 17
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9470809/Greece-welcome-tourists-without-restrictions-week-Brits-wait-17.html
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Apparently Poros police station has obtained 'significant' funding for maintenance and upgrading... not so long back there was talk of its closure and transfer to Sami.
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Sainsbury’s issue urgent Hepatitis A warning over Medjool dates
Sainsbury’s customers should not eat Taste the Difference Medjool dates with supplier code K0014 EW
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/sainsburys-hepatitis-medjool-dates-ramadan-b1831353.html
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Greece receives 2 new air ambulances
Two Beechcraft King Air 350 aircraft landed in Greece on Wednesday, as a result of a $18 Million Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) grant to strengthen the capabilities and efficiency of the National Center for Emergency Care’s (EKAV) air ambulance services.
https://greekcitytimes.com/2021/04/15/greece-new-air-ambulances/
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Just 3% of world’s ecosystems remain intact, study suggests
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/15/just-3-of-worlds-ecosystems-remain-intact-study-suggests
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High status Roman villa discovered near Scarborough hailed as first of its kind found anywhere in world
Features central circular room and bath house - but experts puzzled why something of such grandeur would have been built in such a remote part of empire
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/scarborough-roman-villa-remains-excavation-b1831771.html
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Covid: Rising prices and holiday 'gazumping' - the truth behind UK summer holidays in 2021
https://www.itv.com/news/2021-04-15/rising-prices-and-holiday-gazumping-the-truth-behind-summer-holidays-2021
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Power outage tomorrow, Friday, 16/04/21 between 08:00-13:00 in the following areas: Dorizata, Keramies, Kleismata, Koriana, Kountourata, Liakas, Paliolinos, Pessada, Spartia. To enable essential maintenance work.
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Too early to tell but signs the covid crisis is easing on Kef: only two new cases in past week and now only seven beds occupied on the covid ward at Argostoli Hospital, two due for discharge in coming days.
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Greece orders Covid self-testing for service workers
Greece will make self-testing for Covid-19 compulsory for service workers in sectors including shops, restaurants and transport, authorities said on Wednesday, as the government looks to gradually reopen the economy.
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1159384/greece-orders-covid-self-testing-for-service-workers/
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Non-Greeks to get temporary AMKA to be able to get self-test kits
The Digital Governance Ministry submitted an amendment to Parliament on Wednesday so that people who do not have a tax registration number (AFM) or a police ID card can be granted a temporary social security number (AMKA) from Citizens’ Service Centers (KEP) to obtain self-testing kits by registering on the relevant digital platform.
To get an AMKA, interested parties must have an Expatriate Special Identity Card, a birth certificate, a passport and a temporary or permanent residence permit. The amendment will be voted on Thursday.
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1159342/non-greeks-to-get-temporary-amka-to-be-able-to-get-self-test-kits/
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Mystery tree beast turns out to be croissant
When animal welfare officers received a report of an unusual animal lurking in a tree in the Polish city of Krakow, they were not sure what to expect.
"People aren't opening their windows because they're afraid it will go into their house," the woman reportedly said.
But a visit to the area showed the creature in question was not a bird, or even an reptile - but a croissant.
The Krakow Animal Welfare Society said the incident was genuine.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56757956
:wacko:
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Climate crisis pushing polar bears to mate with grizzlies, producing hybrid ‘pizzly’ bears
Back in 2006, a strange polar bear was seen in the Northwest Territories of the Canadian Arctic. It had patches of brown on its otherwise white fur and an unusual face shape.
Hunters shot the bear dead and DNA tests confirmed what had been suspected: it was the hybrid offspring of a polar bear and a grizzly bear.
In 2010, another hybrid bear was shot by a hunter in the western Canadian Arctic. Tests revealed this animal was a second-generation cross born of a hybrid mother and grizzly father.
These were the first recorded instances of so-called “pizzly” or “grolar” bears. But over the last decade researchers have noted an increase in sightings of the hybrid creatures, and believe the climate crisis is behind the rise.
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/pizzly-bear-polar-grizzly-hybrid-b1831847.html
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Mystery tree beast turns out to be croissant
When animal welfare officers received a report of an unusual animal lurking in a tree in the Polish city of Krakow, they were not sure what to expect.
"People aren't opening their windows because they're afraid it will go into their house," the woman reportedly said.
But a visit to the area showed the creature in question was not a bird, or even an reptile - but a croissant.
The Krakow Animal Welfare Society said the incident was genuine.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56757956
:wacko:
Wondering what kind of tree it was, maybe a Pase Tree?
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Wondering what kind of tree it was, maybe a Pase Tree?
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Greece will welcome back tourists without travel restrictions from next week despite the UK still refusing to allow holidaymakers to go abroad until at least May 17
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9470809/Greece-welcome-tourists-without-restrictions-week-Brits-wait-17.html
I've had my 2nd jab this morning so can I start packing my case? :pray: :yiamas: