The crash happened just before midnight on 28 February, 2023, when a freight train and a passenger train crashed head-on on the line linking Athens with Thessaloniki. #EuropeNews
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A solemn farewell is being held at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens for Archbishop Anastasios of Albania, who passed away at 95. A Divine Liturgy and Trisagion service, led by prominent church leaders,
Greece's President Katerina Sakellaropoulou, right, and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, second right, attend a religious ceremony for the late Albania's Archbishop Anastasios inside the Athens Orthodox Cathedral,
Archbishop Anastasios, the head of the Albanian Orthodox Church for three decades, has died aged 95 in an Athens hospital after being airlifted to the Greek capital following a virus infection. The archbishop had been taken to the Greek capital on a Greek air force plane four days after being admitted to hospital in Tirana with what Church officials called a "seasonal virus".
TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania's Archbishop Anastasios, who revived the country's Orthodox Church after the fall of the communist regime in 1990, has died, the church said on Saturday. He was 95.
Archbishop Anastasios of Albania passed away on Saturday in an Athens hospital where he was receiving treatment
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