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History responds: 145,000 Greeks fill the cinemas

In just four days, 145,000 tickets were sold in Greek cinemas — an achievement that goes well beyond commercial success and firmly into the realm of a cultural moment. History responds: 145,000 Greeks fill the cinemas. Public interest in the film about…

31 December, 2025

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Exquisite ancient statuettes of Apollo, Artemis unveiled for first time in Chania next week

A pair of small statuettes, depicting mythical Apollo and his twin sister, Artemis, will be presented on Today at the archaeological museum in the west Cretan city of Chania (Hania), the product of excavations at the well-known Aptera site on the large…

23 July, 2019

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Athens municipality: Most quake-damaged buildings are abandoned structures

The city of Athens, the biggest municipality in the greater Athens agglomeration, so far announced that 15 buildings in its boundaries were significantly damaged from the 5.1 on the Richter scale earthquake that struck the area hours earlier. Most of the buildings…

23 July, 2019

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Tears at the Mati victims memorial service one year after deadly fires

Citizen Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis attended the memorial service held on Sunday in memory of the 102 victims of the deadly fire in Mati a year ago. “I can assure you that such a tragedy must not and will not happen again.…

23 July, 2019

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PM Mitsotakis announces generous tax cuts incl. properties ENFIA

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has set as his top priority to implement his pre-election program and proceed with taxation cuts as soon as possible. In his policy statement late on Saturday, he announced several tax cuts with one of them to be…

23 July, 2019

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PIPES: Kastelorizo: Mediterranean flash point

That Athens controls this wisp of land implies it could (but does not yet) claim an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the Mediterranean Sea extending 200 nautical miles to Kastelorizo. This would reduce the Turkish EEZ to a fraction of what it…

20 July, 2019

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EU agrees to sanction turkey for drilling in Cypriot water

A surprisingly muscular response beyond mere threatening rhetoric out of the European Union over Turkey’s violations of Cypriot territorial waters related to offshore drilling operations: the EU has agreed to bring financial and political sanctions against Turkey after repeat warnings of the…

17 July, 2019

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Archaeology Piece of skull found in Greece ‘is oldest human fossil outside Africa’

A broken skull chiselled from a lump of rock in a cave in Greece is the oldest modern human fossil ever found outside Africa, researchers claim. The partial skull was discovered in the Apidima cave on the Mani peninsula of the southern…

17 July, 2019

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Athens-Piraeus again in ‘top 10’ in terms of global shipping hubs

The Athens-Piraeus area has returned to the world’s top 10 shipping hubs, according to a recent study by Baltic Exchange. The Greek capital bumped Korea’s Pusan from the “top 10” list, while Singapore remained first, for the sixth straight year on the…

16 July, 2019

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4.6 Magnitude Earthquake in Kozani, Northern Greece

According to the Geodynamic Institute of the National Observatory of Athens, the epicenter of the quake was located 8 klm south of Kozani, in northern Greece. The earthquake struck at 13:50 on Sunday with a focal depth of 10 klm. A second…

16 July, 2019

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Greece’s Milos voted “Best Island in Europe” by Travel & Leisure Magazine

The readers of the famous “Travel + Leisure” magazine recently voted the Greek island of Milos as “the best island in Europe” for 2019. The list is comprised of 15 islands across Europe, with Greece being represented by four of them: Santorini,…

16 July, 2019

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Swordfish killed by swimmers on a beach in Chalkida, Greece

A swordfish which swam its way to the shallow waters of a beach in Chalkida on the island of Evia, was killed by beachgoers. The swordfish went to the shallow water to give birth and was stoned to death by bathers on…

16 July, 2019

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Autonomy

The government intends to allow universities and not the education ministry to set the number of students they will admit each year. That addresses a basic need, the need (for many and varied reasons) for universities to become autonomous. Who can doubt…

16 July, 2019

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GREECE- Page 44

History responds: 145,000 Greeks fill the cinemas

Exquisite ancient statuettes of Apollo, Artemis unveiled for first time in Chania next week

Athens municipality: Most quake-damaged buildings are abandoned structures

Tears at the Mati victims memorial service one year after deadly fires

PM Mitsotakis announces generous tax cuts incl. properties ENFIA

PIPES: Kastelorizo: Mediterranean flash point

EU agrees to sanction turkey for drilling in Cypriot water

Archaeology Piece of skull found in Greece ‘is oldest human fossil outside Africa’

Athens-Piraeus again in ‘top 10’ in terms of global shipping hubs

4.6 Magnitude Earthquake in Kozani, Northern Greece

Greece’s Milos voted “Best Island in Europe” by Travel & Leisure Magazine

Swordfish killed by swimmers on a beach in Chalkida, Greece

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