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Bad Weather Behind Drop in Migrant Arrivals
Bad weather is being cited as the reason behind a significant drop in the number of migrants and refugees landing on the islands of the northern Aegean in the last 15 days. Two arrivals involving 76...
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Diaspora TV Show Highlights Greek Food, Fashion
This week’s Greece in our Hearts — the popular web TV show for the Greek diaspora — featured fashion design and gastronomy. Prominent journalist, fashion blogger and presenter Vicky Bouzounis,...
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Greek Parents Sue Kids over Gunshots, Car Damage
A quarreling couple in the town of Vonitsa, northwestern Greece, has united to sue their son and daughter after a family argument ended in gunshots and a trashed car. Greek media report that the...
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Health Workers Scuffle with Athens Police (video)
Greek riot police intervened to push away a group of striking workers trying to storm the Ministry of Health in downtown Athens on Thursday. Members of the Public Health Workers’ Union (POEDHN) were...
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Elderly Turkish Woman Revealed Greek-Cypriot Graves
File photo The graves of 36 missing Greek Cypriots found in 2015 were discovered thanks to information given by a 95-year-old Turkish Cypriot woman just months before she died, it emerged this week....
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Football Fans Force Athens Cinema to Cancel Film Premiere
The advertising billboard of the cinema was hastily re-arranged on Thursday A cinema in the Athenian suburb of Nea Smyrni was forced to cancel a film premiere after fans of a local football team...
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Yanis Varoufakis to Launch New Party in March
Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has announced his intention to create a new political party. In a tweet on Thursday marking the third anniversary of SYRIZA in power, Varoufakis said...
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Greece Demands €200M from Online Gambling Firm
The Greek tax authorities have hit U.K.-listed online gambling operator GVC Holdings with a hefty back-tax demand of close to €200 million ($249 million). On Thursday, GVC announced it had received a...
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Opposition ND Leads SYRIZA by 15.5 Points in Latest Greek Poll
Greece’s governing SYRIZA party has slightly closed the gap on the main opposition New Democracy in the latest poll by Public Issue released on Thursday — the third anniversary of SYRIZA coming to...
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PAOK Moves Top as Olympiacos Stumbles at Tripoli
PAOK won away from home at Agrinio and moved to the top of the Greek Superleague as Olympiacos dropped two valuable points at Tripoli. AEK remained in third place after winning 2-0 against Lamia on...
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Anastasiades Faces Leftist Challenger in Cyprus Run-Off Vote
Incumbent leader Nicos Anastasiades and communist-backed independent Stavros Malas will face off next Sunday to see who will become the eighth president of the Republic of Cyprus. The run-off vote is...
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UN Mediator Says ‘Dynamic Exists’ to End Macedonia Quarrel
UN Special Representative for the naming dispute between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. (file photo) The United Nations mediator on the naming dispute between Greece and the...
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Mikis Theodorakis to Address ‘Macedonia is Greece’ Rally
Renowned Greek songwriter and composer Michael ‘Mikis’ Theodorakis. (File photo). World-renowned Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis is to address crowds at a major Athens rally on Sunday called against...
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Israeli President Begins Greece Visit
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin started his official visit to Greece on Monday by laying a wreath at the Monument of the Unknown Soldier in Syntagma Square, Athens. Afterwards Rivlin made his way to...
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Greece to Present Skopje with Draft ‘Macedonia’ Deal
On the eve of a senior UN mediator’s visit to Greece, Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias has revealed that Athens is working on a draft deal on the naming dispute that will be presented to Skopje in...
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Opinion: Macedonia Issue Energizing Austerity-Hit Greeks
A Greek girl waves a flag amid thousands of protesters at a rally on the Macedonia issue in Thessaloniki, Greece, Jan. 2018 (file photo) Hundreds of thousands of Greeks from all walks of life are...
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Greek, Israeli Leaders Lay First Stone of Thessaloniki Holocaust Museum
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and visiting Israeli President Reuven Rivlin laid the foundation stone for a Holocaust Museum in Thessaloniki on Tuesday. “Thessaloniki’s Holocaust Museum is a...
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Germans Flocking to Greek Islands for 2018 Vacations
The island of Crete is the second-most popular island destination for German tourists after Majorca according to a survey by a leading German online platform. Pre-bookings for 2018 analyzed by Check...
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This Greek Undertaker Offers Funeral Live-streaming
A Thessaloniki undertaker has told Greek Reporter how his live streaming of funeral services offers distant friends and family the chance to join a loved one’s final journey — even from another...
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Will ‘Macedonia’ Push Greeks to a New Right-Wing Party?
A new political party in Greece that would occupy the space between the conservatives of New Democracy and the extreme-right Golden Dawn may be on the cards, as negotiations with FYROM on the naming...
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