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After Eight Months in Captivity Greek Seamen Return Safely to Greece
The three remaining Greek sailors held hostage in Djibouti over unpaid debts owed by their ship’s owner have arrived safely in Athens following their release, Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said in a...
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Greece Records Four New Coronavirus Deaths as Global Death Toll Tops 200,000
Source: Fars News Agency/Wikimedia commons As the Greek government is expected to announce the gradual lifting of coronavirus restrictions which are expected to start on May 4, health authorities...
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Fires at Greek Island Migrant Camp Force Evacuation
Source: samos24.gr Two fires that broke out on Sunday evening outside the migrant camp on the island of Samos, in the eastern Aegean, have destroyed a number of shacks built by asylum seekers outside...
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Athens University Assembles 3D Printing Team to Produce PPE for Greece
Martin Suda, CIIRC VUT Groups of researchers from various departments and laboratories of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) have coordinated their efforts and joined forces,...
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How Beach Life in Greece Will Change this Summer
Photo Source: Wikimedia commons Greece is about to start a gradual lifting of its draconian coronavirus restrictions, but locals and tourists alike know that — this summer at least — beach life will be...
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Germany Ditches Insulting Cartoon Depicting Turkey as Greece’s Mother
A German government cartoon which inexplicably depicted Greece as a young girl holding the hand of her mother, representing the nation of Turkey, has been withdrawn after a furious social media...
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Cuteness Overload: Injured One-Week-Old Fawn Saved in Greece
A roe deer fawn with a broken leg, just a few days old and with parts of its umbilical cord still on its body, was found by hunters on Greece’s Mount Paiko and has been taken to the Arcturos wildlife...
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Greece to Mandate Use of Masks as Country is Set to Reopen
Greece’s health authorities announced on Monday that two more people had succumbed from the coronavirus, bringing the death toll in the country to 135, whereas there were only 17 new cases. Greek...
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What’s Up With Greece’s Weather? Scientists Find Huge Spike in Severe Phenomena
Photo credit: AMNA Greek scientists said on Monday that the number of severe weather events in the country was approximately 40 percent higher in 2019 compared with the average number experienced...
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Athens Museum Offers Online Tour Through Cycladic Art
The Harp player. Cycladic civilization. Source: Wikipedia Τhe Museum of Cycladic Art is offering an online tour of its iconic exhibition “Cycladic Society 5000 Years Ago,” which was first shown in...
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Greek PM Announces Gradual Lifting of Quarantine Starting May 4
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Tuesday the gradual relaxation of quarantine measures, which will begin this coming Monday, May 4. In a televised address, Mitsotakis thanked the...
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Homesick Falcon Makes 7,000 Km Journey to Greece Every Year
Source: Tonia Galani/Hellenic Ornithological Society The Hellenic Ornithological Society announced the return for the third consecutive year of a female falcon from the African island nation of...
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Athens Acropolis Gets a Facelift
Source: Carole Raddato/Wikipedia Greece has recently begun a major facelift on the Acropolis, the primary tourist site in Greece, by installing visitor lifts, lighting on the hill and removing...
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Greece, EU Mull Ways to Save Tourism from Catastrophe
European Union transport ministers will try on Wednesday to determine a set of common rules on how to save the tourism industry in the summer of 2020 as the coronavirus lockdown restrictions are being...
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Greeks Must Learn How to Live with Face Masks — or Face Stiff Fine
A stiff fine of 150 euros is envisaged for Greeks who flout the new rule calling for the wearing of face masks after May 4, when the first set of coronavirus quarantine measures are lifted. As of that...
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Greece’s High Court Blocks Construction of Tall Buildings Near Acropolis
The Greek flag in front of the Acropolis. Photo by AMNA Greece’s Council of State issued two rulings that temporarily suspend the construction of buildings in central Athens that would obstruct the...
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Rescued One-Week-Old Fawn Finds Deer Friend
A second newborn roe deer fawn was found in a bush near a farm in the Kompoti area, Arta, on Wednesday and was immediately taken to the Arcturos wildlife shelter in Florina. Its rescuers named it...
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NATO Helicopter Crashes in Greece’s Ionian Sea – Crew Missing
CH-124 Sea King. Source: Wikimedia commons A NATO helicopter has crashed in the Ionian Sea, west of the Greek mainland, on Wednesday evening. According to Greek Defense Ministry sources, the CH-124 Sea...
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Greece to Reopen Archaeological Sites on May 18
Delphi. Source: Tamara Semina/Wikimedia commons Greece announced on Wednesday that all archaeological sites in the nation, which were closed for two months as part of the country’s coronavirus...
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Greece’s Politicians Clash in Parliament — Behind Plexiglass Separators
Greek Prime Minister Mitsotakis and opposition leader Alexis Tsipras debate behind plexiglass separators Whereas most legislatures around the world have suspended their operations due to the...
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