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Gun-Bearing President of PAOK Gets 3-Year Ban
The president of the Greek club PAOK was banned from all football stadiums for three years for storming onto the pitch with a gun during a league game, the league’s disciplinary committee said on...
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Greek Anarchists Raid Israeli Ambassador’s Residence
Video has emerged showing the moment members of the anarchist group Rouvikonas threw flyers and shouted slogans outside the residence of Israel’s ambassador in Athens A video released by the group on...
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Amazing Flamingos Turn Greek Lagoon Pink (photos)
Photos courtesy of Environmental Education Center of Lefkimmi Hundreds of migrating flamingos have added a dash of vibrant color to Lefkimmi lagoon in Corfu during their annual stopover in northwestern...
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Brown Bear Population in Greece ‘Recovering’
Efforts to protect Greece’s brown bears are starting to pay off, according to a study by the conservation group Arcturos this week. It claims the country’s bear population has made a slight recovery...
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Animation Restores Ancient Greece’s Parthenon (video)
One of the grandest and most famous archaeological sites in the world — the Parthenon in Athens — has rewound time to give us a glimpse of the glorious structures created by ancient civilizations....
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Greek Man Shot at Home by Robbers in ‘Critical Condition’
A 52-year-old businessman is in a critical condition at an Athens hospital after he was shot twice in the back by robbers at his home in a northern Athenian suburb early on Monday. Police say two...
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More than 30 Migrants Rescued Off Greek Island of Samos
Greece’s coast guard on Monday rescued a boat carrying more than 30 migrants off the coast of the island of Samos in the eastern Aegean. The coast guard was alerted that the boat was in danger of...
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Spectacular Display of Greek Dance in Mykonos (video)
Dozens of amateur dancers have taken over the pier at Gialos in Mykonos in a spectacular display of the traditional ‘hasapiko’. The annual event marks the beginning of the tourist season in the...
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Riding Down Memory Lane to 1950s Piraeus (photos)
The citizens of Piraeus have had the opportunity to take a ride on antique buses and trolley buses. The vehicles, which once upon a time were roaming the streets of Greece’s largest port connecting...
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Greek Singer Criticized for Turkey Performance
Greek singer Glykeria has come under fire for preparing to perform at an Istanbul concert hall on Tuesday. Some social media users are accusing the singer of being insensitive to the plight of the two...
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Greek Shipowner Gerasimos Agoudimos Dies at 76
Greek shipowner Gerasimos Agoudimos has died in Lugano, Switzerland at the age of 76, his family has announced. Agoudimos came from a shipping family of the Greek island of Kefalonia. He started his...
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Turkish Jet Flies Over Greek Island as War of Words Escalates
A Turkish F-16 fighter jet flew over the Greek island of Farmakonisi on Tuesday as Greece and Turkey escalate their verbal offensive against each other. According to the Greek defense sources the...
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Greek Opposition Leads SYRIZA in New Poll
Greece’s main opposition New Democracy party is leading governing SYRIZA by 4.4 percent in a survey by pollsters Kapa Research. The gap between the two largest parties is considerably narrower that...
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Tsipras Appeals to Erdogan to Free Greek Soldiers
Greek PM Alexis Tsipras at Tuesday’s cabinet meeting Greek premier Alexis Tsipras has issued an appeal to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to speed up the legal process for the two Greek soldiers...
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AEK’s 1968 Triumph: More Than Just a Game
On April 4, 1968 a Greek sporting triumph took place when AEK won the European Cup in basketball in front of 80,000 spectators at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens. It was the first time in the...
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Greek Islanders Paint Huge Flag on Kalymnos (video)
Locals from the island of Kalymnos in the Dodecanese, have shown their patriotism by painting a huge 4,000 square feet Greek flag on a rocky slope overlooking the capital. According to...
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Greece’s Chios Braced for Traditional Easter Rocket War (video)
The rocket war, one of the most beautiful and dangerous Easter spectacles in Greece, will be revived on Saturday evening on the island of Chios. Groups at the village of Vrodados say they have struck...
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Spanish Coach Oscar Garcia Quits Olympiacos
After only three months at the helm of Greek champions Olympiacos, Spanish coach Oscar Garcia announced he is leaving the Piraeus club. “I decided, with the agreement of the club, to finish our...
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Athens Council Targets Hundreds of Abandoned Kiosks (video)
Athens city council plans to withdraw the licenses of hundreds of abandoned street kiosks in a bid to clean up the streets and free up pavements for pedestrians, it has said. Out of a total of 931...
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Modern Critics Slam ‘Inhumane’ Greek Easter Lamb Feast
Painting by Josefa de Ayala – The Sacrificial Lamb For Greeks, the roasted lamb, slowly cooking on the spit on Easter Sunday, is not only a mouth-watering delicacy but it also part of a centuries-old...
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