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Women Arrested over Dead Newborn Found in Athens Dumpster
A 19-year-old woman and her 54-year-old mother have been arrested in connection with the dead infant found dead in a garbage bin in Petroupoli, an outlying northwestern suburb of Athens. The infant...
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Athens Calls on Turkey to End ‘Arbitrary’ Detention of Greek Soldiers
Greece’s president, Prokopis Pavlopoulos Greece’s president, Prokopis Pavlopoulos, on Monday criticized the prolonged detention of two Greek soldiers in a Turkish prison since early March. During a...
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Opposition Leader Wants Votes for Greeks Abroad
New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis Greece’s main opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has called on the SYRIZA-led government to legislate for the Greek diaspora to vote in general elections. In...
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Greece Calls for Restraint in Gaza as Protesters Gather at Israeli Embassy
Protest at the Israeli embassy in Athens Greece has called for restraint after dozens of Palestinian protesters were killed and over 2,000 were injured in clashes with Israeli soldiers along the border...
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No Laughing Matter as Greek Court Sentences Man for Posting ‘Defamatory’...
A Greek court has handed down a six-month sentence to a man for using a Facebook laughing emoticon underneath a post advertising a business in the city of Volos. The court ruled last week that the...
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Greece’s Pensioners Demonstrate Against New Cuts (video)
Hundreds of pensioners have taken to the streets of Athens to demonstrate against cuts to their pensions and health benefits. The protesters’ march reached the Ministry of Finance, where a delegation...
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Police Clear Makeshift Migrant Camps in Greek Port of Patras
Police round up migrants in Patras on Tuesday More than 600 migrants living in abandoned factories and warehouses around the western port of Patras have been removed by the Greek police on Tuesday. A...
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Angry Residents Beat Suspected Burglar Senseless in Athens (video)
A suspected burglar was left unconscious on the street after angry residents tackled him in central Athens. The man had been accused of trying to break into at least seven apartments. In Monday’s...
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Case of Greece’s ex-ELSTAT Chief Goes Back to Court
The case of former head of the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) Andreas Georgiou over misrepresentation of Greek financial data will be up for review by the Appeals Council for a third time,...
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Mystery Surrounds Missing Bulgarian Women in Crete
Missing Bulgarian women Antonina Zoeva (L) and Desi Ilieva (R). The family of a Bulgarian woman gone missing from Crete this week have told Greek Reporter they are worried her case will be forgotten...
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New Rules Say Non-EU Visitors Need International Driving Licence to Rent...
New rules say visitors from non-European Union countries are now only allowed to rent a vehicle in Greece if they have an International Driving Permit. Would-be drivers must also produce a license...
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Brutal Attack on Pakistani Migrant in Greece Caught on Camera (video)
Video footage has emerged of an apparent racist attack on a Pakistani man by a group of teenagers in Athens on Sunday. The footage shows at least five suspects, whom the victim has described as being...
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Greek Designer Creates Next-Generation Floating Sunbeds (video)
A Greek designer has created the ultimate floating experience with handmade two-meter-long sunbeds which gently support the user on crystal-clear waters. According to creator Manos Tsirliotis for...
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Greece Approves Bill to Speed Up Asylum Process
The Greek parliament has passed in principle a draft bill on new rules for granting asylum to migrants and refugees, aimed at speeding up the lengthy process. Following a lengthy debate on Tuesday...
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Greece’s Top Judge Quits Over Media Leaks
The President of the Hellenic Council of State, Greece’s highest court, Nikolaos Sakellariou has unexpectedly resigned following what he called unacceptable leaks of the court’s deliberations to the...
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Greece’s Tsipras Meets FYROM Leader on Naming Dispute
Greek PM Alexis Tsipras (L) with FYROM premier Zoran Zaev in Sofia, Bulgaria. Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met with his FYROM counterpart Zoran Zaev in Sofia on Thursday on the sidelines of...
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Europe’s ‘Largest Casino’ to be Built in Cyprus (video)
Cyprus will host a ceremony on June 8 to mark the start of construction work on what is being billed as Europe’s largest casino with more than a hundred gambling tables and over a thousand slot...
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Gunmen Shoot at Greek Police Near Athens Roma Camp
Greek police returned fire after being shot at near a Roma camp located in a western Athenian suburb in the early hours of Thursday. There were no injuries during the incident at Ano Liosia which...
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Greeks Shell Out More Than €3B a Year on Tutoring
Greek families are paying a whopping €3 billion ($3.5 billion) a year on private education, according to a report published this week. The GSEE labor union’s Center of Educational Policy Development...
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One in Eight Asylum Seekers in Greece are Lone Children
Unaccompanied minors made up 12.4 percent of asylum seekers in Greece in 2017, according to Eurostat figures released this week. Roughly 2,500 unaccompanied under-18s applied for asylum in the country...
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