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Shops in Greece will operate with extended opening hours ahead of the East time, twoards the end of April 2019. Shops will be open as follows: April 20: Sunday (Palm Sunday) 11:00 a.m. to 06:00 p.m. April 21-25: Monday-Thursday 09:00 a.m. to 09:00 p.m. April 26: Good Friday 01:00 p.m. …

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Britons who built the famous Stonehenge were product of ancient wave of migrant farmers, that is of Greeks from Asia Minor, DNA tests have revealed. Ancient skeletons have revealed that the arrival of population from the eastern Mediterranean Sea replaced the local hunter-gatherer population of British Isles. The ancestors of …

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The Plenary of the Greek Parliament is discussing on Wednesday the findings of a Special Parliamentary Committee on Greece’s reparations claims from Germany for atrocities and the enforced loan during World War II. At the end of the debate lawmakers will be called to vote for the relevant resolution. It …

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The Greek state budget showed a primary surplus of 1.460 billion euros in the January-March period, up from a budget target for a primary surplus of 960 million, but down from a surplus of 1.879 billion euros in the corresponding period in 2018, the Finance ministry said in a report …

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Ferries and ships will remain docked at Greek ports, after the union of the Greek seamen PNO declared a 24-hour strike on May 1, 2019. The strike will start at 00:01 and end at 23:59. The union has published a long list of demands to justify the strike. However, as …

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The Islamic mosque in Botanikos district of  Athens is expected to be inaugurated on the last day of Ramadan on June 5, 2019. The first and only public mosque in Greece was originally scheduled to be in operation in March, then in …May. It was apparently the bad weather that …

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Greece is considering the potential acquisition of up to 30 Lockheed Martin F-35s to replace the oldest F-16C/Ds operated by the air force. “Beyond the upgrade of the F-16 fighter jets, we are in the process of selecting a new plane for Greece, so we can gradually move to the …

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Greece will contribute to efforts to restore the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, Greek Culture Minister Myrsini Zorba said on Tuesday. Expressing her deep sorrow for the disaster, Zorba told Athens-Macedonian News Agency’s radio station ‘Praktoreio FM‘ that Greece will support the effort to restore the Cathedral. “When we see …

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Repaying earlier expensive International Monetary Fund loans is a significant step for Greece which will create favorable conditions for its economy, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Monday, promising more relief measures. “We are gaining points of (economic) freedom,” Tsipras said during an interview with Greece’s private ANT1 TV. During the …

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Two German army officers took down the Greek flag and hoisted the German one in Stavros area of Akrotiri in Chania Prefecture on Sunday. The two -23-year-old Germans serve at the 115th Wing Battalion of the NATO. They were immediately arrested and taken to court, where each one received a …

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Despite warnings from the international community and particularly the United States, Turkey is determined to proceed with the purchase of the Russian missiles defense system S-400. And not only that. Ankara threatens its neighbor Greece to install the S-400 along the Turkish coasts on the Aegean Sea in order to …

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