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The Unseen Museum presents “ The last Aphrodites”, a small exhibition set that includes two ivory carvings and two fragments of Coptic textiles from Egypt of late antiquity. All four artifacts illustrate Aphrodites, Nereids or other mythological figures. The two carvings, dating to the 4th century AD, were destined to …

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In a large operation at “Prosfygika” area in downtown Athens, Greek police arrested a total of seventy-eight people on Tuesday. Among the arrestees was a award-winning photojournalist and member of the Foreign Press Association, Nikos Pilos. He was covering the police operation and was arrested despite showing his camera and …

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One civilian and one police officer were injured in a shooting incident in the campus of Technology University in Zopgrafou suburb of Athens on Tuesday morning. According to preliminary information obtained by state broadcaster ERT, one of the injured is a 30-year-old man of Albanian nationality who has wounds in …

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With teargas and sound flares Greek police cracked down student protests in Athens and Thessaloniki on Wednesday. Students, teachers, academics, high school students, parents marched through the cities against the Education bill that provides among others,he presence of police at universities. Thousands of #students protest for yet another week in …

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Greece’s epidemiologists and government officials worked out a very complicated set of additional restrictions for the residents of Athens, the regional units of Attica, Thessaloniki and Halkidiki to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Restrictions will be tighter on the weekend while the churches still remain open, and economic activity …

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A prisoner in high-security Korydallos Prison in Athens has been tested positive for coronavirus on Tuesday. The 33-year-old man is the first case of Covid-19 detected in a Greek prison facility. The patient has had some specious symptoms and was initially transferred to Ipppokrateio hospital where he was tested for …

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The political leadership of the country gathered in downtown Athens to Saturday to unveil a plaque commemorating the tragic deaths of three Marfin Bank employees and an unborn child, all killed in a fire set by rioters on May 5, 2010. The President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou, Prime …

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With social distancing, mask and military discipline members of the Communist union PAME gathered outside the Greek Palriament on Friday to celebrate the International Workers’ Day on May 1. It was the only Greek union that defied the lockdown restrictions to honor the workers’ struggles. Holding red flags and banners …

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Thirteen dialysis patients, eleven health workers and four other patients were tested positive to coronavirus in a private clinic in Peristeri suburb of West Athens. One dialysis patient died on Wednesday, a second one late on Thursday. The clinic has been placed in quarantine. The mass infection has alerted Greece’s …

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A man fell off the fifth floor of an apartment building in Galatsi suburb of Athens and survived the fall with only minor injuries. The 45-year-old man was standing on the balcony when he fell. However, his fall was stopped on the awning of a bakery-cafe located in the ground …

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