Students flocked to the Monument of Unknown Soldier in front of the Parliament on Thursday afternoon to restore the names of the 57 victims of the train tragedy in Tempi after cleaning crews erased them on Wednesday night. Erasing the victims’ names triggered an outrage in the society and the …
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Here are the Ministers in new Mitsotakis’ government
The composition of the new New Democracy government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis was announced late Monday. According to sources from the prime minister’s office, this is a government oriented towards the implementation of the major reform goals, which Kyriakos Mitsotakis has set and is ready to clash with pathogens in order …
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Turkey names 14 Greek islands claiming to challenge their sovereignty
Turkey continued its provocative crescendo against Greece on Tuesday and its Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu went so far to show maps and named 14 Greek islands in the eastern Aegean Sea for which Ankara wants to challenge the Greek sovereignty. “Demilitarize the islands now or we will raise the issue …
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Sports Minister makes public names of victims of sexual harassment by their coaches!
Deputy Minister for Sports Lefteris Avgenakis submitted to the public prosecutor’s officer the complaints filed by 26 athletes of the Greek Gymnastics Federation who fell victims of sexual harassment. A clever move before the crimes would be written off due to time statute, if only the names of the victims …
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Pandora Papers: 283 Greek names to be published mid-October
The Pandora Papers revelations on tax heavens have stirred the political world in several countries and exposed the European Union and its alleged fight against black money and tax evasion. The Pandora leaks do not contain the names of any active or former politician, but a long list of Greek …
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Curse pot with over 30 inscribed names and chicken remains found in Ancient Agora
Excavations in Ancient Agora in Athens unearthed a unique object: a curse pot. The 2,300-year-old vessel was used as a tool to “bind” curses to some over 50 people whose names were inscribed on it. According to Jessica Lamont, Assistant Professor of Classics at Yale University, the object reveals new …
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Coronavirus variants get new names based on Greek alphabet
Coronavirus variants with clunky, alphanumeric names have now been assigned the letters of the Greek alphabet to simplify discussion and pronunciation while avoiding stigma. The World Health Organization revealed the new names on Monday amid criticism that those given by scientists to strains such as the South African variant – …
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Soldiers claim dog abuse was an “unfortunate incident”, seeking “understanding”
The two young soldiers who threw a stray dog over a cliff dared to issue a joint statement in which they call the brutal abuse as “unfortunate incident.” In a joint statement sent to websites paramythia-online.gr and thespro.gr, local media in Thesprotia region of Epirus in West Greece they apologize …
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Protesters burn the Greek flag, as Zaev seeks compromise in Macedonia dispute
FYROM is looking at four options to settle a decades-long dispute with Greece over its name, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday. FYROM hopes the issue can be resolved in time for an EU meeting in June and a NATO summit in July, and is …
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Novartis file submitted to Parliament, names of ex ministers and PMs now official
The case file of the Novartis kickbacks investigation was submitted to the Plenary early Tuesday Afternoon. Acting Palriament Speaker, Tasia Christodoulopoulou, confirmed the delivery and read the names of those politicians, 2 former prime ministers and 8 ex ministers of Health, Finance and Labor, allegedly involved in the scandal as …
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FYROM PM Zaev announces first steps towards Macedonia name solution
A high level meeting between Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his counterpart from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Zoran Zaev on the margins of the World Economic Forum in Davos showed that both sides are keen to finally solve the name dispute. In the joint press conference that …
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3 more Turkish commandos allegedly fled to Greece but went missing
Three more Turkish commandos have allegedly fled to Greece but went missing in the country they were supposed to seek asylum. According to a local lawyer, the three entered Greece together with the two commandos who sought asylum in Greece in February. However, once they entered the country, the group …
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UPD Two fugitive Turkish military attaches left Greece, a Rear Admiral asked political asylum in USA,
The two Turkish military attaches assigned at the Turkish Embassy in Athens have allegedly fled Greece to Italy and form there possibly to another European country. Indications have it that the two left Greece together with their families per ferry boat to Italy. Military affairs website Onalert.gr identifies the Land …
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Greece’s Finance Ministry uploads names of 13,730 debtors on its website. But…
They said it and they did it! Greece’s General Secretariat of Public Revenues uploaded the names of 13,730 big debtors on the official website of the Finance ministry. The names refer to natural persons and legal entities owing to the state more than 150,000 euro and are in payment delays …
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Turkey demanded “NATO replaces Greek islets names with …numbers!”
We had seen it coming. That the NATO involvement in the Aegean would trigger anew Ankara’s appetite to bring back the focus on the so-called “Grey Zones in the Aegean”. And indeed. During the heated NATO talks last month about the deployment of the SNMG2 force aiming to stem the …
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Greek police arrests two ISIS suspects with Swedish passports & machetes in their luggage
Two people suspected to have links with the ISIS have been arrested in Alexandroupoli town in Northern Greece, near the Greek-Turkish borders. The two men were holders of Swedish passports and had one machete and military uniforms in their luggage. One is of Yemen origin and one from Bosnia. The …
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Greek & Serbian media reveal names and pictures of 2 suspects responsible for Paris Attacks
Greek and Serbian media revealed on Sunday the names of two men suspected to have been ISIS members who triggered the horrible Paris carnage on Friday night. The two men are believed to have traveled from Syria to Europe through Turkey and into Greece in early October. One of them …
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Greek Public Order Minister: “Terrorists targeted Olympiakos FC President, Shipowner, Siemens, Nea Dimokratia…”
Anti-terror Police managed a big blow against terrorists planning several attacks, Greek Minister for Public Order, Vassilis Kikilias, said on Thursday. In a joint press conference with the chief of Greek Police, the minister revealed that prominent shipowners, offices of multinational companies and political parties as well as the President …
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Here is Greece’s “National Responsibility” Government
At the very end, Greeks got neither a “national unity” government as Antonis Samaras had proposed, neither a “national co-responsibility” government as Evangelos Venizelos wanted. After four days of negotiations between Nea Dimocratia, PASOK and Democratic Left, Greeks got a “national responsibility” government. In a proclamation published together with the names …
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Slowly But Gradually Greeks Get Cabinet-Ministers: Rapanos Finance Minister, Avramopoulos…
Greek media reported that Samaras, Venizelos and Kouvelis have agreed upon the majority of the ministers to be apppointed. For some ministerial posts, appointments were delayed as the chosen-ones did not accept the positions. Vasssilis Rapanos will be Finance Minister, with alternate ministers Giorgos Zannias (caretaker FinMin in Pikrammenos gov’t), …
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