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Daily Kathimerini published on Wednesday a picture revealed the damage sustained to the right side of the stern of the Turkish frigate “Kemal Reis” during the collision with Greek frigate “Limnos” on August 12. The captain of the Kemal Reis had sought to obstruct the Limnos, prompting the Greek ship …

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A faux pas or a picture from the near future? Stage II of Greek government plans to tackle the Migration problem? Will Greece set up closed pre-departure or detentions center for migrants on uninhabited islands? Maybe intention and a trick to scare off future arrivals from Turkey? Or just a …

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A family of swans are proudly swimming along the shore of a beach on the island of Skiathos. Beach goers grab their mobile phones and shoot pictures of the cute bird family. However, when a tourist comes much too close, father swan gets angry and sets to defend his family …

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Two days of heavy rainfalls and powerful winds have caused unprecedented damages in Chania Prefecture on the island of Crete. Roads collapsed, landslides brought rocks and mud on the road network, trees were uprooted, homes and businesses were flooded, and even fish landed at the shores. Many motorists were trapped …

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Greece’s Lord of the Rings, Golden athlete Lefteris Petrounias posted a picture from the bed where he lies just hours after the surgery in his left shoulder. The surgery was conducted in France on Monday morning, just a couple of days after Petrounias won his third Golden Medal in a …

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Relaxed, with a string of worry beads – kompoloi – in his hands, a Greek unionist steps one foot on the Monument of the Unknown Soldier in front of the Greek Palriament. The unionist from powerful GENOP-DEH of workers at Public Power Corporation (DEH) is obviously tired. Together with his …

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A provocatively beautiful picture. A man with his cat in an Athens bus after midnight. The picture was shot by photographer Victoria Alex and posted on Facebook on March 18th. She wrote a few sentences to this awesome contact. Passengers in Athens buses after midnight may be born in June …

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Greece train crash: At least three people died and seven were injured when a passenger train derailed in Northern Greece and literally ripped through a house on Saturday night. The Intercity I/C 58 with 70 passengers and 5 crew members was traveling from Athens to Thessaloniki. The derail occurred at …

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Member of the international Search And Rescue force found wreckage belonging to the Egypt Air Flight 804, the Airbus A320 that crashed into the sea in the early morning hours of Thursday. The wreckage were two yellow items floating 100 nautical miles south west of the last position of the …

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Let’s take a break. Let’s talk about the famous and much praised “European Values”, the rule of law, democracy, freedom, dignity and something they call “Human Rights”, I think. Yes, let’s talk about “European Values”, when EU countries close borders and leave thousands of war refugees stranded. Comments section is …

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A Scottish tourist on Greek vacation had a close encounter of the other kind: a strange sea monster happily swimming off the coast near Parga in Western Greece. According to Fox News, Harvey Robertson from Scotland was on a boat cruise off the coast of Parga, sailing through sea caves …

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Musician Pavlos Fyssas is dying in the arms of his girlfriend – just minutes after the deadly stabbing by Giorgos Poupakias on Septermber 17th in Keratsini.  Somebody takes a picture -and sells it to the media. Sunday newspaper Proto Thema publishes this picture on its front page. As soon as …

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This is my very cheerful company in the morning. Gender: Male. Age: 1 year old. Color: Yellow. Feather style: perfect styled layers with five to six thin brushes of black on the head. Species: domestic canary Name: Kitrinoulis (Yellowish). I call him Agoraki (Little boy) Main attributes: curious, chirpy and  …

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It is not unprecedented. It has happened in the past. Only that this time things got really out of control. Like the wildfires that hit Greece every summer. Monks of the Esfigmenou monastery hurled self-made molotov cocktail bombs against the police and the court baillif that had come to excecute …

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Inmates in Korydallos prison come and go in their cells whenever they want. Pictures from prison security camera, show the midnight walk of a prisoner: He climbs down to the yard from the cell window, walks a couple of steps, collects some items apparently thrown in the yard by accomplices …

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Greek Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras admitted in an interview that also he was not exemption to the old Greek tradition: to buy services and goods without asking and/or receiving a receipt. A practice that helped vendors and other professionals to steal from the state the Value Added Tax and declare much lower income …

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A plastic bag left in front of a store. The goodies carefully wrapped in foil. A simple note: “Bread and Cheese (Clean)”. Somebody left a modest meal for somebody who cannot afford to cover a basic need: food. A gesture of compassion by an unknown somebody for a hungry soul. A jobless, a homeless…  The …

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 There has been a lot of talk about people digging deep inside garbage bins to find food, mainly low-pensioners -in Greece of 2012, in Greece of European Union and the Euro zone. I personally have wondered several times, why people hang plastic bags with old bread on one of the garbage bins in …

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Internet users from Greece are able to admire the Greek Elections 2012 logo created by Google. As the rest of the world cannot see it, here it is….

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 That was a weird day for many traders watching Bloomberg currency ticker featuring a post-euro …Drachma. A blinking XGD code. However those typing the code could not get much information. “The test was visible to a few customers” Bloomberg said in a statement explaining that it had tested a number …

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