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Greek PM reshuffles cabinet after new train tragedy protests
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis reshuffled his cabinet on Friday, as he faces falling approval ratings and fresh protests over the nation’s worst rail tragedy. The move came a week …
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Karalis wins silver as Duplantis misses out on new world record
Greece’s Emmanouil Karalis, recent winner of the European indoor championships, took second place on Thursday with 6m ahead of Sam Kendricks of the United States who registered 5.90m. Pole vault …
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Greek MP questioned over gallery attack on ‘blasphemous’ art
A Greek lawmaker was questioned Monday after violently attacking artworks he considered blasphemous in one of Athens’s main art galleries. Nikolaos Papadopoulos broke into the National Gallery and smashed protective …
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Greek Supreme Court scraps mining magnate’s Romania extradition
Greece’s Supreme Court on Wednesday scrapped the planned extradition to Romania of French-Israeli mining magnate Beny Steinmetz to serve a prison sentence, the state Athens News Agency said. Steinmetz had …
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Schools reopen in Greece’s Santorini as quake activity drops
Schools in the Greek travel island of Santorini and other neighbouring islands reopened Tuesday, with residents returning after a month-long shutdown caused by intense seismic activity. A scientific committee monitoring …
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Greek parliament to approve new train tragedy investigation
Greece’s parliament was on Tuesday to approve an investigation into possible evidence tampering at the disaster site of the country’s worst train tragedy, which claimed 57 lives in 2023. The …
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ECHR condemns Cyprus for ‘failures’ in UK woman’s rape case
The European Court of Human Rights condemned Cyprus on Thursday for “various failures” and “prejudicial gender stereotypes” in its handling of a 2019 alleged gang-rape of a British woman. Michael …
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‘Unknown fuel’ found in Greek train fireball probe: investigators
State accident investigators probing the cause of Greece’s worst train crash on Thursday ruled out technical equipment and rolling stock for causing a huge fireball that erupted after impact, killing …
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New York’s Met museum returns stolen Greek bronze
Greece on Tuesday said it had recovered from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art a 2,600-year-old bronze artifact stolen from ancient Olympia in the 1930s. The Greek culture ministry in …
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Santorini seismic activity down but schools stay shuttered: Greece
Seismic activity on the Aegean Sea hotspot of Santorini has been “decreasing” over recent days but schools will remain closed for another week, according to authorities on the Greek island. …