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Greeks protest against same-sex marriage, adoption reform
A protest against legalising same-sex marriage and adoption in Greece drew several thousand people in Athens on Sunday ahead of a debate in parliament next week. Some 4,000 people responded …
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Greek police arrest four after blast near ministry
Greek police on Saturday said they had arrested four men accused of possessing explosives, a week after a bomb exploded outside the labour ministry in Athens. The bomb exploded early …
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Greece rejects EU media freedom resolution
Greece on Thursday dismissed as “mudslinging” and “slander” a European Parliament resolution decrying a hostile media environment in the country which the body said poses a “very serious” threat to …
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European police arrest 15 in Cyprus sham marriage ring
European police arrested 15 members of an illegal EU migration ring in Cyprus last week that arranged marriages of convenience between Portuguese and Latvian women and Indian and Pakistani men, …
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Greece to introduce special measures to combat crowd violence in sport
Greece’s conservative government announced on Wednesday new measures to tackle crowd violence in sport, including a digital identification system to buy tickets for events. Sport in the country has been …
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Greek farmers vow to escalate protests
Greek farmers said Tuesday they would block highways and converge on Athens in their tractors in a bid to win benefit pledges from the government. Dozens of farmer federations decided …
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Greece and Australia among the deadliest wildfires of the 21st century
Blazing wildfires have claimed several lives around the world recently, Greece’s and Australia’s wildfires are among the deadliest this century. 2009: Australia, 179 dead On February 7, 2009, which became …
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Bomb explodes near Greek labour ministry, no casualties
An explosive device went off overnight in front of the Greek labour ministry in central Athens without causing any casualties, police said on Saturday. The explosion, which caused material damage, …
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Investors pounce on Athens airport IPO
The public sale of a 30-percent stake in Athens International Airport garnered strong demand, Greece’s finance minister said Friday, in a sign of investor confidence in the country’s recovering economy. …
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Two drown in migrant boat sinking: Greek coastguard
Greece’s coastguard on Wednesday said it had found the bodies of two asylum seekers believed to have drowned when a migrant boat sank near the island of Lesbos. Another 57 …