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Vessel reports missile attack off Yemen’s coast: security firms

A vessel reported coming under a missile attack off Yemen’s southern coast on Monday while transiting the strategic Bab al-Mandeb strait, security agencies said. Yemen’s Huthi rebels, who have repeatedly …

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Gunman kills three at Greek shipping company: police source

A former employee of a Greek shipping company shot dead three people including its owner before killing himself on Monday in a coastal suburb of Athens, police said. The shooter, …

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Greece’s Olympic Stadium to reopen by April: prime minister

The Olympic Stadium in Athens, shut down last year over roof safety concerns, will reopen by April, the Greek prime minister said Sunday. “The stadium will reopen from the end …

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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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