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Greece to invest $28 billion in defence by 2036: govt sources
Greece, a member of NATO, is to invest around 26 billion euros ($28 billion) by 2036 in modernising its military capabilities, a defence ministry source said Monday. Conservative Prime Minister …
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Greece rides a weather ‘rollercoaster’
Greece is riding a weather “rollercoaster”, with weekend temperatures spiking to a record high for March, just ahead of a forecast bout of snow and frost, meteorologists said on Sunday. …
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Moody’s upgrades Greece credit rating, outlook stable
Ratings agency Moody’s on Friday upgraded Greece’s credit rating, pulling the country out of junk territory after its years of struggling to recover from a debt crisis. Along with the …
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Smell like a god: Ancient sculptures were scented, Danish study shows
Science has already proven that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were often painted in warm colours, and now a Danish study has revealed that some were also perfumed. “A …
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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 …