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Greek election deals bitter blow to leftist ex-PM

Greece’s leftist former prime minister Alexis Tsipras, who nearly crashed his country out of the eurozone in 2015, has been left reeling by electoral defeat, which he conceded Tuesday had …

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Women still struggling with boys’ club of Greek politics

As the credits rolled on Greek television’s long-awaited election debate between the party leaders, one thing united them – they were all men. While the three battled for three hours …

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Greece bans party linked to neo-Nazi group from May vote

Greece’s Supreme Court on Tuesday banned a party founded by a jailed member of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn group from contesting the May 21 general election. The far-right Hellenes party …

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Long ignored, Greek Holocaust survivors are finally heard

The pain wells up inside Naki Bega as she remembers being herded onto a train to Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazi’s most notorious extermination camp. They “threw us into (cattle) wagons with …

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Greek mother accused of killing daughters goes on trial

Roula Pispirigou, who is being held in a high-security prison, faces trial on Monday for the “attempted premeditated homicide” and “premeditated homicide” of her eldest daughter. She has denied all …

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Celebrated Greek cheesemakers brought low by inflation

On his bougainvillaea-covered farm on the Greek island of Naxos, Yannis Karganis milks his sheep, wondering anxiously how he will cope with soaring costs and keep his cheesemaking business afloat. …

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