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Pamela Anderson supports Yanis Varoufakis on visit to Greece

Pamela Anderson stepped off the plane in Athens on Sunday for the premiere of her new television show, titled “It’s Show Time”. Asked if she knew any Greek words, she …

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Historic Cretan bridge collapses during storm [VIDEO]

Greece and Crete island in particular have been hit by waves of harsh wither storms that culminated over the weekend. Crete experienced heavy rainfalls, combined with low temperatures and strong …

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Horror on flight from Athens to Lemnos island [VIDEO]

Passengers on a Sky Express aircraft got a fright just 15 minutes after take-off. Lemnos FM 100 reports that a “deafening bang” shook the aircraft making it lose its balance …

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Greek government holds great expectations for Chinese input

Since 2008, the increasingly close ties between Greece and China have caught the attention of the world media and there has been plenty of speculation about where this ‘romance’ is …

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Scientists decide to increase monitoring of Methana Volcano near Athens

Greece is famous for its intense volcanic activity that has created impressive landscapes. Though the volcano at Santorini is the most famous, there are other volcanoes on the islands of …

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Parthenon Marbles were looted: Experts say there was no Ottoman edict allowing Lord Elgin to remove them

For years, the British Museum has claimed that there was an Ottoman ferman (edict) that allowed Lord Elgin to plunder the Acropolis and remove the Parthenon sculptures from the monument. …

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Prince Charles and Prince Harry expected to pay secret visit to Mount Athos

Mount Athos (Agion Oros), the oldest surviving monastic community in the world, dates back more than a thousand years to the Byzantine era and is steeped in tradition. Perhaps it …

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International Women’s Day conference explores 106 years of struggle

On March 8, 1857, the women workers in the New York Textiles and Tailors industry went on strike and demonstrations. They called for a reduction in working hours and a wage …

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BBC report casts focus on Macedonian Slavs as “invisible minority” of Greece

The Prespes Agreement may expressly leave no room for raising the existence of a “Macedonian minority” of North Macedonia origin living in Greece, however it is open for interpretation for …

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Petition launched to stop new building projects from “boxing” in the Acropolis

Athens is defined by a hotchpotch of layers as periods of the city’s history straddle over previous ones, merging in a convoluted way to present the modern-day capital’s present identity. …

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