Greece
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Greek police raid illegal distillery, seize 105,000 lt of bootleg tsipouro
According to the police statement, the distillery had been operating from 2010.
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Athens struggling with new electronic metro tickets
Only six barriers working with one more to be activated by the end of the year.
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Exciting times ahead for Athens’ Four Seasons franchise
Leading hotelier Sam Ioannidis appointed general manager of the Four Seasons Astir Palace Hotel Athens.
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Golden “passports to the afterlife”
The beauty and mystery of the ‘lamellae orphicae’ of Ancient Greece.
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8 ancient Roman shipwrecks discovered near Naxos island
“Those remains suggest the reef could be a rich site for learning more about sea trade in the Classical world,” archaeologists say.
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Tsipras among the world’s top-10 ‘Hottest Heads of State’
Malcolm Turnbull ranks 11th, while Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos is #196.
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Turkey claims Aegean islets
Turkish Foreign Minister mentions the Imia conflict and tells the Parliament that the options are diplomacy or war.
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One in three Greeks deprived of basic material goods
Only Romania and Bulgaria fared worse than Greece among EU countries, a Eurostat report revealed.
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No more free plastic grocery bags in Greece
A new waste reduction initiative to decrease the use of plastic bags will be put into place from January.
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New bailout program for Greece?
Details of Greece’s bailout program update, as agreed between the Tsipras government and the creditors, include 82 prior actions.