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Stray dog from Pyrgos, Greece, saves lives of patients in Switzerland
The story of Candy, a stray dog from Pyrgos, in the Peloponnese, has gone viral. Candy was found several years ago as a stray pup by an animal welfare group. …
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Australia moves quietly on Greek warships sale; with White House blessings
The Australian defence ministry has moved forward on the possible sale of the Adelaide class FFG frigates to Greece, according to a report in the Australian Defence Magazine. Greece is …
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Greek officials send respects to friends and families of US shootings
The Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday posted a message on Twitter concerning the mass shooting at a Walmart store at the US border city of El Paso on …
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Ancient Greek skull found in Turkey shows evidence of neurosurgery performed 2,200 years ago
Archaeologists carrying out excavations at the Ancient Greek city of Euromus dating to the 5th century BC, in the area now occupied by Turkey found a skull with marks indicating …
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Greece’s Hellenic Air Force Daedalus team wins awards in UK international air show
The Greek team of the Hellenic Air Force (HAF) was awarded a prize at the 2019 Royal Navy International Air Day that took place in the United Kingdom from the …
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Ex-Trump aide Papadopoulos heads to Greece to get $10,000 amid claims of a CIA or FBI set-up
Former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos on Sunday said he is returning to Greece to retrieve $10,000 that he suspects was handed to him as part of a CIA or …
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Letter: Protest against Albanian vandalism
The Panepirotic Federation of Australia condemns the recent dynamiting of the monument erected in the Greek minority village of Krania to honour Thymios Liolis, an ethnic Greek who fought in …
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Ethnic Greek Thymios Liolis war monument vandalised in Northern Epirus
On Wednesday 24 July 2019, the Greek minority village of Krania in Albania was rocked by the sound of explosions. Suspected ultra-nationalist, irredentist Albanian groups attacked and dynamited the monument …
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Incoming British PM Boris Johnson, lover of Greece, can recite the Iliad in Ancient Greek but won’t return the Parthenon Marbles
Boris Johnson has become the new prime minister of the UK. Standing outside Downing Street, he gave a speech filled with patriotic pronouncements and promised to defy “the doubters, the …
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Shipping heir Stavros Niarchos and businesswoman Dasha Zhukova announce engagement
Russian-American businesswoman and art collector Dasha Zhukova, 38, and Greek billionaire shipping heir Stavros Niarchos, 33, are engaged after two years. They announced their engagement in a star-studded birthday party …