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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 …
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Greek American congressman Gus Bilirakis declares: ‘It will always be Constantinople to me’
Greek American congressman Gus Bilirakis has taken a stance, declaring that the city today widely referred to as Istanbul “will always be Constantinople” to him. “There are only approximately 1,200 …
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Greek tycoon Aristotle Onassis’ legacy lives on and can be bought, sold or chartered
The glamour years of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis may have long gone, however his property still carries some of the hey-day charm of the tycoon. Here are some items …
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British Labour Party and Varoufakis’ MeRA25 join forces
UK Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn and Greek MeRA25 leader Yanis Varoufakis have reportedly agreed to join forces and work towards a common agenda for ‘Europe and Beyond’. The local Greek …
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Doda speaks about divorce to Athina Onassis, and points to ‘fake news’
Alvaro de Miranda Neto or Doda has spoken for the first time since the announcement of his divorce from iconic billionaire Greek heiress Athina Onassis in 2016. “We were married …
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Eurobarometer: Greeks don’t think their voice counts in the EU
A significant increase in young people with a pro-European mind-set cast a vote in the 2019 European elections, according to an in-depth Eurobarometer survey across all 28 member states. Conducted …