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Ferry headed to Crete catches fire, over a thousand people evacuated

A Greek ferry heading to Chania in Crete and carrying over a thousand people has been evacuated after a major fire broke out on-board. The incident occurred in the early …

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Fire breaks out on passenger ferry in Greece overnight [WATCH]

The 1,016 people onboard Eleftherios Venizelos had a night from hell, as the ANEK Lines passenger ferry caught fire in the early hours of Wednesday (Greece time) while travelling to …

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Greece and China to expand tourism and culture alliance

China and Greece signed a memorandum of collaboration during the Beijing summit on Monday in the framework of China’s ‘One Belt, One Road’ initiative. During the press conference following the …

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City of Kavala welcomes 30 million euro resort investment

Kavala in northern Greece is set to become home of one of Greece’s most high-end resorts, a project estimated to cost more than 30 million euros. The resort, located at …

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Patmos Religious Music Festival kicks off today

Acclaimed conductor Alkis Baltas will be directing the annual Festival of Religious Music on Patmos island this year. For the 17th year the beautiful eastern Mediterranean island will be hosting …

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George Calombaris brings moussaka and avgolemono on board

Australia’s most popular Greek Cypriot chef has once more partnered with Qatar Airways, this time to create a Greek inspired in-flight dining menu set to kick off on 1 October. …

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Julia Banks to quit Parliament over leadership spill

Liberal backbencher Julia Banks announced that she will not contest the Chisholm seat in the next elections, expressing her frustration over last week’s leadership crisis. In her strongly-worded statement, the …

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84-year-old man from Crete enters Uni with flying colours

A tireless and sharp papou from Crete has made his lifetime dream real by getting accepted to Greece’s History and Archaeology university faculty in Rethymno, Crete. Dimitris Moudatsakis, 84, has …

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Squadron Leader Nikolaos Vasileiou killed in aircraft accident

The Hellenic Air Force announced in a statement that a two-seater T-2 Buckeye plane crashed was seven nautical miles north of Sparta at 8.50 a.m yesterday during a free-fall exercise. …

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Drinking with Thracians

I love crossing borders, whether official ones with their lines and barriers, or ‘Schengen’ borders, which give the dangerous illusion that intra-European Union crossings matter as or less than those …

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