Municipalities on the the islands of Lesvos and Chios decided to take counter-measures as they categorically reject the government plans to requisite public and private properties and land in order to construct the new migration centers. The Regional government went even further and cut the dialogue with Athens. In emergency …
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Researchers have been calling for an official name to avoid confusion around the virus.
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Holden Matthews, 22, says he torched the churches in Louisiana to raise his profile as a musician.
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An outbreak of African Swine Fever, an infectious disease which is usually deadly for pigs but harmless to humans, in the north-east of Greece, has added another headache to EU policymakers in Brussels. Infected by the infectious disease were some 30 animals in a small farm in Serres, Northern Greece. …
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Former coalition partner of the SYRIZA government has claimed that ex Φinance Minister Yanis Varoufakis had agreed with German counterpart Wolfgang Schaeuble on Grexit. “Greece would receive 80 billion euros and leave the eurozone,” Panos Kammenos said on Monday night in an interview with ANT1 TV. “Varoufakis had agreed with …
Read More »Protests in British Museum: Greek students for the Return of Parthenon Marbles
High school students from Crete and Corinth held peaceful protests in the British Museum demanding the return of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece. The students opened Greek flags in front of the Parthenon sculptures and shouted the slogans and sang popular songs. They handed letters to the Musuem Director and …
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