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Tens of thousands of Greeks protest over Macedonia name row - France 24
More than 50,000 protesters massed in the streets of northern Greece's biggest city Thessaloniki on Sunday, police said, in a long-running row between Athens and Skopje over the use of the name Macedonia.
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Complex engineering and metal-work discovered beneath ancient Greek 'pyramid'
More than 4,000 years ago builders carved out the entire surface of a naturally pyramid-shaped promontory on the Greek island of Keros. They shaped it into terraces covered with 1,000 tonnes of specially imported gleaming white stone to give it the appearance of a giant stepped pyramid rising from the Aegean: the most imposing manmade structure in all the Cyclades archipelago.
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Turkey rages after 'coup' officer granted asylum in Greece
The Turkish foreign ministry on Saturday denounced a decision in Greece to grant asylum to a Turkish helicopter co-pilot, who fled the country after last year's failed coup, as "politically motivated" and warned of a negative impact on bilateral relations.
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Turks Fleeing To Greece Find Mostly Warm Welcome, Despite History
Sumeyye Nur and her elderly parents were driving outside Izmir, Turkey, last summer when two plain-clothes policemen pulled them over, demanding to know why her 75-year-old father owned a nice car. It was no ordinary stop. It was part of a crackdown after last year's failed military coup against the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Europe at Its Ugliest: The Refugee Scandal on the Island of Lesbos
As winter arrives, the situation on the Greek island of Lesbos is unsustainable. Conditions at the refugee camps are horrific and island residents are tired of being left in the lurch by Athens and the EU. A visit to ground zero of European ignominy. By Giorgos Christides and Katrin Kuntz.
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Archaeologists Find Lost Ancient Greek Temple Of Goddess Artemis
It took more than 100 years of searching but archaeologists have finally found a lost temple to the ancient Greek goddess Artemis. The Greek Ministry of Culture reported that a team has found the remains of the sanctuary near Amarynthos, a coastal town a couple of dozen miles northeast of Athens on the large Greek island of Euboea. Scientists and historians have spent more than a century looking for what is left of the temple, but an ancient text with inaccurate directions threw them off the trail.
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The Ancient Greeks May Have Deliberately Built Temples on Fault Lines
Then again, they may just have an awful lot of both. By Natasha Frost.
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Athens Riviera threatened by tanker oil spill (drone video footage)
Clean-up crews are scrambling to contain an oil spill from a Greek tanker as it menaces some of Athens’ most popular beaches. The vessel, Agia Zoni II, was carrying 2,500 tonnes of fuel when it sank off the island of Salamis on Sunday. Nearby beaches were soiled by the oil, but officials believed it could be contained given mild wind conditions.
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Greece could use Brexit to recover 'stolen' Parthenon art
In the early 1800s, a British ambassador took sculptures from the Parthenon back to England. Greece has demanded their return ever since. With Brexit, Greece might finally have the upper hand in the 200-year-old spat.
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After 8 years of austerity, Greece gets EU budget approval
After eight years of toil by the Greek people, the European Union's executive arm is recommending that Greece be taken off its list of budget offenders, a move it hopes will help the country to start tapping financial markets for money soon. Wednesday's proposal from the EU Commission to end the so-called "excessive deficit procedure" on Greece comes after a sharp improvement in the country's finances following years of spending cuts and tax increases...
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American tourist, 22, beaten to death on Greek island, eight suspects arrested
Bakari Henderson, 22, was beaten to death by a mob on a Greek island Friday. An American on a Greek island vacation after graduating from college was beaten to death by a mob and eight people have been arrested in the case, police said. Greek police said Saturday that the arrests in the beating death of Barkari Henderson, 22, of Austin, Texas, included six Serbian nationals.
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'We were so close,' says diplomat as another Cyprus reunification bid flops
The best chance in generations to end the partition of Cyprus collapsed in acrimony early on Friday, throwing the prospect of any reunification between Greek and Turkish Cypriots into disarray.
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Macedonia and Greece appear close to settling 27-year dispute over name
Skopje sends foreign minister to Athens for talks to end long-standing row between neighbouring states over Macedonia name
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The Greek word that can’t be translated
‘Love of honour’, its official translation, is a utilitarian yet insufficient attempt to convey the constellation of virtues squeezed into the word’s four syllables. By Stav Dimitropoulos.
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Greece's hotel owners want tourists not refugees
Bracing for a record tourist season, Greece is trying to lure back travelers to islands hit hardest by the refugee crisis. In doing so, though, hoteliers are spurning bids by aid groups to rent rooms to refugees.
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Greece train hits house after derailing, killing three
Three people have been killed and many more seriously injured after a passenger train derailed in northern Greece, officials say. The train, travelling from Athens, struck a house when it left the track near the city of Thessaloniki. A resident at the property said he had managed to jump from a balcony just before the train made impact.
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The X Factor of Ancient Athens
Everyday citizens became the judges of an ancient theatre prize that challenged popular opinion and rewarded subtlety and intelligence.
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The elevating mechanisms of the ancient Greeks
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Making Athens Great Again
How does a citizen respond when a democracy that prides itself on being exceptional betrays its highest principles? Plato despaired, but he also pointed the way to renewal. By Rebecca Newberger Goldstein.
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Greece calls for return of 'Elgin Marbles' to help fight rise of fascism in Europe
Greece has called for the return of the so-called Elgin Marbles from the British Museum as a symbolic act in the fight against anti-democratic forces seeking “the dissolution of Europe”. The Athens government, which decided against taking legal action against the UK last year, will instead renew diplomatic efforts with an offer to regularly loan some of the wonders of Ancient Greece to British institutions in exchange.
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