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Vartholomaios asks Iran to free Greek journalist held in Tehran
: Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios, the spiritual leader of Orthodox Christians, yesterday issued a request to the Iranian government to release Greek journalist Iason Athanasiadis, who was arrested last week as he was about to leave Tehran... |
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Number of cases up to 88
: Two men, aged 18 and 27, have become Greece's latest swine flu sufferers, taking the total cases in the country to 88, the Health Ministry said yesterday... |
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Newspaper closure
: Theodoros Angelopoulos and Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, who last week announced their decision to withdraw from involvement in the media, said yesterday that they would return the license for their City 99.5 radio station to the state... |
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Korydallos brawl
: Four inmates of Attica's Korydallos Prison were in the hospital yesterday, two with serious injuries, following a violent brawl on the jail's premises late on Sunday... |
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Drug find
: Police in Thessaloniki yesterday were questioning a Lithuanian national arrested after border guards discovered more than 7 kilograms of heroin hidden in his suitcase... |
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Weapons haul
: A 37-year-old foreign woman and her 17-year-old son yesterday were being questioned by police in Thessaloniki for failing to immediately report the discovery of a rucksack containing a large quantity of weapons... |
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Disputing the outcome of presidential elections...
An Iranian national with a zipper taped across his mouth joins a rally outside the Iranian Embassy in Athens yesterday, the latest show of support for Iranians disputing the outcome of presidential elections. |
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Less pomp strikes the right chord
Greek President Karolos Papoulias made an excellent call when he decided to make changes to the annual celebrations for the restoration of democracy in Greece, on July 23.
Papoulias has decided to do away with the usual evening gathering, complete with a substantial buffet, and replace it with an event that will be held early in the day and which will be attended by key public figures who will not be accompanied by their wives or husbands.
The customary reception held at the Presidential Palace in central Athens has long since deviated from its origins and been turned into little more than an inane parade of socialites and VIPs from the political world. This kind of pomp and glamour have little place in such times, during a period when financial difficulties and uncertainty are plaguing the people of this country. |
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Greece in the world
Greece's relationship with the rest of the world is something of a see-saw oscillation between self-absorption and extroversion, between navel-gazing and punching above its weight in the international arena. On the one hand, this is the result of the intense local politics in which all Greeks are involved and, on the other, of the demands placed on the country by its responsibilities as a member of international organizations. Greece's current presidency of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), like its presidency of the European Union in the first half of 2003, is purely the result of chance. |
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