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Greece
Boutaris Defends Mosque Youth Prayers
Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris isn't backing down from giving permission to a group of students from the Muslim School of Komotini, in northern Greece, to visit and pray in Thessaloniki’s New (Yeni) Mosque – for the first time in...
Greece
New Industrial Gas Museum in Athens
The Athens gas works reopened its gates to the public on Jan. 27 as Athens's first Gas Museum, nearly 30 years after the operation was shut down.
The gas works were founded in 1857 in order to cover Athens’ need...
Economy
No Ho Ho, Bleak Greek Christmas
With a pay cut 40 percent and the end of a temporary contract as a computer teacher, Fivos Karalis, 32, said he was carefully watching what he spent this Christmas, but said he was still luckier than many Greeks....
Culture
A Dark Christmas Coming For Greece
With Greeks limping to the end of a fifth year of recession and readying for another, along with more pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions, many are foregoing Christmas celebrations or planning family gatherings with everyone chipping in...
Greece
Turkish Newspaper Zaman Athens' Exhibit
Zaman Turkish daily is celebrating its 25 years of circulation by organizing different events, including an exhibition running until Dec. 10 at the Technopolis Cultural Center in Athens.
The exhibition entitled Türkiye'de Zaman translates as Time in Turkey and features...
Economy
Greece's Drug Addicts Face Struggles During Crisis
Eli Pandi, 38, started using drugs when she was 14 to escape the pain of family issues. "There was a lot of pain and misery," she told the website SETimes. But through an Athens drug rehabilitation centre called Over...
Economy
Political VIP Bodyguards Will Patrol Athens Instead
ATHENS – The reassignment to regular duty of some 1,500 police officers who had been used as personal bodyguards by politicians and people deemed VIP’s by the government means a bigger presence of law enforcement in Greece’s capital, particularly...
Economy
Immigrant Detention Center To Be Set Up in Athens
ATHENS – Mayor George Kamminis said he is prepared for the capital city to host a holding center for illegal immigrants, one of a number to be set up in Greece to help stem the influx of people fleeing...
Economy
Yet Another Idea to Restore the Deteriorating Omonia Square
ATHENS – A hundred years ago, Omonia Square was filled with trees and benches and was a beckoning oasis in the middle of the city. Later, there was a fountain, before it was removed in 2000, disappearing just like...
Greece
Too Many Immigrants, So Greece Rounds Up the Usual Suspects
ATHENS – There aren’t many Greeks left in Omonia Square, which some years ago used to be a rotary with a fountain and greenery, but in recent years has become a Third World cement cesspool, an urban nightmare of...