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Greece hands over Olympic flame to Tokyo 2020 organisers in 'significantly
Updated : 5 years, 12 months ago IST
Athens [Greece], Mar 19 (ANI): Greece handed over the Olympic flame to Tokyo 2020 organisers on Thursday at an event which was 'significantly scaled-down' due to coronavirus pandemic.
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Greece reports its first Covid-19 death
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Athens [Greece], Mar 12 (ANI): Greece on Thursday has reported the first death due to coronavirus as a number of European Union countries, including, Spain and Austria have seen a spurt in COVID-19 cases.
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Amid migrant influx from Turkey, EU leaders praise Greece as Europe's 'shi
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Athens [Greece], Mar 5 (ANI): European Union leaders have praised Greece for acting as a Europe's "shield" in deterring migrants at a time when the country's northern borders with Turkey have witnessed days of clashes between police and migrants desperate to cross over.
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Greece elects first-ever female president following parliamentary vote
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Athens [Greece], Jan 22 (Sputnik/ANI): Greece's Parliament elected Katerina Sakellaropoulou, former head of the State Council, as the country's first female president on Wednesday.
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Libya's Haftar secretly flies to Greece ahead of Berlin summit
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Tripoli [Libya], Jan 17 (ANI): Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar secretly flew to Athens on Thursday for talks as Greece criticised its exclusion from a UN-backed peace conference in Berlin this weekend.
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12 killed as migrant boat sinks near Greek island
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Athens [Greece], Jan 12 (ANI): At least 12 people were killed after a migrant smuggling boat sank near the island of Paxos in western Greece on Saturday, authorities said.
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Gunmen abduct 8 crew members from Greek oil tanker in Cameroon port
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Athens [Greece], Jan 1 (ANI): Armed men attacked a Greek oil tanker anchored two nautical miles (3.7 km) off Limboh port in Cameroon and abducted eight crewmen, including the vessel's Greek captain on Tuesday, informed the Greek Shipping Ministry.
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Greeks alter Christmas meal menu due to price hikes
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Athens [Greece], Dec. 25 (ANI): Pork and Turkey have been the main protagonists in a typical Christmas meal in Greece. But the menu, this year, is changing due to the price hike of main ingredients, local market experts and consumers told Xinhua here on Tuesday.
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41 migrants found alive in refrigerated truck in northern Greece
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Athens [Greece], Nov 4 (ANI): 41 migrants were found alive inside a refrigerated truck after it was intercepted during a routine check on a highway in northern Greece, police said on Monday
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Greece: Migrants set fire to refugee camp; 2 killed
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Athens [Greece], Sept 30 (ANI): At least two people were killed after a fire broke out in an overcrowded refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, local media reported on Sunday.
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Kyriakos Mitsotakis sworn in as Greece's new PM
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Athens [Greece], July 8 (ANI): Centre-right candidate Kyriakos Mitsotakis was sworn-in as the new prime minister of Greece on Monday, a day after his New Democracy party won a landslide victory in the country's parliamentary elections, putting an end to the rule of leftist Syriza governme
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Greek PM's ruling party concedes defeat in parliamentary polls
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
Athens [Greece], Jul 8 (ANI): Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Sunday conceded defeat to his opponent Kyriakos Mitsotakis after exit polls showed the latter's centre-right New Democracy (ND) party on track to win the parliamentary elections in the nation.
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