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The governing party of Greece’s conservative prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, was way ahead of the opposition in a general election on Sunday but falling short of the outright majority required to secure another term, setting the stage for another general election since Mr. Mitsotakis appeared to rule out any horse-trading to form a coalition government. […]
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Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of Greece has been accused of illegally pushing asylum seekers back at sea. He has acknowledged that the state’s intelligence service wiretapped an opposition leader. He has consolidated media control as press freedom in Greece has dropped to the lowest in Europe. It is the sort of thing that the guardians […]
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Since November 2021, Greece’s prime minister and the British Museum have been holding back-room talks about the potential return of at least some of the Parthenon Marbles, a collection of antique treasures that once decorated the famed pillared temple in Athens. The collection, which includes statues of Greek gods and carved friezes, was taken from Greece […]
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The Greek government did not respond to repeated requests for comment. But campaigning on Lesbos last week ahead of general elections on Sunday, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis defended his government’s “tough but fair” migration policies and boasted of a 90 percent drop in the arrival of “illegal migrants.” The government has consistently denied mistreating asylum […]
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In days gone by, it was possible to broach such subjects, albeit gently. But in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the Kremlin’s repression of dissent, the space for candid discussion has been sealed off. The Carnegie Moscow Center, for example, where I worked and was able to converse with members of the […]
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Goblin sharks are deep-sea fish whose frightening, protrusile jaws served as an inspiration for the terrifying creatures in the “Alien” movie franchise. Little is known about these elusive sharks, and sightings of them are extraordinarily rare. They are known to live in deep coastal waters all over the world but have never been found in […]
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A U.S. and Greek national who worked on Meta’s security and trust team while based in Greece was placed under a yearlong wiretap by the Greek national intelligence service and hacked with a powerful cyberespionage tool, according to documents obtained by The New York Times and officials with knowledge of the case. The disclosure is […]
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Other visa programs for foreigners with means remain intact. Amelia Guertin has been in the country on and off for the last year, living on a tourist visa while she applies for a long-term one. She arrived in Portugal after living in Hawaii, San Francisco and New York City, cities that felt “wildly unaffordable,” she […]
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The fire service in Greece started winding down a gruesome search on Friday at the scene of the country’s deadliest train crash on record as the authorities informed the relatives of some victims identified by their DNA and other families desperately sought information about missing loved ones. The crash occurred late Tuesday near the Vale […]
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The Greek government was supposed to install a safety system nearly three years ago that was designed to prevent the kind of head-on train collision that resulted this week in the worst railway disaster in the nation’s history. As a freight train and a passenger train barreled toward each other at high speeds on the […]
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After years of pandemic-forced cancellations, Athens last weekend hosted carnival, and scores of Greeks flocked in to celebrate. Vaios Vlachos and his girlfriend, who dressed up as marble busts, were among them before they rushed to catch a night train on Tuesday that would get them home in time for work the next morning. But […]
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At least 32 people were killed when a passenger train and a freight train collided in northern Greece, with an impact so intense that cranes were being used to remove wreckage in the search for survivors, a Greek fire service official said on Wednesday. The cause of the crash, which happened just before midnight on […]
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TEMPE, Greece — A passenger train collided with an oncoming freight train in northern Greece early on Wednesday, killing at least 32 people, officials from Greece’s Fire Service said. Multiple train cars derailed and at least three caught fire after the crash near Tempe, a small town about 235 miles north of Athens. Hospital officials […]
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Blinken to travel to Germany, raising possibility of meeting with Chinese counterpart | The Hill Skip to content FILE – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, attends a meeting in Nusa Dua on the Indonesian resort island of Bali Saturday, July 9, 2022. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has postponed a planned high-stakes weekend diplomatic […]
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The human rights chief of the European Union border agency said last year that it should stop operating in Greece because of serial abuses by Greek border guards, including violently pushing asylum seekers back to Turkey and separating migrant children from their parents, according to confidential documents reviewed by The New York Times. The E.U. […]
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