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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2009.06.006 by Kyriaki Remoundou 1, Phoebe Koundouri 1, Areti Kontogianni 2, Paulo A.L.D. Nunes 3 and Michalis Skourtos 2 1. Department of International and European Economic Studies, Athens...
Athens - The Greek government shut down a detention centre on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos on Monday, after months of criticism from the United Nations refugee agency about conditions facing migrants housed there. We...
Ian Robert Smith is all at sea on a ferry from Thessaloniki to Rhodes STANDING on the dock at Thessaloniki on a balmy June evening, I watch the makings of a classic ferry journey unfurl. Arriving in northern Greece, bound for...
We’re Levantines … hold your head up high and say, ‘Yes, I am. What of it? Byzantine and Ottoman…’ These are the words of Lev- ent effendi, a dignified out-of-work teacher, a ‘Turk’ who turns out to have been born to a Greek...
Athens - At least eight people were reported dead, all women and children, after the vessel they were travelling on capsized in the eastern Aegean, the Athens News Agency (ANA) reported. Greek coast guard officials rescued nine...
The Greek Island of Ikaria Best Beaches and Resorts Guide Tiny Ikaria offers a glimpse of what Greece was like before mass tourism arrived. The birthplace of Dionysos, God of wine, still intoxicates with its unspoilt charm...
BERLIN - Creating a work of art that will stand right next to the famed Brandenburg Gate in Berlin must be quite a challenge. The presence of history is strong and the symbolic connotations of the monument so imposing as to...
• Mood shifts between neighbouring countries • New PM keen to forge new ties with former enemy When three Greeks opened the Island of Mastic in Izmir, the once famously cosmopolitan town that many of their relatives had hailed...
Saint Nectarius was born in Selyvria of Thrace on October 1, 1846. After putting himself through school in Constantinople with much hard labour, he became a monk on Chios in 1876, receiving the monastic name of Lazarus; because...
3pm today migrants burnt two cells. 900 people are being held, including minors. One 12 year old doesn't want to leave his father, and so he is still held, despite an offer to release (abandon?) him on his own! Fire brigade...
