The fire spread to the suburbs of Penteli, Anthousa and Gerakas, which is home to some 29 000 people
We no longer need traditional leadership; decisions that affect communities should involve all the people concerned
A new government is getting ‘tough’ on immigration – but local organisations provide crucial support
The deal hammered out by eurozone ministers is by no means the end of the tragedy as Greece’s future still looks dismal.
Talks appear to be stalling between EU, IMF negotiators and Greek officials.
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/ 16 November 2010
Dozens of far-right activists and local residents threw eggs and taunted Muslim immigrants as they gathered to pray in a central square for Eid.
Firefighters claimed victory on Tuesday over a devastating wildfire that ravaged the outskirts of Athens.
Firefighters were beating back wildfires on Monday that have swept through homes and huge swathes of forest near Athens, forcing thousands to flee.
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/ 18 December 2008
Police guarding the Greek Parliament on Thursday fired tear gas at 5 000 protesters taking part in the latest rally in Athens.
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/ 17 December 2008
Greek demonstrators on Wednesday put up two banners around the base of the Acropolis to protest the police killing of a teenager on December 6.
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/ 16 December 2008
The unrest that has gripped Greece for nearly two weeks has also complicated efforts to service the country’s debt, it was reported on Tuesday.
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/ 10 December 2008
Protesters threw fire bombs at police outside Parliament on Wednesday during a strike which paralysed Greece and piled pressure on the government.
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/ 9 December 2008
Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis began emergency talks on Tuesday on ways to halt rioting that is threatening the country’ government.
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/ 8 December 2008
Hundreds of students threw fire bombs at police in the north of Greece on Monday in a third day of riots sparked by the fatal shooting of a teenager.
From its dangerously empty coffers in the late 1970s to the multibillion-dollar revenues from the Beijing 2008 Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has managed a remarkable commercial transformation of its prime product, the Olympic Games.
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/ 14 February 2008
Two powerful earthquakes jolted southern Greece on Thursday, sparking a rush for safety by panicked residents, but Europe’s seismic capital appeared to escape major damage. The main quake measured at least 6,5 on the Richter scale with its epicentre just off the southern coast, according to Greek experts.
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/ 14 February 2008
An earthquake shook southern Greece just after noon (10am GMT) on Thursday and was felt as far away as the Egyptian capital, Cairo. The Athens Geodynamic Institute said it was off the southern tip of the Peloponnese and measured 6,5 on the Richter scale.
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/ 13 February 2008
A 24-hour nationwide strike against the Greek government’s economic and pension reforms crippled transport on Wednesday and shut down public services. Thousands of people also gathered in Athens to protest against reforms the ruling conservatives say will make Greece’s economy more competitive and rescue the ailing pension system.
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/ 31 January 2008
The head of the Orthodox Church of Greece, Archbishop Christodoulos, who died on January 28 aged 69 after a seven-month battle with liver cancer, was a charismatic orator who captivated and divided Greek society with his strong views on nationalism and church-state relations.
A powerful earthquake measuring 6,5 on the Richter Scale hit the Peloponnese region of southern Greece early on Sunday, the geodynamics institute of the Athens observatory reported. There were no immediate reports of casualties. Greece is the European country most prone to earthquakes, with seismic activity accounting for half of the continent’s tremors.
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/ 19 December 2007
A pedestrian has been charged with damaging property after walking over a car that was parked illegally on the sidewalk in Greece’s congested capital. ”I could not get past the vehicle, a four-wheel drive, which had been parked right on the pavement so I got angry and just walked over it, slightly denting its hood,” said Tasos Pouliasis.
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/ 4 December 2007
A Greek Orthodox nunnery was turned into a marijuana plantation by two men posing as gardeners for elderly nuns, police said on Tuesday. Acting on a tip-off, officers raided the nunnery in the village of Filiro, near the northern port city of Thessaloniki, and found more than 30 large cannabis plants in the enclosed garden.
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/ 27 October 2007
An earthquake measuring five on the Richter scale on Saturday shook the Greek island of Zakynthos, though no damage was immediately reported, the Geodynamic Observatory Institute in Athens said. The epicentre of the quake, which struck at 8.32am local time was in the Ionian Sea about 330km south-west of Athens, the institute said.
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/ 17 September 2007
Greece’s conservatives on Monday faced the tough task of tackling reforms needed to catch up with euro zone countries after winning a second mandate with only a narrow majority in Sunday’s election. Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis, praised by Brussels for his economic record, vowed to push on with reforms.
Forest fires that have devastated southern Greece and claimed 63 lives in eight days died down on Friday, but emergency services feared a new heatwave could rekindle some blazes. ”Things are going well,” a fire-service spokesperson said, adding that the fires were no longer threatening populated areas.
More wildfires have broken out in Greece and others rekindled as anger rose over the government’s handling of catastrophic blazes that have laid waste to vast stretches of the Greek countryside and killed at least 64 people. The fires are dominating political debate before parliamentary elections set for September 16.
Forest fires that have killed at least 63 people in Greece raged for a fifth day on Tuesday, although they were not threatening any villages, a firefighters’ spokesperson said. ”At the moment there is no threat to the villages, but the direction of the wind is impossible to predict,” the spokesperson said.
At least six people died and thousands of hectares of forest were consumed in fires racing through Greece’s southerly Peloponnese peninsula on Friday, officials said. Four people were found dead near a hotel north of the town of Areopolis, about 300km south of Athens, and two firefighters also died, the fire brigade and police said.
Firefighters continued to battle dozens of fires on Tuesday in north-western Greece that have been raging for a ninth consecutive day as scorching temperatures hit the country. Meanwhile, Spain was on Tuesday sending more firefighters and helicopters to combat huge wildfires on the Canary Islands.
Massive forest fires continued to rage out of control across Greece on Friday, burning through forests and entire towns in dozens of areas across the country. Hundreds of firefighters, soldiers and volunteers were still tackling more than 100 fires, 15 of which were still burning out of control in various areas of the country.
Wildfires swept through Greece on Thursday, killing two people and destroying homes after days of record high temperatures that led to at least nine heatstroke deaths and extensive power cuts. An explosion in a power substation in Thessaloniki caused power failures of up to six hours.
AC Milan beat Liverpool 2-1 with two goals from Filippo Inzaghi to win the European Cup for the seventh time on Wednesday and avenge their defeat on penalties by the English team in the final two years ago. Liverpool, who looked down and out, pulled a goal back in the 89th minute with a Dirk Kuyt header but could not repeat their famous Istanbul fight-back.