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Police deployed after demonstrators occupy Greek consulate in Berlin
A handful of people forced their way into the Greek consulate in Berlin on Wednesday, prompting staff to call police, authorities in the German capital said. The protesters refused to leave the building voluntarily, a police spokesman said. Eight men and a woman were removed from the premises and police declared the incident over by the early afternoon. Further details on the incident were not given. Hard-left activists had called online for a protest at the consulate in support of Dimitris Koufontinas, a member of the Revolutionary Organization 17 November guerilla group, who has been on hung...
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Greece #metoo: Rape accusations against prominent actor and National Theater director finally lead to arrest
The building of the Greek National Theatre in central Athens. Image by George E. Koronaios via Wikimedia, CC0 1.0. A prominent figure of the Greek cultural establishment, Dimitris Lignadis, was arrested on February 20 on charges of rape, as Greek society learns to challenge the traditional acceptance of impunity for perpetrators of sexual abuse of women and children. The 56-year-old Greek actor and director, who also headed the country's prestigious National Theatre, was arrested in Athens on February 20, and on February 22 appearedin front of an investigator for a hearing on the details of th...
Global Voices
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Erdogan accuses Greece of pushing back migrants
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Greece of turning back migrants who arrive by sea in comments at a conference on migration at a university in Izmir on Monday. Erdogan said everyone knew that "neighbour Greece" was behind such practices. Turkey repeatedly says this to the world but the statements go "in one ear and out the other," he said. There were nearly 9,000 pushbacks in the Aegean Sea in 2020 alone, he said. Pushing migrants back to their ports of origin or into international waters is illegal under international and EU law. Erdogan also accused EU border agency Frontex of ...
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Microbiologist: Cold weather may help Athens in battle against virus
A period of cold weather over the past few days could help the greater Athens area reduce its number of coronavirus cases, a Greek microbiologist told the broadcaster Skai on Wednesday. "We're hoping that the lockdown is even more effective due to the cold weather: People stay home, there's less movement, less contact," said Alkiviadis Vatopoulos. However, he said that a strict lockdown that's been in place for a week may still be extended. "From a health point of view, that would be safer," he added. The lockdown affecting the area's 4 million inhabitants is currently in place until the end o...
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Greece hit by snowy weather with Acropolis briefly covered in white
Cold front Medea has hit Greece resulting in heavy snowfall and winds, with problems especially in the north and centre of the country. Snow also briefly covered the Acropolis in Athens, but didn't last long with temperatures around zero degrees Celsius, state television ERT reported on Monday. Meanwhile, in the north of the country temperatures dropped to minus 15 degrees over night and most ferry connections had to be cancelled due to strong winds, the coastguard said. There was an energy outage on the northern island group of the Sporades, as falling trees cut power lines to the mainland, t...
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Relationship still budding for Georgia QB JT Daniels and coach Todd Monken
ATHENS, Ga. — JT Daniels and Todd Monken talk about their relationship like a courtship. It was based on looks and expectations in the beginning, but it’s growing into something more meaningful and just starting to flourish. The only question now is how long it will last. Georgia’s quarterback and offensive coordinator were both a little wishy-washy about the latter part. There were no definitive declarations that Daniels definitely will be back as the Bulldogs’ signal-caller next year, or Monken as play-caller, for that matter. But there also seems to be a genuine sense of mutual admiration a...
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US, Germany demand Turkey end 'provocation' against Greece
Washington (AFP) - Turkey's two key Western allies, the United States and Germany, on Tuesday urged it to pull back a ship it has returned to waters contested with Greece, with Washington denouncing the "calculated provocation."The Turkish navy said Sunday that the Oruc Reis exploration vessel was heading back to energy-rich eastern Mediterranean waters between the Greek island of Crete and Cyprus, weeks after it left amid an agreement for talks.In a strongly worded statement, the State Department said the US "deplores" the decision by Turkey and noted that Greece "asserts jurisdiction" over a...
AFP
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Pompeo urges Greece, Turkey to resolve Mediterranean row
Athens (AFP) - The United States on Monday called on Greece and Turkey to find "good solutions" to a tense Mediterranean territorial dispute after the NATO neighbours agreed to hold talks.Greece and Turkey have spent weeks at loggerheads after Ankara sent exploration vessels into disputed, potentially resource-rich waters in a crisis that roped in other European powers and raised concern about a wider escalation."We hope the exploratory talks not only get kicked off right, but it's important that they're resolved in a way that delivers outcomes that each of the two nations find more than accep...
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