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People 4 years ago

'Our Mikis has gone': 'Zorba the Greek' composer Theodorakis dies at 96

A towering man with a brooding presence and a shock of wavy hair, Theodorakis's work evoked a progressive, democratic vision of the world, though his political struggles reflected a darker side of Greece rarely seen by visitors.

Environment 4 years ago

'Heaven to hell': Greek beekeepers lament tradition lost to fire

On the scorched earth, dozens of blackened rings mark all that remains of beehives that dotted the once verdant hillsides outside the village of Voutas on Greece's Evia island.

Environment 4 years ago

'I'm lost': Greek farmer overcome after fire burns goat herd

Stunned, Kostis Angelou wanders between the corpses of his goats, all 372 of them burnt by a fire that devoured forests on Evia island in Greece.

World 4 years ago

Hundreds flee, homes destroyed as forest fires ravage Greek island

Blazes also raged in the Peloponnese region in the southwest, but fires in a northern suburb of Athens have subsided.

Lifestyle 4 years ago

Greek tourism faces tense 'summer of patience'

The uncertainty that had plagued tourism since early 2020 was back, to the despair of Tselios and others in an industry that is Greece's economic mainstay and provides one in five jobs.

Environment 4 years ago

Uproar in Greece as mascot seal killed in protected area

A young endangered monk seal who became the mascot of a Greek island in a marine protected area after surviving a cyclone and endearing himself to locals has been killed, sparking an uproar.

Art & Culture 4 years ago

Greece's first underwater museum opens ancient world to dive tourists

Emerging from the crystal-clear turquoise waters of the Aegean Sea, Hans-Juergen Fercher has just returned from his fourth dive to where mounds of 2,500-year-old wine pots mark the site of an ancient shipwreck -- and Greece's first underwater museum.

Entertainment 4 years ago

Hollywood flurry lifts Greek film industry hopes

A burly man in a buzz-cut crosses a busy street, nearly running into a passing cab. Nearby, two Miami police officers monitor a bustling crowd beside their squad car.

Lifestyle 4 years ago

Dior channels ancient Greece for Cruise collection

French fashion house Dior on Thursday returned to live audience shows with a firework-punctuated presentation of its 2022 Cruise collection in Athens at the Panathenaic stadium, site of the first modern Olympic Games.

Art & Culture 4 years ago

Greek 'neo-muralist' draws on mythology to depict pandemic

From Bangkok to Rabat and Zurich, Fikos has painted the walls of many cities, but he's now adding a splash of colour to the sun-beaten facades of the Cypriot capital Nicosia.

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'Our Mikis has gone': 'Zorba the Greek' composer Theodorakis dies at 96

'Heaven to hell': Greek beekeepers lament tradition lost to fire

'I'm lost': Greek farmer overcome after fire burns goat herd

Hundreds flee, homes destroyed as forest fires ravage Greek island

Greek tourism faces tense 'summer of patience'

Uproar in Greece as mascot seal killed in protected area

Greece's first underwater museum opens ancient world to dive tourists

Hollywood flurry lifts Greek film industry hopes

Dior channels ancient Greece for Cruise collection

Greek 'neo-muralist' draws on mythology to depict pandemic

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