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Court acquits aid workers who helped rescue migrants crossing in small boats

A Greek court on Tuesday acquitted a group of 16 aid workers and volunteers of charges connected with their efforts to rescue migrants making the dangerous sea crossing in small boats from neighboring Turkey.

Lesvos: 57 migrants found, 2 bodies recovered, one person missing

Greek authorities on Tuesday located 57 migrants and recovered the bodies of two individuals on a rocky shore along the northeastern coast of Lesvos in the eastern Aegean. One person was said to remain missing.

Greek families get little help in form of decent salaries and tax breaks

Workers in Austria are guaranteed a 30% increase in their net salary as soon as they have a second child, as deductions for taxes and social security are reduced. The Germans have the same treatment. The Belgians are even more fortunate, with an increase of 32%, the French are limited to 24% and the Czechs to 21%.

Greece says collective memory a shield against racism, bigotry

The Greek Foreign Ministry marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Saturday, emphasizing the need to safeguard collective memory as a defense against racism and bigotry.

"We honor the victims of Nazi brutality, including tens of thousands of Greek Jews," the ministry said in a statement.

Man, 43, arrested for online sexual harassment of minor

A 43-year-old man was arrested in Piraeus near Athens on Friday on charges of sexual abuse, child pornography, and solicitation of minors.

Mytilineos Holdings rated BB+ by S&P, Fitch

Mytilineos Holdings S.A. became the first Greek company to benefit from Greece's return to investment grade in the past few days, as the listed group is now just a step away from regaining its own investment grade, since S&P has just rated it BB+, from BB previously.

Nikaia refugee settlement explored

A study conducted by the School of Architecture at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) has yielded intriguing insights into the present and future of one of the largest and best-preserved refugee settlements in Greece, in Nikaia, near Piraeus.

Greece’s comeback and the demographic challenge

Nikos Konstandaras, a columnist for Kathimerini, joins Thanos Davelis to break down how Greece, given the position it finds itself in today, has a unique window of opportunity to push key reforms forward that would go a long way toward tackling some of the key challenges the country is up against, particularly the demographic challenge.

Ecumenical Patriarchate rejects same-sex marriage legislation

The Ecumenical Patriarchate expressed its opposition to the proposed bill on same-sex marriage in an official statement on Wednesday.

The statement notes that "the Church does not accept within its members any form of cohabitation of the same or opposite sex other than marriage," which is understood as "the union of man and woman in Christ."

Migration Minister: We have a duty to continue fighting human trafficking

"We have a duty to continue our fight against human trafficking and to ensure legal avenues for migration," stated Migration and Asylum Minister Dimitris Kairidis on Wednesday, at a ceremony for the handover of the presidency of the International centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) to Greece from Turkey.

Universities sound alarm over student occupations

Amid growing concern over the loss of exam periods, university authorities insist that classes must start immediately, calling on the small minority of students to end their ongoing occupation of faculties in protest at the government's plan to institutionalize non-state institutions of higher education.