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First ever Sailing Marathon gets under way

More than 350 yachtsmen, aged 7 to 77, took part in Greece's first ever Sailing Marathon on Saturday, in the Saronic Gulf. The organizers hope to make the event a fixture on the international sports calendar. [Nikos Alevromytis]

Moody's keeps key Greek rating at Caa3

Moody's affirmed Greece's government bond rating at Caa3 late on Friday, while the country's sovereign outlook remained stable.

500,000 Bulgarians To Spend Christmas Holidays Abroad

More than 500,000 Bulgarians will spend Christmas and New Year's Eve abroad, forecast Rumen Draganov, Director of the Institute for Analyses and Estimates in Tourism.

 

Draganov explained that, traditionally, most Bulgarians will prefer Greece for the New Year holiday. Others will visit Macedonia and Romania.

Refugees experience 90 minutes of normality

Spectators watch a soccer match between refugee teams from the Nea Kavala and Herso camps, in the village Nea Kavala, northern Greece, in this photo made available Saturday. Players and fans from Syria and Iraq got a break from life at the camps to play a match organized by a government migration agency, launching a tournament that will include local amateur Greek teams.

Stranded refugees feel normal for 90 minutes

Refugees are having a field day.

Soccer players and fans from Syria and Iraq got a break from life at migrant camps to play a match organized by Greece's state migration agency, launching a tournament that will include local amateur teams.

Swingers company promises orgies on the island of ‘Zeus’! (photos-video)

Travel SDC is a site that caters for swingers all around the world. The company offers destinations from around the world for the couples in to swapping the partners in sexual orgies. Orgies at sea on cruisers to the Greek islands have a prominent place on the company’s menu to its customers.

The 1980s: Anatomy of a watershed era

I remember coming home a couple of summers ago and finding a large package in the post. Inside was a volume titled "Greece in the 1980s: A Social, Political and Cultural Dictionary" (published by Epikentro) that was edited by two academics, Vassilis Vamvakas and Panayis Panayiotopoulos.

Court hearing of biggest scandal in ESY history to start Monday

Following six years of extensive investigations by Greek and British authorities, one of the largest scandals of corruption in the field of the Greek National Health System (ESY) will go before the Athens 3-member Court of Appeals, Monday.

Varoufakis: Official government line was that country was bankrupt

In an article in newspaper “Efimedida Ton Syntakton”, former Greek Finance Minister Yianis Varoufakis responds to the allegations levelled against him by the governor of the Bank of Greece (BoG), Yiannis Stournaras during his deposition before the parliamentary committee on transparency. In his article Varoufakis calls for the removal of Stornaras from his position as governor.

Novi Sad declared the European Capital of Culture 2021

BRUSSELS - BRUSSELS - Novi Sad has been named one of the three European Capitals of Culture for 2021.

Novi Sad and Timisoara, Romania, will in November be joined by a city in Greece - Eleusis, Kalamata or Rhodes.

Novi Sad beat Montenegro's Herceg Novi in the final selection round, becoming the first city from a non-EU country to take the prestigious title.

Tourists may reach 35 mln by 2021

Greece can expect to receive about 35 million holidaymakers in 2021, while its direct tourism revenues are projected to range around 19-20 billion euros in that year, not including revenues from transport services, according to the latest study by consulting firm McKinsey and the Association of Hellenic Tourism Enterprises (SETE).

Heating oil starts trading at 93-94 cents per liter

The weather forecast may well see a temperature high of 26 Celsius in Athens this weekend, but Saturday will still see the start of heating oil trading across Greece for this winter.

State entities drag feet over debt coverage

The Finance Ministry is yet to announce its September figures on the repayment of debts to third parties, although it did announce the figures up to end-August on Friday. This lack of information on last month's figures is what deprived Greece of the disbursement of the entire 2.8-billion-euro bailout tranche this week.

Berisha sees 'third player' in unmaking of continental shelf pact between Albania, Greece

Former Albanian prime minister Sali Berisha has blamed the unmaking of a continental shelf pact between Albania and Greece five years ago on outside intervention.

"I am saying with full certainty that you did so in the interests of a third party," Berisha said in reference to current Prime Minister Edi Rama and his government.

Ancient Chinese hu on view at National Archaeological Museum

An ancient Chinese bronze hu (amphora) with a coiled dragon design, made more than 2,500 years ago, is now on display at the Hall of the Altar in the Greek National Archaeological Museum.

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