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A former head of the Hellenic Competition Commission, Ioannis Lianos, has been appointed as a member of the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal.

Sir Vasilios (Basil) Markezinis, a Greek-British barrister and legal scholar, has died in Oxford, United Kingdom, aged 79. 

The news was made public on Monday by his long-time friend, Nikandros Bouras, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at King's College, London, who said that Markezinis had been suffering from dementia in the past four years.

Gülnur Aybet, a senior adviser to the Turkish Presidency, has been appointed as the permanent representative of Turkey to UNESCO.

The decision of the appointment was published in the Official Gazette on Nov. 20.

Slavoj Zizek is a cultural philosopher. He's a senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University, and international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities of the University of London.

I am not sure why Kostas Karamanlis has decided to resume an active public role at this point in time. Following his recent speech at the Society for Macedonian Studies in Thessaloniki, he is due for another appearance next Wednesday at City, University of London, while he may also speak at Tufts Fletcher School in Boston at a later date as well.

City, University of London is holding an evening symposium on Tuesday at 6.30 p.m. to celebrate 10 years in Piraeus and 125 years in London. 

A video by Forensic Architecture pertaining to the events on September 18, 2013, when rapper Pavlos Fyssas was stabbed to death in the street by a self-proclaimed Golden Dawn supporter in the Keratsini district of Piraeus, constitutes one of the most damning pieces of evidence in the ongoing trial against the neo-Nazi party, whose leadership is accused of ordering that attack, as well as others

The Athens Concert Hall and the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities present University of London cultural historian Matt Cook, an expert in the history of sexuality and the history of London in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Forthnet and the BBC, along with their partners the Institute for Research and Technology at Iraklio on Crete, Queen Mary University of London and Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal, will present their research project titled "Cognitus" at the International Broadcasting Convention this September in Amsterdam.

President Trump’s apocalyptic admonishment to North Korea over its threats to annihilate America suggested that he might be closer than ever to ordering an attack — without waiting for Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, to strike first.