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A strong earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale, according to initial reports, at approximately 2:13pm shook the Greek capital for approximately 15 seconds.

The first reports from seismologists indicated that that the epicentre was four kilometres from Magoula, 23 kilometres northwest of Athens.

Margaritis Schinas, who until now had served as chief spokesman of the European Commission under Jean-Claude Juncker, has been tapped by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to serve as Greece's next representative on the European Commission.

Just two days ago was the birthday of the late Xenophon Zolotas, the patrician economist of international repute, university professor, thrice governor of the central Bank of Greece, and the prime minister of an ecumenical multi-party government in the tumultuous late 1980's

He is widely viewed as one of the most prominent Greek academics and public intellectuals of the 20th century.

A prosecutor in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki has ordered an urgent investigation into the destruction by unknown vandals of a local Jewish memorial.

Prosecutor Evangelos Zarkantzias instructed police Monday to treat the attack on a monument marking a former Jewish cemetery as a breach of Greece's laws against racism, which carry harsher penalties than ordinary vandalism.

A diminishing birth rate in Greece during the 1970s and 80s was severely exacerbated when the country plunged into its eight-year economic crisis and adopted a bailout program, leading to a population decline, an epidemiology professor said on Monday.

The former director of one of Greece's most prestigious museums, the Benaki, Angelos Delivorias, passed away at the age of 81, it was announced on Tuesday.

Delivorias was at the helm of Benaki for 41 years before announcing in 2014 that he was stepping down.

A 3.5 magnitude earthquake hit Thessaloniki in Macedonia a little after 9 pm. The epicentre was 30km to the west of the city. According to the Geophysics Institute of the University of Thessaloniki the depth was approximately 6km.

An earthquake of magnitude 5.4 has jolted the island of Crete, but there no reports by authorities of injuries or serious damage.

The Athens Geodynamic Institute said the undersea quake occurred at 8:50 p.m. Wednesday east of the Crete, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from the island town of Sitia.

Education Minister Nikos Filis set off vibrations in Greek society when he said that the ethnic cleansing of the Pontian community could not be considered genocide. Now, Antonis Lakos, the man redesigning the Greek Ministry of Education, believes that Greeks were similar to jihadists when they acted against Jews and Bulgarians.

Student elections in Greece, circa 2015, witnessed the burning of one ballot box in Athens and two injured people at the University of Thessaloniki following a raid by a group of masked hooligans.