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Editorial: An intrepid and perpetual youth
With true heroes valiant deeds seem par for the course.
For them there is no choice other than rising to the occasion when they hear the call of history.
It is their opportunity to even risk their life in order to stand up for their ideals and principles.
Their dedication to their system of values obliterates any fears or reservations.
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Resistance hero Manolis Glezos dies aged 97
Veteran leftist and World War II resistance fighter Manolis Glezos died Monday at the age of 97. He died of heart failure at a central Athens hospital after being admitted on March 18. Respected across the Greek political spectrum, he was most famous for climbing the walls of the Acropolis in 1941 to take down the Nazi flag. He was sentenced to death in absentia.
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Veteran politician back in hospital with chest pains
Veteran leftist politician Manolis Glezos was rushed to Athens' NIMTS hospital on Monday afternoon after suffering from intense shortness of breath and chest pains, Greek media reported.
This is the second time the 97-year-old second world war resistance fighter has been hospitalized in the past two months.
Judicial probe launched into reports on gov't aide
An Athens prosecutor on Friday ordered a preliminary investigation into reports that a close associate of a government minister had tried to intervene so that a company owned by disgraced businessman Lavrentis Lavrentiadis could get out of paying more than 120 million euros in debts to the Public Gas Corporation (DEPA).
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Jenny Kazakos is a brunette stunner! (photos)
Jenny Karezi was one of Greece’s most talented and beautiful actresses. Her onscreen chemistry with Alekos Alexandrakis was legendary. Jenny Kazakos, the 17-year-old granddaughter of the late actress and daughter of Konstantinos Kazakos and Tania Trypi definitely got her genes from her grandmother.
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