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A group of Turkish tourists attempted on Sunday morning to open the Turkish flag at the top of Thessaloniki’s trademark monument building, the White Tower. A Greek journalist and writer, Rania Aggelakoudis saw what they were about to do and along with her friend called the security.

Andros is the northernmost island of Cyclades and second in area after Naxos.
It has an area of 374 square kilometers and longitudinal shape in a N-NW to S-SE direction. Its highest mountains are Petalo and Kouvara (maximum altitude of 997 m., highest peak is Profitis Ilias).

Gradually, interest rates will be reduced and in one year from now we will be able to abandon the memorandums, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said in an interview with Alpha’s main news bulletin.

“Obviously we will not see the changes immediately, but the recovery will gradually become new jobs,” the Prime Minister said.

Five people have been injured, two seriously, in an apparent chainsaw attack in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.
Police have sealed off streets and shoppers are barricading themselves inside businesses at the historic town, which is popular with tourists.
The attacker is believed to have used a chainsaw during the rampage.

Frightened foreign and Greek tourists on the Greek island of Kos have described the moment an earthquake struck as “something out of a film”.

Russell Square has been cordoned off and The British Museum evacuated after reports of a security scare.

Shocked social media users mentioned hearing a “loud explosion” amid reports a controlled explosion has been carried out by cops.

Christina Flamboura (member of the Hellenic Mountaineering Association of Acharnes) and Vanessa Archontidou (member of the Athens Mountaineering Clubs) became the first Greek women to set foot on the highest peak of Mount Denali in Alaska.
“The mountain does not want strength, it wants soul,” Christina Flamboura told Athens News Agency (AMNA).

Two Americans were killed last week while fighting with US-backed Kurdish YPG units near Raqqa, ISIS’ de facto capital in Syria.

A couple who had one of the UK’s first same-sex marriages involving a Muslim partner have received online abuse after their wedding.
Jahed Choudhury and Sean Rogan married last week in Walsall, in the West Midlands.
Footage from the ceremony showed the couple dressed in traditional Bangladeshi attire as they said their vows at the town’s registry office.