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Downtown Athens shut down for teen killing anniversary rallies
Police in Athens have shut down much of the city center amid concerns of violence breaking out during two separate rallies marking the 10-year anniversary of the killing of teenager Alexis Grigoropoulos by an off-duty police officer in 2010.
Christmas tree lights in Athens to switch on next week
The lights on the Christmas tree in Syntagma Square, central Athens, will be switched on next Tuesday night as part of festivities in the capital that are to last well into January 2019.
"More than 230 events, which will be completely free of charge, will transform the center of Athens and its neighborhoods into a city of angels," said Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis.
Bicycle race to disrupt traffic in Athens on Sunday
The 32nd Round of Athens gets under way from central Syntagma Square at 10 a.m. on Sunday.
The cycling event includes two 10-kilometer routes that will begin at the beginning of Ermou Street and a 5k route starting in front of the Parliament building on Amalias Avenue. All races end at Syntagma Square.
Student march ends in clashes
A hooded youth prepares to throw a petrol bomb during clashes with riot police in central Athens as high school pupils protested a draft bill changing university entrance requirements. The march turned violent when it reached Syntagma Square outside Parliament.
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Athens Biennale ANTI | Athens | October 26 - December 9
The theme of the 6th Athens Biennale is "ANTI," and this edition of the event features works by around 100 Greek and foreign artists in which they offer a distinct, idiosyncratic and uneasy screenshot of our political, social and cultural momentum. This time around, the venues of the Biennale are in the vicinity of the Old Parliament near Syntagma Square.
The thread through a journalist's coverage of Greece in crisis
In May 2011, while googling around obscure Greek blogs in search of a fresh voice to liven up a story I planned to do on how Greeks were coping with the early days of post-bailout recession, I came across the musings of one Yanis Varoufakis.
I sent him a note:
Dear Professor Varoufakis.
May 5, 2010, a defining moment in the Greek crisis
Far from the summits, the markets, the polemics and the posturing, the Greek crisis was about ordinary families whose lives were upended. Few more so than the Papathanasopouloses.
I met them on a drizzly day in Patra, southwestern Greece. They had recently lost their daughter Angeliki in the Marfin fire.
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City of Athens campaign to revive Merchants' Arcade
The City of Athens is introducing incentives to encourage local entrepreneurs active in the social and solidarity economy (SSE) to open up stores in the Stoa ton Emboron (Merchants' Arcade) on Voulis Street near Syntagma Square.
Vigil held in Athens for victims of wildfires
Hundreds of people gathered in Syntagma Square, central Athens, on Monday night to commemorate the victims of the devastating blaze on the eastern coast of Attica that killed 92 people and injured scores a week ago. The rally had been organized on social media and people started gathering at 9 p.m.
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Seventy bodies of wildfire victims identified, 14 missing
The fire service said on Monday it has identified 70 of the bodies recovered by rescue teams in the deadly blaze that ripped through a seaside town in east Attica last week, while 14 remained missing.
The previous briefing by the fire department spoke of 59 identified bodies and 25 missing.