Greece News 2026
NEWS ARCHIVE - August 2026
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Fire at Pau beach, South Pelion
Story at Eleftherostypos [Greek]
Evros reconstruction cost growing
Story at Greek City Times [English]
The long role of Greece in shaping Europe
Story at Irish Times [English]
The massive numbers of National Bank of Greece shares being bought by the bank itself
Story at Cyprus Mail [English]
The "European experience of fear" from war and politics
Story at Avgi [Greek]
Giannis Antetokounmpo to miss 2027 European Qualifiers
Story at Greek Reporter [English]
Esplanada mass grave reveals ancient identities after isotopic analyses
Story at Gizmodo [English]
Tourist (and scientists) going to Europe for coming eclipse event
Story at Athina984 [Greek]
Fire in Spata linked to dead man found in car
Story at EFSYN [Greek]
The woman detained in the Marfin Bank arson case
Story at Skai [Greek]
Deaths aboard cargo craft from attack in Red Sea
Story at Imerisia [Greek]
KKE denounces "political confrontation"
Story at Athina984 [Greek]
View over Athens
Meltimi winds in August - effect on ferries
Story at Eleftherostypos [Greek]
Athens' public transport in summer - how the traffic changes
Story at Imerisia [Greek]
Investigating death of police officer found dead in Agios Dimitrios
Story at Kathimerini [Greek] [Map of Agios Dimitrios]
A coming mandatory retirement age for all civil servants?
Story at Powergame [Greek]
The "axis of reconstruction" in SYRIZA
Story at Parapolitika [Greek]
Brief history of Davelis' Cave at Penteli, a former quarry, location of two Byzantine chapels.
Italian coral smuggling ring arrested on Skopelos
Story at Euronews [English]
Cyprus, Greece and Jordan renew security and defence coordination agreement
Story at Cyprus Mail [English]
Public debt decrease reported since May
Story at Capital [Greek]
"Staff on the verge of collapse" at hospitals on islands
Story at Athina984 [Greek]
Chinese banks "enter the void"
Story at Liberal [Greek]
How PASOK benefits from SYRIZA
Story at Protagon [Greek]
The "fabulist" at the center of the academia crisis
Story at Protothema [English]
His academic rise was not the only striking part of his public image. Arday also cultivated a reputation as an elite long-distance runner and a hugely successful charity fundraiser. He said he had once run 600 miles between Edinburgh and London in six days, a feat that would place him among the world’s leading ultra-marathon runners, and claimed to have raised more than £5 million for charity over the years, at times putting the figure as high as £5.5 million. He said he had completed 30 marathons in 35 days, suffering an epileptic seizure and a fractured leg on the 21st before finishing the remaining nine anyway. He also said he had survived a coma lasting several months, and that a brain tumour had been removed just two weeks before his final PhD exam...."
NEWS ARCHIVE - August 2026
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"Young set about recruiting the most unlikely of spies—academics, classicists, epigraphers, and other specialists and scholars—who would come to be known as “the Greek Desk.” These men and women, along with their Greek allies, went undercover and tried desperately to protect some of the world’s most significant treasures. The archaeologists hid priceless artifacts in ancient caves, bank vaults, and even underneath the city of Athens itself." AMAZON
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