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A firefighter tries to extinguish a wildfire burning near the village of Kalamos, north of Athens, Greece, August 13, 2017. REUTERS/Costas Baltas

Athens Wildfire Spreads to Three Towns, Destroys Homes

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Aug 14, 2017 | World

Firefighters battled to contain a wildfire near Athens on Monday after it spread overnight to three towns some 45 km northeast of the capital and damaged dozens of homes. The blaze broke out on Sunday in Kalamos, northeast Athens, and quickly spread, fanned by strong...

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Skeletal remains, with iron shackles on their wrists, are laid in a row at the ancient Falyron Delta cemetery in Athens, Greece, July 27, 2016. Alkis Konstantinidis / Reuters

Archeologists Find Shackled Remains at Ancient Greek Site

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 6, 2016 | Lifestyle & Culture

Athens-Archeologists have found at least 80 skeletons, their wrists clamped by iron shackles, in a mass grave in an ancient Greek cemetery in central Athens. They are the victims of a mass execution. But who they were, how they got there and why they appear to have...

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Muslim migrants who live in Greece pray at the Greek-Arab Cultural Center, a Muslim prayer site in Athens, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016. Lawmakers in Greece have approved construction of a state-funded mosque near central Athens, a proposal that triggered dissent within the country’s coalition government amid a heated public debate on how manage the migrant crisis. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Greece to Build Athens Mosque

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Aug 4, 2016 | World

Lawmakers in Greece on Thursday approved the construction of a state-funded mosque near central Athens — a proposal that was not well received within the coalition government amid a heated public debate on how to manage the Syrian refugee crisis. The proposal,...

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Police search for evidence at the entrance to the Bank of Greece after a booby-trapped car exploded there on April 10, 2014 in Athens. (AFP Photo/Louisa Gouliamaki)

Greece returns to bond markets with a bang

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 10, 2014 | Business

Athens, AP—Buoyant Greek officials hailed the country’s return to the international debt market after four years as an overwhelming success on Thursday, with investors snapping up the five-year bond in a sale that was eight times oversubscribed. The finance...

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An EU and a Greek flag fly in front of the ancient Parthenon temple, in Athens, on Wednesday, April 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greece to end its bond market exile on Thursday

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 9, 2014 | Business

London and Athens, Reuters—Greece, at risk of crashing out of the euro zone just two years ago, will issue its first sovereign bond in almost four years on Thursday, seeking to send a strong political and economic signal it is on the way out of its debt crisis....