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Greek Tragedy: The battle to cool Athens

As the mercury climbs in the Greek capital and forest fires spark into life again, Athens’ chief heat officer worries about what summer will bring but tempers her fear with dreams of change in one of the world’s oldest named cities

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Greek roots of a seized city

PETER TRUDGILL explains how Catherine the Great’s ‘Greek Project’ led to the naming of Khersón

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Trigger warning: football club owner avoids jail over gun on pitch

News you might have missed from across Europe

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Where the Greek language lingered

Alexander the Great spread the language far and wide. But where did it last the longest?

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Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis: The battle for a sustainable future will be arduous but worth the fight

Ahead of the Med9 event in Athens, Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis shares his thoughts on the escalating climate and environmental crisis

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Mikis Theodorakis: Zorba the Greek’s rebel composer

The composer prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called the "universal Greek" died last week. Few have had the relationship with revolution that Theodorakis did, writes SOPHIA DEBOICK

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Europe arms itself in race against the third wave

After a slow start, millions of people across EU countries are now receiving their vaccine – with almost a quarter of people across the bloc having had at least one dose of a Covid-19 shot. That relatively good news – though vaccine progress still lags far behind that of the UK – is marred by […]