Counting continents can get tricky

Counting continents can get tricky

Are there really seven continents? Anyone with a map can see that Asia and Europe, often called Eurasia, are connected. The divide is pretty arbitrary, more culturally than scientifically defined. What about North America and Asia? They are connected by the Bering Sea Shelf, once dry land crossed by humans and flooded in the geologically …

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Reds triumph at Panathinaikos’ home court for the Euroleague

Reds triumph at Panathinaikos’ home court for the Euroleague

[Intime] Olympiakos avenged its recent league loss to Panathinaikos beating the Greens away on Friday for the Euroleague by five points. The 94-89 triumph of the Piraeus team at the Olympic Sports Hall has brought the two Greek teams level at the table with a 5-3 record. However it was also one of the most …

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Kasselakis leaves SYRIZA; new party in the works

Kasselakis leaves SYRIZA; new party in the works

Stefanos Kasselakis waves at SYRIZA party members after losing a no-confidence motion during a meeting of the central committee, in Athens, on September 8. [Dimitris Sarelas/Intime News] Former SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis has announced he is leaving the party. Kasselakis made his decision known after the party’s congress made it clear it would refuse to consider his …

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PM: Normality in Greek-Turkish ties the goal

PM: Normality in Greek-Turkish ties the goal

AP Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis declared that “normality must be the goal in relations between neighbors” when asked by reporters on Friday about Greek-Turkish relations and his meeting with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in Budapest a day earlier.  The Greek and Turkish leaders were in the Hungarian capital along with dozens of other European …

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How did we get here and what comes next?

How did we get here and what comes next?

Republican presidential nominee and former US President Donald Trump attends his campaign rally at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan, US, November 5, 2024. [Brian Snyder/Reuters] 2024 is the first time in the history of modern democracy and universal suffrage that all incumbent parties in developed countries lost vote share. An astute observer of …

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Driver denies running red light in scooter collision 

Driver denies running red light in scooter collision 

SHUTTERSTOCK The driver of a car that collided with an electric scooter ridden by a 12-year-old boy, leaving him hospitalized in intensive care, told authorities Friday that she did not run a red light at an intersection in Athens’ Holargos suburb, insisting the boy crashed onto her vehicle.  The driver, a 30-year-woman, has, under latest …

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Greece arrests two men suspected of MDMA, crystal meth smuggling to Australia

Greece arrests two men suspected of MDMA, crystal meth smuggling to Australia

File photo. Greece’s anti-drug authorities have arrested two Greek men suspected of being part of a transnational crime ring exporting crystal meth and MDMA to Australia, police said. Police seized about 56 kg of the psychedelic drug MDMA, the main ingredient of ecstasy pills, and nearly 30 kg of methamphetamine, also known by its street …

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Greece has third lowest wages in the EU, Eurostat data shows

Greece has third lowest wages in the EU, Eurostat data shows

[Reuters] The average full-time adjusted salary in Greece for 2023 was €17,000, according to data released by Eurostat, the EU’s statistics agency, on Thursday. This places Greece third from the bottom, with only Bulgaria (€13,500) and Hungary (€16,900) reporting lower figures. The highest average annual full-time adjusted salary was recorded in Luxembourg (€81,100), followed by …

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PASOK navigates political shifts on the left amid dual right-wing offensive

PASOK navigates political shifts on the left amid dual right-wing offensive

[InTime News] PASOK is carefully navigating shifting political dynamics on its left, as SYRIZA and its splinter group, the New Left, hold their respective conferences, all while confronting a dual offensive from the right. The socialists, who recently re-elected Nikos Androulakis as their leader, are watching to see who will lead the two factions following …

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Fidan arrives in Athens for pivotal talks

Fidan arrives in Athens for pivotal talks

The meeting on Friday of the Greek and Turkish foreign ministers, George Gerapetritis and Hakan Fidan, in Athens is expected to confirm the willingness of the two sides to hold substantive discussions that could lead to the next steps on the contentious issue of the delimitation of the continental shelf and the exclusive economic zone …

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