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1. When sustainability was survival

   My mind keeps tumbling back, bringing tears to my eyes, to his eyes, laughing like happy babies, every time he opened the Styrofoam cooler box Captain Antonis would send from Poros.

2. Vessala: The Poros pastry shop we never tire of

   Parfaits, seasonal sorbets, tray-baked sweets and memorable kariokes define this Poros pastry shop, where tradition meets modern flair.

3. Fund finds four factors for housing crisis

   The International Monetary Fund also makes recommendations to Greece.

4. Keeping a sense of proportion

   The skyscraper going up on the development of the old Athens airport at Elliniko on the capital’s southern coast has been drawing a lot of comments, many of them contradictory. 

5. Fire erupts in vegetation along Axios River in northern Greece

   Firefighters were battling a vegetation fire that broke out Sunday afternoon along the banks of the Axios River in northern Greece.

6. Five arrested in northern Greece migrant smuggling cases

   Police arrested five foreign nationals accused of smuggling undocumented migrants into the country in four separate incidents in the northern border regions of Evros and Rhodope.

7. Archbishop of America faints during Sunday service in Greece

   Archbishop Elpidophoros of America fainted during a Sunday morning Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of Saint Nicholas in Aretsou, Thessaloniki.

8. Deep Purple | Athens | October 13

   Deep Purple will return to Athens for a headline performance at OAKA (37 Kifisias Avenue), showcasing more than five decades of hard rock history.

9. One of 22 suspects detained in Crete subsidy fraud case after hearing

   A Greek court ordered the pre-trial detention of one of 22 defendants in an alleged subsidy fraud case involving farm payments in Crete, concluding a two-day series of testimonies on Sunday.

10. Woman hospitalized after fire in Ptolemaida apartment

    An elderly woman was found unconscious after being rescued from an apartment fire early Sunday in the northern town of Ptolemaida.