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  1. 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. Parfaits, seasonal sorbets, tray-baked sweets and memorable kariokes define this Poros pastry shop, where tradition meets modern flair.
  3. The International Monetary Fund also makes recommendations to Greece.
  4. 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. Firefighters were battling a vegetation fire that broke out Sunday afternoon along the banks of the Axios River in northern Greece.
  6. 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 Elpidophoros of America fainted during a Sunday morning Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of Saint Nicholas in Aretsou, Thessaloniki.
  8. 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. 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. An elderly woman was found unconscious after being rescued from an apartment fire early Sunday in the northern town of Ptolemaida.