Five sailors suffered burns and nine were missing after fire broke out on a Greek bulk carrier on Friday, and thick smoke is preventing rescuers from searching for the missing in cabins below the deck, a Venezuelan rescue official said.
Rafael Lugo, the national commander of Venezuela’s Maritime Rescue and Aid service, told Reuters the “Aegean [...]

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A huge granite block, part of a stone pillar from a temple in a sunken Cleopatra-era city off Alexandria, was lifted by crane from the Mediterranean off the Egyptian port on Thursday.
The nine-tonne stone block was part of a temple to Isis, ancient Egypt’s goddess of fertility, near the underwater ruins of a palace reputed [...]

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Petra was a place that the local Beduins knew for years and tried to hide for the rest of the world. They knew it was a place that everybody would like to go and wonder around the narrow streets which are shaped in between huge stones. This is the reason the site [...]

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The Greek National team of Taekwon-do travels to Argentina to participate in the X Junior World Championship and the XVI Senior World Championship that will take place in Mar del Plata (Buenos Aires) Argentina, on the 26th to the 29th of November.
The Competition will be held in the Stadium Islas Malvinas, with capacity for 10.000 [...]

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The Greek coast guard command clarified on Sunday that a Greek-managed bulk carrier was attacked by armed pirates off the coast of Yemen on Nov. 16, but the attempts to board the vessel were unsuccessful.
The vessel, identified as the “Red Sea Spirit,” reportedly eluded two pirate speedboats after its skipper took [...]

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Greeks have been living in Egypt since the ancient times. Herodotus, who visited Egypt in the 5th century BCE, wrote that the Greeks were the first foreigners that ever lived in Egypt. The two main Greek centers in Egypt is Cairo and Alexandria.
In Cairo, the Greek community was founded in 1856, with [...]

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Archaeologists from the University of Haifa, who are conducting excavations in the city of Tel Kabri, found Minoan style frescoes, similar to those discovered in the Aegean islands of Crete and Santorini dating back to the 17th century BC. These are the first such frescoes to be discovered in Israel.
According to scientists’ [...]

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Pirates on Wednesday captured a Greek cargo ship off the Indian Ocean archipelago of the Seychelles while it was on its way to South Africa from Kuwait, a Kenyan maritime official and the EU said.
The Filitsa is the latest vessel to be seized off the Seychelles, which has seen a surge in piracy over the [...]

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A Greek cargo ship hijacked this week was being taken toward the Somali coast, but its crew members were unharmed, the ship’s operating company said on Saturday.
“The master of the vessel has reported that the crew are unharmed and the vessel is sailing towards the Somali coast,” Athens-based Meadway Shipping and Trading Inc said in [...]

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The Direct Marketing Association of Malaysia (DMAM) is using the Trojan Horse as a symbol for the DMAM Awards, to be held in Petaling Jaya on Dec 4.
Its president Sreedhar Subramaniam says in a statement that the Trojan horse, instrumental in the Greeks’ victory over the Trojans, was adopted as the theme for this year’s [...]

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