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Olive trees whose ages span from 700 to 1,500 years were “rescued” from Aigio in the Peloponnese and are being transplanted around central locations in Athens as part of a project funded by Greek railways subsidiary ERGA OSE SA.

Education Minister Nikos Filis set off vibrations in Greek society when he said that the ethnic cleansing of the Pontian community could not be considered genocide. Now, Antonis Lakos, the man redesigning the Greek Ministry of Education, believes that Greeks were similar to jihadists when they acted against Jews and Bulgarians.

The Radical Left Coalition’s (SYRIZA) transition from a vibrant, youthful idealistic party to a supporter of the third bailout has caused existential problems amongst its younger members.

September’s victory lacked the jubilance of the January election with most of its younger set choosing to distance itself from the party’s failed promises and rapid U-turn to austerity.

The suburb of Kolonos, Athens center, has shocked on Friday after a young woman, aged 18 years, leaped to her death from the 8th floor of her apartment block. The incident took place seven years after her father met his tragic death in the same way! The girl’s father had committed suicide due to stress he suffered after being unable to meet his debts.

The legal team of students from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, has struck again beating their peers from institutions such as Harvard University in moot court! The team came first in the Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot 2015 held in London from October 29 to November 1.

From a visit to a shrinking Icelandic glacier on Friday, French Presidnet Francois Hollande is arriving in Greece at 4.50 p.m. on Thursday afternoon to tend to the diminishing Greek GDP. Government hopes are pinned on his two-day visit during which he is expected to vouch for the country and express his support for the reform drive as well as show interest in Greek investments.

The Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens won the second place in the world at the Manfred LachsSpace Law Moot Court Competition representing Greece and European as European champion at the world finals which took place in Jerusalem, 13-15 October.

National Taiwan University (NTU) Ranking publishes every October 10th its latest overall, 6 field and 14 subject rankings of world universities based on the performance of scientific papers, aiming to investigate the world’s top research universities.

Harvard University International Politics Professor Dani Rodrik will deliver a speech on Friday at the Athens Concert Hall (Megaron Mousikis) on “Structural Reforms: Lessons from other lands.”

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