Eleftheros Typos

Do a cancer check… or else pay 50% of the medical costs for treatment!

Health Minister Panagiotis Kouroumblis is planning to make health check-ups mandatory for all Greek citizens according to a report in daily newspaper Eleftheros Typos. Those who neglect getting checks for the four different types of cancer will face heavy penalties.

Cartoonist Ilias Skoulas, 87, dies

Greek cartoonist Ilias Skoulas died on Thursday at the age of 87.

Born in Crete in 1927, Skoulas began his career as a political cartoonist at the Anexartitos Typos daily. He subsequently worked for a variety of newspapers including Kathimerini, Mesivrini, Acropolis, Apogevmatini, Ethnos and Eleftheros Typos, as well as several magazines.

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