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Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios casts a bouquet of flowers into the sea from the Argyra Akti beach in eastern Attica Thursday, during a service for those who died in the nearby village of Mati in last July's wildfires. The service was attended by the mayors of Rafina and Marathon, Evangelos Bournous and Ilias Psinakis, as well as victims' relatives.

Cypriot-owned construction group J&P Overseas is expected begin its new strategy of growth with Athens-listed J&P Avax, as is evident from the upcoming 20-million-euro share capital increase of the Greek subsidiary that its shareholders recently approved.

Five years of recession have driven Greece to dumpsters. As a growing number of beleaguered Greek people turn to scavenging for food, some people have come to the rescue.

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