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Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) would beat the center-left Social Democrats and become the country’s second-largest party if elections were held now, a survey has found.

The heart and soul of Kathimerini, the person who through many decades embodied the history of the paper, Michalis Katsigeras, has died, leaving a void that will be difficult if not impossible to fill.

For them, this is not an escape or retreat but a rediscovery of the world. Two German photographers decided to look at European cities from a different angle. Or, more precisely, from the decks of their own ship-houses. A journey that started from Hamburg continues to Amsterdam and Paris and will end in Berlin. An adventure that turns into a creative challenge.

Armand Duka, the head of the Soccer Federation of Albania since 2002, easily won a fifth term on Wednesday, after winning 38 votes out of 66 in the Federation's Assembly.

Duka easily defeated Bashkim Fino, former Prime Minister and MP for the ruling Socialist Party, in a battle that raised concerns about political intervention in sport.

An Afghan man who was arrested in central Athens on Saturday carrying dozens of detonators in a backpack is more likely linked to the domestic anarchist movement than to international terrorism.

Members of the increasingly active anarchist group Rouvikonas (Rubicon) on Friday occupied the premises of the Athens Bar Association, calling for the release of an anarchist currently under house arrest. 

Tony Blair's Institute for Global Change is warning about "the growing populism in Europe."

The think tank of the former British prime minister, and former adviser to the Serbian government, said in a report entitled, "European Populism: Trends, Threats, and Future Prospects," that "populist parties" are rising to power, especially in Eastern Europe, and mentioned Serbia in this context.

To many German Social Democrats it sounds like a monster that will destroy their party if not democracy itself: the GroKo.

Justice is a value Turks from all walks of life and different ideologies have been longing for, according to a survey initiated by the Common Values Movement.