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Journalist | formerly longtime Reuters correspondent in Greece
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We reported on falling birthrates from a remote corner in northern #Greece where the absence of youth is unmissable. Several things struck me, but most of all, the silence. Here’s our story on a losing battle: reuters.com/investigates/spe…
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Hundreds of small quakes in Santorini have renewed concerns about the safety of decades-long cliffside construction. Experts have long questioned the sustainability of the tourism boom on the Greek island, where an emergency was declared due to the tremors reut.rs/4htC6IG
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Week of tremors exposes dangers of Santorini's construction boom reut.rs/4gwvCaR
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Since 1964, water from Bulgaria's mountains flowed freely along the Arda River into the Evros plain in Northern Greece. But the World War Two reparations agreement expired and famers, who rely on the deal, are fearful their livelihoods are under threat reut.rs/40E19BR
From beneath #Greece’s shrinking Lake Mornos, the muddied remains of homes reemerge nearly 45 years since the village that once stood here disappeared underwater, as #climate change dries up Athens’s main water reservoirs. Read & watch our story 👇🏻
After a winter of hardly any snow, a summer of punishing heatwaves and months of little rain and drought across much of Greece, Lake Mornos, which supplies water for nearly half the Greek population, has dwindled to its lowest level in decades reut.rs/4dTWe5e
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Just a kid from Sepolia representing his country.
ALT A photo of Giannis and Thanasis holding a Greek flag up during the 2013 NBA Draft.
“In real life too, we put on a show,“ one of the men said. “Life is theatre too.”
In a Greek jail, inmates find freedom in theatre
📸 @SteliosMisinas reuters.com/investigates/spe…
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Ishaan Al-Rahil was never found when a migrant boat bound for Europe sank off Greece last year, killing hundreds. That doesnt stop him appearing in his children's dreams, proffering gifts from the land of supposed plenty @MaltezouRenee @tagaris @GebeilyM reuters.com/world/europe/yea…
“Maybe he went to heaven,” said Fatima, whose husband Ihsaan went missing in one of the Med’s deadliest shipwrecks off #Pylos. “But we’re still here. We are the victims."
A year after #Greece migrant boat tragedy, answers and justice still out of reach reuters.com/world/europe/yea…
"Traffickers? No, no, no, no - that's not how it is at all."
The story of Ahmed Akwrab,who thought his ordeal was over last June when he survived one of the Med’s deadliest shipwrecks & finally set foot in Europe only to face a life sentence in Greece.He was freed in May #pylos
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On a Greek island, volunteers remake burial site for refugees lost at sea reut.rs/3VYzJpz
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With Greece set to unveil a plan to tackle tumbling birthrates, one village reveals the magnitude of the problem: emptying schools; shuttered businesses; overgrown playgrounds; and the silence left by its vanished youth @tagaris reuters.com/investigates/spe…
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“If you’re happy, have found love, are surrounded by good people, doing what you like, and giving back to others, that’s success. Selling your soul for a buck is not worth the real price you pay." —the inimitable Iris Apfel. Rest in peace.
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Flooded Greek lake a warning to European farmers battling climate change reuters.com/business/environ…
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When floodwaters gushed through the Greek farming village of Metamorfosi in September, residents fled. Now they want to relocate their entire community, terrified it cannot survive another bout of extreme weather driven by climate change reut.rs/3NanqBp
When floodwaters gushed through the Greek farming village of Metamorfosi in September, residents fled. Now they want to relocate their entire community, terrified it cannot survive another bout of extreme weather driven by climate change. 1/9
As he checked his irrigation sprinkler swept a block away by flood water, farmer Thanasis Tsoukalas saw no alternative. "We grew up here, we were born here, our parents' graves are here. But safety comes first. You cannot live with this insecurity all the time." 8/
@reuterspictures by Alexandros Avramidis. Read our story here: reuters.com/business/environ… 9/