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The Greek campaign of 1941 that saw Australian and Greek soldiers serve together was fought over the length and breadth of Greece, from the mountains of Macedonia to Brallos Pass, from the beaches of Thessaloniki to Crete's southern coast
A dramatic orange haze has descended over Athens as clouds of dust have blown in from the Sahara desert. It is one of the worst such episodes to...
Soils already saturated, rivers swollen and debris has blocked roads, paralysing transport
CRETE, Greece (Reuters) - "Exercise, exercise, exercise", read an emergency text message which alerted people on the island of Crete of a mock earthquake measuring 7.2 off the city of Heraklion. Tourists rushed to evacuate the hotel, while workers in vests offered first aid to an injured woman in a tent as part of a quake drill dubbed "Minoas" after the mythical Cretan Bronze Age king. "It's good, because then we know what we are doing in real situations," said British tourist Leah Pickles, 36, one of the hotel's residents in Heraklion.
Of the five dams, Kindaruma is the oldest, having been built in 1968.