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Greece’s National Intangible Cultural Heritage Index Adds 16 New ElementsGreece’s Ministry of Culture recently announced that 16 new elements will be incorporated into Greece’s National Directory of Intangible Cultural Heritage for the first time since 2008.The National Directory of Cultural Heritage includes oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, rituals, events, knowledge and practices concerning nature and traditional crafts.The new 16 elements are:01. The Genitsaroi and Boules tradition of Naoussa.02. The popular guitar used in the “Laiko” music genre.03. Elefsina’s Mesosporitissa ritual.04. The traditional water management practices of Lassithi, Crete.05. Englouvi’s Lentils, Lefkada.06. Lefkada’s “porsnaiko” knife.07. The Argoustaria tradition of Kastoria.08. The open-air festival of Agia Agathi, Aitoliko.09. The cheese-making tradition of Limnos (melihloro/melipasto).10. The “stafnokari” fishing tradition of Aitoliko.11. The Nea Aghialos vine cultivation.12. The Kykles dance of the Ioannina region.13. The cultivation and processing of tobacco in Macedonia and Thrace.14. The Olympos feast, Karpathos.15. The Ai Giorgis ritual of Ano Doliana, Arcadia.16. The art pottery tradition of the Kourtzis family, Lesvos.
Greece Coronavirus Cases Surpass 7,000Greece recorded 217 new cases of COVID-19 in the latest 24-hour reporting period.This raises the total number of cases to 7,075.
Prominent Brits Express Support for Greece in Turkey StandoffTwenty-five prominent academics, authors and politicians called on the British government to express its “clear support” for Greece and Cyprus over the increased tensions in the eastern Mediterranean caused by Turkey’s refusal to accept the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, in a letter to the editor of The Times, published on Monday.The letter also urges NATO member-states to condemn Turkey’s drilling activities, instead of maintaining a policy of equidistance.The full letter follows below:
Ryanair cancels flights on fresh UK quarantine restrictionsRyanair is to cancel almost one in five flights from its September and October schedules after a drop in bookings in the last 10 days, as Covid-19 cases have increased in Europe, leading to fresh quarantine restrictions.Europe’s biggest carrier said forward bookings had “noticeably weakened” and it would take 20% from its capacity to reflect demand, mainly cutting flight frequencies rather than routes.Ryanair said the biggest cuts in its flight network would be to France, Spain and Sweden, as well as Ireland, which has imposed tight quarantine rules.
Fines being mulled as land registry completion lagsThe completion of the project to record all of the country’s properties in a national cadastre is moving at two speeds, according to data from the Hellenic Land Registry.As a result, the Environment Ministry is mulling the imposition of fines against negligent property owners. More specifically, so far only 33% of the country has been been covered.
Tax returns are trickling inThe authorities have granted a one-month extension for submitting tax returns on earned 2019 income to August 28, but for many taxpayers, holidays get priority. Independent Authority for Public Revenue (IAPR) data show that the rate of submission has actually slowed down.Two weeks before the deadline, over 700,000 taxpayers have not filed returns.
Coronavirus: NHS patient triage hotline stops nurses handling calls over safety fearsExclusive: Nursing and non-medical staff stopped from taking calls after more than half of those audited were unsafeNurses and non-medical staff have been stopped from taking patient calls to the NHS coronavirus helpline amid concerns over the safety of their advice.An audit of calls to the telephone assessment service found more than half were potentially unsafe for patients, according to a leaked email shared with The Independent.
Protect beavers in law and let them populate England’s rivers, experts tell ministers‘These ecosystem engineers could help us tackle issues like water security, floods, pollution and loss of wildlife’Beavers, which were hunted to extinction in the UK more than 400 years ago, are valued for the downstream flooding-prevention properties of their dams and wetlands.
Threat to kill wild boar that stole nude bather's laptop prompts outcryBerlin officials say Elsa and her piglets pose a danger and may have to be ‘withdrawn’A wild boar that has become a frequent visitor at a lakeside bathing resort in Berlin is attracting a growing band of supporters following authorities’ suggestion that it could have to be killed.The animal, nicknamed Elsa, has earned something akin to celebrity status after a series of photos of it and its piglets stealing a nude bather’s laptop at Teufelssee lake in west Berlin went viral this month.The owner of the laptop was captured in bare-bottomed pursuit of the boar, which later abandoned its booty, presumably having discovered it was not edible.
US chickens 'literally sitting in each other's waste' says RSPCA US hens have half the living space of UK birds and are dipped in chlorinated water after slaughter to kill bacteria growing on them as a result of the birds “literally sitting in each other’s waste”, according to a new video being launched today by the RSPCA.
'Funny noise' behind car dashboard turns out to be baby bunny Two mechanics had a shock when they found a baby rabbit hiding underneath a car dashboard.
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