Yesterday’s News Wrap-up includes the following:
Nearly two dozen individuals, including a former mayor, civil engineers and surveyors, were arrested in a massive anti-corruption operation this week centered on two building permit/ planning offices in northern Greece. Annual global corruption and transparency surveys – World Bank, OECD etc. – have repeatedly and successively pointed to problems in Greece’s building permit processes and state-run planning and building offices (poleodomia).
In a confusing world with an ever-changing rolodex of news and terms to keep up with, a Google search can be a lifesaver. Google has released this year’s most searched words, questions and terms. So what answers were Greeks looking for? The fastest-growing searches of the year were all focused in the summer– searches about the European Football Championship took over as the championship played out through June and July.
Two ancient marble statues depicting young men came to light during natural gas installation works around the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, this week. On Sunday, the Greek Culture Ministry said a headless statue had been found in “fairly good condition” near the AD 161 Odeon of Herodes Atticus, a stone Roman theater located on the southwest slope of the Acropolis.
Greece has been selected to create one of the first AI factories in the EU aimed at driving innovation, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Tuesday. More specifically, Greece is among seven countries selected by the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (Europe) to establish and operate the first AI factories in Europe setting the foundations for an ecosystem to train advanced AI models and develop AI solutions.
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