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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 14-01-05
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[01] President in Telendos, Pserimos and Kalymnos for Epiphany
[02] Weather to get worse on Epiphany
[01] President in Telendos, Pserimos and Kalymnos for Epiphany
ANA-MPA -- President Karolos Papoulias will be visiting Telendos for
the Epiphany celebration on Monday, accompanied by Shipping Minister
Miltiadis Varvitsiotis. President Papoulias and Varvitsiotis will be
attending the blessing of the waters ceremony and the immersion of the
Holy Cross in Telendos and then they will be visiting the islands of
Pserimos and Kalymnos.
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras will attend the waters blessing ceremony in
the city of Kalamata, in the Peloponnese, and Defence Minister Dimitris
Avramopoulos will visit Kastelorizo to attend the Epiphany celebration
and the immersion of the Holy Cross.
[02] Weather to get worse on Epiphany
ANA-MPA -- A weather front is expected to sweep across Greece during
the Epiphany holiday on Monday, bringing rain, storms and strong
winds. According to the weather service, the phenomena will initially
affect western and southern parts of the country, in the Ionian islands,
western Greece and Southern Peloponnese.
By midday they will have spread to the rest of the Peloponnese, the
Cyclades islands, Crete and the eastern mainland and start to abate from
the afternoon from the northwest.
Strong rain and storms are also forecast in the eastern Peloponnese,
Cyclades, Crete and the Dodecanese island group on Tuesday.
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