Athens News Agency: News in English, 01-11-18

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From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>

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[01] Ancient Olympia torch ceremony for Winter Olympic Games on Monday

[02] Weather forecast: Rain and storms on Monday

[03] Foreign Exchange Rates - Monday

[01] Ancient Olympia torch ceremony for Winter Olympic Games on Monday

The countdown for the start of the Winter Olympic Games which will be held at Salt Lake City in the United States from February 8-24, 2002, begins at Ancient Olympia on Monday noon with the lighting of the Olympic Games torch.

Thalia Prokopiou, who was also the high priestess at the torch lighting ceremony for the Olympic Games in Sydney, will light the torch and forward it to the first runner, Lefteris Fafalis, 25.

The Olympic torch will reach Kalavryta at 16.40 where it will remain until Tuesday morning. Its arrival at the Panethenian Stadium is scheduled for 21.45 the same day. It will remain there until December 3 when the president of the Greek Olympic Games Committee, Lambis Nikolaou will hand it over during a special ceremony to the representative of the Organising Committee of the Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games.

[02] Weather forecast: Rain and storms on Monday

Rain and storms are forecast in most parts of Greece on Monday. Local cluding is expected in western Greece, turning to rain and local showers, mainly in the northwest, while local cloud forecast for Crete, the Cyclades and the Dodecanese. Winds variable. Temperatures in thenorth will range from 0 to 16 C, in the west from 9 to 18 C, and in the rest of the country from 7 to 20 C. Athens will be overcast, turning to rain in the afternoon with the possibility of local storms during the night, and temperatures of 10-19 C. The same in Thessaloniki, with temperatures of 6-16 C.

[03] Foreign Exchange Rates - Monday

Indicative tourist buying rates until Monday

U.S. dollar 382.178

German mark 172.829

French franc 051.531

Pound sterling 547.407

Irish punt 429.202

Belgian franc 008.379

Luxembourg franc 008.379

Dutch guilder 153.389

Italian lira (100) 017.457

Austrian schilling 024.565

Danish kroner 045.426

Swedish kroner 036.048

Finnish mark 056.852

Spanish peseta 002.032

Portuguese escudo 001.686

Japanese yen (100) 311.671

Swiss franc 230.361

Norwegian kroner 042.679

Cyprus pound 590.022

Canadian dollar 240.150

Australian dollar 200.099

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