Woman, 62, held over Greek American entrepreneur’s murder
- E- Kathimerini
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- March 10, 2010
A 62-year-old Bulgarian businesswoman has been charged in connection with the murder of a 66-year-old Greek-American entrepreneur whose corpse was found bound and gagged in his sixth-floor apartment i...
Greek police use tear gas on protesters
ATHENS, March 5 (Reuters) - Greek police used tear gas to disperse a small group of youths near the parliament building during protests against government cutbacks, Reuters eye witnesses said on Frida...
Greek police arrest 2 with valuable antiquities
- Costas Kantouris - The Associated Press
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- March 01, 2010
THESSALONIKI, Greece — Greek police arrested two men trying to sell several artifacts, including a bronze sculpture of emperor Alexander the Great from the 4th century B.C., for which the asking price...
Total ban on smoking mooted
The possibility of smoking being banned in all public places is an option being seriously considered by the Health Ministry, sources said yesterday, as officials held talks with workers’ unions with a...
Greek media to halt during national strike
ATHENS, Greece, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- The Greek national strike got off to an early start Tuesday when communist protesters barricaded the stock exchange in Athens a day early.
Trading was conducted rem...
Progress and Backlash in Greece
- Nicole Itano - TIME
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- February 23, 2010
Hawa Sankoh speaks Greek to her two daughters, except, she admits, when she's angry. Then she sometimes slips back into the pidgin of her native Sierra Leone, but with mixed success. "They understand ...
Migrants demonstrate for rights in Athens
- The Earth Times
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- February 20, 2010
Athens - Hundreds of migrants gathered in central Athens Saturday to demonstrate for a reform of Greece's controversial rules on immigrants and asylum. Protesters carried banners reading "Legalization...
Greek taxis halted, customs staff extend strike
- Renee Maltezou - Reuters
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- February 19, 2010
ATHENS, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Taxi drivers parked their cabs and walked off the job for 24 hours on Friday in the latest protest against the Greek government's EU-driven austerity programme, which protes...
Havoc in Greece and Turkey from floods
- Nick Iliev - Sofia Echo
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- February 17, 2010
Parts of northern Greece around the Maritsa river (Evros in Greece) remained in a state of emergency as flooding caused by heavy rainfall in the area and bulging rivers from Bulgaria in recent days su...
Bomb blast hits J.P. Morgan building in Greece
- CNN International
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- February 17, 2010
A medium sized-bomb exploded Tuesday at a building housing offices of J.P. Morgan, the financial services firm, Greek police said.
A warning was phoned to a Greek newspaper 30 minutes before the ex...
Greek farmers end blockades, open border crossing
ATHENS, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Greek farmers on Tuesday ended a 30-day blockade at the border crossing with Bulgaria despite the government's refusal to satisfy their financial demands.
"We are ending ...
Clean Monday ushers in Lent
The beginning of Lent commenced in Greece on Monday, as the day is marked by the religious holiday of Shrove Monday or "Clean Monday", ahead of Orthodox Christian Easter on April 4 this year. Traditi...
Flooded villages evacuated in Greece
- The Associated Press
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- February 15, 2010
Authorities are evacuating villages in Greece that are being flooded by a river that also has burst its banks in nearby Bulgaria.
The problem began when melting snow and torrential rains flooded the ...
Crete schoolgirl suspended for Facebook comments
- TNH staff
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- February 12, 2010
A 14-year-old girl has been forced to leave a junior high school in Chania, Crete, after it emerged that she had started a page on the Facebook social networking site to express dislike for her princi...
Eight drown trying to reach Greece
ATHENS, Greece, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- At least eight people trying to reach Greece in a rubber raft drowned in a storm on the Aegean Sea, Greek rescue officials said.
A Georgian cargo ship pulled a surv...
Greek unions strike against austerity plan
- Elena Becatoros - Associated Press
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- February 10, 2010
ATHENS, Greece — A strike by civil servants grounded all flights and shut down public services across Greece on Wednesday, as labor unions mounted their first major challenge to austerity measures in ...
Citizenship rallies highlight division
- E- Kathimerini
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- February 08, 2010
The center of Athens was closed for several hours on Saturday as a protest by extreme nationalists against the government’s plans to grant citizenship to second-generation immigrants was countered by ...
Synagogue gets backing
- E- Kathimerini
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- February 08, 2010
About 100 members of Jewish communities around Greece took part on Saturday in a service at the Etz Hayyim Synagogue in Hania to express support for the Jews of Crete after arsonists targeted the buil...
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