In debt-plagued Greece, immigrants feel the heat
- Henry Chu - Los Angeles Times
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- March 16, 2010
Ancient Greece gave the world the word "xenophobia." Modern Greece is providing examples of it.
Hamad Amiri, a young Afghan immigrant, arrived to work at his brother's cellphone store in Athens on ...
Greece Continues to Smoke Inspite of Ban
- Maria Paravantes - Southeast European Times
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- March 15, 2010
The Greek government's attempt to ban smoking in public is being widely ignored. While the law is in line with EU recommendations, the business community argues that the economy is bad enough without ...
Greece probes dead man's terrorist ties
ATHENS, Greece, March 15 (UPI) -- Greek intelligence officials discovered a map of all of Athens' security cameras in the home of a man killed last week in a police shootout.
Lambros Fountas, 35, w...
4.6 magnitude quake rattles southern Greece
- The Associated Press
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- March 12, 2010
The Athens Geodynamic Institute says an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.6 has struck in southern Greece. Authorities say there are no reports of damage or injuries.
The institute said ...
Greece hit by strikes over austerity plan
- Elena Becatoros - The Associated Press
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- March 11, 2010
ATHENS, Greece — Greek police fired tear gas to disperse protesters throwing rocks and firebombs outside Parliament as more than 30,000 people marched through central Athens during a nationwide strike...
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 ...
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