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  • Video Should Greece go back to the drachma

    Investors may not be worrying quite so much about Greece at the moment but a new political party could change that. The Plan B party supports leaving the euro and returning to the drachma. Hayley Platt asks whether it's likely to do any harm to the country's ...

  • Slovenian philospher Zizek proposes gulag for those who do not support SYRIZA

    Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek has caused controversy in Greece by suggesting that he would send anyone who does not support SYRIZA to ...

  • Europe’s debt frenzy undeterred by record recession

    By Emma Charlton Investors are snapping up long-dated bonds from ...

  • Greece Will Sell Troubled Proton Postbank

    Two of Greece’s shakiest banks, Hellenic Postbank and Proton, will have to be sold by mid-July as the country’s largest banks continue gobbling up smaller institutions as part of plans to help the beleaguered economy begin to recover, envoys from international lenders have directed. Proton was taken over when it became insolvency in the wake of bad loans and a scandal involving its ...

  • Gun-Toting Golden Dawn MP In Parliament

    (AP Photo/Fosphotos, Panayiotis Tzamaros) Panagiotis Iliopoulos, an MP for the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, gestures as he shouts insults at other lawmakers as he party colleagues surround him in support after he was ejected from the Greek Parliament on May 17 for verbal assaults. ATHENS - A lawmaker from the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, whose members reportedly regularly carry arms, was asked not ...


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Orange County

Orange County is an amusing, sometimes witty, but often uneven comedy about the horrors of familial dysfunction. It is also an example of the benefits of Hollywood nepotism, with the talented twentysomething offspring of the current Hollywood dominion in many of the key roles. The role of Shaun Brumder, a high-school senior trying to get into Stanford so he can study under a writer/profess ... ...

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  • UPDATE 1-Greeces Hellenic issues tender to buy Russian oil

    Mon May 20, 2013 8:56am EDT (Adds details, effects of financial crisis on Hellenic) LONDON May 20 (Reuters) - Hellenic Petroleum, Greece's largest refiner, has issued a tender to buy an 80,000 tonne cargo of Russian Urals crude oil for early June delivery, a trading source said, the first in months as its finances improve. The tender was issued on Friday and closes today. The payment will be ...

  • Epirus the pie lover’s destination

    By Evi Voutsina*Pies are household favorites nationwide, though the greatest variety is probably found in Epirus, northwestern Greece, whose mountains are covered in a wide variety of wild greens, herbs and mushrooms that are used in an equally vast array of pies. The most common of these pies made with wild greens is "blatsara," where, instead of a simple phyllo pastry, the filling ...

  • Dutchman to undergo psychiatric examination in wake of Crete stabbing

    The 20-year-old Dutchman accused of a violent attack on a 12-year-old Russian staying at a hotel in Crete has remanded in custody and ordered to undergo psychiatric examination.Cirino Schrijver faced a magistrate in Iraklio on Monday but during the 15-minute session his court-appointed lawyers said it was not possible for his client to answer any questions.The lawyer said Schrijver suffered from ...

  • Quick Quits Independent Greeks Spokesman

    Terence Quick Former TV presenter Terence Quick has resigned as Parliamentary spokesman for the Independent Greeks, a minor political party that has almost no influence and is an offshoot of the ruling New Democracy Conservatives. In a letter to party leader Panos Kammenos, Quick said that he would remain as a lawmaker. He did not cite any motives for his decision although the party is lagging ...

  • Vouliagmeni beach evacuated after bather discovers military shell

    File photo People have been evacuated from Vouliagmeni beach in southern Athens after a bather discovered a missile.A special army unite has been sent to the beach to defuse the shell. The coast guard is also attending the ...

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