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  • Some 34000 Greeks moved to Germany in 2012

    Some 34,000 Greeks relocated to Germany last year, an increase of 43 percent compared to 2011 when 23,800 Greeks moved there, according to German government statistics.It is not only Greeks who are increasingly seeking a better life in prosperous Germany but an growing number of people from other debt-hit countries in southern Europe. Last year, 29,000 Spaniards, 42,000 Italians moved to ...

  • Economist Says Greece Doing OK

    What a difference a year makes, especially for Greece. That’s how the financial magazine The Economist has characterized the country’s slow recovery, although with caution that it came at a heavy social price in joblessness and human misery. Greece has performed better than expected, but still has much to do,'; according to the article Up, But Not Out. It reported that, ...

  • Forget Grexit Now It’s Grecovery

    Central Bank Gov. George Provopoulos With international loans pouring in and talk of Greece being forced out of the Eurozone – a so-called Grexit – ceased, the country’s slow rebound from a crushing economic crisis should earn it the moniker Grecovery, Bank of Greece Governor George Provopoulos told a seminar organized by the central bank with the participation of European ...

  • Stanford Scholar Reveals Skouras Rise Humanity

    (Photo collage by Anna Cobb) Immigrant Spyros Skouras became a top Hollywood executive and American philanthropist, but his life story was buried for years in the Stanford University Libraries' Department of Special Collections until Ilias Chrissochoidis dug them out. Spyros Panagiotis Skouras escaped childhood poverty in Greece to become a top Hollywood executive and organizer of a ...

  • Greeces National Bank posts second consecutive quarter of profit

    ATHENS | Fri May 24, 2013 10:14am EDT ATHENS May 24 (Reuters) - Greece's largest lender National Bank (NBG) reported a profit for the second consecutive quarter, helped by its Turkish subsidiary Finansbank, as well as lower funding costs and provisions for bad debt. The bank posted net profit of 27 million euros in the first quarter compared to a loss of 731 million in the same ...


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Scream 4

Scream 4

When Scream debuted to unexpected box office success in the winter of 1996, it came at a time when the horror genre in general, but the slasher film in particular, was bottoming out (which was, incidentally, hardly the first time a genre as cyclical as horror had reached that point). An ... ...

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  • Charred body of Briton 65 found in trailer on Corfu

    Firefighters on Corfu responded to an emergency call early on Friday from Sidari in the Ionian island's north to find a trailer van on fire and discovered the charred body of a man after extinguishing the blaze.The dead man is believed to be a 65-year-old British tourist, according to local reports.The local fire service was seeking to establish what caused the fire to break out in the ...

  • Cretan Convicted Of Goat Rape

    A 25-year-old Cretan was sentenced to 16 months in jail – but then released on appeal – after being convicted of the rape of his neighbor’s goat, after he was caught in the act and reportedly had been engaging in frequent sexual relations with the animal. The finding of a provincial court was reported by mellon.gr which said that according to the indictment, the young man ...

  • Child Vanishes Every Day In Greece

    The Greek NGO specializing in helping children, Smile Of The Child, reported that a child goes missing or runs away every day in Greece, data it released to coincide with International Missing Children’s Day which is annually celebrated on May 25. In the first four months of the year, the agency said that 138 minors disappeared, of whom 90 were found. Introducing the official statistics ...

  • Tax revenue in first quarter within targets ministry says

    Tax revenue collected in the first quarter of this year was within the targets agreed with the country's international creditors, the Finance Ministry said on Friday.According to ministry figures, authorities collected 8.13 billion euros in the first quarter, just shy of the target of 8.17 billion euros, a divergence of 0.5 percent.Authorities collected 6.20 billion euros in the first three ...

  • Head of IKA in Rethymno charged with bribe-taking

    The director of the main branch of the Social Security Foundation (IKA) in the Cretan port of Rethymno has been arrested for taking bribes, breach of faith and violation of duty, reports said on Friday.According to a local investigation, the 55-year-old IKA director exploited his position to delay the clearing of pensions and benefits with, allegedly demanding a fee to speed up the process.A ...

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