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  • Samaras vows return visit to Azerbaijan after talks with Aliyev in Baku

    Prime Minister Antonis Samaras vowed to return to Azerbaijan after holding talks in Baku on Sunday with the ...

  • Dutch childrens entertainer to appear in Crete court over hotel stabbing

    The Dutchman accused of stabbing a 12-year-old Russian boy during his vacation in Crete last week is to face a magistrate on Monday.Cirino Schrijver, a 20-year-old who worked as a ...

  • New Greek bailout unveiled to contain debt crisis

    President of European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso (R), President of European Council Herman Van Rompuy (C) and Greek Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou attend the press conference after the Eurozone Emergency Summit in Brussels, Capital of Belgium, July 21, 2011. Eurozone leaders Thursday agreed on a second bailout package for Greeece, with a total official financing of an estimated 109 ...

  • Greece isnt turning the corner

    By Megan Greene Judging from the markets and English-speaking news media this week, ...

  • New DNA Tests Show Minoans’ European Origins

    A recently conducted DNA analysis on the remains of Minoans’ skeletons found mainly in a cave in Lassithi, Crete, suggest beyond any doubt and previous speculation that the ancestors of the major Minoan civilization of the Bronze Age did not originate either from Africa or Asia, as archaeologists assumed so far, but rather from Europe. The study was published in the journal, Nature ...


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Brand Upon the Brain! [DVD]

Brand Upon the Brain! [DVD]

It has been said that, in order to fully get any one of Spanish cult director Jess Francos films, you need to have seen all of them, and I suspect the same is also true of Canadian cult director Guy Maddin. Fully getting Franco is a tall order given that he has directed n ... ...

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  • Greece Isn’t Turning the Corner

    Greece -- 4.2 billion euros at the weekend, and the remaining 3.3 billion euros in June, provided that Greece first completes a number of measures. The following day, Fitch Ratings upgraded Greece to B- from CCC. That is still six levels below investment grade, yet the improvement inspired one of the biggest sovereign-bond market rallies we have seen in Greece since the beginning of the crisis. ...

  • Greece moves to prevent teacher strikes

    Greece has taken emergency action - for the third time this year - to ward off a strike by secondary school teachers timed to coincide with university entry exams.The emergency order to work on Monday follows similar steps taken against metro workers in January and seamen in February as the conservative-led coalition government fights to minimise labour unrest.'What kind of teachers choose ...

  • Azerbaijan`s President meets Greek Prime Minister

    President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has today met Prime Minister of Greece Antonis Samaras who is in Baku for a working visit. They said relations between Azerbaijan and Greece were developing successfully in political, economic, cultural spheres. They stressed good prospects exist for further expansion of bilateral energy cooperation. The sides also underscored the importance of relations ...

  • Greek crew wins 12th Historic Acropolis Rally

    For a second consecutive year the Greek crew of Iason Fotopoulos and Aristotelis Georgiou topped the Historic Acropolis Rally after a tough three-day course across central Greece.Under the warm applause of motorsport fans on Sunday they raised the trophy of the 12th edition of the Greek rally under the Acropolis hill in Athens.The Greek organizers and fans of vintage cars praised winners as 55 ...

  • Greece to Buy 142 Ships from China

    (MENAFN - Qatar News Agency) Greek Shipping Minister Kostis Moussouroulis said here Saturday Greek shipowners have recently signed contracts to buy 142 new ships from Chinese shipbuilding companies. The orders, which were signed in April, accounted for more than 60 percent of the recent global orders of Greek shipowners, the Greek official was quoted by Xinhua news agency as saying. The shipping ...

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