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  • Placido Domingo turns Allende short story into opera

    Under the baton of Placido Domingo, acclaimed Chilean writer Isabel Allende's short story "Una Venganza" ("An Act of Vengeance") emerges from the printed page as the opera "Dulce Rosa", a production with a Latin heart and Greek tragedy in its soul that premiered Friday in Los Angeles. "Dulce Rosa" is a further effort by the L.A. Opera, directed by Domingo, to bring lyric opera to a wider ...

  • Samaras Urges Chinese Invest in Greece

    Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, talking to the Hellenic-Chinese business forum in Shanghai, called Chinese entrepreneurs to invest in Greece and to increase their business transactions with Greek entrepreneurs. "Those who invested in Greece's failure were disappointed. We are fighting and we will win the battle, there's no other choice for us. Greece writes its own success ...

  • Crisis not all that bad for Greek mothers

    ATHENS--In a society where family ties traditionally play a prominent role, Greece's deep economic crisis apparently offers a few Greek mothers a reason to be happy. While financial hardship may have forced many to seek their fortune abroad, it has also obliged an increasing number of young people to return to the family nest, where they are fed and provided for by parents often more than ...

  • Police Say Bank Robber Prison Escapee

    Greek police said that they think a second man involved in an armed robbery that netted 1 million euros in Larissa, central Greece, on May 16 is also a fugitive from a Trikala prison break. Authorities said they matched fingerprints found at the scene with those of Klement Kala, one of 11 men who broke out of jail in Trikala, central Greece, in April. Now police believe the other man with him ...

  • Greece’s Muslims Cite “Slaughter” Threat

    The Muslim Association of Greece (MAG) said that it has received a threatening note giving all Muslims, Greeks and foreigners, one month's time to evacuate the country or be ';slaughtered like chickens,'; according to a statement released by the association on May 18. The note, published on the association’s webpage, is written in Greek, English and Arabic and the Golden ...


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The Children Are Watching Us (I bambini ci guardano) [DVD]

The Children Are Watching Us (I bambini ci guardano) [DVD]

The child knows. Although just a diminutive four-year-old, utterly nave about the world around him, he senses--he knows--that something is not right with the way his mother is talking to the man in the park. It is wrong, and when he takes his two-wheel s ... ...

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  • No damage or injuries as bomb explodes close to Greek embassy in Libya

    A bomb went of on the street where the Greek embassy in Tripoli, Libya, is located but the building was not damaged and there were no injuries, the Foreign Ministry said on Saturday."This lunchtime an small explosive device that had been placed next to a car parked on the road where the embassies of Greece, Saudi Arabia and Algeria are located ...

  • Greece to buy 142 ships from China

    SHANGHAI - 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, said the Greek official. The shipping industry, including shipbuilding, is one of the most ...

  • As visit to China concludes Samaras offers incentives to invest in Greece

    Any Chinese person investing more than 250,000 euros in real estate in Greece will be given a five-year residence permit without having to fulfill any other criteria, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras told a business conference in Shanghai on Saturday.The Greek government also aims to offer bigger investors Greek citizenship in a bid to attract investment from China. ...

  • Greeces June target of 2000 civil service redundancies may be flexible

    Greece may not have to sack 2,000 civil servants by the end of June, as previously thought, but its commitment to remove 4,000 by this year and 15,000 by the end of 2015 still stands.The final version of ...

  • Ministry plans to increase university academics working hours

    After increasing the working hours of secondary school teachers in order to cut down on the bill for substitutes, the Education Ministry is planning to make university educators spend as much as 50 percent more time teaching in a bid to make up for sliding staff numbers, Kathimerini understands.The plan is expected to face strong opposition from faculties at Greek universities, which are already ...

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