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  • Greek Justice Ministry official admits many young migrants are in limbo

    Hundreds of underaged immigrants are either in police detention or unaccounted for as authorities were able to satisfy less than half the applications for hostel accommodation last year, the general secretary of the Justice Ministry responsible for human rights, Giorgos Sourlas, told a parliamentary committee on Thursday.According to Sourlas, ...

  • Court Tsochatzopoulos laundering case to rule on calling ex-PM to stand

    The Athens Appeals Court will decide on Friday whether to grant ex-Defense Minister Akis ...

  • Suspects questioned over kidnapping after botched drug deal

    A 59-year-old Greek man and two Albanians, aged 32 and 33, are being questioned by police in connection with the abduction last December in the northwestern city of Ioannina of another Albanian national whom they are alleged to have tortured by cutting off three of his fingers after he botched a drug deal.The abductors sent the severed digits to the ...

  • Twenty suspected tax evaders collared in northeastern Attica

    A police crackdown on Thursday resulted in the arrest of 20 suspected tax evaders in northeastern Attica, owing millions of euros to the state.The largest unpaid tax bill, worth 2 million euros, is attributed to the 74-year-old managing director of an company in the northern Athens suburb of Kifissia.The head of another company, MD in Holargos, northeastern Athens, was detained over a ...

  • Greek fighters chase off Turkish jets violating air space

    Four Turkish jets entered Greek air space south of the Aegean island of Samos on Thursday morning and were chased off by Greek fighters, Defense Ministry sources said.The aircraft, two F-4 Phantoms and two F-16s, entered the Athens Flight Information Region (FIR) shortly before 9 a.m. and flew over the small island of Agathonisi at 8,000 feet.The Turkish violation marked seven years to the day ...


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Movie Review

The Three Marias (As Três Marias)

Brazilian director Aluisio Abranches The Three Marias (As Trs Marias), his second feature film, begins in grisly fashion with the murder of the three men of the Capadcio family. The first two killings we dont witness, but we see the bloody aftermath: a father is disemboweled and hung by his own intestines and a son has his eyes and heart cut out. The third murder, of another son, we ... ...

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  • Arrests Made In Ioannina Kidnapping

    On January 31 in the Greek city Ioannina, a 59-year-old Greek was kidnapped by eight individuals, a Greek and seven Albanian, because of disputes between them, authorities said. The man was released on March 27 in Attica, without paying ransom. The case was solved and four of the perpetrators were arrested, police officials said. They said that the perpetrators and the victim were involved in a ...

  • Greece And The Rise Of Hate Over Europe

    (Costas Bej/TNH) Then U.S. Ambassador to Greece Nicholas Burns (front), with (l-r): Chairman of the Board of Trustees Charlotte P. Armstrong, Pres. Panos Kanellis and VP Joann Ryding-Beltes. He's worried about Golden Dawn pushing a new Nazi agenda. IN ATHENS, a popular far-right party condemns Jews as a source of the country's misfortune and recycles the ancient lie depicting them as ...

  • Russian boy stabbed on vacation in Crete flown to Germany for further treatment

    A Russian boy who suffered extensive injuries when he was stabbed during a vacation on the Greek island of Crete is being treated at a hospital in Germany.Berlin's Charite hospital said Thursday that the 12-year-old arrived overnight and is being treated in its children's clinic. It said it could give no further information because of patient confidentiality rules.The Russian boy was ...

  • Before Midnight Captures Greek Romance

    (AP Photo/Sony Pictures Classics, Despina Spyrou) Ethan Hawke (L) and Julie Delpy, in a scene from the film, Before Midnight that was shot in western Greece and is full of romantic imagery, portraying Greece in the best possible light. It comes at a good time, with tourists returning in big numbers. She: "Baby, you are gonna miss that plane." He: "I know." Does that exchange ...

  • IMF board to discuss Greece on May 31 mission heading to Athens

    WASHINGTON | Thu May 23, 2013 11:40am EDT WASHINGTON May 23 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund will send a team to Greece early next month for talks with Greek authorities and the IMF's bailout partners, following a meeting of the IMF executive board to discuss a review of Greece's program, the IMF said on Thursday. The IMF has joined Greece's euro zone partners in ...

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