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  • Greek children increasingly living in poverty says UN report

    Children in Athens look at a Christmas tree made of milk tin cans, after donating some on December 14, 2012, during an event organized by Medecins du Monde, a non-governmental humanitarian aid organisation. Child poverty has been skyrocketing in the debt-ridden country. (Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty ...

  • Parliamentary speaker vows action against deputies carrying guns

    Parliamentary speaker Evangelos Meimarakis claimed on Thursday he would personally remove from the House any MPs refusing to comply with regulations that forbid them carrying firearms into the building.Earlier this week, Meimarakis told parties that MPs would have to pass through metal detectors and any guns would have to be left in a designated room. Some MPs had recently complained about ...

  • Big Pay For Alpha Bank Execs

    Despite a law that says no private banker can be paid more than the head of the National Bank of Greece, eight executives at Alpha Bank, the country’s third largest lender, were paid above the legal maximum permissible for bankers, documents published by the lender suggest. According to the prospectus published to announce a share capital increase at the bank, the eight executives ...

  • Crete Hosts Talks On Ancient Novels

    The Department of Philology (Division of Classics) of the University of Crete in Greece is organizing the seventh Rethymnon International Conference on the Ancient Novel (RICAN) on May 27-28. The conference includes four sessions and will be hosted in the Student Cultural Center Xenia in the city Rethymnon, Crete. The topic of RICAN 7 is Slaves and Masters in the Ancient Novel. This is about ...

  • Nearly a Quarter of People in Greece and the U.S. Cant Afford Food

    A Greek man eats food distributed by the Athens Municipality on January 30, 2012. (Yannis Behrakis/Reuters) No matter where you're from, not having enough to eat is the ultimate signifier of economic distress. Food is the base of Maslow's hierarchy. It's the first concern in disaster zones. It's usually the last thing to go -- after the car and the nice apartment -- when you ...


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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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  • 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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