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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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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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  • Firefighters battle blaze on island of Hydra

    Firefighters were dispatched to Hydra on Friday to douse a blaze that broke out on forestland above the Mira Mare hotel in the island's Mandraki Bay.The rescue effort comprised 10 firefighters manning three engines, and another 20 firefighters on the ground, aided by a Super Puma helicopter and a water-dropping aircraft.Strong winds fanned the blaze in the early afternoon, hampering the ...

  • Submission of online tax declarations begins

    The electronic system for the submission of annual income tax declarations was to open on Friday for the submission of income tax declarations.The Finance Ministry has completed technical changes to the Taxis Net system to allow for some changes to the details that need to be submitted this year.Taxpayers, for instance, will have to include any interest earned on savings in their returns this ...

  • ANN ARBOR Ya’ssoo Greek Festival returns next weekend

    Every year, thousands of guests experience the fun, sounds, aromas, and tastes of the Greek culture at the Ya’ssoo Greek Festival sponsored by St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church of Ann Arbor, 3109 Scio Church Road. This year’s festival is May 31, June 1 and 2 and features something new for guests of all ages."We are pleased to offer new raffle prizes this year valued from ...

  • Greece Is Up But Not Out Yet

    (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) Sometimes violent protests in Greece have fizzled out even though the government is imposing more austerity as Greeks seem resigned to their fate. Even a protest of 10,000 people in downtown Athens on May 23 organized by a pro-Communist union failed to yield much excitement, leaving this man to be more anxious about what was in his wallet than the streets. The ...

  • Samaras Likes Irish Way Out Of Crisis

    (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) Greece's Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, (L) welcomes his Irish counterpart Enda Kenny at Maximos Mansion in Athens, May 23, 2013. Samaras said that Greece would follow the "same successful model" as Ireland both of the EU Presidency and to exit the crisis. Greece assumes the EU's rotating Presidency in January 2014. ATHENS - After meeting his ...

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