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  • Mavraganis 218 offshore firms being probed

    A total of 218 offshore companies are currently being inspected by tax authorities in Athens, according to a document submitted to Parliament on Tuesday by Deputy Finance Minister Giorgos Mavraganis in response to a question submitted by four deputies of the main leftist opposition party SYRIZA.Of the 218 firms beings inspected, 161 are linked to the tax office of Kranidi in the Peloponnese and ...

  • Engine problem forces aircraft back to Iraklio

    An aircraft that had been en route to Kiev from Iraklio was forced to return to the Cretan port's Nikos Kazantzakis airport on Tuesday morning due to a malfunction in the craft's engine.All 162 passengers aboard the Aviatrans Airbus 320 were safe and well, according to local reports, and were expected to board another aircraft to their ...

  • More Greeks taking their own lives

    (17 mins ago) Suicides have jumped by 26 percent in Greece over the past year, as a result of the economic crisis, officials said. Four hundred and seventy seven people committed suicide in Greece in 2011, an increase of 26 percent over the previous year, the national statistics agency Elstat said today. Although 82 percent of those who committed suicide were men, the rate of women taking ...

  • Athens Police Patrols on Bikes

    Starting from the morning of May 21, the Athens Municipal Police will use fifteen bicycles for patrols in areas of major historical and environmental interest. The entrance to the Acropolis was the starting line for the fifteen policemen on bikes. "We are very happy today. The bicycles and their specially trained riders will patrol the pedestrian walkway. This initiative is the precursor ...

  • WWII War Claims Divide Greece And Germany Again

    The Nazis execute a Greek man in the village of Kalavrya, one of nearly 1,200 massacred on Dec. 13, 1943 in one of the many atrocities committed during the war, along with other damages, for which Greece still wants Germany to pay. High up in the Peloponnese, above the town of Kalavryta, Giorgos Dimopoulos reads through the names chiselled into a stone monument. At one, he stops. "Dimitrios ...


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The Music Room (Jalsaghar) [Blu-Ray]

The Music Room (Jalsaghar) [Blu-Ray]

For a filmmaker who has professed on numerous occasions that music was his first love, it is not surprising that director Satyajit Ray chose music as the binding theme of his third film, The Music Room (Jalsaghar). Ray, who started in advertising before moving into filmmak ... ...

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  • U.S. Blames Golden Dawn For Anti-Semitism

    The election last year of 18 members of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party to the Greek Parliament has caused an increase in anti-Semitism in the country, the U.S. State Department said in a report on international religious freedom. The party's popularity is continuing the soar the more it is criticized for its stance, which is also anti-immigrant, anti-Gay, nationalist and ultra-religious, ...

  • Large rescue effort contains Patra hotel fire

    A large fire that broke out in the hotel Astir in the western port of Patra on Tuesday was brought under control by a unit of 30 firefighters manning 10 fire engines.The fire broke out on a room on the fifth floor though the cause remained unclear.Firefighters contained the blaze before it could spread to other rooms and there were no reports of ...

  • Troika inspectors to arrive in Athens on June 4

    A delegation of technocrats of the troika of the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund will arrive in Athens on June 4 to assess Greece's progress, reports said Tuesday.However a senior official at the country's Finance Ministry told Skai that ...

  • Gazprom drives hard bargain as sole major bidder for DEPA

    By Harry PapachristouGazprom is squeezing Athens for better terms to buy DEPA, Greece's sole retail gas distributor, a Greek official said, as the Russian gas export monopoly leverages its strength position as the only major player in the running.Binding bids are due to be submitted on May 29 for DEPA, which posted a net profit of 106 million euros last year. Gazprom last year made a ...

  • Greek neo-Nazis threaten to mobilize against plans for mosque

    PanARMENIAN.Net - Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn has threatened to mobilize 100,000 people against plans to build a mosque in Athens, AFP reported citing the state television. "If a mosque is constructed for Islamist criminals in Greece, a front of 100,000 Greeks headed by Golden Dawn will be created," party spokesman Ilias Kasidiaris told supporters at a rally late on Sunday, in ...

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