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  • St. Louis County Greek Fest is underway

    ST. LOUIS COUNTY (KSDK) - The St. Louis County Greek Fest is underway right now in Town & Country. There's Greek music and dancing, a market place, and of course fantastic Greek food. The festival runs through Sunday at Assumption Greek Orthodox Church on Des Peres Road. For more information on the Greek ...

  • Inside the Greece ETF

    After six years of recession and three years after bailout, the Greek economy is finally showing some level of growth in 2014. In return for its international bailout, Greece has imposed several rounds of stringent austerity measures, including sweeping spending cuts and a series of tax hikes, in an effort to reform its economy. Since the recession, the country whose growth contracted more than ...

  • Try an authentic Greek wine for summer sipping

    This Greek wines goe great with simple, grilled fish. When it comes to light and refreshing summer wines, the white wines of Greece remain below the radar but are well worth considering. Although Greek wine prices have edged up in the last few years, making them not quite the bargains they once were, it's still possible to find some very good values.One of them is ...

  • IMF chief Lagarde to be assisting witness in corruption trial

    IMF chief Christine Lagarde says a Paris court has named her as a key witness in an investigation into a controversial payoff to an outspoken businessman arranged while she was Frances finance minister.The status ...

  • Industries protest over delays in drop of energy costs

    By Chryssa Liaggou Energy-intensive industries on Friday protested a delay in measures announced a couple of months ago for reducing energy costs and for ironing out the electricity market distortions that significantly jack up the price of each kilowatt/hour of ...


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Movie Review

Death Race

Death Race

Neither as bad as you fear it could be nor as good as you might hope, Death Race, hyperkinetic schlock auteur Paul W.S. Andersons remake of Roger Corman and Paul Bartels 1975 cult classic Death Race 2000, is best described as a nonstop assault on the senses. It comes out with ... ...

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  • Tourism arrivals confirm record expectations

    By Stathis Kousounis The first official data on tourism have vindicated expectations for a record year, as Bank of Greece figures show a 4.6 percent increase in the number of arrivals to Greece in the first three months of the year.The total number of arrivals exceeded 1 million in the off-season.Despite the increase in total arrivals, however, the number of tourists coming by air declined by ...

  • TaxisNet opens late and not without problems

    TaxisNet, the electronic portal for submitting tax declarations, opened on Friday afternoon after a delay of four days, in a year when almost all taxpayers will need to use the web to file their income tax statements.The official deadline for submissions is June 30, but the delay in the opening of the portal and the fact that virtually all 6.5 million taxpayers have to go through TaxisNet (at ...

  • Diamantopoulou is latest ex-PASOK minister to break from party eye new group

    Ex-Education Minister Anna Diamantopoulou became on Friday the latest member of the PASOK cabinet serving when Greece signed its bailout deal with the troika in May 2010 to make plans to create a new party.Speaking to state-run NET TV in an interview, Diamantopoulou suggested that the Socialist party had run its ...

  • Half of young Greeks will not vote for MEPs

    Young Greeks are less interested in European politics and less likely to vote in next ...

  • Commission examining obstacles to Greeces work scheme for jobless families

    The European Commission was attempting on Friday to untangle a bureaucratic jumble threatening to scupper the Greek ...

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