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  • Placido Domingo turns Allende short story into opera

    Under the baton of Placido Domingo, acclaimed Chilean writer Isabel Allende's short story "Una Venganza" ("An Act of Vengeance") emerges from the printed page as the opera "Dulce Rosa", a production with a Latin heart and Greek tragedy in its soul that premiered Friday in Los Angeles. "Dulce Rosa" is a further effort by the L.A. Opera, directed by Domingo, to bring lyric opera to a wider ...

  • No damage or injuries as bomb explodes close to Greek embassy in Libya

    A bomb went of on the street where the Greek embassy in Tripoli, Libya, is located but the building was not damaged and there were no injuries, the Foreign Ministry said on Saturday."This lunchtime an small explosive device that had been placed next to a car parked on the road where the embassies of Greece, Saudi Arabia and Algeria are located ...

  • Greece to buy 142 ships from China

    SHANGHAI - Greek Shipping Minister Kostis Moussouroulis said here Saturday Greek shipowners have recently signed contracts to buy 142 new ships from Chinese shipbuilding companies. The orders, which were signed in April, accounted for more than 60 percent of the recent global orders of Greek shipowners, said the Greek official. The shipping industry, including shipbuilding, is one of the most ...

  • As visit to China concludes Samaras offers incentives to invest in Greece

    Any Chinese person investing more than 250,000 euros in real estate in Greece will be given a five-year residence permit without having to fulfill any other criteria, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras told a business conference in Shanghai on Saturday.The Greek government also aims to offer bigger investors Greek citizenship in a bid to attract investment from China. ...

  • Greeces June target of 2000 civil service redundancies may be flexible

    Greece may not have to sack 2,000 civil servants by the end of June, as previously thought, but its commitment to remove 4,000 by this year and 15,000 by the end of 2015 still stands.The final version of ...


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Commando [DVD]

Commando [DVD]

On any level above that of red-faced guilty pleasure, there is simply no way to defend Commando. A gloriously primitive and cartoonish action vehicle for star Arnold Schwarzenegger, Commando makes no bones about its abject absurdity. It doesn't pretend to be a ... ...

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  • Ministry plans to increase university academics working hours

    After increasing the working hours of secondary school teachers in order to cut down on the bill for substitutes, the Education Ministry is planning to make university educators spend as much as 50 percent more time teaching in a bid to make up for sliding staff numbers, Kathimerini understands.The plan is expected to face strong opposition from faculties at Greek universities, which are already ...

  • Police believe second suspect in 1-million-euro Larissa robbery also prison escapee

    Police believe that the second man involved in an armed robbery that netted 1 million euros in Larissa, central Greece, on Thursday is also a fugitive from Trikala prison.Officers had already found the fingerprints of one of the suspects at the bank that was raided. They identified him as Klement Kala, one of 11 men who broke out of jail in Trikala, central Greece, in April. Now police believe ...

  • Three questioned in connection to taxi robberies in Attica

    Three Albanian nationals were being questioned by police over the weekend in connection with spate of armed robberies against taxi drivers and gas stations in eastern Attica after being arrested on the testimony of a cabbie who said two of the three had mugged him.The 27-year-old cab driver told police that two of the three ...

  • Greek lawyers start submitting case files electronically

    The Athens Bar Association has begun handing out memory sticks to its members that will allow them to electronically sign case files which can now be submitted via an online system that is to be expanded to include all courts in major Greek cities.Some 500 e-signatures have been given out so far, allowing lawyers to provide courts with case documents electronically.The scheme is part of the ...

  • Man confesses to murder of woman in Porto Germeno

    A 26-year-old man has allegedly confessed to killing a 39-year-old woman in Porto Germeno, a small coastal town in western Attica.Investigators responding to a missing ...

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