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  • Greece’s Tangled Land Ownership Is a Hurdle in Recovery

    ATHENS -- Not long ago Leonidas Hamodrakas, a lawyer in Athens, decided to pay closer attention to his family's land holdings -- some fields, a scattering of buildings and a massive stone tower -- in Mani, a rural region in southern ...

  • Some documents of Greece secret deal remain unpublished Urpilianen

    The Ministry of Finance has published the Finland-Greece secret collateral deal on May 14 following court order. Photo - Lehtkuva The Finance Minister, Jutta Urpilianen on Sunday admitted that some documents related to the secret deal in which Finland provided guarantee of bailout loan for Greece two years ago remained unpublished. Earlier, the Ministry of Finance on May 14, released the ...

  • Greek yogurts dirty little secret

    Greek yogurt is low in calories, high in protein, and generally delicious. What's not to like?How about this: The production of Greek yogurt creates a nasty byproduct called "acid whey."The liquid waste can't be dumped, because it would prove too toxic to the environment, ruining waterways and killing fish, reports Modern Farmer.But with the Greek yogurt market now worth $2 ...

  • Golden Dawn Disrupts Documentary In N.Y.

    Golden Dawn leader Nikolaos Michaloliakos (C) surrounded by his Heil Hitler-style saluting supporters during a rally in Athens. He said he wants chapters around the world to spread the party's jingoistic message and to rid Greece of immigrants. ASTORIA, N.Y. - Members of the Greek neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party were reportedly ejected from a post-film discussion here after they used a megaphone ...

  • Greek Cypriot leader meets Israeli minister

    Anastasiadis and Netanyahu discussed cooperation in field of energy, bilateral relations and developments in eastern Mediterranean JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday met with leader of the Greek Cypriot administration Nicos Anastasiadis in Jerusalem.Cooperation in the field of energy, bilateral relations and developments in eastern Mediterranean were discussed during ...


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30 Days of Night

30 Days of Night

No doubt, 30 Days of Night, which is based on an acclaimed three-issue comic book series by Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith, has a great premise: a hoard of bloodthirsty vampires descend on a tiny town where the sun doesn't rise for a month. The story takes place in Barrow, ... ...

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  • Moonstruck Dukakis On Hollywood Walk of Fame

    (Photo Credit: Philip Georgious) Olympia Dukakis has been one of the most versatile and talented actors in film and on the stage, in a career that's spanned 50 years and earned her critical acclaim. LOS ANGELES - Academy Award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis, whose career spans theater and the film, and who won her Oscar for 1987's Moonstruck, became the 2,498th star to be honored with ...

  • Turkish Warship Passed Eight Greek Islands

    The Turkish warship Atak circumnavigated eight Greek islands from 7 a.m. to 2:25 p.m. on May 26, violating Greek territorial waters, which is a common occurrence and draws no retaliation, only monitoring. The Turkish warship, coming from the port of Smyrna, entered national territorial waters of Greece between the Greek islands Mykonos and Naxos, officials said. It next moved in a westerly ...

  • Greek Cutbacks Open Door For Mosquitoes

    Government spending cuts for mosquito spraying which delayed the eradication procedure have allowed the insects to avoid much the efforts to kill them and they are already appearing. According to the Hellenic Ministry of Health, spraying for mosquitoes had to start in mid-March and to be completed by the end of April, in order to eradicate the mosquitoe larvae. However, the procedure has just ...

  • Blue Flag For 88 Cretan Beaches

    Beaches and a marina on the Greek island of Crete won a total of 88 Blue flags out of 393 that were awarded to the cleanest beaches in European and nine marinas in the whole country. The fllags awarded to Crete for the year 2013 were eight less compared to the same number in 2012. The regional unit of Lasithi was first on a pan-Hellenic basis with 36 Blue flags. Greece is second worldwide ...

  • Greek Visas Luring Foreign Investors

    Eager to show foreign investors that Greece is business-friendly and willing to cut through bureaucratic obstacles, a government plan to offer short-term residency permits to entrepreneurs from China, Russia and Arab states is already paying dividends. Chinese business executives are especially keen on coming after Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' visit there this month where he offered to ...

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