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  • Greek beach evacuated after WWII artillery shell found

    ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A surprise shell has caused a big stir at a popular Athens beach.Greek authorities evacuated the seafront Monday after a swimmer found a corroded artillery shell just 10 yards from dry land, fished it out and presented it to a lifeguard.A coast guard statement said army explosives experts were rushed to Vouliagmeni beach and safely disposed of the munition. The ...

  • Wittgenstein’s wrath at eurozone commentators

    By Nikos Chrysoloras A true giant of modern thought, Ludwig Wittgenstein believed that all problems in philosophy arise from the misguided use of language. Although this opinion, put forward in his early writings, seems far-fetched nowadays, Wittgenstein had a point.Since the start of the sovereign debt crisis, two false analogies have prevailed in the public dialogue regarding Europe: the ...

  • Greek Students Being Taught Turkish

    Students in Athens who are the children of Turkish-Greek or Greek parents have begun to attend a Turkish course in Athens to learn the language and get to know Turkish culture, the Turkish newspaper Today’s Zaman has reported, adding that ...

  • Let’s Play The FYROM Name Game

    The UN’s new envoy on the FYROM name dispute Matthew Nimetz, the United Nations ';special'; envoy on the tedious issue of what to call the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) has a better job than even Joe DiMaggio did, although it was pretty special to play center field for the New York Yankees in the 1930′s and 40′s, live in a luxury hotel with room ...

  • UXB Shell Found At Vouliagmeni Beach

    On the morning of May 20, an unexploded bomb (USB) shell was found in the waters of the public beach of Vouliagmeni in Athens, Greece. A civilian who was enjoying his swim came across the shell, which dates back to World War II. The man pulled the shell out of the water himself. The authorities were informed and headed to the spot. Army bomb disposal experts rushed to the scene to neutralize ...


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Orange County

Orange County is an amusing, sometimes witty, but often uneven comedy about the horrors of familial dysfunction. It is also an example of the benefits of Hollywood nepotism, with the talented twentysomething offspring of the current Hollywood dominion in many of the key roles. The role of Shaun Brumder, a high-school senior trying to get into Stanford so he can study under a writer/profess ... ...

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  • UPDATE 1-Greeces Piraeus Bank one-off gain masks profit drop

    Mon May 20, 2013 11:58am EDT (Adds CEO comment, background) * Q1 profit boosted by 3.41 bln euro goodwill gain * Non-performing loan ratio up to 31 pct, pre-tax loss at 336 mln eur (Recasts lead, adds detail on Greek economy, company comment) ATHENS, May 20 (Reuters) - Greece's Piraeus Bank said profit surged in the first quarter after a one-off gain on the book value of its Cypriot bank ...

  • Greeces National Bank sets rights issue price after reverse split

    ATHENS | Mon May 20, 2013 10:49am EDT ATHENS May 20 (Reuters) - Greece's biggest lender National Bank said on Monday it would sell 2.27 billion new shares at a price of 4.29 euros ($5.50) each, as part of its recapitalisation plan. The price is calculated after a 1-for-10 reverse stock split. ($1 = 0.7798 euros) (Reporting by George Georgiopoulos; writing by Harry ...

  • Greece hopeful on TAP pipeline after Samaras visit to Azerbaijan

    The government is hopeful that Azerbaijan will choose to transport its natural gas via the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), which will pass through Greece, following Prime Minister Antonis ...

  • Meimarakis tells party representatives no MPs should carry guns in Parliament

    Parliamentary speaker Evangelos Meimarakis has spoken to the representatives of all parties to remind them that no MPs should carry guns in the House, it emerged on Monday.Meimarakis acted after receiving a letter of complaint from New Democracy MP Fotini Pipili, who said that some lawmakers are armed when they enter Parliament.There have been reports in the past of Golden Dawn MPs being stopped ...

  • Golden Dawn MP With Gun In Parliament

    Golden Dawn MP Panagiotis Iliopoulos ejected from Parliament last week A Member of Parliament from the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party who drove into the underground parking lot there with a gun on his passenger’s seat was asked by a police guard to put it away but drove on after telling him, ';I prefer to get someone first, before they get me,'; the newspaper Eleftherotypia ...

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