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  • Bourse turnover shrinks as National is taken off trading

    A six-week streak of gains ended for the Greek bourse as the index on Friday suffered weekly losses of 10.19 percent after a fifth straight day of decline.The Athens Exchange (ATHEX) general index closed at 1,035.12 points, shrinking by 0.31 percent from ...

  • Visitors Flock to Folegandros Island

    Folegandros is one of the many undiscovered islands in Greece located in the southern Cyclades of the Aegean Sea. Its nature can offer visitors tranquility and solitude. Stories with pirates, legends and enemy raids set the scene and the wild beauty of this island. For decades ago, there was no electricity, a single telephone, no tourists and hotels. Now, things have changed. Many visitors ...

  • Land Registry Calls on Greek Immigrants

    A special appeal has been sent to the Diaspora by the head of the Land Registry, Dimitris Kaloudiotis, who invites all Greek immigrants from around the world to take care of their property so as to guarantee the best use of it. If the property isn’t registered, it could be seized by the Greek State within a few years. To avoid such incidents and risk losing their property, Greek citizens ...

  • New Deal to tackle Europes mass youth unemployment

    Germany and France are to tackle mass youth unemployment gripping southern Europe with a ‘New Deal’ aimed at curbing the mounting anger that is threatening to tear the eurozone ...

  • UPDATE 1-Turkish unit lifts Greeces National Bank to profit

    Fri May 24, 2013 11:19am EDT * Slowdown in new non-performing loans * Profit in Turkish operations grows 23 pct (Adds Finansbank earnings, details) ATHENS May 24 (Reuters) - Greece's largest lender National Bank (NBG) posted a profit for the second consecutive quarter on Friday, helped by strong earnings from its Turkish unit Finansbank, lower funding costs and reduced provisions for bad ...


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Scream 4

Scream 4

When Scream debuted to unexpected box office success in the winter of 1996, it came at a time when the horror genre in general, but the slasher film in particular, was bottoming out (which was, incidentally, hardly the first time a genre as cyclical as horror had reached that point). An ... ...

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  • Some 34000 Greeks moved to Germany in 2012

    Some 34,000 Greeks relocated to Germany last year, an increase of 43 percent compared to 2011 when 23,800 Greeks moved there, according to German government statistics.It is not only Greeks who are increasingly seeking a better life in prosperous Germany but an growing number of people from other debt-hit countries in southern Europe. Last year, 29,000 Spaniards, 42,000 Italians moved to ...

  • Economist Says Greece Doing OK

    What a difference a year makes, especially for Greece. That’s how the financial magazine The Economist has characterized the country’s slow recovery, although with caution that it came at a heavy social price in joblessness and human misery. Greece has performed better than expected, but still has much to do,'; according to the article Up, But Not Out. It reported that, ...

  • Forget Grexit Now It’s Grecovery

    Central Bank Gov. George Provopoulos With international loans pouring in and talk of Greece being forced out of the Eurozone – a so-called Grexit – ceased, the country’s slow rebound from a crushing economic crisis should earn it the moniker Grecovery, Bank of Greece Governor George Provopoulos told a seminar organized by the central bank with the participation of European ...

  • Stanford Scholar Reveals Skouras Rise Humanity

    (Photo collage by Anna Cobb) Immigrant Spyros Skouras became a top Hollywood executive and American philanthropist, but his life story was buried for years in the Stanford University Libraries' Department of Special Collections until Ilias Chrissochoidis dug them out. Spyros Panagiotis Skouras escaped childhood poverty in Greece to become a top Hollywood executive and organizer of a ...

  • Charred body of Briton 65 found in trailer on Corfu

    Firefighters on Corfu responded to an emergency call early on Friday from Sidari in the Ionian island's north to find a trailer van on fire and discovered the charred body of a man after extinguishing the blaze.The dead man is believed to be a 65-year-old British tourist, according to local reports.The local fire service was seeking to establish what caused the fire to break out in the ...

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