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  • Samaras meeting with Gazprom CEO paves way for gas privatization

    Prime Minister Antonis Samaras insisted on Tuesday that attracting foreign investment to Greece was the ...

  • Samaras Sets Sights On Reducing Unemployment

    (AP Photo) There are more than 1.3 million people in unemployment lines in Greece queuing for sharply reduced benefits that run out after a year, leaving them on their own. ATHENS - Satisfied that he's quelled social unrest and gotten Greece back on track to recovery with more austerity, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has set his sights on bringing down the country's record 27 ...

  • Kalpakis Charged With Stealing $4M From Clients

    MINEOLA, N.Y. - Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice announced that a disbarred attorney has been indicted on multiple felonies on charges of stealing more than $4 million from multiple individuals and banks he was representing in real estate deals, including his own wife. James Kalpakis, 52, of Old Westbury, was arraigned on May 21 on a grand jury indictment charging him with two ...

  • UPDATE 1-Gazprom pushes for concessions in sale of Greeces DEPA

    Tue May 21, 2013 2:28pm EDT * Binding bids for DEPA due May 29 * Sintez, SOCAR to bid for DEPA's gas grid unit DESFA (Adds meeting between Gazprom chief and Greek Prime Minister) By Harry Papachristou ATHENS, May 21 (Reuters) - Gazprom is squeezing Athens for better terms to buy DEPA, Greece's sole retail gas distributor, a Greek official said, as the Russian gas export monopoly ...

  • Volunteerism sees significant rise during crisis in Greece

    The economic crisis appears to have generated a new spirit of volunteerism in Greece, a country where this social activity has not been particularly widespread in the past.A survey made public on Tuesday suggested that there has been a 44 percent increase in the number of Greeks taking part in volunteer projects since 2010, when Greece signed up to the EU-IMF bailout.The opinion poll, carried ...


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Movie Review

The Orphanage (El Orfanato)

The Orphanage (El Orfanato)

Juan Antonio Bayona's The Orphanage (El Orfanato) begins with a curious image: a shot of a cloudy sky in which the sunlight is still burning through, but just barely, which creates an evocative portrait of the struggle between light and dark. It also projects a premonition ... ...

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  • ECB funding to Greek lenders keeps dropping

    European Central Bank funding to Greek banks fell by 10.5 billion euros in April while emergency liquidity assistance (ELA) from the ...

  • Ex-chiefs of Bank of Cyprus Popular Bank say Piraeus deal was ‘bad’

    The former presidents of Bank of Cyprus and of Cyprus Popular Bank (Laiki), Andreas Artemis and Andreas Filippou respectively, stated on Tuesday that they had not signed the agreement for the concession of the two ...

  • National’s reverse split drags index below 1100 pts

    The Greek bourse continued its downward slide for a second day in a row on Tuesday, and at a higher rate, as bank stocks are proving extremely volatile as they undergo recapitalization.The Athens Exchange (ATHEX) general index closed at 1,090.89 points, shedding 3.96 percent from ...

  • Top policeman on trial for robbing migrant trader

    The head of the police precinct in Rendi, southern Athens, goes on trial in a Piraeus court Wednesday charged with robbing a Pakistani store owner, trying to blackmail him and getting him arrested on trumped-up drugs charges.Imtiaz Alam Jafari filed a complaint with police in February after the unnamed precinct chief allegedly stopped him and robbed him of 4,000 euros. Jafari claims to have ...

  • Google ECD Vranakis Redesigns Greece’s Image

    Vranakis, 41, born in Canada, but originating from Chania, Crete, is the Executive Creative Director of Google’s Creative Lab. His long experience in the digital world and advertising has got him involved with numerous platforms such as the Chrome Lab Web, the World Wonders Project, the Google+ ';A life lived and shared';, the ';Jam with Chrome'; and the YouTube Space ...

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