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  • Court rejects Tsochatzopoulos appeal for ex-PM to testify

    The Athens Appeals Court which is hearing the trial of former Defense Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos for money laundering on Friday rejected a request for the former members of the Government Council for Foreign Affairs and Defense (KYSEA), including ex-Prime Minister Costas Simitis, to appear as witnesses in his money laundering trial.The court deemed that the testimony of Simitis, who co-signed ...

  • Papaconstantinou has huge responsibility publisher tells Lagarde list inquiry

    A parliamentary committee tasked with investigating former Finance Minister Giorgos Papaconstantinou over claims that he removed the names of three relatives from the Lagarde list of Greek depositors on Friday heard the testimony of publisher and reporter Makis Kouris who reportedly claimed that the ex minister ...

  • Greece Will Hire 75000 Young

    Greece’s young want jobs Desperately trying to slow the slide of record unemployment – now at 27 percent and with some analysts predicting it could hit 30 percent – Greece is planning to hire 75,000 young people, but not until January, 2014, Labor Minister Yiannis Vroutsis said. Nearly two-thirds of those under 25 are without a job during a crushing economic crisis. Vroutsis ...

  • Carnival of Loves Amazon Jungle For Charity

    ASTORIA, N.Y. - The annual fundraising party of the Carnival of Love Foundation once again filled the Astoria's Central Lounge with Greek-Americans and their friends who know philanthropy can be fun, especially when volunteers for a good cause get together. Every year the guests must guess from the theme - this year it is Amazonia, referring to the Amazon rain forest - what wildness awaits ...

  • Schumer Pushes Greek Cypriot U.S. Hirings

    WASHINGTON, D.C - An amendment to help preserve Hellenic language and culture in America by allowing Greek nationals to apply for a visa to work in the United States to provide Greek language instruction and assistance to communities, educational institutions, and businesses, will be included in the Senate's comprehensive immigration bill U .S. Senator Charles E. Schumer said. A statement ...


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The Invisible

The Invisible

It's been a bad month for American remakes of Nordic movies. First we had Marcus Nispel's murky and dreary medieval slugfest Pathfinder, a remake of the 1987 Norwegian film Ofelas, and now we have The Invisible, David S. Goyer's reworking of the ... ...

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  • The BBC journalist who believed he was possessed by Lucifer

    "he was in a limbo between life and death" , he went on to endure psychotic episodes that landed him a psychiatric hospital.Now Brabant, who has been in and out of hospital ever since, has written a book about his terrible ...

  • Data on courtesy cars for politicians submitted to Parlt

    Under pressure by the troika to cut spending and boost transparency, Administrative Development Minister Antonis Manitakis yesterday submitted to Parliament data regarding state cards given to politicians and other high-ranking state officials.A total of 153 state vehicles are currently in the ministry's fleet, 70 of which are for the needs of the country's political ...

  • Pangrati shootout leads to officer taking bullet in vest

    An exchange of fire between police and a serial pharmacy robber in the central Athens neighborhood of Pangrati late on Thursday resulted in an officer being shot in the stomach though his bullet-proof vest shielded him from harm.The shootout occurred as the 42-year-old suspect was fleeing his third pharmacy raid in a row. The first holdup was at a pharmacy in Neos Cosmos, the second in Pangrati ...

  • Fire protection is everyones duty

    The danger of wildfires breaking out across the country in the summer period is just as high this year just as it has been every other year before.But, the tools and infrastructure available to the Greek state in terms of fire protection and fire suppression are becoming more limited and to a significant degree outdated.This is why local communities must get involved in this process and organize ...

  • Germany must lead by example

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel met with the Dutch cabinet this week. Charles Kindleberger, the preeminent historian of financial crises, described a hegemon as a country willing to accept short-term costs for the sake of promoting international financial stability. The ...

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