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 US embassy in Athens issued an emergency warning after the bomb explosion in The Mall in Athens on Sunday morning. the embassy calls American citizens to be review personal security plans, monitor local news media and report suspect incidents to the U.S. Embassy in Athens.              Emergency Message: – Explosion at …

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Examination of security cameras footage from The Mall, has shown images of persons leaving the explosive device in the trash bin. The persons were wearing hoods and jockey caps. Although the face features of the suspects are not clearly shown, police estimates that they were men. Greek media report that Greek police concludes that the …

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Workers at Athens metro will continue their protest with a new 24-hour strike on Monday, January 21st, 2013. Urban train ISAP/HSAP and the tram will operate only form 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. On Tuesday, workers at the three public transport means will launch a work stoppage form 12 o’ clock noon until …

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With central slogan “Athens, anti-fa city” members of migrants’ communities, students organisations, municipality unions and people from art and culture gather in central Athens on Saturday to protest the rising phenomena of violence against migrants. The mass protest is supported by several migrants and human rights organizations and city councils of …

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What’s your economic mood? How do you see things in the country you live? Here you can take the poll by answering just a couple of questions.  From 111 CNN users who took the poll, 33% said ‘they are doing badly”.

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University of Cambridge plans to suspend the teaching of Modern Greek language as of October 2013 due to financial reasons. Sign the petition, please, and stop the action that will put an end to a 75-year-old tradition. “Professor Simon Franklin, Head of School of Arts and Humanities: Save the Modern …

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Things are getting wilder here and angry workers break the taboo after the other. That is “launching strikes over the weekend”. After a strike on Saturday, workers at Athens Metro decided to go a 24-hour strike also on Sunday, January 20th 2013. Metro workers are on strike since Thursday demanding to …

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Government party conservative Nea Dimocratia and main opposition left-wing SYRIZA are virtually tied in two public opinion polls, with SYRIZA to have a slight lead in one of them. However the majority of the Greeks believe the country is “heading to wrong direction”, while “best Prime Minister” is considered to by …

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New austerity measures, new haircuts, grim predictions for the near future, debt unsustainability but also bold intervention in the internal political affairs of the country recorded in the latest Greek program review released by the International Monetary Fund on Friday. Greece is recovering but debt is not sustainable, International Monetary Fund …

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For third consequent day workers at Athens Metro will launch a 24-hour stirke on Saturday, Jan 19th 2013. Metro workers demand to be exempted from the new payroll common for all civil servants. As Transport and Development minister rejects their demands, the workers will stage a “First in Greece”: a …

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After a marathon and stormy meeting, Greek lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to refer ex Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou to face parliamentary inquiry over allegations he tampered the Lagarde list and removed the names of three relatives from the list of Greek bank account holders at HSBC bank in Geneva.  A total of 265 …

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Police arrested two Greeks suspected of stabbing to death a Pakistani man a couple of hours earlier. One of the suspects is a firefighter, according to a statement issued by police on Thursday. The incident occurred at 3 o’clock in the morning, when the victim, 27, was riding his bicycle in …

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