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Saturday, March 9, 2013

Head of Greek Privatization Agency Resigns


Kathimerini

Head of Greek Privatization Agency Resigns
Wall Street Journal
On Friday, Greek prosecutors filed charges against Mr. Athanasopoulos and other former board members of Greece's Public Power Corporation SA, or PPC, for hastily commissioning a power plant back in 2007 that they say incurred as much as €100 million ...
Greek privatisation chief quits after graft charges filedReuters
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Foreign captives 'killed' in Nigeria

Nigeria-based group Ansaru has said it killed seven foreign hostages it had seized on February 7 from a construction company in Nigeria, SITE Monitoring Service said. The group issued a statement in Arabic and English on an affiliate of the Sinam al-Islam network accompanied by screen shots of a video purporting to show the dead hostages, SITE said. One screenshot showed a man with gun standing above several prone figures lying on the ground. Ansaru, which has kidnapped other foreigners in the past, had blasted into the compound using explosives and abducted a Briton, an Italian, a Greek and four Lebanese workers, the largest number of foreigners...

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Potential bidders looking at Greek Peak ahead of asset sale


WBNG-TV

Potential bidders looking at Greek Peak ahead of asset sale
WBNG-TV
Virgil, NY (WBNG Binghamton) Greek Peak is looking ahead to next ski season even as a bankruptcy court puts its assets up for auction. Greek Peak Mountain Resort owner Al Kryger said it delayed the sale of season passes for thirty days but does plan to ...
Judge sets auction for Greek Peak assetsElmira Star-Gazette
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Diplomats check reports of Nigeria hostages' deaths


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Diplomats check reports of Nigeria hostages' deaths
BBC News
Diplomats are investigating claims that seven foreign hostages seized last month in Nigeria have been killed. A statement posted on the internet from Nigerian militant group Ansaru said it had killed the hostages. The hostages - from Britain, Greece, Italy and ...
Nigerian militants 'kill seven hostages including Briton'Telegraph.co.uk
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Greek privatisation chief quits after graft charges filed


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Greek privatisation chief quits after graft charges filed
GlobalPost
ATHENS, March 9 (Reuters) - Greece's privatisation chief and a senior finance ministry official resigned on Saturday after they were charged with breach of duty over their former role as board members of a state utility. The resignations are a setback ...
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Greece's privatisation chief quits: Ministry


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Greece's privatisation chief quits: Ministry
Economic Times
ATHENS: The head of Greece's privatisation fund quit on Saturday after less than a year at the post, the finance ministry said. In his letter of resignation, Takis Athanassopoulos said he was stepping down over an investigation into his previous ...
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Greece may still have to quit euro


Greece may still have to quit euro - Merkel ally
Reuters UK
"The greatest risk for the euro is still Greece... I still believe that Greece's exit would be a possible long-term alternative, for Europe and for Greece itself," Dobrindt told Die Welt am Sonntag newspaper, according to advance excerpts of the ...


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Thousands of Greeks protest planned gold mine


Times of India

Thousands of Greeks protest planned gold mine
MiamiHerald.com
THESSALONIKI, Greece -- More than 10,000 people have taken to the streets of Greece's second largest city to protest a planned gold mine they see as an environmental risk. Police blocked the crowd's march to the Canadian Consulate in Thessaloniki, but ...
Large protest in Greece against Canadian goldmine projectTimes of India
Greece: Corruption, Police State and Struggle in SkouriesGlobal Voices Online
Gold Mine Protesters Clash With Police AgainGreek Reporter

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Head of Greek privatization fund, Finance Ministry general secretary resign ...


Head of Greek privatization fund, Finance Ministry general secretary resign ...
Kathimerini
... Mergos's position. A new candidate to take over as head of the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund's (HRADF), known as TAIPED in Greek, is to be proposed for approval by Parliament's institutions and transparency committee in the next few days.


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Nigerian Islamists 'kill foreign hostages'

Ansaru says it has killed seven construction workers, including a Briton, kidnapped last month in raid on company camp

A Nigerian Islamist group claimed it has killed seven kidnapped foreign construction workers, including one Briton.

Ansaru kidnapped seven employees of the Lebanese construction company Setraco a week ago. Three of the workers were Lebanese, while the other four were from Britain, Greece, Italy and the Philippines.

A message was posted on an Islamist website on Saturday that claimed Ansaru members killed the hostages after journalists saw British warplanes in Bauchi, northern Nigeria.

"As a result of this operation, the seven hostages were killed," the group said in the statement. It said a video of the killings would be posted online. An online image accompanying the posting appeared to show a gunman standing over dead bodies.

The Foreign Office said it was urgently investigating the claims.

Ansaru previously issued a short statement in which it said its fighters kidnapped the foreigners on 16 February from a construction company's camp at Jama'are, a town about 125 miles north of Bauchi, the capital of Bauchi state.

During the operation gunmen attacked a local prison and burned police trucks, authorities said. They then blew up a back fence at the construction firm's compound and took over, killing a guard in the process, witnesses and police said.

The gunmen appeared to be organised and knew who they wanted to target, abducting the foreigners quickly while leaving the Nigerian household staff members unharmed, a witness said.

In January 2013, Ansaru declared itself a splinter group independent from Boko Haram, the north's main terrorist group, analysts have said. Boko Haram, which means "western education is sacrilege", has launched a guerrilla campaign of bombings and shootings across Nigeria's predominantly Muslim north. It has been blamed for at least 792 killings last year alone, according to an Associated Press count.

Britain previously linked Ansaru to the May 2011 kidnapping of Christopher McManus, who was abducted with Italian Franco Lamolinara from a home in Kebbi state. The men were held for months before their captors killed them in March 2012 during a failed Nigerian military raid backed up by British special forces in Sokoto, the main city in north-west Nigeria.


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Large protest in Greece against Canadian goldmine project


Times of India

Large protest in Greece against Canadian goldmine project
Times of India
THESSALONIKI (GREECE): Thousands of protesters on Saturday joined a large demonstration in Greece's second city Thessaloniki against a Canadian gold mining project which locals say will cause irreversible damage to the environment. Around 15,000 ...

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Greek and Turkish FMs see possibility of Aegean settlement but via different ...


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Greek and Turkish FMs see possibility of Aegean settlement but via different ...
Kathimerini
Turkey argues that Greek islands close to its coast should not be taken into account when determining the economic zone and that the median line of the Aegean should be set as a boundary. Greece claims the Law of the Sea means that all islands must be ...


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Greece getting tough on corrupt politicians: experts


FRANCE 24

Greece getting tough on corrupt politicians: experts
FRANCE 24
Vassilis Papageorgopoulos, former mayor of the Greek port city of Thessaloniki, is escorted to prison on February 27, 2013. Greece has finally begun to crack down on corrupt politicians but anti-graft experts say much remains to be done to end decades ...

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Greek Prime Minister says no more austerity


Raw Story

Greek Prime Minister says no more austerity
Raw Story
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras on Saturday promised his recession-weary nation that there would be “no more austerity measures” as international creditors prolonged an audit of crisis reforms. “There will be no more austerity measures,” Samaras ...
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Samaras Promises Start-Ups State HelpGreek Reporter
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No more austerity, Greek PM promises


Economic Times

No more austerity, Greek PM promises
GlobalPost
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras on Saturday promised his recession-weary nation that there would be "no more austerity measures" as international creditors prolonged an audit of crisis reforms. "There will be no more austerity measures," Samaras ...
EEP President praised Greek governmentCapital.gr (press release)
Greek section of Makaza border checkpoint to be ready within 2 months, Greek ...Focus News
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Greece finally 'getting tough' on corrupt politicians


FRANCE 24

Greece finally 'getting tough' on corrupt politicians
FRANCE 24
Vassilis Papageorgopoulos, former mayor of Greece's second largest city Thessaloniki, was handed a life sentence last month for turning a blind eye to the embezzlement of nearly 18 million euros ($23.5 million) from municipal coffers between 1999 and ...

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Greek society on a tight rope


New Europe

Greek society on a tight rope
New Europe
Last week, four young students gathered at the home of one of their friends in the northern Greek city of Larisa. They used a makeshift brazier to prepare lunch and then to heat the place; a few hours later, two of them were found dead and the other ...


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