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Saturday, April 20, 2013

Greek Baking Up Guinness Record


Greek Baking Up Guinness Record
Greek Reporter
tsourekilesvos Tsoureki is a sweet, fluffy Greek bread associated with Easter traditions, when it is made and consumed in great quantities. Traditionally it is home-baked on Holy Thursday. This Easter, on the Greek island of Lesvos, confectioner ...


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Greece's great fire sale


Telegraph.co.uk

Greece's great fire sale
Telegraph.co.uk
The port of Poros, a pretty cobbled marina in southern Greece, is on the government books, as is the Athens police headquarters and the Ministry of Culture – a giant temple-like construction in the centre of the capital. So too are the buildings ...


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Samaras' Partners Ired Over New Ministers


Greek Reporter

Samaras' Partners Ired Over New Ministers
Greek Reporter
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras hopes to improve relations with Qatar Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' planned appointment of six new deputy ministers has sparked renewed speculation he's planning a shakeup of his Cabinet, which he has ...

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For Some, Greece's Junta Lives On


Greek Reporter

For Some, Greece's Junta Lives On
Greek Reporter
On the morning of April 21, 1967, Greeks suddenly found tanks in the streets of Athens as a coup of military leaders staged a junta that became known as The Regime of The Colonels and brought seven years of dictatorship, repression, torture and grief ...


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Greece may get bailout cash advance to pay bills -reports


Greece may get bailout cash advance to pay bills -reports
Reuters UK
The instalment is expected to be approved later this month and Greece is scheduled to receive another 6 billion euro in EU/IMF funds in May. But Kathimerini and Ta Nea newspapers said that alongside that money Athens might also get a further 3.2 ...

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Greek Pension Funds On The Brink


Greek Reporter

Greek Pension Funds On The Brink
Greek Reporter
4E170E0ECE2AE8E44FD4878F9C1CC42F Greece's crushing economic crisis has put a big dent in the pension fund system which has a reported shortfall of up to 2.5 billion euros ($3.26 billion) while the National Organization for Healthcare's (EOPYY) ...


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Greece may get bailout cash advance to pay bills: reports


Greece may get bailout cash advance to pay bills: reports
New Straits Times
ATHENS: Greece might receive 3.2 billion euros of earmarked rescue aid earlier than planned to cover part of its financing needs, two Greek newspapers reported on Saturday. Greece received a clean bill of health from its international creditors earlier ...

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Pictures From the Week in Business

Greece looks at civil service layoffs, Japan reports a wide trade deficit, and earnings season is good to Goldman Sachs, not so good to Google.
    



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Analysts: Macedonia name dispute with Greece must end


Analysts: Macedonia name dispute with Greece must end
Southeast European Times
Due to the 22-year-old name dispute with Greece, Macedonia's Euro-Atlantic accession dreams remain stagnant, and now, analysts said, it is time for the UN to step in and solve the situation. "After the breakup of Yugoslavia, we got the status of a ...

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Manual work can raise heart disease risk by 20 per cent, especially if it is combined with gym work outs

Greek researchers suggest extra physical activity for people who are already exhausted can have an 'overloading' effect on their cardiovascular system.

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Greek tragedy 'Electra'-fies Washburn stage


Greek tragedy 'Electra'-fies Washburn stage
Topeka Capital Journal
In Washburn University Theatre's production of Nick Payne's new version of Sophoclese' "Electra," the title character (Samantha Heath), left, is berated by her mother, Clytemnestra (Arissa Utemark), who a decade earlier murdered her husband and Electra ...


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Florida-bred Ron the Greek in a familiar spot


Florida-bred Ron the Greek in a familiar spot
Ocala
HORSE RACING. Florida-bred Ron the Greek in a familiar spot. Ron the Greek (5), with Jose A. Lezcano aboard, captures The Florida Sunshine Millions Classic horse race at Gulfstream Park back in January of this year. (The Associated Press/File). By ...


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Greek police arrest suspects in shooting of migrant workers


ABC News

Greek police arrest suspects in shooting of migrant workers
Los Angeles Times
The violent incident, which shocked Greeks, embarrassed the government and set off an impromptu boycott of fruit products from an agricultural region 160 miles west of the capital, marked the latest -- and most violent -- attack on foreign workers here.
Greek Farm Shootings Highlight Migrants' PlightABC News
After 2-day hunt, Greek police arrest 3 foremen over Bangladeshi strawberry ...Fox News
Greek Foremen Sought in Attack on Migrant WorkersNew York Times
Aljazeera.com -euronews
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2 more held over Greece shooting


2 more held over Greece shooting
Daily Star Online
2 more held over Greece shooting. LATEST NEWS : Suspect killed in gun battle · HC to get 20 new judges · 7 bullet-hit · Call for nat'l unity · Russia slams US deployments in Jordan · One-seater taxi unveiled · Toll money gobbled up · Experts probe ...


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George Provopoulos: Facing a run on Greek banks, he never blinked


Globe and Mail

George Provopoulos: Facing a run on Greek banks, he never blinked
Globe and Mail
The term Greek “crisis” is so overused that it has lost all meaning. A genuine crisis arrives quickly, inflicts enormous damage, and is usually resolved equally quickly because the alternative is even more damage. Greece? It is still intact, more or ...


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