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Friday, October 18, 2013

Greek police investigate identity of suspected Roma kidnap victim

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek police are investigating the identity of a four-year-old girl found living with a Roma couple in central Greece, on suspicion that the child may have been abducted from her parents. The girl was found on Wednesday at a Roma settlement near Farsala in central Greece during a police sweep of the settlement for suspected drug trafficking. Police became suspicious because ...

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Greece Charity In Appeal Over Mystery Girl

An international search is under way to identify the parents of a blonde girl found in the care of a couple on a Roma Gypsy camp in Greece.

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Roma couple in Greece held in 2009 kidnapping of child

FARSALA, Greece, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- A four-year-old girl found, in a Roma, or gypsy, settlement in Farsala, Greece, was kidnapped in 2009 by two of the residents, police said Friday.

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Mark Mobius likes Greek private equity, Romanian utilities

Mark Mobius likes Greek private equity, Romanian utilitiesEconomic TimesListed Greek banks are luring back foreign investors, Thomson Reuters data shows. But Mobius said he was looking at opportunities in unlisted companies. "We are looking at private equity, we are looking at tourism. We are looking at retail ...

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ODPTE Files a Complaint Against Greek Ministers

The Federation of Administrative Staff in Higher Education (ODPTE) had filed a complaint against the Minister of Administrative Reform Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Education Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos, as TO VIMA reports. The administrative employees demand the adjournment of the deadline for submitting their details for the evaluation and suspensions. The federation claims that both the Ministers threat […]

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Greek Officials Investigating ID of Girl Found in Gypsy Camp

New evidence has been disclosed regarding the unbelievable story of the little girl who was kidnapped by the gypsy couple in Farsala (Greece). The Greek police have now shared the girl’s photographs publicly in hopes that someone will recognize her, and help find some answers as to where she comes from and who her parents […]

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Stournaras: Negotiations are Tough but Continuing

Yannis Stournaras, the Finance Minister, told reporters that “the negotiations with Troika are tough but they are continuing as normal.” He expressed his certainty that there will be no further horizontal fiscal measures. According to sources, troika wants another 2 billion Euros in austerity measures for 2014, and Stournaras responded “we cannot accept opinions which […]

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Appeal to identify four-year-old girl in Greek Roma camp

Greece seeks international help to identify four-year-old blonde girl found living in Roma camp    

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Alfred Stork, Ex-Nazi War Criminal, Convicted In Absentia By Italian Court

MILAN -- MILAN (AP) — Rome's military tribunal on Friday convicted a 90-year-old ex-Nazi in absentia for his role in the 1943 execution of 120 Italian officers on the Greek island of Kefalonia and sentenced him to life in prison. Alfred Stork's conviction was the first in Italy for the Kefalonia massacres in which thousands of Italian soldiers were killed in September 1943. Previous attempts at prosecution were closed because the defendants had died or those responsible could not be properly identified, said military prosecutor Marco De Paolis. Stork, who now lives in Germany, was tried as a member of an execution squad that killed the 120 Italian officers, including division commander Gen. Antonio Gardin, on Sept 23, 1943, De Paolis said. Between 3,000 and 4,000 Italian soldiers were killed in the weeklong massacre in September 1943. Italian troops occupying Greece with their German allies suddenly found themselves in enemy territory when Italy signed an armistice with the Allies following the fall of fascist leader Benito Mussolini. "There were numerous massacres in those five or seven days, all over the island. Some were killed fighting, others were shot down, some were arrested and killed after being held for a day," De Paolis said. Two German officers were convicted at the Nuremberg trials of the Kefalonia massacres, along with other war crimes, and sentenced from 12 to 20 years. Other prosecution attempts in Germany and Italy in the 1950s and 1960s failed. De Paolis said he launched this investigation in 2009 at the request of two victims' children, identifying Stork after receiving files from another failed attempt at prosecuting 80 suspects in the early 2000s. De Paolis said he felt it was "useless' to petition for Stork's extradition for trial since Germany has refused in the past to turn over its citizens even when convicted of Nazi-era crimes. Efraim Zuroff, the head Nazi-hunter at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, noted that Italian military courts have in recent years convicted many Germans for wartime massacres but always in absentia due to Germany's refusal to extradite its citizens. Italy as a result has requested in previous cases for those convicted and sentenced to life to serve their time in Germany. "The Italians have made a very admirable effort in the past decade to find and bring to court, not in a literal sense, individuals responsible for some terrible atrocities," he said in a phone call from Jerusalem. "It's unfortunate that only one of them has been convicted in Germany." ___ Dave Rising in Berlin contributed.

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Greece praised for adopting EU divorce regulations

The European Commission on Friday issued an announcement praising Greece for adopting legislation that allows couples of different nationalities in the European Union who are seeking a divorce to choose whose country’s laws they will choose to adopt durin... ...

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German chancellor wishes ND President Constantine Mitsotakis happy 95th

German Chancellor Angela Merkel was among the people who wished former Greek Prime Minister and New Democracy leader Constantine Mitsotakis a happy 95th birthday on Friday. In her letter, Merkel said she recognized that Mitsotakis had secured “significant... ...

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Papayiannopoulos to remain as chief of Greek Police

Lieutenant General Nikolaos Papayiannopoulos will remain in his post as the chief of the Greek Police (ELAS), the Government Council for Foreign Affairs and Defense (KYSEA) decided on Friday. Papayiannopoulos’s term at the helm of the force was due to end... ...

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FYROM PM Nikola Gruevski slams Greece

Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) has accused Greece of undermining efforts to find a solution to the two-decade name dispute between the two countries. “Our southern neighbor continues to believe that the... ...

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Foreign minister holds first meeting with US ambassador to Athens

Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos (left) held his first meeting with the new US ambassador to Greece, David D. Pearce (right), on Friday, with Greek government sources telling Kathimerini that Athens was impressed by the diplomat’s knowledge of Greece ... ...

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Greece pledges to shut down illegal dumps by 2015

Greece’s remaining illegal landfills, a source of constant embarrassment and financial sanctions from Brussels, will be closed and rehabilitated by the end of 2015, Environment Minister Yiannis Maniatis pledged on Friday. Speaking during a presentation of... ...

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Greece plays down troika rift, focuses on targets

The first phase of the public sector mobility scheme, required for Greece to receive further bailout loans, is close to completion, government sources said on Friday as Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras insisted that relations with the troika had not bro... ...

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Information being sought about abducted child

Authorities and children’s nonprofit organization The Smile of the Child were on Friday looking for the parents of a 4-year-old girl allegedly abducted in 2009 after they found her in a Roma camp in Farsala, central Greece. DNA tests carried out on the Ro... ...

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Greece wins exclusive rights to market feta in Canada

Nearly a decade after winning exclusive rights in Europe to market its popular tangy feta cheese, Greece has scored a similar victory in Canada, the agriculture minister said on Friday. “We have achieved our objective. Even in Canada, nobody can call the ... ...

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Power cable from Israel to Greece ready by 2017

The first phase of a European Union-backed plan to lay the world’s longest subsea electricity cable could be completed by 2017, project managers said on Thursday. Some 820 nautical miles of cable making up the EuroAsia Interconnector will link energy-hung... ...

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Tourism tips current account balance

The country’s current account balance continued its impressive course in August, leading to an unprecedented surplus, which is attributed to the increase in tourism and in exports. Bank of Greece data released on Friday showed that in the first eight mont... ...

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Banks see more savings being withdrawn for tax payments

The tax demands on Greeks in the coming months will eat further into their savings, after bank data showed that in September and the first half of October over 2 billion euros was paid in taxes, while another 5 billion is due to move out of bank accounts ... ...

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Is this some other poor parent¿s Maddie? Police appeal for help identifying blonde girl, 4, found living on gypsy camp in Greece after charging couple with abduction

the child was found on Wednesday near Farsala in central Greece during a nationwide crackdown on illegal activities by Roma.

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Italian court convicts ex-Nazi for WWII slayings

MILAN (AP) — Rome's military tribunal on Friday convicted a 90-year-old ex-Nazi in absentia for his role in the 1943 execution of 120 Italian officers on the Greek island of Kefalonia and sentenced him to life in prison.

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90-year-old former Nazi soldier handed life sentence for role in Greek massacre

The massacre took place on Cephalonia – the setting for the bestselling novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin

A 90-year-old former Nazi soldier has been handed a life sentence for his role in a wartime massacre on the Greek island of Cephalonia, the setting for the bestselling novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin.

Alfred Stork, a German ex-corporal, was sentenced in absentia by a military court in Rome which found him guilty of taking part in the execution of at least 117 Italian officers who had surrendered to the Nazis.

The massacre on 24 September 1943 was just one bit of a far bigger and bloodier German massacre of Italian troops, whom they regarded as traitors for having switched sides after Italy signed an armistice with the Allies.

Around 5,000 Italian soldiers from the Acqui division on Cephalonia were rounded up and killed by the Nazis after surrendering following a bloodthirsty, week-long battle.

The atrocity Рone of the worst examples of Nazi brutality Рwas described in Louis de Berni̬res's novel, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, which was subsequently turned into a film starring Penelope Cruz and Nicolas Cage.

The hero, Captain Antonio Corelli, is a gregarious officer in the Acqui division. He narrowly escapes being killed in the massacre.

Stork's defence had argued that he should be cleared of the charges due to a lack of proof and the fact that, in any case, as a corporal he would have had to have followed orders.

But the military prosecutor said witness testimony had proved beyond reasonable doubt that Stork had taken part in the incident.

In 2005 the ageing German allegedly admitted he had formed part of an execution squad that killed some of the officers, but the evidence was not admissible in the Italian court.

The prosecutor Marco de Paulis told the court Stork "did not have the courage" to stick to his admission, instead "staying comfortably" in his house in Germany.

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Who is this four-year-old blonde girl found living in Roma gypsy camp in Greece?

Mirror.co.ukWho is this four-year-old blonde girl found living in Roma gypsy camp in Greece?Mirror.co.ukThis is the four-year-old blonde girl found living in a Roma gypsy camp in Greece after allegedly being snatched from a family in northern Europe. Police have made an international appeal to find the family of the child after establishing that the 39-year-old ...Greece trying to ID girl found in Gypsy campThe Journal News | LoHud.comGreece seeks international help to identify mystery 4-year-old girl found in Roma ...Fox Newsall 29 news articles »

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Greece trying to ID girl found in Gypsy camp

San Francisco ChronicleGreece trying to ID girl found in Gypsy campUSA TODAYATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities launched an international appeal on Friday to help identify a 4-year-old blonde girl allegedly snatched from her parents by a couple with whom she was found living in a Gypsy settlement. Police are trying to ...Greece seeks international help to identify mystery 4-year-old girl found in ...Guelph Mercuryall 22 news articles »

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After Europe, Greece wins feta cheese battle in Canada

Athens (AFP) - Nearly a decade after winning exclusive rights in Europe to market its popular tangy cheese feta, Greece has scored a similar victory in Canada, the agriculture minister said on Friday. "We have achieved our objective. Even in Canada, nobody ...

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Fuel price rises are sparking a new wave of direct action

The greed of the Big Six and concern for the environment mean that alternatives to corporate control are increasingly attractive

It came as no surprise that British Gas, the latest of the Big Six energy companies to hike its prices, found itself the recipient of a furious backlash this week. There's plenty to be angry about: one in four households now regularly choose between heating and eating; 7,200 people died last year because they were unable to heat their homes; while energy minister Ed Davey's solution to fuel poverty is to advise people to "wear a jumper".

Fuel poverty is mobilising people to seek alternatives to the corporate control of energy (the Big Six control 99% of our domestic gas and electricity supply). Following the latest round of price hikes, the announcement of mega-profits and eye-watering chief executive pay, the companies' claims that they have no obligation to keep the lights on is fertile ground for civil disobedience.

Activism on climate change is back too, and this time it is thinking global but acting local. Government plans to allow 64% of England to be fracked for shale gas and coal bed methane are sowing the seeds of community-based opposition. Whether it's Balcombe telling Cuadrilla where to go, or East Kent and Salford rejecting I-Gas and Coastal Oil, these communities are united by a vital experience – a total lack of democracy when it comes to energy. The all-party narrative of re-powering the UK with local gas is profoundly disempowering for those who have to deal with it up close.

Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth are backing these local campaigns, while No Dash for Gas, Disabled People Against Cuts, Occupy and UK Uncut were all part of the Reclaim the Power camp in Balcombe this summer, which shut down Cuadrilla for six days. We are witnessing a growing coalition of protest groups linking climate change to fuel poverty, democracy and social justice. Fuel Poverty Action and UK Uncut are planning actions against the Big Six, highlighting single mothers, disabled activists, pensioners and asylum seekers – those hardest hit by fuel poverty.

Renewable energy co-operatives have grown by 24% since 2008, showing that alternative power is technically as well as politically possible. Progressive unions are also joining in with One Million Climate Jobs and National Climate Service vision to get us out of austerity and into co-operatively owned sustainable industries.

Fuel poverty is a symptom of the free market. Neither the coalition policy of increasing competition nor Labour's plan to bring prices under government control are sufficient. Seventy percent of British people support public ownership of energy. Direct democratic control, with an emphasis on locally generated renewable energy, is what's needed.

In Germany, where renewables account for 25% of the energy mix and are 65% publicly owned, the main four companies feel some energy insecurity. In Berlin, the Energeitisch initiative, started up by eight people, has mobilised 50,000 Berliners in just over two years to force a referendum on reclaiming the city's grid from the Norwegian corporation Vattenfall (one of the UK's biggest windpower operators) and move it into 100% renewable, democratic control. The network, supported by unions, co-operatives and campaigners, operates a "no disconnections" policy – vital, given that 20,000 people in Berlin were cut off last year.

In Greece, where fuel prices have risen 12 times over the past four years, amounting to a total increase of 50%, the leftwing party Syriza is seriously debating a radical energy policy.

Local energy co-operatives could hold the key not just to local supplies but also to rebuilding communities after austerity, co-creating energy, climate and economic security for the majority. These discussions are happening all over the world. It is through the process of de-privatising energy that we can organise our societies along genuinely democratic lines and begin to reclaim our power, wherever we live.

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For the Greek Spring by Kelvin Corcoran – review

The GuardianFor the Greek Spring by Kelvin Corcoran – reviewThe GuardianThe poems in For the Greek Spring, written over the past 30 years, drift in and out of conversation with Homer and Xenophanes, but they also register, with equal care, the cultural pressures of modern Greek life, in which one sees "the newly ...

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8 Inexpensive Vacation Alternatives To Big-Ticket Getaways

Dreaming of Paris? Wishing for Greece? Try these beautiful, affordable destinations instead.

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Italian Military Court Convicts Ex-Nazi

Italian military court convicts ex-Nazi for 1943 massacre of 120 officers in Greece    

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Greece at odds with EU/IMF lenders over 2014 budget gap

ATHENS, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Greece and its foreign lenders are at loggerheads over the size of the country's budget gap next year, Greek officials said on Friday, prompting talk that Athens might be forced to adopt new austerity measures.

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Italy convicts Captain Corelli's Mandolin war criminal

Rome (AFP) - An Italian court on Friday handed a life sentence in absentia to a former German army corporal for the wartime massacre of 117 Italian officers on the Greek island of Cephalonia that inspired a well-known novel.


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Picture of the week: Crisis wedding, Greece, by Nick Hannes

It's not your typical wedding reception venue, but the warm glow of the petrol pumps, the sturdy dancefloor and the soft breeze from the Gulf of Corinth beat a soggy marquee in Surrey hands down. And the view is tremendous: you can just see the ...

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FOTOGRAFIA: Kidnapped by Gypsies

Greek police said on Oct. 18 that a four-year-old girl found two days earlier at a Roma (gypsy) settlement in Farsala, near Larissa in central Greece, was kidnapped from her biological parents in 2009 by two residents of the camp after a DNA test on the couple showed that they were not her biological parents. Suspicions were raised as the girl is blonde and fair-skinned with green eyes and bears no physical resemblance to either of the Roma camp residents who had kept her as their child. The couple was detained for questioning by police in Larissa and reportedly kept changing their testimonies about how the girl came to live with them on the camp, although no further details were given. Police said that in some way the the Roma couple had also managed to obtain the girl's birth certificate from municipal authorities. Police in Larissa said they are seeking the girl's biological parents and asked anyone with information to telephone them at 2410-683171 or 2410-683184-5. The four-year-old was being looked at after by the child support group Hamogelou Tou Paidiou (Child's Smile).

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KOUZINA: Octopus Stewed in Red Wine

Many people run away with their hands aloft at the thought of eating octopus, others say that eating octopus is like eating one of the spare tires from your car. I don?t subscribe to either perspective, because cooked properly octopus is absolutely delicious and almost melts in the mouth. We do this through tenderizing, either through slow cooking or hammering, as you would with a steak. No need to throw your octopus at the first available rock these day if you have a rolling-pin or tenderizing hammer handy although Greek fisherman still practice this ancient tradition.

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Roma couple held for abduction of girl, aged 4, in 2009

Police revealed on Friday that a four-year-old girl found on Wednesday at a Roma settlement in Farsala, near Larissa in central Greece, was kidnapped from her biological parents in 2009 by two residents of the camp after a DNA test on the couple showed th... ...

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‘Kismet’ looks at impact of Turkish soaps on Muslim fans and at their popularity in Greece

It is a well-known fact that Turkish soap operas have millions of fans all across the Balkans, the Middle East, North Africa and elsewhere. But what remains largely unexplored is how they have affected the social and religious lives of Muslim women, espec... ...

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Heart disease has a substantial psychological component Greek researchers say cardiovascular disease has a substantial psychological component and psychological interventions such as music therapy halve deaths.

Greek researchers say cardiovascular disease has a substantial psychological component and psychological interventions such as music therapy halve deaths.Zoi Aggelopoulou, a nurse and one of the study authors at NIMTS Veterans Hospital of Athens, said the current study was a meta-analysis of nine randomized controlled trials that were pooled. The researchers evaluated whether psychological ...

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Scott Turow's 'Identical' has Greek myth proportions

You could invent the semiconductor or make a movie and change lives too … but in politics the effect was universal. Every person you passed on the street had a stake in what you did, and usually an opinion about it. The world … was ...

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Greek police take unknown girl from Gypsy camp

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities have requested international help to identify a four-year-old girl found living in a Gypsy camp with a couple whom they have arrested and charged with abducting her.

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Greek bond bull-run may be overdone

US-based investment firm Japonica - which says ... recent movements in its bond yields may show short-term relative value trading, driven more by general risk sentiment than anything specific to Greece. For example, while 10-year Greek bond ...

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Greece seeks international help to identify mystery 4-year-old girl found in Roma camp

U.S. government reopens, Cory Booker victory, Raising Day in India, a grassy car, Prince Harry plays rugby and more. The blonde, pale-skinned girl bore no resemblance to the Greek couple, who police said offered conflicting accounts — that she was found ...

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Troika Challenges Greece Over 2B Euro Gap

ATHENS - Greece faces tough negotiations with international lenders over a looming fiscal gap in the 2014 budget that could undermine its chances of emerging from a six-year recession. The Troika ? the European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund ? wants the government to adopt further austerity measures after identifying a potential shortfall of ?2 billion ($2.73 billion in the latest budget draft submitted by Athens. Greek finance ministry officials say the gap amounts to only ?500 million ($684.03 million) and can be covered through a crackdown on social security fraud by thousands of cash-strapped small businesses who fail to pay contributions. ?There is a clear disagreement,? said a senior finance ministry official. ?The Troika always presses for additional measures but we?ve reached the limit for making horizontal cuts in wages and pensions.?

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Karnazes Is Running With Pheidippides

Dean Karnazes is not a man to shy away from challenges: like Pheidippides, the original marathon runner who delivered the news of the Greek army's victory over invading Persian forces, he doesn't give up. Seven years ago, he ran 50 marathons in 50 consecutive days from one coast of the US to the other. Before that he spent three days and three nights running 350 miles ? the last night 'sleep running' as he went. He has crossed all four of the world's great deserts, including Death Valley, the hottest place on Earth. And he's run through sub-zero temperatures to get to the South Pole, the coldest place. In 2015, he hopes to traverse the world by clocking up marathons throughout the year in 204 countries. But now the Californian has set his sights on crisis-hit Greece, the land of his forebears, where he arrived this week on a mission of endurance and hope.

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Greece Losing Over 1 bln Euros Due to Illegal Hotels

Greece is losing over one billion euros in government revenue due to illegal hotels, the president of the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels, Yiorgos Tsakiris, said during a press conference held on the occasion of the 67th General Assembly of HOTREC that began in Athens yesterday. HOTREC is the business association representing the hospitality sector in […]

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Greek PM oversees seeks to overcome hurdles in talks on mobility scheme

Prime Minister Antonis on Samaras on Friday chaired a meeting with Administrative Reform Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and other government officials on the progress of Greek efforts to make good on pledges to put thousands of civil servants into a so-call... ...

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Greek Civil Servants Lack Basic Computer Skills

Greek ReporterGreek Civil Servants Lack Basic Computer SkillsGreek ReporterA significant number of the total of 607,516 Greek civil servants, are considered to have either low qualifications or lacking basic knowledge in computers. Almost half of them do not have a university certificate, while those who have postgraduate ...

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RPT-Fitch Greek Mortgage Market Index Shows RMBS Arrears Reaching New Peak

Fri Oct 18, 2013 5:47am EDT (Repeat for additional subscribers) Oct 18 (Reuters) - (The following statement was released by the rating agency) In its Q313 Greek mortgage market index report, Fitch Ratings notes that the level of three-month plus arrears excluding defaults has reached a new high of 5.2%, despite showing some signs of stabilisation earlier in the year. Although the level of arrears ...

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Greek coastguard arrests 78 migrants

Greek coastguard arrests 78 migrantsGlobalPostGreece's coastguard arrested 78 migrants, believed to be Syrians, on the eastern island of Rhodes in the Aegean Sea, port authorities said Friday. Authorities had been searching for the migrants on the island since Wednesday, following the arrest of ...and more »

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