Renewed riots took place in Athens for the one year anniversary of the death of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos. In Athens, riots broke out as expected since Sunday. Riots police fired tear gas at...
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Almost one year ago 15 year old high school student Alexandros Grigoropoulos was shot in cold blood by a police officer in the Exarchia district of central Athens. The authorities originally claimed that Grigoropoulos had been part of a gang that had attacked a passing patrol...
South Korean mothers are selling their unborn children on the market. Some are high school teenagers who cannot afford to raise their babies, others want to pay off debt by selling their unborn child. Though they...
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A 35 year old Armenian woman was beaten, handcuffed and detained in front of her two year old child home on the home from a supermarket in Athens last Thursday in case reported in the Eleutherotypia...
Uga 7, the four-year-old bulldog mascot of the University of Georgia, died Thursday morning in Savannah, Georgia. Uga 7 reportedly died from heart problems.Uga 7, which is also written as Uga VII, has been the...
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With just a few months to go before the Opening Ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, the Vancouver Organizing Committee in the presence of Governor General Michelle Jean, was handed the Olympic...
Greek police have been accused of heavy handedness and over - reaction following a raid on a bookshop in central Athens following a book reading by the author Dimitris Papachristos (video here). Shortly after the...
Just hours after the shooting of 15 year old Alexandros Grigoropoulos by a police officer in the Exarchia district of central Athens, hundreds started violent protests that would last for weeks and cost the country...
On Monday, severe forest fires eased up near the Greek capital, but the fallout from the fires has been negative. Forest fires have been raging for four days outside Athens. Three hundred firefighters and soldiers were deployed to fight the fires. No casualties have been...
Monday, August 24, 2009" ATHENS: Strong winds yesterday fanned a huge wildfire that tore through scores of homes and thousands of acres of forest near Athens, forcing thousands of residents to flee. Thick...
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Forest fires are continuing to rage out of control in the Attica region of southern Greece, threatening towns and villages in the area. Agios Stephanos, Dionysios and Palia Pendeli have all reported that the fire...
Just months after its opening the Acropolis museum in Athens, Greece, has found itself embroiled in a row over censorship of the monument's turbulent history. Responding to calls by Archbishop Ieronymous, Greece's...
MUSSOORIE, 23 June: On his recent visit to Mussoorie, eminent Canadian born Swiss Author Robert Hutchison informed media persons at a formal meeting here that he was looking forward to launch of his book,...
The Georgia Theatre, an Athens, GA landmark, burned down yesterday. Investigators from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) are examining the remains of the theatre to determine the cause of the...
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The atmosphere between Turkish prime minister Tayyip Erdogan and Greek PM, Kostas Karamanlis was described as tense, somewhat "icy" according to Greek national daily, Vima. On the other hand, the Ethnos newspaper...