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Bomb targets MEP home
Athens :: Greece | 8 days ago
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The attack outside the home of former Education Minister Marietta Giannakou in Kato Patissia was carried out using a bomb comprising a cooking pot containing gunpowder, a similar composition to the devices used in attacks earlier this year claimed by...
Greek police change guard policy
Athens :: Greece | 9 days ago
Credibility The Greek government will no longer place guards outside police stations following an attack this week on a station in suburban Athens, an official says. Michalis Chrysochoidis, Citizens' Protection minister, says he has ordered an end to a policy of...
Tags: Marietta Giannakou, Athens, bomb exploded, European Parliament, Greece, exploded outside
Gun attack on Greek police
Athens :: Greece | 11 days ago
Credibility Six police officers and a passer-by have been wounded in a gun attack on a police station in Athens...Police say two gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire as they rode past the station in the north of the Greek capital...The president of the Police Officers...
Tags: police station, Athens, opened fired, Greek, gunmen opened, Greece, athens police
Athens exchange leads peers
Athens :: Greece | 16 days ago
Credibility The 2.07 billion euros placed by foreign investors on the Athens stock exchange in the first nine months of the year has helped make the Greek market among the best performing in Europe, and the world, in terms of gains. At the same time, the Athens bourse...
Tags: Athens
Former Olympic champion Xing Huina withdraws from National Games
Jinan :: China | 18 days ago
Credibility Xing Huina, who won the women's 10,000 meters champion at the Athens Olympic Games, pulled out of the 11th National Games due to a nagging injury, a team official of Shandong delegation said here on Wednesday. Xing has been plagued with injuries after...
Tags: national games, olympic champion, Athens, Liu Xiang
Low rates support equities rally
Athens :: Greece | 18 days ago
Credibility The Athens bourse�s benchmark general index has gained 51 percent in the last six months, outperforming its major European peers...Meanwhile, the Athens bourse plans to launch its X-Net platform next month, a project that will offer international investors...
Tags: News of Alpha Bank, Athens, athens bourse
Greece edges closer to World Cup
Athens :: Greece | 27 days ago
Credibility In its final regular qualification game, the national side faces Luxembourg at the Olympic Stadium in Athens on Wednesday, with the knowledge that a win will definitely secure it second place in Group 2 and a play-off over two legs with another second-placed...
Protesters accuse Athens police of torturing an illegal immigrant who later died
Athens :: Greece | 27 days ago
Credibility Hundreds of activists marched to a police station in Athens on Sunday to accuse officers of beating an illegal immigrant who died after being released from custody. Muhammad Kamran Atif, a Pakistani in his 20s, was arrested Sept. 28 after attacking a...
Tags: illegal immigrant, Athens
Papandreou prepares to name first Cabinet
Athens :: Greece | about 1 month ago
Credibility Sunday, a result which continues to send shock waves through New Democracy and yesterday led to one of the previous government�s most senior members, Giorgos Souflias, announcing his retirement from politics. Papandreou spent much of yesterday in conversation...
Tags: George Papandreou, prime minister, Greece, Athens, Greek Socialist, socialist leader, New Democracy party, papandreou sworn, Archbishop Ieronymos, Andreas
Schools closed by flu
Athens :: Greece | about 1 month ago
Credibility Greece has shut down two schools in Athens where pupils and staff contracted swine flu, officials said. The prefecture of Athens said it had closed the two high schools in the districts of Melissia and Haidari, which are in opposite parts of the capital,...
Tags: Athens
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