Greek Festival returns for 41st year this weekend – SLIDESHOW

This is your chance to “Live Greek for a Weekend” and experience the artistry and ancestry of Greece at the 41st Annual Greek Festival downtown. Greek dancers, festival dining, educational lectures, an Aegean Marketplace Deli, and a kids’ activity ...

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Stamati Says She Is Innocent

Vicky Stamati, the wife of former Greek defence minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos who is on trial for money laundering and corruption charges, told a three-member panel of the Athens Court of Appeal that she is innocent, had no part of her husband’s affairs and knows nothing about anything. Stamati told the court that she does not have any relationships with the co-defendants in the case and ...

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Overdue Tax Debt Hits All-time High of 60 Bln Euros in July

Overdue debt by individual taxpayers and enterprises to the state surpassed 60 billion euros at the end of July, hitting an all-time high, official figures showed on Friday. A report by the Greek Finance ministry’s general secretariat of Revenues showed that overdue debt totaled 60.181 billion euros in July 31, up 407 million euros from the previous month and by around 4.1 billion euros ...

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Former PASOK minister suffers heart attack

Former PASOK minister Alekos Papadopoulos suffered an acute heart attack on Friday.According to reports, the 64-year-old veteran politician was taken to a private health facility in Athens for treatment.Papadopoulos, who was born in Thesprotia, northwestern Greece, has served as finance, health and interior minister in several PASOK ...

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Officer suspended after being arrested in semi-undressed state

A 35-year-old police officer who was arrested on Thursday on charges of unprovoked verbal abuse in the old port of Hania, Crete, was suspended on Friday, on the orders of the chief of the Greek Police, Nikolaos Papayiannopoulos.According to a report released by the Hania Traffic Police, the officer, who had been serving in an Attica police department, was in a state of semi-undress when he was ...

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Plan to hire 3800 jobless as guards for schools

The Interior and Education ministries are reportedly planning an initiative that would give jobs to some 3,800 unemployed people to work as caretakers in state schools following the abolition of school guards as part of an overhaul of the civil service pledged by the Greek government to the ...

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Danone Comes Storming Back in Greek Yogurt, Threatening Chobani's ...

Danone Comes Storming Back in Greek Yogurt, Threatening Chobani's ...brandchannel.comDon't look now, Chobani. Danone is taking back some of the yogurt-market turf that the Greek-style giant claimed out of nowhere over the last few years. Specifically, Danone—known as Dannon USA in America—has rallied behind its Oikos brand of ...

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