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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Greek club AEK Athens to declare bankruptcy


Greek club AEK Athens to declare bankruptcy
Ct Post
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Troubled Greek football club AEK Athens is planning to declare bankruptcy and seek voluntary relegation to the country's third division. The club, hit by debts and Greece's financial crisis, held an emergency shareholders meeting ...

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Book News: “As I Lay Dying” Trailer, Dan Brown Returns


New Yorker (blog)

Book News: “As I Lay Dying” Trailer, Dan Brown Returns
New Yorker (blog)
Watch a trailer for James Franco's forthcoming adaptation of “As I Lay Dying,” which premières next week in Cannes. Is it possible to write a good high-school essay about “The Great Gatsby” if you've never read the book but have seen Baz Luhrmann's ...

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Greek workers walk out to protest ban on teachers' strike


Kathimerini

Greek workers walk out to protest ban on teachers' strike
Reuters
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek public sector workers walked off the job on Tuesday to protest against a government decision to ban a strike by high-school teachers, shutting down several schools and reducing staff at hospitals to a minimum. But turnout at a ...
Greek Public-Sector Strike FizzlesWall Street Journal
'Grexit' is a thing of the past, says Greek prime ministerKathimerini
Greek state workers walk out of jobsPress TV
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Greece selling debt cheaper after getting new batch of rescue loans


Winnipeg Free Press

Greece selling debt cheaper after getting new batch of rescue loans
Fox News
Weighed down by massive debts, Greece lost access to bond markets in 2010. The conservative-led government hopes to have the country return to bond markets in the first six months of 2014, as the economy emerges from a crippling recession that's sent ...
Greece raises €1.3 billion from T-bill saleRTE.ie
Greece raises 1.3 bn euros, rate dipsMSN Malaysia News

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Greece sells debt cheaper as loan gets disbursed

A state school teacher shouts slogans, in front of a banner that reads "No to The Civil Mobilization" during a peaceful protest in central Athens on Monday, May 13, 2013. Greece's conservative-led government has issued a civil mobilization order forcing state school teachers to work during university entrance exams later in May. Teachers' unions had been planning strikes during the exams, to protest planned increases in working hours and involuntary staff transfers _ as part of the financially-distressed country's austerity and reform program. (AP Photo/Kostas Tsironis)ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece saw the interest rate it has to pay to get investors to lend it money fall further Tuesday, a day after its European creditors backed the release of the country's next batch of rescue loans.



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British say the French are the most arrogant people in Europe

Authoritative survey finds also finds that everyone thinks Germans are most trustworthy, apart from Greeks, who award themselves the accolade.
    

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Greek Public-Sector Strike Fizzles

A Greek strike over education cutbacks failed to draw widespread participation, underscoring weakening public support for Greece's once-powerful labor movement.

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