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Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Greece's Brian Dupra enjoys quick trip to Triple-A


Greece's Brian Dupra enjoys quick trip to Triple-A
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Dupra was being promoted and was jumping two levels – from Single-A Potomac to Triple-A Syracuse. “I was excited,” says Dupra, a former star pitcher at Greece Athena and Notre Dame. But it turned out earning a callup to Triple-A was easier than ...

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23 Iconic Pictures Of Global Unrest From The Last Three Years

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It started in Greece, with violent austerity protests.

Then the global unrest really took off when Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in Tunisia on December 17, 2011.

Then the protests spread like a fire through the Arab world. Journalists called it the "Arab Spring," but it seemed even larger than that.

It was.

Austerity measures from Western governments prompted a similar response: widespread unrest and, in some places, complete upheaval.

If it seems like clashes with cops and/or government troops has been a global phenomenon over the last three years, that's because it has.

Former conservative minister Kostis Hatzidakis is covered with blood after about 200 leftists attacked him with stones and sticks, shouting: "Thieves! Shame on you!" in central Athens, December 15, 2010.



A riot cop faces down an angry protester in Tunisia, January 2011.



Egyptian protestors retreat from the violence in January 2011.



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Agitator Makes Bet on Greece


Agitator Makes Bet on Greece
Wall Street Journal
Mr. Kazarian's Japonica Partners, based in Providence, R.I., said Monday it would buy up to €2.9 billion ($3.8 billion) in Greek government bonds—a volatile and risky corner of what has been a recovering European sovereign-debt market. [image] ...


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Greek far right seeks to ban "racism against Greeks"


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A Greek extreme right party broadly vilified for alleged Nazi sympathies and inciting violence against immigrants wants parliament to pass a bill outlawing "racism against Greeks".  








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Police officers to patrol trains in new initiative

Special police units are to be assigned to patrol train carriages serving the Athens suburban railway (Proastiakos) and the broader network of the Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE), according to a joint decision involving several ministries and the Greek Police that was made public on Tuesday.Apart from the train carriages, the officers will also be inspecting the railway network, which has ...

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Greece must not relax fiscal effort: IMF chief


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Greece must not relax fiscal effort: IMF chief
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International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief has said Greece must not relax a fiscal effort and instead Athens must focus on its main fiscal challenge, which is revenue collection. Christine Lagarde gave the statement on Tuesday as a group of experts from ...
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Russia's Kirill continues Greek visit with trip to Mt Athos

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill visited the semi-autonomous monastic community of Mount Athos on Tuesday as he continued his seven-day visit to Greece.


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A Real Slice of Greece


A Real Slice of Greece
Huffington Post
It was on a flight about six months ago that I first read about Sotiris Lumberopoulos, a forager who had left his London based job in statistical analysis, exchanging it for a life of foraging in Kyparissia. His company, Radiki (which is Greek for ...


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Far-right Greeks push for law jailing illegal immigrants

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party hit back at plans for an anti-racism law on Tuesday by submitting its own draft bill to fight "racism against Greeks" by jailing all illegal immigrants.



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Viewer email; Greece Police searching for suspected bike path muggers


Viewer email; Greece Police searching for suspected bike path muggers
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The path were it happened runs in between Latta Road and Greenleaf Road, which is in the northeast part of Greece near the Lake Ontario Parkway. We're going there now to talk to people on the path. Have a story you want our news team to investigate?


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Greeks very pessimistic but not so much about their childrens futures

Greeks are among the most pessimistic people in a 39-country survey by the Washington-based Pew Research Center, though they see a less bleak future for their children than the French do.The survey published on Tuesday found that Greeks were nearly unanimous in calling their ...

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IMF Greece must do more on tax evasion

International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde said Greece must do more to crack down on tax evasion as international lenders prepared for a meeting in Athens Tuesday to discuss ways to boost revenue and trim ...

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Interactions Between Vascular Wall and Perivascular Adipose Tissue...

From the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK ; Department of Cardiac Surgery, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK ; and Department of Cardiology, Athens University Medical School, Athens, Greece .


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Alpha deems increase a success

Alpha Bank confirmed on Monday the successful completion of its share capital increase, while the governor of GreeceA's central bank hailed the progress in the recapitalization process for the countryA's three biggest banks seen paving the way to a Greek economic rebound.


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Doctor jumps around the world to stay fit

The internist, 70, who practiced medicine in Victoria for 36 years before he retired in 2008, has jumped rope on every continent - a flat rock on a peninsula in Antarctica before an audience of penguins; a hotel veranda in Athens, Greece, where his wife captured the Parthenon in the loop of his rope with her camera; and overlooking Lake Tanganika ... (more)


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Greek tax system still not 'fit for purpose', says EU

Greece is still a long way from having a tax system that is "fit for purpose", the EU's commissioner for tax said on Tuesday, as International Monetary chief Christine Lagarde called on it to do more to tackle the rampant evasion that has plagued the economy.
    



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