Greece-based Wi-Fi tech startup Zoottle to open Boston HQ

Zoottle is currently headquartered in Greece and has about 5,000 square feet of office space primarily for research and development, with 11 ...

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Greece Earthquake Today 2014 Today Strikes Rion, West of Athens

ST LOUIS (LALATE) – A Greece earthquake today 2014 has struck west of Athens. The Greece earthquake today September 19, 2014 began in the ...

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Diversity Chronicles: ISIS Forming Cells…In Greece

For years Golden Dawn has warned through a plurality of articles that Greece's role as a point of illegal entry and exit from Europe and the Middle East ...

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Lady Gaga Stuns in Athens Concert

Lady Gaga and her long-anticipated concert took place tonight in Athens, Greece. Holding one of the most desired tickets, fans gathered in the Athens Olympic Stadium to admire the popular and eccentric pop singer’s performance that started at 9 pm. A large stage has been set up and Lady Gaga rewarded fans with a spectacular show. The concert began with singer Alex Kavvadias, who became famous as a member of the “Matisse” group. The concert set is designed in a way that brings the singer closer to her fans, regardless where they stand. The corridors, made of semi-transparent material, are connecting the main stage with the smaller stages built around it, going all the way to where fans are situated. Fans will be able to walk and dance in these corridors, while observing the show through a new perspective. The 28-year-old pop diva, who arrived in Athens on Wednesday, had already caused panic and admiration. She showed up at the airport dressed as Botticceli’s Venus, while a little later, after receiving a warm welcome from fans outside her hotel, she posted half-naked pictures from her suit’s bathtub, while she rejoiced the hotel hospitality. She even uploaded a photo of a chocolate Caryatid. Lady Gaga’s Athens performance was part of her ArtRAVE: the ARTPOPBALL tour, supporting her third studio album Artpop (2013). The tour began on May 4 and is scheduled to end on November 24.

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Greece says new bailout 'out of the question,' despite election threat

ATHENS, Greece - Greece's finance minister says his country will not seek additional rescue funds from other eurozone countries after bailout loans are completed this year, despite concerns from rescue ...

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Versace offers easy, wearable looks for next summer and a practical handbag. That's right.

by  Associated Press For Versace, this is understated by COLLEEN BARRY, Associated Press - 19 September 2014 15:21-04:00 MILAN (AP) — Versace wouldn't be Versace without the flamboyance. But Donatella Versace understated it just a bit for next summer's look, presented on Friday, the third day of Milan Fashion Week previews for next summer. Dresses were straight-fitting, instead of body-hugging. Pants were just a tad looser fit. Jewelry punctuated looks with a period, not an exclamation point. "I think it is very wearable as a line, not to tight, very easy," Donatella Versace said backstage after the show. That does not mean the Versace woman won't be showing skin. There were midriffs left bare or revealed under sheer panels. And why stop at a slit on long skirts, when you can square cut? For bling, colorful cocktail dresses were sprinkled with shimmering Swarovski crystals. Plexi-glass high heels were of requisite Versace. Versace made the familiar Greek border logo very graphic, often in a maxi dimension to incorporate into the composition of the garment, an element that complemented the clean lines and strong colors of the collection. The graphic feel was echoed in the mesh that gave some of the looks a sporty feel. And Donatella demonstrated just how well she knows women: Handbags featured external pockets for telephones, lipsticks and a pen. Fumble-proof. News Topics: Lifestyle, Fashion, Beauty and fashion, Handbags, Fashion shows, Women's fashion, Fashion accessories, Entertainment, Arts and entertainment, Fashion design People, Places and Companies: Donatella Versace, Milan, Italy, Western Europe, Europe Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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Greece: New bailout 'out of the question'

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's finance minister says his country will not seek additional rescue funds from other eurozone countries after bailout loans are completed this year, despite concerns from rescue lenders that an early general election could unravel years of cost-cutting reforms.

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PM in energy talks ahead of crucial meeting with Merkel

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras visited Azerbaijan on Friday for talks on energy security and Greece’s involvement in an international gas pipeline but his aides remained in Athens to prepare for Tuesday’s crucial meeting between the Greek premier and Germ... ...

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Antipnoia stabbing trial begins

An Athens court on Friday heard the first witnesses in the case against two men, believed to be members of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, who are being charged over the stabbing of a Greek and a Spanish national at the Antipnoia venue in Kato Petralona, ... ...

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Greek navy officer arrested over bootleg alcohol

Police officers on Friday arrested a Greek navy officer on charges of trading in illicit alcohol on the Egnatia Highway outside the northern port city of Thessaloniki. The 49-year-old officer was detained along with two Bulgarian nationals. The latter wer... ...

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Greece Flu Clinic this morning

There will be a Flu Clinic run by University of Rochester Medical Center today, Friday, September 19th from 9AM-11AM. This will be held at Greece ...

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Police: Rochester Police sergeant repeatedly physically assaulted with broom handle

There was a heavy police response to an arrest of a man on Genesee Street Thursday afternoon. email · print. Greece Post. Writer. Posted Sep.

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Rob Plummer's Daily Dose of Greek

For years, I watched many of our formerly zealous Greek students slowly apostatizing from the language they once loved. Partial solution…..

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Italy, Greece for high schoolers

A local teacher is leading an Education First Tour to Italy and Greece for spring break 2016. This trip is open to students who will be in high school ...

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President Ilham Aliyev and Prime Minister of Greece Antonis Samaras hold a one-on-one meeting

It was noted that there were big prospects for cooperation between Azerbaijan and Greece. During the conversation, the sides also exchanged views ...

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Bay Area Anti-fascists Send Solidarity To Greece

On September 18th local antifas marked the first anniversary since the murder of Killah P (stage name of Pavlos Fyssas) in Greece. He was attacked ...

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Chobani Flip Low-Fat Greek Yogurt, Key Lime Crumble

Lowfat Yogurt (Pasteurized Nonfat Milk, Cream, Live And Active Cultures: S. Thermophilus, L.Bulgaricus, L. Acidophilus, Bifidus And L. Casei), ...

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Fortune: Greek Businesswoman Among 25 World's Most Powerful

Widely-respected Fortune magazine included Greek shipowner and businesswoman Angeliki Frangou in the list with the 25 most powerful women in ...

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British wedding guest, 27, faces years in Greek jail after freak jet ski accident killed the bridegroom

A British man could be facing a prison sentence after being charged over death of a newlywed friend on his honeymoon in a freak jet ski accident on the Greek island of Santorini Pete Hudson, 27, was arrested as he tried to board a flight to Crete, where ...

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The Greek Holidays with a Fuji X100s By Joao Marques

The Greek Holidays with a Fuji X100s. By Joao Marques. My name is João Marques i`m an amateur photographer living in Lisbon and i would like to ...

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Elliniko investors eye Cyprus project warily

The investing group that has undertaken the development of the old Athens airport plot at Elliniko is expressing concern that as well as having to contend with the Greek state agencies, whose notorious red tape was to be expected anyway, its project on th... ...

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Auctions lead to surprise stock growth

While Greek stocks contracted on a weekly basis, Friday’s closing auctions provided a happy ending, pushing the benchmark to it’s biggest daily rise in four months, while trading volume soared. Friday’s September triple witching, the rebalancing of portfo... ...

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Hardouvelis: Greece Will Take Emergency Loans to Exit Bailout

Greek Finance Minister Gikas Hardouvelis talked to Bloomberg TV’s Guy Johnson on Friday and stated that Greece is likely to resort to emergency loans in 2015 and 2016 in order to exit from the terms of its bailout. “The IMF doesn’t want to lend alone; the Europeans feel itchy about the IMF lending and them staying out,” Hardouvelis told Bloomberg. “All possibilities are up for grabs,” he added. Although Greece’s bailout program expires this year, the IMF is expected to continue disbursing funds until the first quarter of 2016. Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is agitating to end the 240-billion-euro bailout, which came with austerity measures that fueled a political backlash and a recession that damaged the economy. In his interview, Hardouvelis eliminated a writedown on the Greek debt‘s nominal value. “About 70% of the Greek debt is held either by the ECB or the other countries, so you can’t write it down,” he stated. “You can extend the maturities, you can fix part of the variable rate of debt, but writing it down, that would have to go through various parliaments,” he added, claiming that no country would accept it. Commenting on the possibility of early elections, Hardouvelis noted that there is no such case, as the Greek citizens don’t want snap elections. “Investors think long term and they see no downside risk to Greece. The presidential elections are a minor nuisance,” the Greek Minister told Bloomberg.

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Activists battle animal cruelty in Greece

Last month, a restaurant owner in Nea Styra, a coastal town on the eastern Greek island of Evia, used food to lure a puppy named Magi to his side. Then he beat the puppy to death. The incident was far from unique in this land that considers itself ...

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Outstanding Debts to Greek State Exceed 69 Billion Euros

Outstanding debts to the Greek state hit a record high, reaching 69.24 billion euros in August, compared to 68 billion euros in July 2014. The amount of debts to the state is still huge, although 2.8 million citizens paid owed taxes in August, much more than in previous months. It appears that debtors in Greece used their vacation allowance to repay their debts to the Tax Service instead of going on vacation, as the Greek state collected 1.6 billion euros in August, compared to 1.2 in July. Greek taxpayers paid 1.1 billion euros in June, 1.2 billion in May and 1.1 billion in April.  Within 4 months, the debt rate repayment increased by almost 50% but outstanding debts increased by 7 billion euros (62,3 billion euros in April). Austerity measures, cuts in wages and pensions as well as increased taxes, are making Greek citizens unable to pay their debts.

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How The Microsoft Engine That Nailed The World Cup Is Using Your Facebook Status To Predict NFL Games

After correctly predicting 15 of 16 World Cup knockout stage games, Microsoft's virtual assistant Cortana is taking on the mother of all American sports, the NFL, and it's doing it with the help of Facebook and Twitter data. Cortana's NFL predictions come from a model developed by the company's Bing Predicts team. When you search the term "NFL predictions" or search for a specific game on Bing, the results contain the Bing Predicts prediction with the team's percentage chance of winning. Windows phone users can ask Cortana who will win this weekend's Seahawks-Broncos game, for example, and it will tell them. Here's what the predictions look like on the web: The Bing Predicts NFL model, which a small group of computer scientists at Microsoft came up with, includes all the traditional variables that you'd expect it to include. Determinative factors like past results, home/road effect, turf/grass effect, weather, strength of schedule, and advanced offensive and defensive statistics are all in there. But Bing Predicts includes a variable that other systems don't — public sentiment. "It takes into account the wisdom of the crowd," is how Microsoft director of consumer communications Craig Beilinson described it. Because of exclusive partnerships with Facebook and Twitter, Bing has access to a mountain of social data that they can use to determine the public perception of teams and games. By analyzing aggregate Facebook status updates and tweets, the model can quantify the public sentiment for or against a given team and factor that into its prediction. The idea is to catch things that the stats can't see — like injuries or inner turmoil. Advanced statistical models are often held up as the antidote to public perception. These models are meant to be purely empirical, immune from human subjectivity. The Bing model is different. It sees the wisdom of crowds as a legitimate indicator. It sees public sentiment as the expression of unseen variables that ought to be incorporated in the model next to traditional indicators like rushing stats. As we saw in Week 2, this can be dangerous. The Baltimore Ravens played the Pittsburgh Steelers on Thursday Night Football only days after cutting Ray Rice in chaotic fashion that week. While Microsoft wouldn't tell us how heavily public sentiment is weighted in the model's "secret sauce," anecdotal evidence suggests it affected the prediction. Bing Predicts had the Steelers as a relatively significant 59.8% favorite. That prediction deviated from most other models. Las Vegas had the Ravens as a slight favorite, and Nate Silver's ELO model had the Ravens as a 54% favorite. Baltimore won 26-6. Bing Predicts was wrong. Overall, though, things are off to a decent start. Cortana is 19-13 on the young season. Silver's model is 19-13 as well. Vegas favorites are 17-15. Time will tell if Cortana can duplicate its World Cup success. Bing Predicts started as an experiment to see if Microsoft could predict the results of shows like "American Idol" and "The Voice" based on what people were talking about and searching for online. After some success in the reality TV realm, Bing moved into trickier, more saturated predictive territory — sports. It found success there too. It correctly predicted all but one World Cup knockout stage game. It picked Germany to beat Brazil in the semifinal when every other statistical model had Brazil as the favorite. It nailed apparent toss-up games like Costa Rica-Greece and Uruguay-Colombia. Its only blemish was the third-place consolation game between Brazil and the Netherlands — which the underdog Netherlands won. That success raised eyebrows. It's one thing to look at social data and figure out which "American Idol" singer the public likes, it's another to correctly predict a sporting event. Microsoft still views Bing Predicts as something of an experiment. The company breaks down predictions into three categories: open votes ("American Idol"), limited votes (the Academy Awards), and things that happen (sports). The third category is the hardest to get right. Whereas Facebook statuses and tweets about "American Idol" has a relationship to the actual outcome of the show, public sentiment in sports isn't actionable. The team is updating its model every week to try and get more accurate predictions, which we'll be tracking week-by-week.SEE ALSO: NFL Power Rankings, Where Every Team Stands Going Into Week 3 Join the conversation about this story »

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'Saving Mr. Banks' to be shown in Greece

Greece is offering a free showing of the movie Saving Mr. Banks at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 23, at the Community and Senior Center, 3 Vince Tofany ...

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College fairs planned at Marketplace, Greece Ridge

24, and at The Mall at Greece Ridge on Thursday, Sept. 25. Hours for both are from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.. The events, sponsored by local high school ...

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Free car seat checks offered today in Greece

The Monroe County Clerk's Office and the town of Greece are pairing up to offer a free car seat safety check Friday, Sept. 19, at The Mall at Greece ...

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Corruption, Clientelism and Censorship in Greece's Media Landscape

It was just over one year ago when Greece was, once again, thrust into the international limelight. On June 11, 2013, the Greek government, in a sudden and surprise move, immediately shut down ERT, the country's national public broadcaster. That evening ...

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Greek Cypriot archbishop casts doubt on peace talks

Turkey has maintained a military presence in the island's north as a constitutional guarantor of peace after Greek extremist militant group EOKA, which sought to unite the island with Greece, conducted a coup on the government in July 1974 after having ...

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The Most Interesting Films in Drama’s Short Film Festival

For yet another year the International Short Film Festival of Drama presented some of Greece’s newest and most interesting short films, as well as some significant foreign productions. The support for the festival offered by the residents of Drama has turned it into one of Greece’s most important cultural events. The following films won particular praise from the Greek audience: Prosefhi by Thanasis Neofotistos Neofotistos’s first movie confronts the issue of bullying in Greek schools. The main character, Dimitris, lives in terror while under daily attack from schoolmates. The film’s main themes are adolescence, adulthood, Dimitris’s inner world and his relationship with those around him. Drag Me: An Urban Music Tale by Nikos Kellis This great animation — based on the song “Drag What’s left of my Body through the Mud” of The You and What Army Faction — follows the adventures of a girl in the deadly, dirty and cruel streets of a vast metropolis. The Immortalizer by Marios Piperidis Cyprus, 1878: a desperate father attempts to save his daughter. In the middle of the night, he finds himself looking for the only man who can keep her alive. The film has won accolades for its aesthetics and impressive performances in film festivals in Cyprus and Portugal. The guilable Kiss of Mr. Patokos by Evaggelos Alexandros Apostolakis The film wrestles with the difficult issue of a protagonist’s love for a figure of his imagination. The director uses a moving pencil to capture their introduction and invite us to the emotional world of his characters. Above and Beyond by Anita Chamilou Anita Chamilou’s first film entices the spectator from its earliest seconds. An old man lives alone on the Greek-Albanian border. A radio is his only company. But what happens when his favorite music station closes due to financial difficulties? Walk by Stella Kyriakopoulou Dealing with the issue of the economic crisis, the film traces the story of a poor mother, Marissa, and her daughter. Marissa takes her daughter for their usual walk around the city — but, unbeknownst to her daughter, Marissa is planning to give her up for adoption. Spectrum by Dimitris Gkotsis The film shows the brutal day of five people in the Athens city center. The director creates a violent portrait of every day people who are prepared to forgo their limits and resort to violence on the slightest pretext.  

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Watch Out Greece, Nikki Beach Has Descended On Porto Heli

If it's not the Hard Rock opening in Ibiza, it's Nikki Beach descending on Porto Heli, on the Peloponnese in Greece (two-and-a-half hours from Athens ...

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How Greek wine production came of age

IN Jancis Robinson’s masterwork Wine Grapes, the summary on assyrtiko reads: “Top quality, intense, highly structured Greek white grape… It is surely only a matter of time before this exciting variety goes travelling.” And, indeed, assyrtiko has ...

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Hardouvelis Says All Options Open on Greek Bailout Exit

Finance Minister Gikas Hardouvelis signaled Greece may choose to forgo International Monetary Fund emergency loans in 2015 and 2016 in order to secure an exit from the terms of its bailout.

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Alexis Tsipras casts himself as Greece’s prime minister in waiting

As you would expect from the leader of Greece’s radical left opposition party, Alexis Tsipras has many pungent criticisms of eurozone economic policy: demand is too weak; fiscal discipline too severe; debt repayments too high; and, consequently, growth ...

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The Greek Look-alike of Ryan Gosling

George Gasteratos, a man from the island of Corfu in western Greece, is the Greek look-alike of the Hollywood star Ryan Gosling. In fact, the resemblance is so uncanny that, were Gasteratos to live in the USA, some think that he could work as Gosling’s double. “I have often been told that I look like him,” said Gasteratos, admitting that at first he didn’t know who Ryan Gosling was. “To be honest, I did not know his name and I searched in Google to see who he was. Of course, when the photos appeared on the computer, I realised that at least I knew his face,” he told Espresso newspaper. The 27 year-old works as a model in Greece. He says that everyone — work colleagues, unknown girls on Facebook — insists that he resembles Gosling. Gasteratos will soon depart for neighboring Turkey. There, as well as in Europe, he has received many proposals for work from noted designers.

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Greek Lender Reluctantly Plans Partial Turkish Exit

ISTANBUL— Finansbank AS FINBN.IS +0.99% Finansbank A.S. Turkey: Istanbul TRY 3.07 +0.03 +0.99% Sept. 19, 2014 4:13 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 418,750 P/E Ratio 15.12 Market Cap TRY8.28 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee TRY554,190 09/19/14 Greek ...

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Administrative Reform Minister Against Mayors’ Refusal for Evaluation of Employees

Administrative Reform Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis responded to statements made by 19 Greek mayors, who have insisted that they will not permit the review of work contracts that changed the status of municipal personnel from contract workers to payroll employees. An Athens court of first instance on Thursday deemed illegal and abusive a decision by the ADEDY civil servants’ union to prevent its members from taking part in an evaluation process, prompting the government to underline its determination to complete the assessment. “There is no longer any excuse,” said Mitsotakis. “This needs to be taken on board by everyone, both those who are opposed to the checks and evaluation as well as those who are their political protectors.” The government aims for the evaluation process to lead to 15 percent of civil servants being either retrained, moved to more suitable positions or dismissed. Thursday’s verdict was the fourth to uphold the government’s efforts to carry out the evaluation. It also bars ADEDY from holding further action on this issue. “We have to agree on the self-evident: It is clear that everyone has to be evaluated,” said Mitsotakis. “It is also evident that anyone who got a job in the public sector illegally has to be dismissed. The checks for forged certificates and on contracts that were made permanent without the necessary criteria being fulfilled will be stepped up.” The mayors — who have the support of the new Attica region governor Rena Dourou — have decided not to provide the information required to crosscheck the employees’ qualifications to the ministry of Administrative Reform.

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Sisters oversee pastry baking for annual Greek Food Festival

Angie Austin, Toney Davrados and Eleni Papathanasiou have baking on a grand scale down to a science. The sisters, who learned to bake from their mother, Maria Charalambopoulos, oversee the pastry baking for the Greek Food Festival each year, and have for ...

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Scotland referendum result positive for Europe: Greek deputy FM

The outcome of Thursday's referendum in Scotland to remain in the United Kingdom was positive for Europe and international politics, Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Dimitris Kourkoulas said on Friday.

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National Bank of Greece : Signing of Sale & Purchase Agreement for Astir Palace Vouliagmeni SA

Pursuant to the process for the acquisition of a majority participation in the share capital of Astir Palace Vouliagmeni S.A. ('Astir'), National Bank of Greece S.A. ('NBG') announces that on 17 September 2014 the Sale and Purchase Agreement for the ...

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OPAP, Intralot bid for Greek horse race betting licence

Greece's privatization agency has received two binding bids for the country's horse race betting licence after scrapping a previous tender last month due to a lack of sufficient interest. The HDRAF agency said on Friday Greek betting firm OPAP and gaming ... ...

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Claims that high profile personalities escape punishment to be probed

Supreme Court prosecutor Efterpi Koutzamani ordered on Friday an investigation into comments made this week by Greece’s chief inspector for public administration in which he alleged that some high profile personalities enjoyed impunity. Leandros Rakintzis... ...

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Roanoke Greek Festival brings culture, food and fun

This weekend, the flavors and culture of Greece are coming to Roanoke.

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Hot Watch List : National Bank of Greece (NYSE:NBG), Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS), AngloGold ...

National Bank of Greece SA (NYSE:NBG) has hired other banks including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America Corp to work as ...

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Is this a UFO? Plane passenger baffled by hovering lights outside window

And the man, who was returning to Cardiff after a holiday in Greece, admitted he had no idea what the shapes could belong to. 'The lights could have ...

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SPI Solar acquires PV assets in Hawaii, Greece and 19MW of DG in China

SPI has acquired PV assets in Hawaii, China and Greece since the ... also acquired 26.57MW of projects in Greece in the first week of September.

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Breathing room

Even Greece’s biggest critics find it hard to deny that the debt-hit country has achieved an unprecedented fiscal turnaround within a very short period of time. Sure, progress in promoting the structural reforms which are badly needed in the economy is sl... ...

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Hardouvelis signals Greece may skip IMF loans to exit aid curbs

Finance minister Gikas Hardouvelis signaled Greece may forego International Monetary Fund emergency loans in 2015 and 2016 in order to secure an exit from the terms of its bailout. “The IMF doesn’t want to lend alone; the Europeans feel itchy about the IM... ...

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