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How the world sees Greece
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Reported Golden Dawn Sightings Rattle Astoria, Queens
Reported sightings in Astoria, Queens, of Golden Dawn, the ultranationalist group based in Athens, have stirred indignation among Greek-American residents.
Ben Needham search: Grandfather of missing British toddler who vanished in Greece joins search for his body
Ben Needham vanished on the island of Kos in July 1991 when he was just 21 months old shortly after his mother Kerry Needham and grandparents had moved to the Greek island from Sheffield.
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Greeks turn out for strike
TENS of thousands of Greeks joined the second nationwide strike in three weeks, moving to bring the country to a near-standstill in a bid to show European Union leaders meeting in Brussels that fresh austerity cuts being demanded by Greece's lenders would cripple...
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Friday, October 19, 2012
No print issue on October 19
The paper edition of the Athens News will not circulate on Friday 19 October due to the participation of its employees in the strike called by the journalists' unions on October 17 & 18 .
The strike also affect our internet coverage.
The staff and owners remain hopeful and committed to resuming normal service and once again bringing you Greece in English. We regret any inconvenience to our loyal readers.
The strike also affect our internet coverage.
The staff and owners remain hopeful and committed to resuming normal service and once again bringing you Greece in English. We regret any inconvenience to our loyal readers.
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Ben Needham search resumes on Kos
British police begin excavating site on Aegean island where toddler went missing 21 years ago
The search for Ben Needham resumed in earnest on Friday as British police equipped with sonar equipment started excavating the site on the Aegean island of Kos where the toddler went missing 21 years ago.
More than 40 officers and search and rescue volunteers participated in the painstaking process of digging up the area around an old farmhouse where the Sheffield boy disappeared.
Among the team were 16 search advisers drafted from units across the UK, and cadaver dogs trained in tracking human remains.
Stergios Sentouras, the highest ranking police official in the Northern Dodecannese, the chain of islands to which Kos belongs, said: "Technology has advanced so dramatically, the investigation will be like no other conducted so far. The investigation will be very, very methodical. We want to help in whatever way we can."
South Yorkshire police, who are leading the investigation on the ground, said the team would use scanning, sonar and ground penetration devices, focusing on a mound of rubble where the toddler may accidentally have been buried. The land lies within sight of the farmhouse that the boy's grandfather was renovating at the time of the disappearance.
"There are a number of scenarios but what we are looking at now is the possibility that rather than being snatched, something – an accident or otherwise – happened on the ground where a lot of construction work was in process at the time," a South Yorkshire police spokesman said. "There are two possibilities. Either we find something or we don't, and if we don't that eliminates one line of inquiry."
In the event that human remains were found, a lengthy process of identification through DNA analysis would follow.
Ben's mother, Kerry, flew to Kos with police family liaison officers. In a statement released by Sheffield police, she said: "I am so pleased that the investigation is now moving forward and that the Greek authorities are showing a true commitment to investigate Ben's disappearance."
The case has never received the attention given to that of Madeleine McCann, but more than 200 possible sightings of Ben have been reported over the years and Mrs Needham has followed up each one.
Ioannis Ioannidis, who runs the Kos Tribune, said the toddler's disappearance had cast "a long shadow over our island".
"It is a mystery that everyone wants to solve," he said. "Everyone, I know, has at some point asked what happened to that boy? We have to resolve this once and for all."
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Greek rights groups slam asylum process, call treatment of refugees 'degrading ...
Greek rights groups slam asylum process, call treatment of refugees 'degrading ... Fox News ATHENS, Greece – Human rights groups in Greece are accusing the government of subjecting asylum seekers to a "degrading and illegal" application process that aims to discourage them from formally requesting state protection. Fourteen local rights ... |
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Greece's Piraeus Bank to purchase Greek lender Geniki from Societe Generale
Greece's Piraeus Bank to purchase Greek lender Geniki from Societe Generale Equities.com ATHENS, Oct 19, 2012 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Greece's Piraeus Bank sealed a deal for the purchase of Greek private lender Geniki Bank from French banking group Societe Generale, it was announced in Athens on Friday. Piraeus' acquisition of 99.1 ... |
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