Athens Informer

Three women from Halkidiki, northern Greece, were expected to face a local prosecutor on Wednesday for allegedly trying to obstruct a mining vehicle from approaching a gold mining site located in the area of Skouries. The women, aged 25, 39 and 40 aged we… … Full News here – Latest News

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The election of extreme right Golden Dawn members to Greece’s Parliament led to an increased expression of anti-Semitism in Greece in 2012, according to the annual US State Department’s report on international religious freedom released on May 20. The rep… … Full News here – Latest News

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In another indication that Greece’s mainstream parties are at a loss regarding how to deal with the rise of Golden Dawn, New Democracy and SYRIZA traded insults on Saturday in the wake of a far-right MP being ousted from Parliament, with government spokes… … Full News here – Latest News

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The judicial probes into the nonpolitical figures on the Lagarde list of depositors, as well as other probes such as the one into party financing, have been handed from financial prosecutors Spyros Mouzakitis and Grigoris Peponis to their newly appointed … … Full News here – Latest News

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Greece is poised to receive over 86 million euros for curbing illegal immigration, Cecilia Malmstrom, European Commissioner for Home Affairs, said on Wednesday. The Swedish commissioner was responding to an European Parliament question by New Democracy Eu… … Full News here – Latest News

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A 48-year-old British national will be facing a prosecutor after being arrested on Friday in Alexandroupoli, northern Greece, on weapons smuggling charges. Acting on a tip-off, police apprehended the suspect, whose name was not made public, after finding … … Full News here – Latest News

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A fugitive who was allegedly part of a gang that carried out more than two dozen armed robberies, including one in which four policemen were shot and injured, has been arrested in Athens, police said on Thursday. The 37-year-old, who was not named, was ar… … Full News here – Latest News

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Inmates at Larissa Prison went on hunger strike on Tuesday in protest at the conditions of their detention. About 580 prisoners are taking part in the hunger strike. They are demanding, among other things, better medical care and changes to the furlough s… … Full News here – Latest News

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PASOK’s leader Evangelos Venizelos and the party’s former leader and ex premier George Papandreou were on Tuesday at the center of a dispute over the handling of PASOK’s finances in recent years amid claims by the former that excessive borrowing during th… … Full News here – Latest News

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A five-judgePiraeus court yesterday handed down sentences of between six and 25 years to 16 men found guilty of involvement in an ambush against police officers in Zoniana, a rural area in Rethymno, Crete, during a drug raid in November 2007, in which… Full News here – Kathimerini English

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A new opinion poll published on Monday gives New Democracy a narrow lead over SYRIZA. The survey by Alco for the Newsit.gr website puts the conservatives on 20.5 percent in terms of respondents’ voting intentions, compared to 19.9 percent for SYRIZA. Far-… … Full News here – Latest News

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A recent amendment that limits the legal responsibility of bank chairmen, board members and other officials with regard to loans they have approved is not part of an effort to provide immunity to anyone, the government insisted yesterday. The law was… Full News here – Kathimerini English

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Police in Patra, Western Greece, have arrested one man in connection to a drive-by shooting earlier this month that left a 38-year-old man dead and another critically injured. The suspect, 31, is the brother of the victim, police said. He was arrested wit… … Full News here – Latest News

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Nikos Fotopoulos, the head of GENOP, one of the Public Power Corporation’s worker unions, was released on bail yesterday after being questioned in connection to two loans that the labor group received from the firm’s management. â€œThe first battle has… Full News here – Kathimerini English

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A week after two prominent Syrian bishops were kidnapped by armed rebels in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo, Greece’s Deputy Foreign Minister Costas Tsiaras has been dispatched to Beirut as part of the government’s ongoing efforts to trace the miss… … Full News here – Latest News

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