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Greece To Get $5.3 Bn Loan By Monday EU
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Greece will get a 4-billion-euro (about $5.3 billion) bailout loan from international lenders by Monday, the European Commission (EC) has said. According to EC spokesperson Simon O'Connor, deputy finance ministers of the 17-country eurozone approved the unlocking of aid funds to Greece in a meeting, reported Xinhua Friday. "With the provision that national approval procedures are completed, ...
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German Held On Greek Island For Spying
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A 72-year-old German has been arrested on the eastern Aegean Sea island of Chios over suspicions of spying for a Turkish group, Greek police said. The man who lived on the island for the past three years was detained while he was taking photographs of a military base, Xinhua reported. Police said the man admitted he was taking photographs of military bases and infrastructure and was handing the ...
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Turkish Wrestler Banned For Racist Remarks
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Turkey's Olympic medallist Riza Kayaalp was banned for six months by the International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles (FILA) for his racist remarks against Armenians and Greeks three weeks ago. Kayaalp had targeted Greeks and Armenians in his tweets during the Gezi Park unrest in Turkey, reports Xinhua. European and World Champion Kayaalp, who had won a bronze at the 2012 London ...
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Cornell University Website Under Fire For Attractive Greek Women Photos
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Cornell University's website, CornellFetch, which has garnered up to 1.9 million hits, is raising eyebrows at the Ivy League campus in Ithaca, N.Y. for featuring pictures of women at the university, along with their Greek affiliations. A man, who claimed to be one of the creators, told the Huffington Post that the website was started as a curious idea and the developers just wanted to see if ...
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Greek PM Takes Finance Ideas To Saudi Arabia
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Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has been in Saudi Arabia to discuss financial opportunities with government officials and private investors. During the week, he met Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal to discuss foreign investment for Greece's depressed economy. The prince, who is highly ranked on the Forbes global billionaires list, is a large stakeholder in companies like ...
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Olympiakos Thrashes Host Levadiakos 5-0
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Costas Mitroglou scored a hat trick, with David Fuster assisting on all three goals, to lead defending champion Olympiakos to a 5-0 victory at Levadiakos in the Greek league Sunday. Javier Saviola opened the scoring with a penalty in the 16th minute and Joel Campbell hit Levadiakos' post once in each half. Mitroglou entered the game in the 65th minute and made it 2-0 ...
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Greeks Show Anger At Austerity
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There has been a massive protest in the Greek city of Thessaloniki against the government's austerity programme. Thousands of people, led by unionists, came together in the country's second largest city on Saturday. The main complaints were against cutbacks and layoff of public workers and the potential closure of state-owned defence companies. Four thousand riot police were deployed to ...
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Healthcare In Crisis-hit Greece Under Threat Doctors Warn
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: A new round of cuts in debt-hit Greece's troubled health sector could cause irreversible damage to the country's already struggling public healthcare, insiders warn. Under its EU-IMF deal, which is keeping its economy alive with bailout loans, Greece has pledged to redeploy 25,000 civil servants and axe 4,000 state jobs by the end of the year. As part of this process, eight ...
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