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Rhodes child porn arrest third in a week

A 60-year-old man from Rhodes yesterday became the third person in Greece in a week to be charged with possession of child pornography after the police conducted a raid on his house based on information they received from...

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Patriarch Kirill marks his 63rd birthday

Patriarch Kirill, enthroned as the 16th Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia in February 2009, marked his 63rd birthday on Friday. The birthdays of patriarchs are not widely celebrated in the Russian Orthodox Church as they are...

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Anti-Greek Backlash in Salonica, 1821

From Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950, by Mark Mazower (Vintage, 2006), pp. 126-129: The Greeks in the city rang their church bells, rode through the streets on horseback, wore fine clothes and...

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'Pasqua' nabs prize at Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki Film Festival: Pic gets $15,000 at Thessaloniki’s co-production forum -- Helmer-scribe Ivan Marinovic's "Pasqua," a Slovene, Czech and Montenegro co-production, has won the $15,000 Crossroads Co-Production Forum...

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Belgrade, world's "party capital"

A survey conducted by the Lonely Planet website has dubbed Serbia’s capital city "the world's top destination" when it comes to having a good time. Montreal, Buenos Aires, Dubai, Thessaloniki, La Paz, Cape Town, Baku, Oakland...

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Violence flares at Greek marches

AFP Greek police have fired tear gas and detained more than 200 people as clashes broke out with stone-throwing protesters at a march to honour a 1973 anti-junta student revolt in Athens. Three police officers were injured as...

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Blasts Rock 2 Sex Shops in Thessaloniki

Two sex shops in downtwon Thessaloniki, Greece, have been targeted in explosive device attacks, police said. Anarchist groups are believed to stand behind the blasts, which rocked the sex shops on early Friday and Tuesday. The...

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Black Sea Business Forum / Thessaloniki, 12 & 13 November 2009

The Burgas-Alexandroupolis pipeline is a significant project with geopolitical, economic and energy importance, Deputy Foreign Minister Spyros Kouvelis noted, speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a Black Sea Business Forum...

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Escaped convict Rizaj nabbed

Greek police early on Monday recaptured twice-escaped convict Alket Rizaj, ANA reports. Rizaj became one of Greece's two most wanted fugitives in February after escaping with fellow convicted felon Vassilis Paleokostas in a...

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Two new publications on Greece’s 2008 revolt

With only weeks to go before December 6th, the day marking one year from the assassination of Alexis Grigoropoulos, two new excellent publications on the uprising of 2008 have come out by comrades in the UK and the US. In...

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