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Bomb explodes outside tax office
Athens :: Greece | 2 days ago
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A powerful bomb exploded outside an Athens tax office early today causing considerable damage but no injury, Greek police said. The blast occurred at 4.35am local time today in the central Ambelokipi district, and followed an anonymous warning call to...
Tags: Athens, tax office, bomb exploded, mcdonalds restaurant, exploded outside, central athens, McDonalds
Greece opens Acropolis Museum, wants marbles back
Athens :: Greece | 14 days ago
Credibility Greece inaugurated its long-delayed Acropolis Museum on Saturday with the prime minister calling for the Classical Parthenon marbles, held in Britain for 200 years, to be repatriated. The 2 500-year-old sculptures were removed from the Parthenon in 1806...
Tags: acropolis museum, parthenon, New Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece Updated, Parthenon Temple, Parthenon Marbles, Classical Parthenon, Britain, Bernard Tschumi
Fire engulfs landmark Georgia Theatre in Athens
Athens :: Greece | 15 days ago
Credibility Police say a major fire has erupted at the landmark Georgia Theatre in Athens that has been a venue for Georgia bands including REM., Widespread Panic and the B-52s...They said the converted movie theater would likely suffer major damage. In 2008 national...
Tags: Georgia Theatre, Athens
Greek policeman shot dead in Athens suburb
Athens :: Greece | 17 days ago
Credibility Greek police suspect that at least four people were involved in the deadly attack. In recent months, leftist and anarchist groups have systematically attacked the police force as well as government and business establishments in the worst outbreak of...
Tags: Athens, shots dead, police officer, policeman shots, close range, Witness Protection Program, gunmen killing, Greece, central athens, old officer
Greece's first wildfires sweep Athens area
Athens :: Greece | 18 days ago
Credibility Firefighters Tuesday brought under control wildfires sweeping pine trees on Mount Hymettus outside Athens and on nearby Evia Island, Greek authorities said. More than 100 firefighters, along with eight water-dropping planes and two helicopters, Monday...
Tags: Athens
Greeks throw explosives at police, banks
Athens :: Greece | about 1 month ago
Credibility Greek vandals pelted a police station and three banks in Athens with explosive devices, causing considerable damage but no injuries, police said Thursday. About 10 assailants damaged six cars overnight when they threw petrol bombs at the police station...
Tags: Athens, tax office
The party of Macedonians in Greece , Vinozito / Rainbow video clips rejected by Greek TV Stations
The Greek national and local TV stations rejected to broadcast Vinozito/Rainbow video clips intended to familiarise the platform of the party with the Greek citizens. Five minutes commercial spot was prepared and distributed by the party...
Tags: Macedonia, Macedonians, Greece, Vinozito, Rainbow, Skopje, FYROM, Athens
Members of the Macedonian party Rainbow atacked in Athens
Dozens of activists of the Greek right wings fascist movement Hrisi Avgi (Golden Dawn) provoked heavy incident during the promotion of the Greek - Macedonian dictionary organized by the political party of the Macedonian minority in Greece Rainbow....
Tags: Greece, Macedonia, FYROM, Athens, Vinozito, Rainbow, balkans, minorities, incident
Small Greek militant group claims bomb attack
Athens :: Greece | about 1 month ago
Credibility The far-left Popular Will group said in a statement in the Pontiki weekly newspaper that it carried out Wednesday night's attack and a March 19 bomb attack on a government real estate agency in Athens...Wednesday's blast _ in a highly guarded section...
Depeche Mode frontman taken to hospital
Athens :: Greece | about 1 month ago
Credibility Depeche Mode frontman Dave Gahan has been taken to hospital after falling ill before a gig in Athens. A concert organiser told the audience of around 20,000 people in the Greek capital: "We regret today's performance has to be cancelled...David Gahan...
Tags: David Gahan, Athens, Dave Gahan, fell illness, Belgrade Arena, gahan fell, Depeche Mode
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