Greece
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Strong showers cause Athens’ flooding
Strong showers that hit the Greek capital at intervals were expected to persist throughout the day caused flooding on major thoroughfares and in homes and stores
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Man fatally wounded in suspected mafia hit
A man was fatally wounded in a mafia-style shooting in Exarchia, according to police the attack was a settling of accounts between Albanian crime rings
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Samaras in Berlin
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras will meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel today.
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Athens master plan for 2021
The plan that will regulate how Athens evolves and what new construction can take place in the city until 2021 is to be discussed at a committee level in the Greek Parliament
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2,200 arrests due to debts
More than 2,200 people have been arrested since the start of the year in connection to unpaid debts to the state or other tax offenses
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Greece’s domain name for EU presidency
Greece is to be the odd man out of Europe – this time over IT problems
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4.7 billion illegal cigarettes in the market
International tobacco companies with a presence in Greece are worried by the government’s plans to move ahead with a new special consumption tax hike on tobacco products
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Three Golden Dawn MPs to testify next week
Golden Dawn’s Giorgos Germenis, Panayiotis Iliopoulos and Stathis Boukouras are to defend themselves on charges of belonging to a criminal organization
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The movie theatres of Athens
Journalist and history buff Dimitris Fyssas has assembled a plethora of material on movie theatres in the Greek capital from 1896 to 2013