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Ephraim’s bid for release rejected

Appeals magistrate Eirini Kalou on Thursday rejected a bid by Ephraim to be released from custody on bail.

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Funds found to help Greece’s homeless

Greece is going to spend 800,000 euros on housing and feeding homeless people amid concern about the growing number of people living on the streets.

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Storms kill 3 in Greece

Serious flooding caused by heavy rainfall and hailstorms in the Peloponnese and northern Greece has caused massive damage as well as claiming the lives of three people.

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Debt surge daunts country

Surging national debt levels in Greece and other vulnerable eurozone countries is piling pressure on negotiators in Athens to push through rescue deals.

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Germans want Greece to return to the drachma

The majority of Germans feel the euro currency bloc would be better off if debt-crippled Greece left it, a poll published in mass-selling newspaper Bild am Sonntag showed on Sunday

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Prescription happy doctors targeted

Greece’s Health Minister Andreas Loverdos vowed to clamp down on doctors who issue suspiciously high amounts of medicine prescriptions, for which the taxpayer has to foot the bill,

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Storms kill three in Greece

Serious flooding caused by heavy rainfall and hailstorms in the Peloponnese and northern Greece has caused massive damage as well as claiming the lives of three people.

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Tsochatzopoulos’s property seized

Akis Tsochatzopoulos, the former PASOK defense minister indicted in connection with bribes for the purchase of submarines, was banned from leaving the country and told to post 150,

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Smith & Nephew to pay 22 million to settle Greek bribery case

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the US Ministry of Justice alleged the British company bribed Greek doctors for almost ten years to buy its products.

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Traffic dips in 2011 at Athens airport

Passenger traffic at Athens International Airport dropped 6.5 per cent last year as the economic crisis squeezed travel spending, especially by Greeks.

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