Greece
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Acropolis Museum wins prestigious award
The Acropolis Museum in Athens has won a prestigious global award as the Best Worldwide Tourism Project for 2010.
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48 kilo cocaine bust in Patras and Athens
Four people were arrested and about 48 kilos of cocaine were seized by authorities in the western port city of Patras and in Athens in a cocaine bust last week.
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Greek Nun Makes Sexual Harassment Allegations, hands $500,000 to the Police
Greek Orthodox monasteries in the Unuted STates have become embroiled in scandal.
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New section of the national highway opens
A new section of the Corinth-Tripoli national highway in the Peloponnese opened last week.
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Greek Universities off top 200 list
The failure of Greek universities to feature on a list of the world’s top 200 universities, compiled by The Times, was greeted with little surprise by academics at several institut
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Australian writer wins major Hellenic literary prize
David Malouf’s Ransom has won the John D. Criticos Prize
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Greece rocked by discovery of 11 parcel bombs
Suspected Greek terrorists unleashed an unprecedented two-day wave of mail bomb attacks in Athens and abroad which has seen the arrest of two suspects and a 48 hour suspension of i
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PM defends poll talk, Pangalos
Papandreou deflects criticism after Panglaos comments in newspaperr stir controversy.
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Greece celebrates ‘Ohi’ Day
The seventieth anniversary of the Greek ‘no’ to the Italians and its victory over Italian forces in Albania was marked with commemorations and parades across Greece.
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Greece tops EU corruption list
Despite a raft of reforms over the past few months Greece is still perceived as the most corrupt state in the 27-member European Union, according to this year’s corruption index pu