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WordPress suspends Chrysi Avgi’s blog

Blog publishing platform Wordpress has taken down the site maintained by the far-right party Chrysi Avgi (Golden Dawn) after it breached the terms of service.

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Suicide rate up more than 22 per cent

Suicides in Greece shot up by more than 22 per cent from 2009 to 2011.

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Venizelos to try forming a govt

Socialist leader to take the baton after SYRIZA chief fails to get other parties on board a leftist coalition

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Actor-turned-politician Costas Karras dies at 75

Costas Karras, a Greek stage and film actor who also forged a career in politics as conservative deputy, died on Sunday in Athens of complications from cancer.

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Marika Mitsotakis, wife of former Greek PM, dies

Wife of former Greek prime minister Constantine Mitsotakis passed away in Athens last week at the age of 81.

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Gala Dance, featuring live music from Petros Imvrios

Petros Imvrios will provide the entertainment at the Gala Dance, hosted by the Pankoaki Brotherhood of Melbourne and Victoria.

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Golden Girl, Greek roots

A little known fact is that Betty White, the only remaining ‘Golden Girl’ from the hit American show of the late 1980s to early 1990s, is of Greek descent.

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Medicine in the Byzantine Empire – part one

In Byzantium however, we find traces of a sophisticated medical tradition that forms the basis for all medicinal practice today, Dean Kalimniou explores in this week’s diatribe.

AMG Gullwing electric supercar for Australia

The world’s first fully electric supercar, the Mercedes-Benz Gullwing E Cell will go on sale by the end of this year.

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2012 Annual Hellenic Language Awards

Language awards encourage teaching of Greek in Australia.

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