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Greek households are cutting expenses and spending less time at restaurants or hair salons. But one local luxury is defying the downturn: cigars.
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NATO and Russia are likely to resume formal military ties Saturday at their first high-level meeting since last year’s war between Russia and Georgia.
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Greece will impose a tobacco ban in public places on July 1 in its third attempt in a decade to stamp out the habit in Europe’s biggest-smoking nation, the health...
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Police say they’ve found the passport of a University of Georgia professor suspected of killing his wife and two others outside a community theater.
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Cypriot prosecutors formally charged five defendants Thursday during a trial over the crash of an airliner in Greece nearly four years ago.
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The remains of the ancient school where philosopher Aristotle taught his pupils nearly 2,500 years ago are to be turned into an outdoor museum thanks to a donation from...
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The Greek weightlifting federation has suspended two athletes who tested positive for a banned stimulant during national games this year.
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The remains of the ancient school where philosopher Aristotle taught his pupils nearly 2,500 years ago are to be turned into an outdoor museum, thanks to a donation...
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A University of Georgia professor suspected of killing his wife and two other men outside a community theater has a plane ticket to fly to the Netherlands later this...
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Authorities from Georgia to Texas had little to go on Sunday as they searched for a University of Georgia professor suspected of shooting his ex-wife and two other men...
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Three people were killed Saturday at a community theater near the University of Georgia, and authorities were searching for a marketing professor in the shooting...
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Police say three people have been killed and three others have been injured at a shooting at a community theater near the University of Georgia.
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A coroner in Georgia says three people have been killed at a community theater and police are searching for the suspect, a University of Georgia professor.
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Police are looking for a University of Georgia professor who is a suspect in a shooting off campus.
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Every time you print out a page on a laser printer you’re using toner made from petroleum-based products. Now there’s a greener choice that shows promise: a...
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Not to exaggerate issues – this approach, old as a world itself, is surely handy while analysing any event of a complex interaction of natural and man-made causes...
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Converting your house into a “skateable habitat” is one strangely cool move. A client from Athens approached Archivirus Architecture and Design with the desire to...
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Greece’s Merchant Marine Ministry says pirates have seized a Greek-owned cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Somalia.
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A bomb blast in central Athens damaged a government real estate agency Thursday, police said. No injuries were reported.
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A bomb blast in central Athens damaged a government real estate agency Thursday, police said. No injuries were reported.
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Greece’s government promised Monday to reorganize parts of its police force following major riots in December and a spate of attacks by far-left militant groups.
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The Greek weightlifting federation has suspended two athletes who tested positive for a banned stimulant during national games this year.
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A person with knowledge of the results says Greek race walker Athanasia Tsoumeleka and Croatian 800-meter runner Vanja Perisic are among the six Olympic athletes caught...
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A Greek militant group threatened in a statement published Thursday to continue its bombing campaign, saying recent attacks against Citibank were in response to the...
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A far-left Greek militant group claimed responsibility for recent attacks against Citibank offices in Athens, saying they were carried out because of the international...
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A Greek far-left militant group claimed responsibility Wednesday for a powerful fertilizer bomb planted at Citibank’s offices in Athens, and for this week’s...
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A Greek court convicted a prison guard of misdemeanor negligence charges Thursday in failing to stop the helicopter escape of two convicts, but the guard won’t...
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A Greek court has convicted a prison guard after two inmates staged a daring helicopter escape from prison for a second time.
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A 24-hour strike by Greek civil servants disrupted services across the country Wednesday, forcing public hospitals to accept only emergency cases and airlines to cancel...
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Two convicted robbers escaped from a high-security Greek prison by scaling a rope ladder to a hovering helicopter, authorities said Sunday.
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A new and possibly more dangerous generation of Greek extremists is escalating attacks against police and symbols of capitalism, years after authorities believed they...
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Greek police on Wednesday destroyed a powerful car bomb left outside the offices of Citibank in a northern Athens suburb.
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Scholars are reconsidering what ancient Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes knew of the concept of infinity, and archaeologists may have found a fossil brain...
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The cargo of a ship bound for Iran was seized near Athens because it violated an international embargo, a Greek government official said Friday, and a Greek newspaper...
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Greek authorities say a previously unknown group has claimed responsibility for a gunfire and grenade attack on an Athens police station.
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A Greek police officer shot and seriously wounded a private security guard outside the U.S. Embassy in central Athens Wednesday, authorities said.
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Riot police fired tear gas at farmers from the southern island of Crete Monday to prevent them from driving their tractors from the Greek port of Piraeus to the capital...
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Greek state-run gas company DEPA says the flow of Russian gas to Greece has resumed after a 16-day break caused by the dispute between Russia and Ukraine.
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Greek farmers have closed an airport on the island of Crete and blocked highways on the mainland with demonstrations demanding higher agricultural subsidies and...
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Kidnappers released an elderly and ill Greek shipping magnate early Tuesday, eight days after snatching him at gunpoint from a seaside suburb of Athens, police said.
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Ioannis Papageorgiou, president of Fage USA, poses with a case of yogurt on the company’s production line in Johnstown, N.Y., Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008. Fage, the largest dairy company in Greece, is betting that its old-world product will continue to...
