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NEWS ABOUT: Athens

Athens stories: 16 news summaries
TRAVEL

 Europe's Sleaziest 
 Tourist Destinations 

From Paris to Athens, avoid (or enjoy) these sex-and-drugs zones

Sep 5, 09 6:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ah, Europe, home of landmark cafés, glorious historic churches—and stinking, dangerous red-light districts rife with hookers, drug dealers, and pickpockets. Correspondents for the Times of London highlight the continent's most tawdry areas.
  • Reeperbahn, Hamburg: Germany's decorous port town turns as seedy as it gets here. Pimps fight
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travel • prostitution • pornography • Amsterdam • Paris • drug dealing • Prague • Athens • pimp • Hamburg

Bomb Hits Athens
Stock Exchange


Sep 2, 09 3:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - A car bomb blast outside the Athens stock exchange damaged the building and injured a female pedestrian, the BBC reports. A second bomb detonated outside a government building in Thessaloniki, causing minor damage and no injuries. The blasts are suspected of being the work of Greek extremist group Revolutionary Struggle.... More »

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terrorism • revolution • car bomb • Greece • stock exchange • Athens • bomb explosion • Revolutionary Struggle

 Raging Wildfires 
 Force Greeks to Flee 

Bracing for worsening conditions, officials struggle to tame blazes

Aug 22, 09 5:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Dozens of wildfires are raging across Greece today, forcing villagers to flee and threatening to scorch ancient landmarks, the BBC reports. Fanned by gale-force winds, the flames are also creeping up on the nation's capital, where one suburb has already received evacuation orders, the AP reports. "The coming night... More »

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winds • Greece • wildfires • Mediterranean Sea • Athens

MUSEUM REVIEW

 Parthenon Gets the 
 Museum It Deserves 


Jun 17, 09 1:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Parthenon has been called the one “absolutely right” building on the planet, and it now has a fitting memorial, Christopher Hitchens writes in Vanity Fair. Hitchens is among the first to visit the new Acropolis Museum in Athens, and it does not disappoint. Artifacts, expert reproductions, and... More »

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art museum • Christopher Hitchens • colonialism • Athens • Acropolis • ancient Greece • Parthenon • frieze

(AP) - Authorities were on a nationwide manhunt for a University of Georgia professor suspected in the shooting deaths of three people, including his ex-wife, at a community theater near campus today. Police were searching for 57-year-old George Zinkhan, who has been a marketing professor at the university in Athens since the... More »

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crime • Georgia • Athens • professor • shooting

 Cranky Travelers 
 Diss 'Overrated' 
 Hot Spots 

Paris smelly? Athenians surly?



Jan 4, 09 5:29 AM CST
(Newser) - Italy? Ugly. Grand Canyon? A pain. No travel hot spot is safe after cranky readers filled Los Angeles Times inboxes with their picks for "overrated travel destinations."
  • Bali: "Mosquitoes ate us up," wrote two travelers, and "there was poverty everywhere."
  • Austin: "
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travel • Austin • Seattle • Santa Fe • Athens • Bali

 Cops Egg On Greek 
 Rioters as Strike Fizzles 

Meanwhile, few attend economic protest

Dec 10, 08 8:43 AM CST
(Newser) - Athens police said yesterday that they were pursuing a de-escalation strategy, but the scene that unfolded outside Athens Polytechnic last night didn’t look like de-escalation. As black-clad rioters shouted slogans from behind the university’s fence, police on the other side threw rocks at them, yelling “Come on... More »

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police • Greece • Athens • riots • police brutality • anarchists

 Greek Teen's Funeral 
 Spurs More Riots 

Violence erupts after protest

Dec 9, 08 12:04 PM CST
(Newser) - More violence broke out today in Athens following the funeral of the 15-year-old boy shot by police on Saturday, the New York Times reports. Hundreds gathered for the hour-long funeral, which was ringed by riot police. After the otherwise peaceful ceremony, groups of youths began throwing gasoline bombs and... More »

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protests • Greece • Athens • riots

 Officials Vow 
 Crackdown 
 as Rioters 
 Trash Athens 

Third night of violence across Greece as nation braces for shot teen's funeral

Dec 9, 08 2:44 AM CST
(Newser) - Greek officials vowed to crack down on rioters battling police and tearing up Athens and other major cities in the worst street violence in three decades, the Guardian reports. The rioting was sparked Saturday after police shot to death a teenage boy, and intensified violence is expected today as the... More »

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police • Athens • riots • funeral • shooting • teenager • anarchists • Salonika

 30 Injured as 
 Greek Riots Rage On 

Police see no sign of protests' end

Dec 8, 08 3:08 AM CST
(Newser) - More than 30 people have been injured and streets ripped apart as thousands of protesters torched buildings, smashed windows and battled Greek police in a second day of pitched rioting in downtown Athens and other cities, the Guardian reports. "I've never seen anything like this," said a store... More »

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protests • Greece • unemployment • Athens • riots • police brutality • anarchists

 Youth Continue Violent 
 Riots in Greece 

Two police officers arrested, but unrest spreads

Dec 7, 08 2:55 PM CST
(Newser) - Hurling firebombs, thousands of demonstrators in Greece continued to clash with police during a second day of riots protesting the police killing of a teenager, the BBC reports. Protesters in Athens attacked banks and shops and lobbed rocks at police, who responded with tear gas. Six people were arrested during... More »

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police • Greece • youth • Athens • riots

 Athens Erupts 
 in Riots After 
 Cops Kill Teen 

Worst violence in years spreads to other cities

Dec 7, 08 5:59 AM CST
(Newser) - Riots erupted in Athens and several other Greek cities late last night after police shot dead a teenage boy, reports the BBC. Young rioters, many of them anarchists, battled police, firebombed buildings and cars, and smashed shop windows in Athens, Thessaloniki, Komotini, Ioannina, and Crete. It was the worst street... More »

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police • Greece • Athens • riots • anarchists

 Greek Claims 'Last' Van Gogh 

Work said to be 'liberated' from Nazis billed as third portrait of Dr. Gachet

May 19, 08 6:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - A painting under examination in Greece is being billed as the last work of Vincent van Gogh, the Guardian reports. Seized by the Nazis from French Jews, then "liberated" by Greek resistance fighters in 1944, the work appears to be a third portrait of van Gogh’s physician, Dr.... More »

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art • Greece • Nazi • World War II • Vincent Van Gogh • Athens • Fine art market • portrait

 Protesters Disrupt
 Olympic Torch Exchange 

Demonstrators try to block torch as it passes from Greeks to Chinese; 10 arrested

Mar 30, 08 3:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Protesters against China’s Tibet crackdown shook up today’s Olympic torch hand-off in Athens, the New York Times reports. Some 15 people dodged security to fly banners and shout “Free Tibet” as they tried to block Greek officials from passing the flame to Beijing authorities. Ten were nabbed... More »

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China • 2008 Beijing Olympics • Greece • Tibet • Athens • Falun Gong • Olympic torch • protesters

Snowstorm Wallops Greece

Villages stranded, schools closed, flights canceled

Feb 18, 08 9:02 AM CST
(Newser) - A freak snowstorm stranded as many as 200 Greek villages and halted hundreds of flights yesterday and today in Athens, reports Bloomberg. Power and water supply problems were reported across the country and civil defense authorities were on alert. Up to six inches of snow buried the Greek capital, a... More »

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weather • Greece • Athens • snow • snowstorm • Acropolis • Crete

Fires Are 'National Humiliation'

Officials say blazes are contained, but critics condemn 'national humiliation'

Aug 29, 07 5:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Firefighters in Greece said today they have tamed the wildfires that have ravaged the countryside, the BBC reports, but the political tempest over the handling of the crisis is just heating up. As protesters demonstrated in Athens against the government, crews said the fires that have claimed 63 lives are... More »

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firefighters • Greece • Socialist Party • wildfires • Costas Karamanlis • Peloponnese • Athens • Greece fires

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