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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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Greece stories: 51 news summaries

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 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

Somali Pirates Capture Another Prize

Another ship released.

Nov 28, 08 12:39 PM CST
(AP) - Somali pirates hijacked a Liberian chemical tanker with 27 crew members today in the Gulf of Aden. A rescue helicopter arrived too late to prevent the hijacking but did pick up three security guards who had jumped into the sea. Greek authorities, meanwhile, said a Greek-owned cargo ship seized by... More »

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Somalia • India • piracy • Greece • Liberia • pirates

opinion

For a Lifelong Healthy Diet, Look to the Mediterranean

Diet is healthy and satisfying, doctors say

Oct 4, 08 5:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Mediterranean getaway may be too expensive these days, but a taste of the region is just what the doctor ordered. The most thorough study to date of the Mediterranean diet confirms long-held beliefs about its health benefits, writes Dr. Peter Libby in the New York Times. It’s “... More »

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cancer • food • heart disease • fast food • Parkinson's disease • Greece • Mediterranean diet • Alzheimer's Disease

 Fast Food Pounds 
 Mediterranean 

Mediterranean diet dumped for fast food and growing girths

Sep 24, 08 5:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - The much-vaunted Mediterranean diet is falling out of favor fast around the Mediterranean —and obesity rates are rocketing, the New York Times reports. Greek men are now the fattest people in Europe by far as the traditional diet high in vegetables and fish but low in meat is replaced... More »

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obesity • childhood obesity • diet • Greece • Mediterranean diet

Boorish Brits Overwhelm Resorts

In places like Greece, pasty, drunken tourists are wreaking havoc

Aug 24, 08 12:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Lured by all-you-can-drink vacations and very un-British weather, more Britons are heading south for their getaways—but many resorts are no longer thrilled to welcome them. In places like the Greek city of Malia, inebriated Englishmen are wreaking havoc, writes the New York Times. “It is only the British—... More »

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British • Greece • tourists • drunk • public drinking

 World's 10 Sexiest Hotels

From spaceage to Japanese traditional, these rooms ooze appeal

Aug 9, 08 6:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hotels can inspire us to do more than order room service and watch TV—or so Bill Tikos reports, in his London Times list of the planet’s 10 sexiest hotels:
  • Hotel Puerta America, Madrid: A private terrace with flowers and lemon trees creates a uniquely intimate ambience.
... More »

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Spain • Japan • Italy • Greece • luxury hotels • interior design • Hyatt Regency • sexy hotels

FOOD & WINE

 Greek Whites
 'Smack of Sunshine'

Unpretentious pleasures for aficianados who branch out

Aug 6, 08 1:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - In honor of the Olympics, Eric Asimov set out to rediscover Greece's white wines for the New York Times. He found whites just subtly different from the made-to-be-drunk young bottles of Italy and Spain, fermented from "unfamiliar, indigenous grapes grown nowhere else." The moschofilero varietal dominated the... More »

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New York Times • wine • Greece • critic • reviews • dining

(Newser) - A man on the Greek island of Santorini allegedly carried his girlfriend's head through the streets before police shot and apprehended him, the BBC reports. The 35-year-old is said to have decapitated his girlfriend, a teacher in her 20s, slashed an officer, and stolen a police jeep—which he crashed... More »

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Greece • beheading • decapitation • Santorini

Ancient Device Gives Up Its Secrets

Greek calculating machine tracked eclipses, Olympics

Jul 30, 08 5:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - The world's oldest calculating machine was used as a calendar that tracked eclipses and marked Olympic Games, the Telegraph reports. Scientists say the ancient Greek "Antikythera Mechanism," a 2,100-year-old bronze gadget discovered in 1900, marked the 4-year cycle of Games that climaxed with the Olympics—"which... More »

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Antikythera • Greece • scientists • archaeologist • calculating machine

Astronomers Trace Homer's Wandering Hero

Experts tie Odysseus' return to Ithaca with
real eclipse in 1178

Jun 24, 08 9:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Homer's Odyssey is 2,700 years old, and the events it describes happened centuries earlier. But two scientists claim in a new paper that they've traced one line in the epic poem—a possible reference to an eclipse—to a real astronomical event. Classicists might take issue, writes the New ... More »

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astronomy • Greece • poetry • eclipse • ancient Greece • Homer • solar eclipse

TRAVEL

 10 Spots to Vacation in Style 

From the Turkish Hamptons to uh, Montauk

Jun 1, 08 12:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - What's the modern traveler to do in a world of ever-shrinking borders and ever-fewer spots of true exoticism? Why, simply crib off GQ's list of the classiest spots slightly off the beaten path:
  1. Cesme, Turkey: the Hamptons of Anatolia
  2. Formentera, Spain: No foam parties allowed
  3. Stockholm, Sweden: Land of
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Turkey • California • Spain • France • England • Greece • Tripoli • vacation • Stockholm • holiday travel

 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

Lesbos Islanders Sue
Gays on Name

We're the only Lesbians, Greeks
insist in lawsuit

May 2, 08 7:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Residents of the Greek island of Lesbos have decided that lesbianism is the love that must change its name, the BBC reports. Islanders, fed up with the word being used to denote sexual orientation, are suing a Greek gay rights organization with "lesbian" in its name and say if... More »

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lesbians • homosexuality • lawsuit • Greece • civil lawsuits

 NATO Bars Former Soviet States in Blow to US

Ukraine, Georgia, Macedonia blocked

Apr 3, 08 4:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - In a blow to the US, a divided NATO has refused to permit membership bids by former Soviet states Georgia and the Ukraine. The decision is an indication that Europe is wary of antagonizing an increasingly belligerant Russia, Bloomberg reports. Germany and France led the opposition to membership. In another... More »

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Russia • NATO • US foreign policy • Vladimir Putin • Soviet Union • Georgia • Croatia • Albania • Greece • Cold War • Macedonia • Ukraine • Balkans • George W. Bush • Jaap de Hoop Scheffer • Former Yugoslavia

 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

Protesters Follow Olympic Torch to Acropolis

Demonstrations in Greece remain mostly peaceful

Mar 29, 08 8:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - Olympic torchbearers made their way to the Acropolis in Greece today with the help of heavy security that kept protesters at arm's length, the AP reports. Activists have set up camp by candlelight outside the stadium—site of the first modern Olympics in 1896— to protest China's human rights record... More »

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2008 Beijing Olympics • Greece • Tibet • Olympic torch • Acropolis • Tibetans • Olympic protests

 Olympic Flame Lit 
 Amid Brief Protest 

Torch lit in grand style at Olympia

Mar 24, 08 6:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Olympic flame was lit this morning in Greece, in a ceremony briefly interrupted by human rights protesters. As the Chinese Communist Party secretary—also the head of the Beijing Olympics—spoke, three demonstrators evaded massive security to run onto the field at the stadium in Ancient Olympia. One managed... More »

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2008 Beijing Olympics • protests • Greece • Olympic Games • Olympic torch • Tibetans

Deutsche Telekom to Buy Greek Stake

Deal for 20% of Greek phone co. conditional on management control

Mar 17, 08 1:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Deutsche Telekom plans to buy a 20% stake in Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE) of Greece, for $3.92 billion. The deal is conditional on the German carrier getting management control, and the company will open talks immediately with the Greek government, the only larger shareholder. The OTE stake will let... More »

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Eastern Europe • telecom industry • mergers and acquisitions • Greece • Deutsche Telekom • telecommunications • corporate governance • Hellenic Telecommunications Organization • OTE

Greek Cypriots Elect Prez Committed to Unifying Isle

Cyprus leaders already agree to hold talks

Feb 25, 08 4:00 AM CST
(Newser) - Greek Cypriots have elected a communist president committed to reunification with the Turkish northern section of the divided island. Dimitris Christofias, educated  in the old Soviet Union, won 54% of the vote in a race against his right-wing rival. The new leader has promised to hold negotiations with the president... More »

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Turkey • Greece • Cyprus • reunification • Greek Cypriots • Ioannis Kasoulides • election • Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus • Mehmet Ali Talat • Dimitris Christofias • green line • Nicosia

Cyprus Vote Raises Hopes for Unification

Incumbent ousted; 2 pro-compromise candidates go to run-off

Feb 18, 08 1:55 PM CST
(Newser) - After decades of division, Cyprus is a step closer to unification, AFP reports. Greek Cypriots ousted incumbent Tassos Papadopoulos in a three-way election yesterday, and the two remaining candidates will face off in another vote on Sunday. Both seem willing to reach out to Turkish Cypriots, mending bridges the hard-line... More »

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Turkey • Greece • Cyprus • Greek Cypriots • Turkish Cypriots • Tassos Papadopoulos • Ioannis Kasoulides • Dimitris Christofias

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