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A small bomb exploded near a European Parliament member's apartment in central Athens Friday, in the latest of a string of terrorist attacks in Greece.

Greece celebrated on Wednesday its 69th anniversary of entering World War II with an impressive military parade and a series of student parades.

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Greek-Bulgarian bilateral investments and exports have recorded a considerable decline in the first six months of the year, Bulgarian news agency BTA quoted Greek media as reporting on October 29 2009.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will travel next week to the United Kingdom and Greece to spotlight the issue of climate change, just weeks before countries will gather in Copenhagen to try to reach agreement on a wide-ranging pact to cut greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to the effects of global warming.

ATHENS, Greece -- The Ministry of Citizens Protection announced on Monday a 600,000-euro reward for information leading to the arrest of three anarchists suspected of a series of bank robberies in 2006.

The former Yugoslav state of Macedonia cannot start talks to join the European Union until a dispute over its name is solved, a Greek minister told Reuters on Wednesday.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will head to Britain and Greece next week to discuss issues like climate change, anti-piracy, migration and development and others, a UN spokesperson said here Tuesday.

NICHOLAS PAPHITIS ATHENS, Greece a ' Three adults and five children drowned in the eastern Aegean Sea on Tuesday when a small boat carrying 17 illegal immigrants from Afghanistan hit rocks near the shore and sank, Greek authorities said.

The country is prepared to work with commitment to implement reforms, not in a bid to please Brussels, but to please its citizens.

One man died and another was missing on Sunday, after storms washed away roads and flooded homes and farms across Greece, officials said.

A 35-year-old man believed to have fatally stabbed a 27-year-old Nigerian woman in a basement apartment in the central district of Kypseli earlier this week was in custody yesterday.

Vasko Naumovski, Macedonia's deputyA prime minister for European integration, hopes to solve his country's name dispute with Greece "without winners or losers". He spoke to EurActiv in an exclusive interview.

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BRUSSELS, Belgium -- European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said on Monday that last week's positive progress report on Macedonia and the recommendation to start EU accession talks serve as recognition of reforms in the country and encouragement to resolve the name dispute with Greece.

However you spell it, Grease/Greece is the word this weekend and next as students in the Greece Athena Show Choir present the musical Grease to help raise funds for their trip to Athens, Greece, next spring and to help a Greece student recently diagnosed with leukemia.

The European Investment Bank will pump at least 1.7 billion euros of loans into the Greek economy in 2009 to finance energy and transport projects, among others, it said yesterday.

An earth tremor registering 3.4 on the Righter scale was felt in Thessaloniki, Greece's second biggest urban centre, Greek media have reported on October 19 2009.

Serbian foreign minister Vuk Jeremic. The signing of the October 17 2009 agreement between Macedonia and Kosovo to establish diplomatic relations will exacerbate tensions between Skopje and Belgrade, Serbian ministers said.

Greece 's newly elected socialist government won a vote of confidence in its program Sunday, following a three-day debate marking the beginning of its four-year term.

The newly appointed Ambassador of Armenia Gagik Ghalachyan presented his credentials to President of the Republic of Greece Karolos Papoulias.

Macedonia and Kosovo have settled a long-running border dispute, the two governments said on Saturday, paving the way for them to establish full diplomatic ties.

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Wines of N. Greece A wine-tasting event will take place in Thessaloniki s main Aristotelous Square on Saturday, hosted by the Wine Producers Association of the Northern Greece Vineyard .

BRUSSELS European Commissioner for enlargement Olli Rehn on Wednesday strongly urged the government in Skopje to settle the name dispute with Greece, after announcing that he was ready to recommend that the bloc begin accession negotiations with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia .

Brussels Olli Rehn The move marks the country's first major step towards integration in the bloc since it was granted the status of an EU candidate state in 2005.

A dispute has broken out over the remains of Mother Teresa after Albania demanded that the nun's bones should be returned to her ethnic homeland from India, where she spent most of her adult life and is buried.

New Delhi News.Net Tuesday 13th October, 2009 Mother Teresa was a Kolkatan, part of the city's heritage and one could not give history away - be it intellectuals, Christian organisations or the common person, Kolkatans reacted as one to Albania's proposal that the remains of the Nobel laureate be returned to her country of origin.

The Newly Appointed Ambassador of Greece to the United States, Vassilis Kaskarelis, Makes First Visit to AHI WASHINGTON, DC - On October 7, 2009 the newly appointed Ambassador of Greece to the United States, Vassilis Kaskarelis, visited the American Hellenic Institute s Hellenic House.

's new Prime Minister George Papandreou has pledged a "green development" plan for a southern region ravaged by fires two years ago.

ATHENS, Greece - Dock workers in the Greek port of Piraeus voted Sunday to continue their strike for another 48 hours, in an attempt to pressure the newly elected socialist government to cancel an agreement with China's Cosco Pacific to operate two container terminals.

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ATHENS, Greece - Greece's central bank governor said Friday the country's budget deficit this year may exceed 12 percent of economic output-or four times the EU ceiling.

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The Cabinet of newly-elected prime minister George Papandreou's PASOK government was sworn in on Wednesday morning by Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece, in the presence of President of the Republic Karolos Papoulias and premier Papandreou, and immediately headed to the Maximos Mansion for the first Cabinet meeting, after which the ...

Greece's Socialist leader George Papandreou,countersigns the appointment to his post after he was sworn in as a Prime Minister, at the presidential mansion, in Athens, on Tuesday, Oct.

Prime Minister and New Democracy leader Costas Karamanlis speaks in central Athens, Greece on 04 October 2009, following his party's crushing defeat in the same-day election, where he announced that he will step down from the party's helm.

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President Barack Obama's national security adviser is trying to dial back fears that militants are gaining ground in Afghanistan.

Greeks are voting in a snap election on Sunday with the opposition socialists vowing to force Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis out of power and drag the economy away from recession.

Athens, Greece - A far-left group called Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire has claimed responsibility for two recent bombings in Athens.

Italian anarchist Alfredo has got himself arrest - again. Anarchist bank robber caught ekathimerini October 2, 2009 A well-known Italian anarchist and a Greek man have been arrested in Trikala, central Greece, on suspicion of carrying out an armed robbery at a local bank.

A small bomb exploded on Friday at a campaign rally attended by Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis and tens of thousands of his supporters, but caused no injuries, police said.

Skopje Skopje downtown Skopje police are on high alert ahead of a protest against the publication of the controversial Macedonian encyclopaedia, which may spark a counter-demonstration. The non-parliamentary ethnic Albanian movements organising the protest say they will proceed with their plan to parade through the centre of the capital on Thursday ...

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