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Greek youth unemployment over 60 percent in February
Greek youth unemployment rose above 60 percent for the first time in February, reflecting the pain caused by the country's crippling recession after years of austerity under its international bailout. More than one in four Greeks and one in two youths are out of a job, statistics showed this week. (...)

09 - 05 - 2013
Greece passes tax increases to appease foreign lenders
The Greek parliament has approved a series of unpopular tax hikes to increase government income, one of the main conditions to qualify for continued aid from its foreign lenders. In a sitting that ran into the early hours of Saturday, a comfortable majority of lawmakers voted for the legislation, (...)

12 - 01 - 2013
Greek public sector workers strike over reforms
Greek public sector workers walked off the job on Wednesday in protest at new austerity measures and planned layoffs, disrupting local transport, grounding flights and shutting schools and tax offices. The 24-hour strike is the latest in a series of protests since September against a package of (...)

19 - 12 - 2012
Greek prime minister meets austerity inspectors
Greece's prime minister is meeting international austerity inspectors to outline new harsh cost-cutting reforms, without which the country would likely lose the rescue loans that are keeping it afloat. Antonis Samaras, whose conservative-led coalition came to power just over a month ago, is under (...)

27 - 07 - 2012
Greek leaders push back decision on austerity cuts
Greek coalition leaders agreed to meet next week to hammer out almost 12 billion euros worth of austerity cuts demanded by the near-bankrupt country's lenders after a deal proved elusive at an initial round of talks on Wednesday. Greek officials have spent the past week scrambling to identify 11.7 (...)

18 - 07 - 2012
"Little Athens" على mbc max الأحد
تعرض قناة mbc max الأحد المقبل فيلم Little Athens فى العاشرة مساء، وهو من بطولة جون باتريك إميدورى وأريكا ليرهسين وجورج جارسيا . تدور قصة الفيلم حول يوم فى حياة أربعة من الشباب فى أوائل العشرينيات من العمر فى طريقهم إلى حفل منزلى صاخب. جيمى، رجل توصيل الطلبات للمنازل، الغارق فى ديون القمار، (...)

25 - 05 - 2012
Greece lurches towards new vote
ATHENS - Greek politicians abandoned their quest to form a government on Saturday, leaving the president with one final opportunity to avert new elections that could drive the debt-choked country out of the European single currency. Greece's political landscape is in disarray after voters (...)

12 - 05 - 2012
Election brings no hope to Athens soup kitchens
ATHENS - In front of a rundown building in central Athens, four men and a young woman pull a huge pot and bottle of gas from the trunk of a car and set them up on the pavement. Oblivious to their crumbling surroundings, they fill the pot with water and bring it to a simmer by the side of a busy (...)

27 - 04 - 2012
Armed man takes hostages in Greek factory, three injured
ATHENS (dpa) – An armed man injured three people and took two others hostage, barricading himself in a Greek factory in the northern city of Komotini, state broadcaster NET reported Thursday, quoting police sources. Special police units had surrounded the factory, which produces plastic (...)

01 - 03 - 2012
الليلة.."Little Athens" على mbc max
تعرض قناة mbc max فى العاشرة مساء اليوم، السبت، فيلم "Little Athens" بطولة جون باتريك اميدورى وإريكا ليرهسين وجورج جارسيا. تدور قصة الفيلم حول يوم فى حياة أربعة شباب فى أوائل العشرينيات من العمر فى طريقهم إلى حفل منزلى صاخب هم جيمى، مندوب توصيل الطلبات للمنازل، الغارق فى ديون القمار، والذى تحول (...)

04 - 02 - 2012
Greek government urges unity, protesters defiant
Angry protesters blockaded Greek ministries on Tuesday despite appeals from the finance minister for the public to rally around the tough measures the Athens government needs to achieve fiscal targets and avert default on its colossal debt. World financial markets have been reeling since Athens (...)

04 - 10 - 2011
Commuters struggle in Greek transport strike
Another 24-hour public transport strike has left commuters in the Greek capital struggling to make their way to work as unions lash out against austerity measures the government hopes will get it access to crucial bailout loans. Wednesday's strike left Athens without buses, metros, taxis and (...)

28 - 09 - 2011
Police clear protesters' encampment in Athens
Eight people living in tents have been arrested for "degrading and polluting" the square. Among them are two Frenchmen, a German and a Romanian, police say. Athens city crews have removed the tents, stands and banners that have filled the square since May 25, when the encampment of people (...)

30 - 07 - 2011
Greek anti-austerity protesters clash with police
Groups of youths on the edge of a major anti-austerity protest in central Athens threw rocks and firebombs at police outside Parliament, where the struggling government sought support for new cutbacks required to save the country from default. At a rally of more than 20,000 in the Syntagma (...)

15 - 06 - 2011
State TV: Greek Socialists in power-sharing talks
Greece's beleaguered Socialist government has launched power-sharing talks with the main opposition conservatives, state television reported Wednesday, as anti-austerity riots ripped through central Athens. State-run NET television said Prime Minister George Papandreou was in talks with (...)

15 - 06 - 2011
Leftist group blockades Greek finance ministry
A leftist group on Friday blockaded the Greek Finance Ministry, the scene of negotiations on the nation's latest financial rescue, hanging a huge banner covering five storeys of the building in central Athens. "Organise and fight for an overthrow -- General Strike," read a banner draped by (...)

03 - 06 - 2011
Kenyan Koech sets new world record in 2000m steeplechase
Koech finished in 5 minutes, 13.77 seconds, slicing 3.27 seconds off the time he set at the same meet last year. The 29-year-old Koech has been a consistently good runner in the steeplechase over the past decade, clinching the bronze medal at the 2004 Athens (...)

13 - 02 - 2011
Festival Films: Greece''s ''Gold Dust''
First-time Greek director Margarita Manda describes her movie “Gold Dust” as one born out of a need to talk about her home city, Athens, that has, over the past few decades, changed immensely. Although a pertinent issue for Manda, the movie, with its loose storyline, overly sensual scenes and (...)

08 - 12 - 2010
Greek unions to strike 5 May against austerity
Greek civil servants and private sector workers will strike for 24 hours on 5 May to protest against austerity measures, private sector union GSEE said on Tuesday. "We decided to strike for one day on 5 May together with the public sector union ADEDY to fight government policies which hurt workers (...)

27 - 04 - 2010
Greek unions in new strike call against austerity
Athens--Greece's main private and public sector labor unions called a 3-hour work stoppage for Friday, stepping up opposition to new austerity measures designed to stem a debt crisis that has shaken the euro zone. About 70 communist trade unionists occupied the finance ministry on Thursday, (...)

04 - 03 - 2010
Napoli loan out Argentine winger
Napoli winger Jesus Datolo has joined Olympiakos on loan until the end of the season, the Greek champions said. "Olympiakos announce that a deal has been agreed with Napoli to bring Jesus Datolo to Athens for six months with an option to buy at the end of the season,” an Olympiakos statement (...)

18 - 01 - 2010
Villareal win away from home to reach quarters
Villareal edged Panathinaikos 2-1 in Athens to beat the Greek champions 3-2 on aggregate and reach the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals. The Yellow Submarines went into the tie as underdogs following their 1-1 draw with Panathinaikos at El Madrigal. However, goals from Ariel Ibagaza (49) (...)

11 - 03 - 2009
Adriano strike enough for Inter win
Inter beat Anorthosis Famagusta 1-0 in the UEFA Champions League at the Giuseppe Meazza on Wednesday. An Adriano header in the 44th minute was the only difference between the two sides as Inter maintain Champions League B with seven points. Jose Mourinho's side could have taken the lead in (...)

22 - 10 - 2008
Bremen's Wiese ruled out of Panathinaikos game
Werder Bremen will have to do without keeper Tim Wiese when they meet Panathinaikos in the Champions League on Wednesday. The 26-year-old has picked up an injury in Bremen's final training session before heading to Athens. "It would appear to be a muscle sinew tear. There is no point in (...)

21 - 10 - 2008
Beijing 2008- Phelps breaks own record in first heat
US Swimming sensation Michael Phelps has set a new Olympic record in the 400m Individual Medley on Saturday. The 23-year-old clocked four minutes 07.82 seconds to break his own record in the first heat and reach the finals on Sunday. "I wasn't expecting heats to be that fast. But getting that (...)

09 - 08 - 2008
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