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GREECE News, Apr 28, 2012

Greece Suicides: Increasing Suicide Numbers Cause Alarm
Huffington Post
By Erik Kirschbaum ATHENS, April 28 (Reuters) - On Monday, a 38-year-old geology lecturer hanged himself from a lamp post in Athens and on the same day a 35-year-old priest jumped to his death off his balcony in northernGreece.
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Greece, amid debt crisis, is limping toward London Olympics
Los Angeles Times
A sports official says Greece will have 'a smaller but respectable showing' in London. Police officers look over the Olympic Stadium from the entrance to the swimming venue in London. (Adrian Dennis, AFP/Getty Images / April 27, 2012) By Anthee ...
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Greek Socialists vow focus on reforms, no tax hikes
Reuters
Venizelos, Greece's finance minister until he took the helm of the Socialist PASOK party last month, has been trailing conservative rival Antonis Samaras in opinion polls as voters punish his party for backing unpopular austerity measures.
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Greece ex-minister promises no new taxes in June
AFP
Greece heads for general elections after an interim coalition government including Pasok and the conservative New Democracy party completed its task of pushing through tough austerity measures in return for massive aid from the European Union and the ...
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AFP
Greece events, April 28
Greece Post
By Giselle Bautista 9 am, United Methodist Women's Used Clothing Sale:Greece United Methodist Church, 1924 Maiden Lane, Rochester. Used clothing sale hosted by United Methodist Women for the benefit of UMW mission projects. Fill a bag for $5.
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Greece gives emergency cash to avert energy meltdown
Reuters
Main utility PPC to get 250 mln euro cash injection * Cash will allow PPC replenish working capital, pay suppliers * Temporary solution until June 30 By Harry Papachristou ATHENS, April 27 (Reuters) - Cash-strapped Greece will provide 250 million euros ...
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Economically Depressed Greece Plagued by Rash of Suicides
Gawker
Suicide is up in Greece — much of it very public, and very brutal. On Monday, a 38-year-old geology lecturer hanged himself from a lamp post in Athens and on the same day a 35-year-old priest jumped to his death off his balcony in northern Greece.
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Families leaving Greece in droves to stay afloat financially
Financial Post
Now they are hoping for a brief taste of their former family life when stepson Thanos Kehagias, who has remained in Greece to finish his university studies, comes for a visit. “I've met people here from all over the world, who say I've not been back ...
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Financial Post
Immigrant Sweeps In Greece Spark Protests
NPR
by Joanna Kakissis The Greek government is cracking down on undocumented migrants ahead of next weekend's elections. This week, it said it would forcibly evict those migrants living in overcrowded apartment blocks, calling them "dangerous to public ...
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Greece. Safe Bulkers, Inc. sets date for Q1 2012 results, dividend ...
BYM News (press release)
Safe Bulkers, Inc. (the Company) (NYSE: SB), an international provider of marine drybulk transportation services, announced today that it will release its results for the quarter ended March 31, 2012 after the market closes in New York on Tuesday, ...
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Venizelos Promises Greeks More Gradual Adjustment, No New Taxes
Bloomberg
Evangelos Venizelos, Greece's former finance minister, said the socialist Pasok party he now leads aims to make Greece an equal partner in the European Union and end the country's reliance on international financial aid by the end of 2015.
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Greek socialist party leader promises no new taxes
Boston.com
ATHENS, Greece—The socialist party leader predicts a coalition will ruleGreece after the May 6 election, and says if his PASOK party is involved there will be no new taxes, or across-the-board wage and pension cuts. Speaking Saturday in front of a ...
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Simitis Says Greece Didn't Cause Eurozone Crisis, Blames New Democracy
Greek Reporter
By Andy Dabilis on April 28, 2012 in Economy, News, Politics ATHENS – Former Prime Minister Costas Simitis, during whose reign Greece entered the Eurozone more than a decade ago, has denied that the country was responsible for its economic crisis ...
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Greek Reporter
Greece cuts benefits to the dead and lying
CTV.ca
Greece is getting tough with dead people, particularly when it turns out they're alive. An official at the Labour Ministry told Reuters that it has cut off benefits, including pension payments, to some 200000 who lied, or were dead.
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Hard times: Greece on the breadline
Irish Times
Yanni left Greece in the 1950s when he was 13. “The government here could not look after all the people after the war and the civil war, and so I went to Australia and to England and to Canada. The Commonwealth countries, you know,” he says.
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Irish Times
Greece-Cyprus-Israel undersea cable is announced
Kathimerini
PPC Quantum Energy SA, a subsidiary of electricity giant Public Power Corporation, this week formally announced the launch of the construction of a 2000-megawatt undersea electricity cable to link up the electricity grids of Israel, Cyprus and Greece.
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Working-class children do worse at school in Britain than in Estonia, Hungary ...
Telegraph.co.uk
In Britain a quarter of poor pupils succeed “against the odds” at school – below the international average and behind countries such as Poland, Greece, Mexico, Slovenia and Chile. Photo: ALAMY By Graham Paton, Education editor Figures show that the ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
New York Times: Greece preoccupied with crisis to devote to Macedonia issue
EMportal
NATO enlargement is not on the agenda of the forthcoming summit in Chicago, while Greece is preoccupied with its economic crisis in order Macedonia's request of obtaining a membership invitation at the May summit to be fulfilled, The New York Times ...
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Greece has gotten it right on rubbish collection
Cyprus Mail
By Lauren O'Hara Published on April 28, 2012 WHEN IT comes to collecting rubbish Greece has got it right. No bins outside your house just a big silver container 400 metres away, up two flights of steps, three corners, and a steep path.
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To match Feature GREECE-ELECTION/SUICIDE
Reuters AlertNet
... less stable people and estimates that about five percent of his patients have developed problems due to the crisis. Picture taken April 25, 2012. To match Feature GREECE-ELECTION/SUICIDE REUTERS/Erik Kirschbaum (GREECE - Tags: POLITICS HEALTH BUSINESS)
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Spain Is Still Awaiting the Payoff From Austerity
CNBC.com
That approach, though, has failed in Greece, Ireland and Portugal. And now it is being severely tested in Spain, where the more the government promises to cut its budget deficit, the more foreigners are unloading their Spanish bond holdings.
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PROCUREMENT: Cheap 120mm Ammo
Strategy Page
April 28, 2012: Greece is buying 9500 120mm tank shells (4500 for practice) from Holland. This is German made, Cold War surplus, munitions to be used by Greece's Leopard 2 tanks. Greece bought 170 of these tanks new and another 183 as Cold War surplus ...
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Greece approves bridge capital for banks
Business Recorder (blog)
Greece's outgoing cabinet on Friday approved a bridge financing system to give 18 billion euros ($24 billion) to leading banks that took heavy losses in a debt swap, the semi-state Athens News Agency said. The temporary support toGreece's top four ...
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Romney Focuses on Economy Vying With Obama for Youth Vote
Bloomberg
The US economy is headed toward a “Greece-like setting” with limited job opportunities for young people, presumed Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney told college students in Ohio as he and President Barack Obama compete for support from young...
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Bloomberg
Romney Focuses on Economy Vying With Obama
BusinessWeek
By Mark Niquette on April 28, 2012 The US economy is headed toward a “Greece-like setting” with limited job opportunities for young people, presumed Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney told college students in Ohio as he and President Barack ...
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When it's time to meet readers, I'm all ears
Chicago Tribune
Talking with some 200 readers at the sold-out event last week at the Tribune Tower to discuss my recent reporting trip to Greeceand Turkey, I waited eagerly for the big question. The big hot ears question. The question about my big ears singed by ...
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Chicago Tribune
Legal services cooperating with Greece on Tsohatzopoulos case
Cyprus Mail
THE LEGAL services yesterday announced that they had offered information to the Greek authorities in connection with the arrest of former Greek minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos on money laundering charges. Reports suggested there is a connection to a ...
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Yuvraaj and Kapil to perform in Greece
Times of India
After acting in Internationally acclaimed film 'Dunno Y Na Jane Kyun' actors Yuvraaj Parashar and Kapil Sharma are slowly but surely becoming popular International stars. They will be performing live in front of 5000 audience at a film festival in ...
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Simitis Says Greece Didn't Cause Eurozone Crisis, Blames New ...
By Andy Dabilis
In a commentary published in the British newspaper The Guardian, the former PASOK Socialist leader said that Greece exposed the inherent flaws within the union. “Greece sparked the Eurozone crisis but was not its cause,” Simitis wrote in a ...
Greece.GreekReporter.com Latest...
Working-class children do worse at school in Britain than in Estonia ...
By The-News-Hound
Working-class children are more likely to be consigned to educational failure in Britain than in most other developed nations, according to international research. See original story in the Telegraph 0 Share and Enjoy:
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US Politics | AMERICAblog News: Steely Dan - Do It Again
By Chris in Paris
(Which is not unlike the Paris riots a few years back that hardly appeared in Paris, but TV news showed something radically different from reality.) They also recognize that the banks (many of them foreign) have screwed Greece so there is ...
US Politics | AMERICAblog News
Greece ex-minister promises no new taxes in June - Market News ...
By marketmaker
Greek socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos pledged on Saturday there will be no new taxes in June and that the country will shake off its emergency loan agreement by 2015."Our programme foresees the gradual and safe exit from the ...
Bullfax.com - Market News & Analysis
BBC News - Greece was not ready for euro admits ex Bundesbank ...
Greece should not have joined the euro, a former head of the Bundesbank who was closely involved in eurozone policymaking tells the BBC.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17853552
Greece must continue on road to reform, Lagarde ... - Athens News
Greece must continue on road to reform, Lagarde states. 18 Apr 2012. The need for Greece to continue on with much needed reforms, was once again stressed ...
www.athensnews.gr/portal/1/55004
More grief for Greece as recession seen deeper - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's economy will contract a deeper than expected 5 percent this year, the country's central bank chief said on ...
news.yahoo.com/more-grief-greece-recession-seen-deeper-11...
Dutch bank hands Greece debt setback - CBS News
(AP) AMSTERDAM - ABN Amro, the Dutch bank, has refused to restructure 1.3 billion euro ($1.7 billion) in debts it is owed by Greece's Hellenic Railway ...
www.cbsnews.com/.../dutch-bank-hands-greece-debt-setback/
Greece halts pensions to dead citizens | WORLD News
Greece has halted welfare or pension payments to 200000 people either because they are unentitled to the money - or because they are dead, according …
tvnz.co.nz/world.../greece-halts-pensions-dead-citizens-48524...
Hard times: Greece on the breadline - The Irish Times - Sat, Apr 28 ...
A week before the country holds a general election, charities are distributing meals to people who never imagined they would be in the same situation as the...
www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/.../1224315282182.html
Ex-Defence Minister Refused Bail In Greece - Sky News
Greece's former defence minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos, who is facing corruption charges, has been denied bail and ordered to remain in prison.
news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16210550
The Iberian Indicator: Spain Vs Greece News - Businessweek
On today's "Insight & Action" Adam Johnson reports on the relationship ofnews stories on Spain and Greece to stocks. He speaks on Bloomberg Television's ...
www.businessweek.com/.../the-iberian-indicator-spain-vs-gree...
Greece: Train Crashes Into Rail Car, 1 Injured - ABC News
Officials say that a passenger train has crashed into a rail car north of the Greek capital, lightly injuring the train driver. Police and state hospital officials said the ...
abcnews.go.com/.../greece-train-crashes-rail-car-injured-1620...
Turmoil of Greece apparent, even to tourists | NYU's Daily Student ...
After four years of economic recession and mounting budget deficits,Greece's economy is at the mercy of the loans of its European Union cohorts, who have ...
nyunews.com/opinion/2012/04/20/20putterman/
News - Growth for Greece: Commission points the way to unlock ...
Growth for Greece: Commission points the way to unlock growth and create jobs. News in RSS. After many months of crisis, the conditions now exist to start ...
ec.europa.eu/enterprise/newsroom/cf/itemdetail.cfm?item...
Bank of Greece sees 5 percent recession in 2012 - US News and ...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The Bank of Greece is forecasting a 5 percent contraction in the crisis-hit country's economy in 2012.
www.usnews.com/.../bank-of-greece-sees-5-percent-recession-...
Ireland Secure First Tournament Victory V's Greece - News - Irish Ice ...
In their second game in as many days, in nail biting and dramatic fashion, Team Ireland won their match versus Greece today at the GSM Ice Arena in Erzurum, ...
www.iiha.org/.../ireland-secure-first-tournament-victory-v-s-gr...
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