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Phishing Scam Threatens Piraeus Bank Customers in Greece
Region: GreeceA new phishing attack started today, targeting customers of the Greek Bank Piraeus Bank. The attack is using a fake email message, warning users that there is a security breach to their account and prompts them to click on a link in order to resolve it. The message is obviously machine translated to Greek from another language, because its full of Grammar mistakes, to the dgree that it is not understandable. All use... more
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Greek Thief Breaks Out of Prison Via Helicopter
Region: GreeceNotorious Greek robber and kidnapper Vassilis Paleokostas escaped by helicopter from a high security prison together with his Albanian sidekick Alket Rizai. Paleokostas and Rizai fled the “Korydallos”- Prison in Athens with the help of accomplices who hijacked a helicopter. It approached the jail’s roof and threw them a rope ladder. While the two wee climbing the laddr their co prisoners applauded and... more
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Scientific Proof for the Existence of God !
Region: GreeceAccording to a Greek magazine ( Mystery - Nr.39/2008), a Greek painter had in the spring of 2001 in Athens a vision and recorded it. The vision contained 132 capital letters of the Greek alphabet that created a quandrangular shape 11 to 12. A study revealed that the text is readable in 115 different ways in the ancient Greek language and parallel it encloses depictions and symbols. Besides, it can be simoultaneously de... more
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The Greek Riots: How Did It Come To This?
Region: GreeceOn the fifth day of civil unrest in Greece- the worst the country has seen in decades- one fifteen year old student, the same age incidentally as the young Alexandros Grigoropoulos who has become the symbol of the Greek riots, said; “last year, the mountains were burning; this year, the cities are burning.” Indeed, Greece is on fire once again, and it’s not only the buildings that are raging; the peo... more
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Witnessing the Greek Riots Through Foreign Eyes
Region: Greece
Athens: Last night I saw a nine-year-old boy wearing a black hood, with his mouth covered by a bandana, hurl glass bottles at the riot police in the heart of the anarchist stronghold, Exarchia. It was 2am, and no one seemed to wonder where the hell this little boy had come from. Watching his single silhouette against the backdrop of twenty-odd riot police, I found myself cursing the day my camera broke. If there was an... more
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Footballer commits suicide after missing out
Region: GreeceA GREEK football player committed suicide after being left out of the squad for a domestic cup game with Olympiakos Piraeus, police said on October 30th. Yiannis Koskiniatis, 25, jumped off a cliff after being omitted from third division Diagoras Rhodes's squad to face the national champions in a fourth-round match. Police said the midfielder had left a note at the top of the cliff that read: "Being left out of the... more
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Laser helps in cleaning the monuments
Region: Greece
Technology not only serves the present but also the past and the future. Laser beams are used for the removal of the black crust from monuments which is caused by pollution. Greek restorers are using an laser technology which seems innovative and its uncovering the colours and ornamentatuioin which has been hidden by the dust and pollutents for decades. more
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Stelios Faitakis on Art
Region: GreeceStelios Faitakis In a country where protest and anarchy are part and parcel of daily life, Greek artist Stelios Faitakis is raising questions in a nation where an emerging generation is desperately seeking social change. The need to break out of staunch traditionalism and archaic political practices is evident in the contemporary and underground art scenes making waves across Greece, and Faitakis has ridden every cr... more
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The Allure of Hydra
Region: Greece
The allure of Hydra is enhanced by the reality that the entire island is prohibited to any kind of motorised vehicle and only donkeys can serve as a means to transportation. Hydra was first exposed in the fifties and sixties by a group of artists (such as Leonard Cohen or Axel Jensen), attracted by its authentic and magical beauty; The conventional and magnificent architecture, the nonexistence of vehi... more
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Macedonia: Name Change to Enter NATO, EU?
Region: Greece
by Elia Varela Serra Ever since Macedonia became independent from Yugoslavia in 1991, its name has been the subject of a bitter dispute with its southern neighbor, Greece. Greece claims that the use of “Republic of Macedonia”, as Macedonia calls itself in its constitution, not only violates Greece's historic cultural claim to the name, but also implies a territorial claim to the northern Gree... more
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