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Culture
BFI Lists the 10 Best Greek Movies [see trailers]
Christina Newland submitted her listing of 10 great Greek films on the British Film Institute's (BFI) site. She points to the Greek movie industry's struggle after its golden age in the Fifties and Sixties despite wartime chaos and dictatorial...
Canada
Greece’s Ottawa Embassy Highlighted
The French channel TV5 broadcast a one-hour documentary about the work of 10 diplomatic missions in Canada on July 4, aiming at shedding light on the role that Embassy officials play at all levels, and included Greece's representation in...
Basketball
Fans Pour Out For Olympiakos' Hoop Champs
After beating Madrid, 100-88 in May 12 in London for its second consecutive Euroleague basketball title, the players of Olympiakos returned to a hero's welcome at Athens International Airport, with their red-clad fans cheering.
About 3,000 followers of the team...
Greece
The Slow Death Of Greece’s KKE Communists
If she weren’t so obtuse, you could say that Aleka “Irrelevant” Papariga, who has dragged Greece’s Communist party down so low you’d need a microscope to find it - appropriate when you're looking for amoeba anyway - saw the...
Crime
Lawmakers Get New Lagarde List CD
A CD containing the names of 2,065 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret accounts in the Geneva, Switzerland branch of HSBC that hasn't been checked for tax evasion suspects for 2 1/2 years was given to a parliamentary...
Crime
Greek Politics: The Worst Show on Earth
As political freak shows go, you just can't beat Greece, especially when the Three-Ring Circus known as the Parliament in session, if only to see workers paid thousands of euros a month walking around handing out glasses of water...
Cyprus
The 12 Events That Bent Greece In 2012
The world was supposed to end in 2012 – on Dec. 21 for you Mayan calendar believers and doomsday cultists – and for many Greeks it seemed like it did. Like the Flogging Molly song, it was the worst...