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Woman Killed By Train in Thessaloniki

A woman whose identity was unknown was killed and dismembered after she was run over by a passing passenger train near Thessaloniki Train Station early in the morning of Aug. 8, authorities said. The tragic accident happened at 12:50 after...

Greek Jobless Rate Big News

Just a few minutes after the announcement of the Hellenic Statistical Authority concerning the new record jobless rate of 27.6 percent in Greece for May, the Financial Times published an article entitled Unemployment in Greece Continues to Gallop detailing...

Greek Jobless Rate Hits 27.6%

With Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras touting a "success story" for his government, and as he was about to meet U.S. President Barack Obama in the White House on Aug. 8, the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) reported unemployment has...

Public Breastfeeding Protest in Santorini

“Breastfeeding is health”. With this slogan young mothers with the support of the PanHellenic Network of Voluntary Groups of Support of Breastfeeding and Motherhood and the IBFAN Greece, held a public breastfeeding in Santorini on August 6. The young mothers...

20-year-old Shot Himself In Mytilene

The local community of Mytilene, capital of the island of Lesbos in the North Aegean, is shocked after the news of the suicide of a 20-year-old man, according to lesvosnews.gr. The young man was found dead inside the cemetery yard...

Unemployment in Cyprus Rose to 31.7 % in July

The number of the recorded unemployed in Cyprus rose in July and reached 48,112 people (31.7 percent) compared to 47,594 in June 2013, according to data released by the Statistical Service of Cyprus on August 5. The young unemployed under...

Evacuation of Three Squats in Patras

On August 5, at 7.30 in the morning, a police operation evacuated three squats in Patras; the Maragopoulio squat, the Parartima squat and the squat at a building of the Technical University. During the operation, the police arrested five people...

Minister of Culture Booed at Herodion

The Minister of Culture, Panos Panagiotopoulos, provoked the audience’s strong disapproval during his welcoming speech at the opening event of the 23rd World Congress of Philosophy on the topic, Philosophy as research and lifestyle. When Panagiotopoulos said, "Greeks can live...

Unpaid Dodoni Dairy Farmers Protest

Hundreds of breeders from Epirus, a Region northwestern of Greece, gathered July 26 outside the Dodoni dairy factory, demanding to be paid for the milk they had delivered and for which they said they had bot been compensated. Reports said...

A Walk in Greece's Favelas

Social phenomena we first met in the Brazilian favelas and in the shanty towns of the central states of the USA have come to Greece. In the Greece of destitution and misery, the first favelas are born from families who...

Jobs for 50,000 Unemployed Through OAED

A new program concerning unemployed people that come from families whose members are all unemployed will be implemented in August through the Manpower Employment Organization (OAED). The program concerns 50,000 unemployed people, who will work for five months. The program...

Greek Doctors, Hospital Workers Will Strike

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' hope to keep down social unrest is going unheeded as workers at public hospitals, health centers, welfare structures and the ambulance service will strike for 24 hours on July 24, leaving only a skeleton...

ESIEA: 24-Hour Strike July 19

The Journalists' Union of the Athens Daily Newspapers (ESIEA) announced the decision of the Press unions to declare a 24-hour strike in the private mass media tomorrow, Friday July 19 against the operation for the closure of ERT. In the...

Charges Neighbors Stole 1M Euros From Old Woman

Officials on the southeastern Aegean island of Kalymnos are investigating what could the embezzlement of as much as 1 million euros ($1.3 million) from the estate of a 90-year-old woman days after she died. The case, reported in the local...

One in Five Greek Households Below Poverty Line

One in five households (20 percent) in Greece, Spain, Bulgaria and Croatia lives below the poverty line, which means that with social welfare included, it cannot manage to have disposable income equal or more than 60 percent of the...