Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013 |
Latest:
- Greek jobless rate stubbornly high in September
- EU argues over joint rescue plan for eurozone banks
- Cyprus talks on the table, UN's Downer says
- Greek unemployment 'stabilizing' despite September rise
- Has Greece's economy finally turned a corner?
- Saviola the saviour as Olympiakos reach last 16
- Uruguay becomes first nation to legalise marijuana trade
- Olympiakos in the last 16 of the Champions League
Reuters: Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Greece's jobless rate remained stuck near record highs in September, but the first signs appeared that the pace of job losses was slowing, data showed on Wednesday.
Greece
Lawsuit: Heart missing after Marine's death in Greece, then wrong heart sent to US family (Providence Journal: Dec. 11)
Three million Greeks without health cover: NGO (AFP: Dec. 10)
Computer seizures reveal wealth of evidence against Golden Dawn (eKathimerini: Dec. 10)
Unhappy lives in the dark (Enet: Dec. 9)
3 killed in northern Greece shooting (Dec. 8)
Protecting Greece's Ottoman monuments (eKathimerini: Dec. 8)
Politics
Greece, lenders to lock horns over layoffs, home seizures: officials (Reuters: Dec. 10)
EU urges Greece to stick to reform path (AFP: Dec. 10)
Greece sees end of recession in 2014 with new budget (BBC: Dec. 8)
Troika creditors delay return to Greece to January (AFP: Dec. 8)
Greek lawmakers to approve tentative growth budget (AFP: Dec. 7)
Cyprus talks on the table, UN's Downer says (World Bulletin: Dec. 11)
Banking disunion (Reuters Blogs: Dec. 10)
Paying players can reduce match-fixing threat (Reuters: Dec. 9)
Italy's Matteo Renzi elected new leader of the left (BBC: Dec. 9)
Uruguay becomes first nation to legalise marijuana trade (BBC: Dec. 11)
WTO agrees global trade deal worth $1tn (BBC: Dec. 7)
Nelson Mandela Dies at 95 (Dec. 5)
Yemeni Defense Ministry Attacked (Dec. 5)
Business
Greek jobless rate stubbornly high in September (Reuters: Dec. 11)
Greek unemployment 'stabilizing' despite September rise (Economic Times: Dec. 11)
Seizing debts to the state by mouse click (Enet: Dec. 10)
Arab-Turkish investors to buy luxury Athens hotel for $550 mln (Reuters: Dec. 10)
Deflation in Greece rises to record in November (Investing.com: Dec. 9)
Sports
Saviola the saviour as Olympiakos reach last 16 (AFP: Dec. 11)
Olympiakos in the last 16 of the Champions League (eKathimerini: Dec. 11)
Tzorvas heroics stretch Olympiakos’s lead (eKathimerini: Dec. 9)
Wenger Interested In Greek Forward (Sportsvibe: Dec. 8)
Greece draws Colombia, Ivory Coast and Japan for the World Cup (eKathimerini: Dec. 6)
World Cup 2014 Team Profile - Greece (Express.co.uk: Dec. 6)
Top Stories - Picks
Seizing debts to the state by mouse click (Enet: Dec. 10)
Banking disunion (Reuters Blogs: Dec. 10)
Computer seizures reveal wealth of evidence against Golden Dawn (eKathimerini: Dec. 10)
Paying players can reduce match-fixing threat (Reuters: Dec. 9)
Greece, lenders to lock horns over layoffs, home seizures: officials (Reuters: Dec. 10)
Arab-Turkish investors to buy luxury Athens hotel for $550 mln (Reuters: Dec. 10)
EU urges Greece to stick to reform path (AFP: Dec. 10)
Greece's Dismal Demographics (New York Times: Dec. 9)
Three million Greeks without health cover: NGO (AFP: Dec. 10)
World Cup 2014 Team Profile - Greece (Express.co.uk: Dec. 6)
Greek strikes build as austerity talks stalled (The Missoulian: Dec. 4)
'Island of love' lures Israelis, Lebanese to tie knot (AFP: Dec. 6)
Ange Postecoglou says Socceroos can provide shocks at World Cup (Guardian: Dec. 6)
Greece draws Colombia, Ivory Coast and Japan for the World Cup (eKathimerini: Dec. 6)
Seizing debts to the state by mouse click (Enet: Dec. 10)
Protecting Greece's Ottoman monuments (eKathimerini: Dec. 8)
Thousands of children unvaccinated, aid organisation warns (Enet: Dec. 5)
Bishop vows to excommunicate lawmakers over gay partnership (Montreal Gazette: Nov. 29)
Poor marks in literacy for Greek teens (Enet: Dec. 3)
Turks in Greece denied right to speak Turkish (World Bulletin: Nov. 26) 
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4 comments Greece is the least generous country in the world, says report (Enet: Dec. 3) 2 comments
2 comments Greek police ban marches by Golden Dawn and anti-fascists (Reuters: Nov. 29) 2 comments
2 comments Greece draws Colombia, Ivory Coast and Japan for the World Cup (eKathimerini: Dec. 6)
Greek reporter acquitted over 'Lagarde List' banks leak (BBC: Nov. 27) 1 comment
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Poor marks in literacy for Greek teensJim Adams, Empty cans rattle the most. (Agatha4)
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Greece draws Colombia, Ivory Coast and Japan for the World CupDiscussion at the forum (Phantis)
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Poor marks in literacy for Greek teensDangerous, eh? (Giorgios)
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Poor marks in literacy for Greek teensSincere ignorance (Jim Adams)
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Poor marks in literacy for Greek teensJim Adams (Agatha4)
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Bishop vows to excommunicate lawmakers over gay partnershipI don't. (Pnyx)
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Bishop vows to excommunicate lawmakers over gay partnershipMy point in referencing (Pnyx)
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Bishop vows to excommunicate lawmakers over gay partnership@Agatha4: I don't. I don't (Pnyx)
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Poor marks in literacy for Greek teensAHAHAHAHA, Brainwashed (Giorgios)
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Poor marks in literacy for Greek teensWTF? (Jim Adams)
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On this Day
December 11
- 969: John I Tzimisces ascended to the Byzantine throne.
- 1971: It was announced that broadcast television would cover, as of 1972, the entire Greek periphery.
- 1990: The "Hour of the Prime Minister" was established in Parliament. Constantine Mitsotakis answered to Charilaos Florakis on the subject of German World War II reparations
- Births: Grigoris Bithikotsis, popular singer, songwriter (1922), Stamatis Spanoudakis, music composer (1948), Eleni Gerasimidou, actress (1949), Christina Onassis, daughter of Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis (1950)
- Deaths: Justinian II, Byzantine emperor (711), Michael VIII Palaeologus, Byzantine emperor (1282)
Editor Picks
Seizing debts to the state by mouse click (Enet: Dec. 10)
Greece's Dismal Demographics (New York Times: Dec. 9)
Protecting Greece's Ottoman monuments (eKathimerini: Dec. 8)
Dispute over Greece's EU presidency website heats up (Enet: Dec. 8)
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