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Updated: May 15, 2008 at 21:32 PM EST

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Strikes in Greece disrupt flights, state and bank services

IHT - May 15, 2008
The two largest unions in Greece staged strikes Thursday, disrupting transportation, banking services and the country's main telecoms company as they protested pension reforms and privatization.... »

Greeks march against privatisations (Melbourne Herald Sun)

9-year-old girl's twin is found inside her stomach (Associated Press)

Greece: is there a future for windpower? (Spero News)

Gang’s run comes to an end with 10 arrests (eKathimerini)

US says negotiations with Greece on visa-free travel set back

Thalassemia units lack staff (eKathimerini)

Government lauds OTE deal

Drill tightens ties of Greece, Turkey (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Greece, Argentina sign agreement

Exploratory talks with Greece intensifying in recent years' (Today's Zaman)

Greek Envoy Rebuffs FYROM Complaints (BalkanInsight.com)

Inflation in sights of party leaders (eKathimerini)

Turk Cypriots say Greeks' isolation efforts continue (Hürriyet)

Judge: Berlusconi to testify in CIA kidnap case (MSNBC)

Austrian family hacked to death (BBC)

Airlines investigated over baggage check-in failures (Times Online)

Berlusconi vows to save Alitalia (BBC)

Europe could get manned spaceship (BBC)

Iranian embassy employees shot in Baghdad (CNN)

China asks for equipment to aid quake effort (Guardian)

California lifts gay marriage ban (BBC)

Obama attacks Bush over Iran barb (BBC)

Investor launches Yahoo challenge (BBC)

Myanmar cyclone toll estimates soar (CNN)

Greece 42nd in competitiveness list

Greece gets three bids for Thessaloniki port (Reuters)

Deutsche Telekom, Greece close OTE stake sale deal (Reuters)

Fuel Truck Federation to hold assemblies

Northern Greece vintners look to woo tourists (eKathimerini)

Defiant dockers vow to continue overtime ban (eKathimerini)

European Championship History: Greece (Goal.com)

Jose Peseiro steps down as Panathinaikos coach (IHT)

Coaching shifts at big clubs (eKathimerini)

Panathinaikos sacks Gonzalez (eKathimerini)

Valverde Linked With Olympiacos (Goal.com)

Maroussi shock for Olympiakos (eKathimerini)

My Big Fat Greek Wedding Leads to Reunite in New Romantic Comedy (ReelzChannel.com)

Hellenic-Americans Join 2008 Armenian Genocide Memorial (Western Queens Gazette, NY)

Ted Sarantis, 67, a 'natural' Greek music writer, performer (Atlanta Journal Constitution)

Treasurer knocks Obama down in game of hoops (Chicago Sun-Times)

In art, a gateway to Greek soul (Chicago Tribune)

Kosta Koufos files papers to leave Ohio State (Canton Repository, OH)

Opinions/Articles/Editorials

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Decoding policy choices and motives in the Greece - FYROM name dispute (by Dr. George Voskopoulos, PhD) - 11 May

American faulty policy in the Greek-FYROM name dispute (by Dr. George Voskopoulos, PhD) - 7 May

In Bucharest, a Greek-FYROM dispute over stability (by Dr. George Voskopoulos, PhD) - 4 April

Decoding policy choices and motives in the Greece - FYROM name dispute

by Dr. George Voskopoulos, PhD

The Balkans have been an immature subordinate system ever since the demise of the Ottoman empire. The “Macedonian Issue”, the time-proof dispute in the Balkans, first emerged as a side-effect of the evolutionary stages of the “Eastern Question” and the liberation of the Ottoman conquests

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On this day...

May 16

1927: The Greek Parliament decided that former dictator, Theodoros Pangalos, should stand trial.
1948: The body of American journalist, George Polk, who had been missing for days, was found by fisherman, Lambros Antonaros, floating in the Thermaic Gulf.
1974: Work started on the Athens Metro.
Births: Katia Dandoulaki, actress (1948)