Greek authorities are planning to introduce measures to penalise the wearing of hoods during protests after a series of vandalism incidents involving hooded youths, the government said."We envisage a number of measures (to discourage) the use of hoods," Justice Minister Nikos Dendias told reporters after briefing the inner cabinet, without giving further details."Greek citizens ...

Intruders net 112,000 euros in Larissa hospital raidPolice in Larissa, central Greece, yesterday were looking for the thieves of a bank ATM, hacked out of a wall inside the city

On the 25th of March 1821, the day of the Anunciation, Greeks declared independence from Ottoman rule. The declaration was proclaimed throughout Greece from Crete to Macedonia. After the Greek revolution in 1769-1771, Turkish reprisals had caused a wave of refugees arriving in Europe.

Inside the bunkered briefing room, colored pins mark Greek and Turkish air force bases on a large map of the Aegean Sea.

TANAGRA, Greece (AP) - Inside the bunkered briefing room, colored pins mark Greek and Turkish air force bases on a large map of the Aegean Sea.

Greece keeps close watch on Turkish exercise in AegeanGreek armed forces were on standby yesterday with the launch of a Turkish military exercise in the Aegean involving the participation of the USA, Britain, the Netherlands and Belgium. According tosources, Greek authorities fear that sections of the exercise constitute an attempt by Ankara to consolidate territorial claims in the Aegean.

I am in a hill-top kafenion bar in north-eastern Crete. The heat is dry, and the light on the stones is the colour of straw. Cicadas are clicking their backlegs together like knitting needles. Geckos are scrambling up the dusty stone wall to where a looped-up hose-pipe is dribbling water.This bar is a little oasis – a tiny veranda where a handful of green metal

In the morning of Friday 13/3 riots broke out in Athens and Salonica in relation to the coming trial of an anarchist, Yorgos Voutsis-Vogiatzis, who wasarrested 18 months ago and is accused of bank robbery.

Six years of war in IraqMarch 20 marks six years since the US-led invasion of Iraq that led to the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime.Athens - When Alexis Grigoropoulos was shot dead by policein Athens, Greeks were stunned not only by the power of ensuing youth protests but also the authorities' failure to stop a parallel wave of violence.But a hundred days on from the 15-year-old's death on

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