Areopoli News
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World renowned magician Jorgos chatted with Digital Journal about his upcoming magic event, featuring special friends and guests, at The Christmas Theater in Athens, Greece.
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2004 Olympic gold medalist pole vaulter Tim Mack has a major reason to be proud. He is headed to the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame.
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Olympic silver medalist Toby Stevenson chatted with Digital Journal about his respected career as a pole vaulter for Team USA, and as a Assistant Coach at the University of Kentucky.
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Five mayors of Athens' coastal suburbs warned Wednesday of the "enormous" health risks posed by a nearby camp housing over 4,000 migrants and refugees.
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Banks in Greece were open at week's end for the first time in July but at a steep price — limits on cash withdrawals and higher prices on nearly everything people buy.
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Greece's parliament argued long into the night Thursday but finally approved a long list of new austerity measures to keep the government afloat with emergency loans from other European Union nations.
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European Union nations should prepare for Greece's expected default and departure from the common currency, a German official said Monday.
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A bank in Hull, Ga., mistakenly deposited $31,000 into an 18-year-old's bank account. The teen then went on a shopping spree, and now could face prosecution.
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There are reports that an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.9 has struck the Greek island of Evia. There are no early reports of injuries or damage.
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Armed gunmen shot dead two young members of Greece's far-right party Golden Dawn in cold blood, leaving a third man critically injured. The attack happened outside party offices in Neo Iraklio, Athens.
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In spite of a government clamp down on Greece's far-right party Golden Dawn and legal measures to define the party as a criminal organization, the party is still ranking third in political polls.
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Nikos Michaloliakos, leader of the ultra-nationalist party Golden Dawn, is to remain in custody pending trial, on charges of forming a criminal organization. A defiant Michaloliakos cried "Long live the victory" as he left court.
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Three Golden Dawn MPs have been released from custody pending trial. Party spokesman Ilias Kasidiaris, and lawmakers Ilias Panayiotaros and Nikos Michos, all deny the charges brought against them.
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Nikos Michaloliakos, leader of Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party, has been arrested, along with three prominent MPs including Ilias Kasidiaris, on charges of forming a criminal organization.
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A young Greek woman describes a knife attack in the street on the day after anti-fascist rapper, Pavlos Fyssas, was murdered by Golden Dawn supporters. Her crime was wearing an anti-fascist T-shirt.
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The Greek government is likely to take steps in an attempt to ban the far-right Golden Dawn party following the murder of an anti-fascist rapper by a self-confessed party member.
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The Olympics are a global sporting affair and countries vie hard to host the games but would it be so bad if the same city, and country, always played host?
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Athens -
Greek labour unions will be holding their third general strike this year as government in Athens debates the possibility of thousands of civil-service job cuts.
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Market stall vendors staging a 24-hour-strike in Greece on Wednesday, set up their stalls in Athens to hand out 20 tons of free food.
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The Greek government is mulling the introduction of new legislation which will introduce strict penalties for racist crimes and strip politicians involved in racist behaviour of their political immunity.
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Greeks were able to enjoy a spot of toll-free travel over Orthodox Easter as Golden Dawn members manned many toll booths on the country's network of toll roads over the weekend, waving motorists through fee free.
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Athens -
Greek Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias has said a constitutional review may lead to the outlawing of ultra-nationalist party Golden Dawn (Chrysi Avgi), which consistently polls in third place with the electorate.
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Golden Dawn's planned Maundy Thursday free food distribution for needy Greek families was halted by riot police in Syntagma Square early this morning. Police used tear gas to prevent the free distribution of food.
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The Mayor of Athens has refused to allow ultra-national party Golden Dawn from operating a soup kitchen in Syntagma Square on Maundy Thursday.
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A poll conducted for Greek newspaper Eleftherotypia revealed that 30 percent of Greeks indicated nostalgia for the days of the Colonels, the military junta which ruled Greece between 1967 and 1974.
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Greek police have arrested the three strawberry field foremen who fired at a group of 200 migrant workers from Bangladesh, in Manolada, Peloponnese. The three men claim they were acting in self-defence against a mob.
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A report by the Council of Europe’s human rights watchdog states Greece has adequate legal grounds to ban the political party Golden Dawn, which it accuses of involvement in racially motivated crimes.
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Golden Dawn (Chrysi Avgi) have denied media reports in the Greek press that they were prevented from distributing free food to residents on the island of Thasos.
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Greece is shocked by the tragic death of a 25-year-old woman who was caught in the cross-fire between foreign criminals and police. Golden Dawn have called for the return of the death penalty for violent migrants.
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A new series of short documentaries about the Greek crisis has been created to fulfill the need for an alternative crisis narrative. The series shows the people going through their daily routines in a country which is suffering.
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An amphitheater just below the Acropolis. Extraordinary engineering ingenuities such as this theater, would have housed the great poets like Homer, and speakers like Pericles.
The grand Acropolis of Athens guards the city by day and night. A guardian citadel persuading any imminent invaders their quest for victory is doomed and ill-fated.
Looking through the same Kafeneio. The service is always extraordinary: peaceful and enjoyable rather than the noisy and rushed experience many in Australia endure everyday.
Greeks are a very proud people of the utmost integrity and kindness. Their national pride is evident throughout the city with flags and banners everywhere. You can't help but think it was this same national pride that put the ancient Greeks at the forefront of politics, philosophy and morality.
The same shoreline many Greek heroes leaving for legendary battles of ancient history have departed from for the last time. No doubt looking back from their ship feeling an immense sense of duty, honour and patriotism.
The Guardian Newspaper interviewed a young Greek woman who suffered a knife attack at the hands of Golden Dawn supporters. Video screengrab
Many random ruins exist throughout the city. These great pillars are remnants no doubt of another grandiloquent structure not quite lucky enough to have stood the wear and tear of a few thousand years.
March 25: Greek Independence Day. A proud national display of Greece's military might; dissuading any Turks or Macedonians considering a forceful border adjustment.
A quaint 'Kafeneio' (Καφενειο: cafe) on the incline to the Acropolis. Just what the doctor ordered!
Another picture of the fabulous Parthenon: proudly watching over the extensive city. The mountain the Acropolis sits on has been inhabited since the fifth millennium BC. The term 'Acropolis' comes from the Greek 'ἄκρον' (akron: edge, extremity) and 'πόλις' (polis: city-state).
Pavlos Fyssas, aka 'Killah P' ROAR Collective (creative commons site)
The classic and ever-popular, Russian-built Lada Niva. Used by the Russian military, these 4WD's are invincible!
No city is perfect. The frustration of Greek youth oozes out of the perfectly chiseled masonry, presenting a confronting and bleak reality. The cultural, vibrant and advanced city of Athens has a dark side - a side many tourists don't witness.
A magnificent view of a magnificent former empire. The Byzantine empire at it's height in 555AD presided over 26,000,000 peoples; stretching from Spain, to Asia Minor and Northern Africa.
LEADERS: Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands at the Kremlin in Moscow in April. Kremlin's Press Service
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Another quaint Kafeneio in Athens, this one called 'Efcharis' (Ευχαρις: graceful). The interior of Greek cafes is always exuding with originality!
Many random ruins exist throughout the city. These great pillars are remnants no doubt of another grandiloquent structure not quite lucky enough to have stood the wear and tear of a few thousand years.
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