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Greece: Prison escapees commit €1 million bank robbery

Two armed robbers who held up the National Bank of Greece in Larissa on Thursday and made off with €1 million euros, have been identified as two of the Albanian prisoners who escaped from Trikala prison in March.

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New drug called Sisa is killing austerity-hit Greek youths

Athens - A new and very cheap drug is killing Greek youth who no longer can see a future for themselves. Sisa is a form of crystal meth being mixed with filler ingredients such as battery acid and engine oil. It makes users violent and kills within six months.

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Athens: Striking market vendors hand out 20 tons of free food

Athens - 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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Pew research study: European support for EU falls to 45 percent

Popular support for the European Union has fallen dramatically in the last year according to the latest study from Pew Research. Overall support has declined from 60 to 45 percent, with only Germany showing favourable support for the EU.

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Greece: Civil mobilization order to teachers ahead of strike

The Greek government is set to issue civil mobilization orders to secondary school teachers who have called a strike which will disrupt university entrance exams. Teachers that refuse to work face arrest.

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Greece to introduce strict penalties for racist crimes

Athens - 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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Greek Parliament approves bill to sack civil servants

Athens - Protesters gathered outside the Greek Parliament on Sunday as a vote was passed to cut 15,000 civil service jobs by the end of 2014. The law was brought into effect to meet demands by Greece's troika of international lenders.

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Crowd-funded film on plight of Athens' migrants released

Athens - A crowd-funded documentary covering the plight of migrants in Greece was released on the Internet this week, The film, "Into the Fire" depicts migrants and refugees trapped in Athens by EU laws.

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Greece: Poll shows third of Greeks nostalgic for military junta

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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Council of Europe report: Greece could ban Golden Dawn

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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