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Lighting And Handing-Over Ceremony Of The Olympic Flame

Getty Images 22 days ago

ATHENS, GREECE - OCTOBER 29: Actresses in the role of priestesses perform at the Olympic Flame alter during the flame handing over ceremony for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics at the Panathenian stadium on October 29, 2009 in Athens, Greece. (Photo by ...

Police station attack tests new Greek government

AFP Global Edition 23 days ago

Greece's new socialist government faced a poignant first test against extremism Wednesday after an attack on a police station injured six officers, two of them seriously. Gunmen on motorbikes fired nearly 100 bullets at the police station in the northern Athens suburb ...

Six police hurt in Athens attack

AFP Global Edition 24 days ago

Six Greek police officers were shot and wounded, two of them seriously, in an attack against a police post in a northern suburb of the capital Athens, police said. Three unidentified attackers opened fire on the Aghia Paraskevi post with an automatic ...

Gunmen wound seven in Athens attack: Greek police

Reuters US Online Report World News 24 days ago

ATHENS (Reuters) - Two gunmen on a motorcycle launched an attack outside a police station in Athens on Tuesday, wounding six Greek police officers and a passer-by, police said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack but Greece's new ...

6 Greek police officers wounded in attack

AP News 24 days ago

6 Greek police officers wounded in attack on suburban police station Gunmen on a motorcycle fired on a suburban Athens police station with automatic weapons late Tuesday, wounding six police officers, authorities said. The attack occurred after Greece's new Socialist government promised ...

Greece Police Attack

AP News 24 days ago

Police investigate the area outside a police station in the Agia Paraskevi area, northern Athens on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009. Gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on a suburban Athens police station with automatic weapons late Tuesday, wounding four people, authorities said. ...

One dead, one missing after storms hit Greece

Reuters US Online Report World News 26 days ago

ATHENS (Reuters) - One man died and another was missing on Sunday, after storms washed away roads and flooded homes and farms across Greece, officials said. The body of a 41-year-old man was recovered by the coast guard near the central Greek ...

Appalachian Economy

AP News 26 days ago

FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2008 file photo, Larry Gibson stands atop Kayford Mountain and overlooks a mountaintop removal mining site with Coal River Mountain in the background at Kayford Mountain, W.Va. Appalachian leaders are seeking ways to use alternative energy ...

Greece New Government

AP News 44 days ago

Economy, Competitiveness and Shipping Minister Louka Katseli smiles during the swearing in ceremony for Greece's new Socialist government, at the presidential mansion in Athens, Wednesday, Oct. 7 2009. George Papandreou's government was formally sworn in after a crushing weekend electoral victory that ...

Greece Elections

AP News 45 days ago

Greek Socialist leader George Papandreou, winner of the country's general election, holds a televised victory address on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009 in Athens. Greek voters angered by repeated scandals and a faltering economy ousted Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis in an early election ...

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