News archive of January 2017

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The restrictions on the quantities of electricity which state enterprises Kozloduy NPP, Maritsa Iztok 2 and National Electricity Company (NEK) may sell on the Bulgarian Energy Exchange have been lifted.

Students, parents, teachers and neighbors gathered at the 15th Elementary School of Nikaia near Piraeus on Tuesday to welcome 38 children from a nearby refugee and migrant camp on their first day of classes. According to reports, the children were applauded and given balloons as they entered the school grounds.

In collaboration with the Benaki Museum and the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Kouzi Productions presents KinderDocs, a new initiative aimed at acquainting children and teens - as well their families and teachers - with the magic of documentaries as an incisive form of expression.

World music composer and guitarist Makis Ablianitis, whose work is a blend of emotive folk sounds and jazz, will perform pieces from his latest album, "Uranos," at the Half Note Jazz Club on Wednesday, February 1, and Thursday, February 2. Pantelis Thalassinos and Vangelis Germanos will join him on vocals.

The respected Kyklos Ensemble will perform works by Alexander Borodin, Sergei Rachmaninov and Sergei Prokofiev in a concert titled "A la Russe," at the Athens Concert Hall on Wednesday, February 1. The show starts at 8.30 p.m. Tickets, which cost 10 to 15 euros (4 euros reduced), can be purchased at the concert hall, as well as at its box office (8 Omirou).

The Goethe Institute in Athens hosts Greece's first-ever screening of "Baal," a controversial 1970 TV movie based on Bertolt Brecht's play, written and directed for the screen by Volker Schloendorff and starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Sigi Graue and Margarethe von Trotta.

Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay $630 million in fines for organizing $10 billion in sham trades that could have been used to launder money out of Russia, the latest in a string of penalties that have hammered the German lender's finances.

Belgrade’s Humanitarian Law Centre claimed that 110 people, including senior Serbian officials, remain unprosecuted for removing hundreds of corpses in a bid to cover up massacres during the Kosovo war.

A woman has filed a complaint with German police alleging she was told to squeeze her breast at airport security to prove she was lactating.
Gayathiri Bose told the BBC she was “humiliated” by the experience and would explore formal legal action.
She said police at Frankfurt Airport were suspicious because she was carrying a breast pump but travelling without her baby.