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Samaras urges greater unity as list of dissenting coalition MPs grows
A schoolteacher chants anti-austerity slogans with a loudspeaker during a sitting protest in the northern Greek port city of Thessaloniki, on Friday.
Dzakula: Removal of refugee status is ethnic cleansing
ZAGREB - The Serbian Democratic Forum (SDF) accused on Friday the Croatian government that its announcement that it would remove the refugee status from the people who fled Croatia during the 1990s war was intended to stop the return of Serb refugees and complete the ethnic cleansing.
Milanovic: Referendum on Cyrillic a disgrace
BRUSSELS/ZAGREB - Croatia's Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic said on Friday that the Croatian parliament (Sabor) should make a decision on the initiative to call a referendum on the use of the Serbian Cyrillic script in this country.
Talks on development of Jug base near Bujanovac
Talks on development of Jug base near Bujanovac
BUJANOVAC -- A delegation of the U.S. European Command and Ohio National Guard has visited the Serbian Army base Jug near Bujanovac, and met with Serbian military officials.
Stocks end week of growth with daily decline
Marchs triple witching Friday saw the majority of shares hit by considerable losses on the highest turnover in the last four months.
To Potami, Olive Tree to present candidates and manifesto
The contest for the May 25 European Parliament elections is due to intensify next week as the center-left Olive Tree alliance and To Potami, the new party led by journalist Stavros Theodorakis, are due to announce their candidate list and manifesto respectively.
Court rules 2012 bond haircut legal and warranted
Photo from a March 2013 protest by bondholders.
The Council of State, the countrys highest administrative court, on Friday rejected an appeal by Greek bondholders seeking compensation for having to accept a severe haircut on the value of their investments in the debt restructuring that took place in March 2012.
Teachers' union calls for minister's resignation
The union representing secondary school teachers (OLME) on Friday called for the resignation of Education Minister Constantinos Arvanitopoulos on the same day that the civil service mobility scheme came to an end for 1,845 teachers.
Campaign gathers more than 3 tons of food for the needy
A campaign spearheaded by Skai TV with the cooperation of the Church of Greece has succeeded in gathering more than 3 tons of food items and distributing them to the needy.
Duma ratifies agreement with Serbia on military cemeteries
MOSCOW - The Russian State Duma, lower house of parliament, ratified on Friday two intergovernmental agreements on military cemeteries, which Russia had signed with Serbia and Slovenia.
Deportation provision may return, says PM's aide
A contentious provision that would lead to any immigrants who make false claims against law enforcement officers being deported from Greece is likely to be brought to Parliament for a third time, the governments general secretary Takis Baltakos said on Friday.
Shelter opens in Patra for vulnerable migrants
Greek nongovernmental organization Praksis and the Hellenic Red Cross have inaugurated a new shelter in Patra aimed at providing relief to dozens of migrants sleeping on the streets of the western port city.
The project is funded in part by the governments of Norway, Ireland and Liechtenstein through the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
Bozovic: Serbia firmly committed to peacekeeping missions
BELGRADE/OSLO - Serbia is firmly committed to taking part in police and military peacekeeping missions, State Secretary at the Serbian Interior Ministry Vladimir Bozovic said in Oslo on Friday at a UN international conference dedicated to the building up and development of police capacities in peacekeeping missions.
Ingenious drugs cache discovered at Athens airport
Narcotics officers at Athens International Airport on Friday arrested a 39-year-old Nigerian national after discovering an ingenious cache of drugs.
According to a police report, the 39-year-old, who had arrived at the Greek capital via Cairo, had concealed 1.74 kilogram of cocaine inside the metallic tubes that comprised the handle of his rolling suitcase.
MP's associate arrested for taking money on false promise of papers
A close associate of independent MP Nikos Nikolopoulos is facing corruption charges after being arrested in Athens late on Thursday.
The man, whose name was not made public, allegedly posed as a high-ranking state official and took money from foreign migrants on the promise of supplying them with a residence permit.