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A Chinese court has sentenced a journalist accused of leaking an internal Communist Party document to a foreign website to seven years in prison, her lawyer said on April 17, a ruling that reflects the sensitivity surrounding the party's inner workings.
   

MPs on Thursday approved in principle draft legislation that scraps maximum-security prisons and paves the way for the early release of seriously disabled prisoners, including November 17 terrorist Savvas Xeros.

A draft law paving the way for the reopening of public broadcaster ERT, which was closed in June 2013, was approved in principle by a parliamentary committee but only with the support of the two coalition parties.

The provisional candidate lists for Turkey's upcoming June 7 parliamentary elections were announced on April 15, finalizing the review process of the candidacy lists submitted by the country's political parties to the Supreme Election Board (YSK).

Greece’s political leaders are attending Greek Orthodox Easter events at their home towns with friends and family members.

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German tabloid Bild returned to the sensationalist this week by insinuating that Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' official visit to Moscow on Wednesday  for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin aim to create an anti-Western front, serving each for different reasons.

Political fallout continued unabated on Monday following Proto Thema's exclusive story over the weekend revealing that the new leftist Greek government apparently choose "guns over butter" in one high-profile instance.

Roughly half the respondents in a latest opinion poll commissioned by Proto Thema consider prospects for  default or Grexit "exist" in the coming period!

Six out of 10 respondents, in fact, believe some type of "credit event" is possible, while at the same time giving ruling SYRIZA a double-digit lead over second place New Democracy (ND) party.

Ruling SYRIZA's militant anti-capitalist wing, the "Left Platform", on Friday appeared impervious to attempts by the rest of the government to find a compromise with eurozone creditors amid a looming cash crunch.