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Arms bust linked to past guerrilla groups
Greek police have uncovered a significant arms cache hidden in a storage unit in the Pangrati district of Athens, raising concerns about the potential resurgence of urban guerrilla activity.
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Weapons, grenades, and explosives found in safehouse in Pangrati – See photos
A series of findings were made by Anti-Terrorism officers during a search of a warehouse in a residential building in Pangrati, where they arrived after receiving information that the location might be connected to the explosion at an apartment on Arcadia Street in
Daron Acemoğlu, Simon Johnson, James Robinson win economics Nobel for work on wealth inequality
The Nobel prize in economics was awarded on Monday to Turkish-American Daron Acemoğlu and British-Americans Simon Johnson and James Robinson for research into wealth inequality between nations.
Nobel Prize in medicine honors two Americans
The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded on Oct. 7 to Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA, a fundamental principle governing how gene activity is regulated.
The Nobel Assembly said that their discovery is "proving to be fundamentally important for how organisms develop and function."
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Nobel Prize award ceremony takes place in Stockholm
The Nobel Prize award ceremony on Dec. 10 took place at the Stockholm Concert Hall in Sweden, on the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death, while the Nobel Prize in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and economic sciences were awarded to the laureates.
US trio, including ex-Fed chief Bernanke, win economics Nobel
The Nobel Economics Prize was on Monday awarded to a US trio for their contributions on explaining the role of banks in the economy.
Biologist who discovered the AIDS virus dies – He was against mandatory vaccination & vaccination of children
The rumor of Nobel Prize winner Luc Montagnier’s death had been out since Tuesday – “Liberation” found his death certificate
Tanzanian Abdulrazak Gurnah awarded Nobel literature prize
Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The Swedish Academy said the award was in recognition of his "uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism."
Born in Zanzibar and based in England, Gurnah is a professor at the University of Kent. His novel "Paradise" was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1994.
Nobel in chemistry honors pair for way to build molecules
The Nobel Prize for chemistry has been awarded to German scientist Benjamin List of the Max Planck Institute and Scotland-born scientist David W.C. MacMillan of Princeton University.
Nobel Prize honors discovery of temperature, touch receptors
The Nobel Prize in the field of physiology or medicine has been awarded to U.S.-based scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian.
They were cited for their discovery of receptors for temperature and touch.