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 Gunmen linked to Greece's most militant guerrillas shot and seriously wounded a policeman in Athens on Monday, weeks after the killing of a teenager by police prompted the worst riots in decades. An investigator walks past a police line in a street where a policeman was shot in Athens. Police said one of at least two weapons fired against a group of riot police guarding the Culture Ministry in the central Athens Exarchia district was the same used by the left-wing Revolutionary Struggle guerrilla group. "The investigation into the 9mm weapon used in Monday's attack showed that it was used in an attack on a police station in April 2007," police said in a statement. That was the last attack claimed by the group which surfaced in 2003. After the capture of the deadly November 17 leftist urban guerrilla group in 2002, Revolutionary Struggle emerged as Greece's most violent group with a series of bombings at ministries and police, and a spectacular rocket-propelled grenade attack against the U.S. embassy in Athens in January 2007. more from daily news »  Gaza bombing a growing concernGreek soldiers push humanitarian aid onto one of two C-130 military airplanes that carried the supplies from the Elefsina military airport, east of Athens, to Gaza on December 31. The planes carried 28 tons of aid, including blood and medicines, for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip following days of bombing by Israeli jets. The aid was contributed by the government, the Hellenic Red Cross, the City of Athens and nongovernmental organizations. Leftist opposition party Synaspismos called on the government yesterday to do more to stop what it called Israel’s “brutal” behavior in Gaza, where bombing continued for a seventh day. more from daily news » Fresh tension arises in the AegeanTurkish message to Greek pilots over Farmakonisi raises concern in Athens, as president stands firm. Tensions in the Aegean are on the rise again after Turkey suggested that Greek helicopters were violating the neighboring country’s air space while flying over the small Dodecanese island of Farmakonisi. more from daily news » Russian Navy allowed to exercise in Greek watersGreece has given permission for Russian warships and aircraft to carry out manoeuvres this month in the southeast Aegean, Greek military sources said. The Greek Government had agreed to a request from the commander of the Russian aircraft-carrying cruiser Admiral Kuznetsov, which is on a mission in the Mediterranean with other ships of the Russian Northern Fleet, they said. The exercises will take place southeast of Rhodes today, tomorrow, Thursday and Saturday and south of Crete on Sunday, January 11. more from daily news »
Beijing suffers the curse of the Olympic cityBeijing is showing all the symptoms of suffering from the same 'Olympic curse' as Athens and Sydney. Workers at Beijing's 'Bird's Nest' Stadium wait for customers at a photo booth that allows them to be photographed with the Olympic torch and stand on the winners podium. Three months after the end of the games, new figures show the "Olympic Effect" has been short-lived and hotels are empty, industrial output has fallen and the streets are quiet. more from sports » 2008: The year Democracy FalteredThere were so many events which moved me in 2008. But one which I think is most emblematic of what might come in 2009 are the popular and violent uprisings in Greece. And the place, Athens, says much about the ailing state of our democracies. It’s hard to overlook the paradox. Greece, "the cradle of democracy" is now ablaze and the political system fathered by Plato and Aristotle lies in ruins, amid the smolderering debris, scattered throughout the streets of the ancient city. Riots sparked by the police shooting of a male teenager, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, 15, earlier this month, have continued almost unabated to this day. And like avenging furies the youths’ rage seems insatiable. As Athens burns, the EU looks on aghast and mute. more from current affairs » Walking in the footsteps of St. PaulFrom Nov. 5 to Nov. 21, a group of 17 Christian-minded individuals traveled "In the Footsteps of Saint Paul" through the islands of Greece, Malta and Sicily, and the countries of Turkey and Italy. The pilgrimage began with a trans-Atlantic flight to Athens, Greece, and followed with a variety of cruises, land tours and excursions concluding at the Saint's tomb, and included the Rev. Larry Dorsch, pastor of St. Paul Catholic Church in Weirton. more from travel »
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• 6 Jan - Epiphany at various locations more »• to 17 Jan - Music nights Kelari Music Stage (Athenaeum) more »• to 12 April - Suddenly Last Summer at the Amphitheater of Spiros Evangelatos more »• to 6 Jan - Rigoletto at Olympia Theatre more »• to 16 Jan - “Digital Landscape” at Villa Kazoyli more »• to 6 Jan - Flisvos Marina Christmas Wonderland more »• to 4 Jan - Katerina Ismailova - Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at Theater of Neos Kosmos more »• to 16 Jan - “Environment, Action 08. Man-nature-city” at Villa Kazoyli more »• to 25 Jan - The Taming of the Shrew by the National Theater more »• to 10 Jan - Heroes in Mikro Pallas (Small Pallas) at Mikro Pallas Theater more »
• Feb - Dionysia Wine Tasting Event at Zappeion Megaron more »• 8 Feb - 2 Mar - Athens Carnival more »• 2 Mar - Kathara Deftera (Clean Monday) more »• 10 April - Die Krupps live in Athens at Gagarin 205 more »• 1-5 July - 23rd World Congress on Dance Research more »
• Theofania, Theofanis, Fotis, Fanis, Fotini
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