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Olympic torchbearers set off from Moscow

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced the start of the Russian leg of the record-breaking Olympic torch relay for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. The relay kicked off at Moscow’s Red Square, where the flame arrived on Sunday. The first people to carry the torch around Kremlin were aspiring Russian ice-skaters Lina Fyodorova, 16, of Moscow and Maksim Miroshkin, 19, of Ekaterinburg. The pair... 

Greece, Israel to hold joint aeronautical exercises

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Greek and Israeli Air Forces are set to stage joint aeronautical drills in the coming days, Greek Hellenic Air Force says. According to a statement released earlier this week, the drills, part of a Greece-Israel Military Cooperation Program, will kick off on October 9 in Athens’ flight information region (FIR). The statement said a group of F-15 and F-16 fighter jets will participate in the exercises... 

Greek MP Christos Pappas detained with No Evidence

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The organized conspiracy against the Golden Dawn carried on tonight with the grossly unjust detainment of their parliamentary spokesman and NY Division leader Christos Pappas. This was done with absolutely no aggravating circumstances and without any suspicion of his involvement in any criminal case. Christos Pappas was labeled an “executive of a criminal organization.” He was given this characterization... 

Thousands of communists stage anti-austerity demo in Greek capital

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Members of a Greek trade union demonstrate in Athens on February 20, 2013. Thousands of communist-backed labor union activists and their supporters have staged an anti-austerity demonstration in the Greek capital Athens. The protesters took to the streets in central Athens on Saturday and called on the government to stop the new round of cuts and measures that will slash pensions, salaries and introduce... 

Lithuania threatens to take Russian region hostage, demands changes in foreign policy

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The Lithuanian Foreign Minister says his country could block land transport to Russia’s Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad if Russia maintains its opposition to stronger trade ties between Ukraine and the European Union. “As you know, the Kaliningrad region is isolated, geographically isolated, so we could apply some measures also to cut something,” the Reuters news agency quoted Linas Linkevicius... 

Greek Bishop Pavlos of Glyfada: “They Have Jailed the Victims instead of the Abusers”

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Pavlos of Glyfada, one of the most respected Bishops in the Orthodox church, bravely speaks out against the injustice against the people’s nationalist movement. “There are old politicians who owe money to the state. Yet they have been spared. The people know how many (referring to 0) politicians have been in prison, and instead they lock up the victims.” He then goes on to say: “They were... 

92 African illegal immigrants die in boat incident near Italy

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At least 92 people died in an incident where a boat carrying some 500 illegal immigrants caught fire and capsized near an Italian island in what seems like a never ending flood of illegal immigrants who desperately want to move to the EU. Emergency workers found 92 bodies, including those of two children and several women, after the deadly boat incident on Thursday, Italy’s news agency ANSA cited... 

Nearly 5 million people unemployed in Spain

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Official figures show that the unemployment rate in Spain has increased again with nearly five million people out of work in the recession-hit country. Figures released by Spain’s Labor Ministry on Wednesday indicated that the number of people registered as out of work rose by 25,572 people in September. The ministry added that the total number of unemployed people in Spain remained at around 4.7... 

Greek opposition MEPs released due to lack of evidence

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Prosecutors and investigators came to an agreement, Kasidiaris was released on bail, while Panagiotaros and Michos were released without bail, but all 3 are banned from exiting the country for the time being. John Lagos is still being held likely for political reasons. It appears that the foreign ordered witchunt against Golden Dawn is collapsing due to its science fiction type accusations. The media... 

German Scientists Freeze Light for a Minute

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It turns out that the fastest known thing in the universe, light, can in fact be stopped. A German team of scientists have successfully stopped light from traveling for a whole minute. The record-breaking event could be a major breakthrough in the field of quantum memory storage. So how did scientists freeze light for a whole minute, knowing that the speed of this electromagnetic radiation is 300... 

Evangelos Venizelos: Anyone against our bailout plan is the equivalent of Golden Dawn

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These unscrupulous and heartless puppets of the pro-bailout coalition, are the willing servants and agents of the international loan sharks who fanatically obey the wishes of their masters and desperately fight the Golden Dawn, because they know that we are the only barrier to their unpatriotic plans. One of the most ardent supporters of foreign occupation forces, is the megalomaniac “Il Duce”... 

Cameron says UK may quit ECHR ‘to keep country safe’

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Britain could quit the European Convention on Human Rights so it can legally “chuck out” people threatening the country and its way of life, UK PM David Cameron said. Critics doubted Cameron’s honesty, saying such move would mean quitting the EU. In the first public statement of its kind, the British prime minister told BBC1 that he was ready to cut ties with the Strasbourg court, to prevent... 

Thousands of Romanians protest Canadian gold mine project

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Romanians protest against a Canadian gold mine project in the city of Cluj-Napoca on September 15, 2013. Thousands of Romanians have staged demonstrations against a controversial Canadian project that would open Europe’s largest gold mine in the country. On Sunday, approximately 4,000 people, who were carrying Romanian flags, marched in the capital Bucharest to show their opposition to the project,... 

Germany's Siemens to slash 15,000 jobs over next year

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A Siemens employee works on a rotor of a gas turbine in a plant in Berlin The German powerhouse in electronics and electrical engineering, Siemens AG, is planning to axe 15,000 jobs over the next year as the economic crisis in Europe continues to worsen. “The ongoing and planned workforce adjustments in the context of Siemens 2014 are about 15,000 positions worldwide, of which about 5,000 are in... 

Russia is infected with genetically modified seeds

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The Russian Federation is going to tighten the legislation on GMOs. It was proposed to ban the import into Russia of products containing GMOs. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev instructed the relevant agencies to develop specific proposals on this issue by October 15. Pravda.Ru discussed the danger of GMOs and genetically modified products with experts. Despite the criticism, Russia currently has relatively... 
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