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ATHEX: Stock sellers are waiting in the wings
Monday was another mixed day for the Greek bourse. Stocks were split between winners and losers, the benchmark had some moderate gains but the banks' index was virtually unchanged, and mid-caps conceded some ground. The drop in turnover compared with three declining sessions last week shows that a likely return of sellers is on the way.
News agencies open way to bolster Belt & Road link
Representatives of 25 national news agencies from Greece, China, the Balkans, Central and Southern Europe, and Russia reaffirmed on Sunday their commitment to join efforts to strengthen ties between the countries along the Belt and Road during a forum hosted in Thessaloniki.
Tsipras: Greece gains from cooperation with China
China is a power with a strategic plan and Greece can only benefit from bilateral cooperation, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said during a press conference on Sunday in Thessaloniki. As the honored country of the 82nd Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF), Greece's top annual trade exhibition, China was in the spotlight of the fair's opening over the weekend.
Priests bless schools as new academic year begins
Pupils of the third elementary school in Corinth watch Monday as a priest conducts the customary blessing ceremony marking the start of the new academic year. Similar ceremonies were held at more than 13,000 schools. According to unions, some 5,000 teaching spots remain vacant.
The 'work-less' vs the jobless
On the one hand, we have the so-called "work-less," people whose only line of work is basically joining various "movements" and participating in protest marches. They are persistent and fight any investment initiative with a systematic vengeance.
PM's pro-business narrative dealt blow by Canadian mining firm's threat to go
Just a day after Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras declared that Greece was "thirsty" for foreign investments, the Canadian mining company heading one of the biggest investments in the country threatened on Monday to suspend its Greek operations, citing government delays in issuing permits.
PM's upbeat narrative dealt blow by mining firm's threat to go
Just a day after Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras declared that Greece was "thirsty" for foreign investments, the Canadian mining company heading one of the biggest investments in the country threatened on Monday to suspend its Greek operations, citing government delays in issuing permits.
PM's upbeat narrative dealt blow by Eldorado's threat to go
Just a day after Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras declared that Greece was "thirsty" for foreign investments, the Canadian mining company heading one of the biggest investments in the country threatened on Monday to suspend its Greek operations, citing government delays in issuing permits.
Europol says crime profits are slipping through
Greece ranks 18th in the European Union in terms of suspect money transactions, according to the results of a study by Europol, the European Union's Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation.
Greece ranked behind the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, where 65 percent of so-called suspect transactions in the EU were recorded.
Bronze Age grave in Greece shows nobleman's love of jewelry
Archaeologists in southern Greece have discovered an undisturbed tomb the size of a small house that belonged to a Bronze Age nobleman with a fondness for jewelry.
Greece's Culture Ministry says the 3,350-year-old chamber near Orchomenos, an important center of the Mycenaean era, belonged to a man who was 40 to 50 years old when he died.
Athens Democracy Forum starts on Wednesday with strong speaker lineup
The annual Athens Democracy Forum organized by the New York Times and Kathimerini gets under way in the Greek capital on Wednesday.
Titled "Solutions for a Changing World," the forum, which runs through Sunday, will address whether the western spirit of openness is being replaced by walls, among other topics.
Transport disruptions this week as workers strike
Services on the Athens-Piraeus urban electric railway (ISAP) will be disrupted on Tuesday and Friday as employees are planning work stoppages to protest transfers and streamlining in the organization.
There will be no service after 9 p.m. on Tuesday nor on Friday between noon and 3 p.m.
Salamina mayor speaks of eco disaster after tanker sinking
Authorities on the island of Salamina in the Saronic Gulf said on Monday that an oil spill off the island's eastern coast is spreading and has become "an environmental disaster."
Four blazes keep firefighters busy in Peloponnese
Firefighters on Monday were dispatched to tackle five forest fires in the broader area of the Peloponnese.
Three of the blazes were in northern Ilia, which bore the brunt of catastrophic fires in 2007, the fourth in Voutsara, near Megalopolis, and the fifth near the village of Santomeri in western Achaia.
Cumhuriyet journalists' trial continues, colleagues demand their release
The sixth hearing of the trial of 20 executives and journalists from the daily Cumhuriyet, including the daily's Editor-in-Chief Murat Sabuncu, journalists Ahmet Şık and Kadri Gürsel and cartoonist Musa Kart, continued on Sept.