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On April 8, 2016, journalist and writer Justine Frangouli-Argyris, a weekly blogger for the Huffington Post and until recently the Athens News Agency correspondent for Canada, will deliver a talk on the international press and its coverage of the Greek debt crisis. Drawing on her extensive experience in print and digital media, Ms.

Greece said on March 28 it would make use of loudspeakers at a migrants' camp on the Macedonia frontier to dispel "irresponsible rumours" that the border is about to reopen.

Labour Minister Giorgos Katrougalos lashed out at Proto Thema newspaper and its online version protothema.gr accusing them of misinforming the public and denied publications according to which Greece’s lenders have asked for new pension cuts.

An arson attack was noted shortly after midnight at the home of controversial State Minister Alekos Flambouraris at Voulgaroktonou Street, Exarchia.

The Greek Finance Ministry suspended operations of the Loutraki Casino at 8 a.m. on Thursday due for tax reasons. Sources point to the casino’s debt worth 2 million euros in taxes. The casino’s management said that it could not bear the high taxation imposed and was struggling to collect the money so as to open by the evening.

“Those who are cooperative borrowers and it is objectively impossible for them to pay off their loans should not be afraid of the auctioning of their primary residence,” the president of Hellenic Bank Association and National Bank governor Louka Katseli  answered to a clarifying question of Athens News Agency on the code of conduct of the Bank of Greece.

At least 28 people drowned in another migrant tragedy off Greece on Sunday, as Athens angrily defended its handling of the mounting refugee crisis in Europe. 

Three people, including a child, drowned when a boat carrying some 100 migrants capsized off Greece early on Sept. 13, the Athens News Agency reported.

The workers of ‘Hellas Gold’, the subsidiary of Canadian gold mining company ‘Eldorado’, decided after a long union meeting to take action in protest against the Greek government’s decision to shut down the mining operations at Skouries, Chalkidiki, in northern Greece.

Greece’s Deputy Immigration Minister Tasia Christodoulopoulou said that Greek authorities were planning to create 2,500 positions to host immigrants by the end of 2015.