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New Greek national party puts Montreal community on edge

The presence of a new Montreal chapter of a right-wing nationalist Greek party is polarizing members of Montreal’s Greek community. Golden Dawn won 18 seats in Greece’s recent election. The party’s anti-immigrant stance is considered racist, anti-immigration and anti-Semitic by many in the international community. The party seeks to maintain “the Greek race” and wants Christian [...]

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Greek ex-minister found hanged amid tax fury

A burgeoning tax-evasion scandal in Greece has taken a darker turn, with the suicide of a former government minister who was named on a list of 35 politicians under investigation by the financial police. Leonidas Tzanis hanged himself on Thursday at his home, according to a relative. The former Socialist deputy interior minister had allegedly [...]

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Turkey Immigrant Boat Sinking: 31 Children Dead In Migrant Boat Disaster

More than half of the 60 migrants who died after their boat sank off Turkey’s western coast on Thursday were children, a district official told Reuters. Tahsin Kurtbeyoglu, governor of the coastal district of Menderes in Turkey’s western Izmir province, said 31 of the dead were children, including three babies. He said most of the [...]

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Greece rounds up immigrants

Border police jeeps hurtle along hot, dusty tracks past potato fields on their way to the river that marks the Greek-Turkish border. Sirens blaring, the convoys have been repelling wave after wave of migrants. Greece’s remote Evros region has turned into Europe’s main battleground against illegal immigration. More than two-thirds of people making the clandestine journey [...]

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Greece transfers 1,000 immigrants to north

Greek authorities transferred about 1,000 undocumented immigrants to a northern border region Tuesday after a weekend police sweep in Athens led to the mass arrest of foreigners, Agence France Presse reports. A local police official said the immigrants were being held in two temporarily closed police schools in Thrace, a part of north-eastern Greece bordering Turkey. It’s [...]

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Voula Papachristou: I’m Trying To Come To Terms With Olympic Ban

Earlier this week, Voula Papachristou was getting ready to compete in the triple jump for the Greek Olympic team. But then she sent out a racist message on Twitter. The 23-year-old athlete has been kicked off of the Olympic team and will not be competing this week at the 2012 London Olympic Games. Papachristou said: “I have [...]

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Protesters clash with police in Greece

A group of Greek Cypriots and Golden Dawn party members trying to enter the Turkish consulate clashed with police in Thessaloniki Thursday, officials said. The Cypriots and the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party were protesting the visit of Devlet Bahceli, leader of the Turkish opposition Nationalist Movement Party, to the city, Hurriyet Daily News reported. Bahceli [...]

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A look at the main party leaders in Greece’s national elections on Sunday

The U.S.-educated economist, whose party won an inconclusive victory on May 6, presents Sunday’s vote as a stark choice between staying in the euro and reverting to the country’s old drachma currency, which he claims will happen if his main left-wing opponents win. Opinion polls show Samaras‘ conservative party neck and neck with the Syriza [...]

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Greek neo-Nazi MPs briefly detained after attack

Two freshly elected Greek MPs from the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party and its leader’s daughter were among six people briefly detained after an attack on a Pakistani immigrant, a police source said on Saturday. The two lawmakers, Ilias Panagiotaros and Ioannis Vouldis, as well as leader Nikos Michaloliakos’s daughter, were taken into custody but released [...]

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Greek Conservatives Take Poll Lead

Greece‘s conservatives are in first place ahead of next month’s election, according to four separate polls published Sunday, with the gap over the radical leftist Syriza party ranging from 1.3 percent to 5.7 percent. Such a rise in support for New Democracy would give it the ability to form a government with Socialists Pasok. Both [...]

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