Incident: Sun Express B738 near Thessaloniki on Jan 22nd 2010, bomb hoax in lavatory
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:54:48 AM
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| SNIPPET: "A Sun Express Boeing 737-800, registration TC-SUO performing flight XQ-973 from Stuttgart (Germany) to Izmir (Turkey) with 62 passengers and 6 crew, was enroute overhead Skopje (Macedonia), when a crew member found a note in one of the lavatories saying "Today we will die, boom"." SNIPPET: "Greek police detained a man carrying a marker pen of the same color as the note written on the lavatory's mirror, but later permitted him to continue the journey. After the airplane arrived in Izmir, Turkish police detained the man again and interviewed him. The man was released without charges after the interview." |
Bomb hits Athens stock exchange
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:54:48 AM
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| SNIPPET: "A bomb has exploded outside the Athens stock exchange, slightly injuring a female passer-by and damaging the building, police say. The bomb - which set fire to several cars - was hidden in a stolen van. Another bomb went off outside a government building in Thessaloniki, causing minor damage and no injuries. The blasts may be the work of a Greek extremists' group, Revolutionary Struggle, says the BBC's Malcolm Brabant in Athens. Earlier this year the group claimed responsibility for two bombs aimed at the American Citibank group. Flying glass A warning of the Athens explosion was telephoned to... |
Greek youths firebomb police station
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:54:48 AM
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| HOODED youths firebombed a police station next to the Exarchia district where locals held a silent vigil for a teenager who was killed a week ago. Police fired tear gas and were in hot pursuit of a group of about 100 youths who had congregated there - with similar numbers in Thessaloniki also vandalising a gymnasium before holing up in university premises. The fresh outbreak of hostilities ... |
Riots sweep Greece after police shoot boy dead
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:54:48 AM
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| The rioting began in Athens late on Saturday soon after the shooting in the central Exarchia district, where youths threw petrol bombs at police, burnt dozens of cars and smashed shop windows. It quickly spread to Greece's second largest city of Thessaloniki and other towns in northern Greece. Cities on the holiday islands of Crete and Corfu also saw protests at the shooting, which prompted Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos to offer his resignation. Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis, whose fragile government has been rocked by a series of scandals, rejected it, a ministry spokeswoman said. |
Ancient Thessaloniki emerges, thanks to digging for metro
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:54:48 AM
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Tunnels will go deeper to spare antiquities Preliminary work on the metro is slowly bringing to light the story of Thessaloniki. The first architectural remains and portable finds discovered in the city’s historic center are just a sample of what the metro tunneling machine will turn up once it starts digging deeper. Though the exploratory digs at 350 points along the 9.6-kilometer metro line that were begun last August have so far uncovered only a handful of portable finds, a museum has already been found to house them. It is the Alkazar (formerly Hamza Bey mosque). Refurbishment is under way,...
Greek terror crackdown foils major attack on NATO troops
Tuesday 29th of May 2012 08:54:48 AM
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| ATHENS, Greece - Police captured a 10th suspected member of the deadly November 17 terrorist organization and a newspaper reported that the group had been planning an attack on U.S. and NATO peacekeepers. The daily Eleftherotypia reported Sunday that alleged gunmen of the ultra-left group already in custody told police they had planned to strike NATO peacekeepers based in Kosovo as they traveled through Greece. The newspaper said evidence had been found at November 17 hideouts suggesting the urban guerrillas were gathering information on NATO convoys leaving the northern Greek port of Thessaloniki. November 17 has claimed 22 killings, including... |
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