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UK behind Greece, Spain and Slovenia in list of world’s best places to be a motherBritain, where women are twice as likely to die in pregnancy and childbirth as those in Poland, Austria or Belarus, comes 24th in Save the Children’s annual list
QuoteA four-year-old girl that went missing in the Omonia Square area of Athens a few days ago was murdered by her father, a Bulgarian national aged 27, police said on Monday.http://www.newsbomb.gr/en/story/583417/four-year-old-girl-allegedly-murdered-by-her-father-who-is-at-large
A four-year-old girl that went missing in the Omonia Square area of Athens a few days ago was murdered by her father, a Bulgarian national aged 27, police said on Monday.
The 27-year-old drug addict, who is the girl’s biological father... denied the charges, claiming he found the toddler dead and disposed of the body in a panic. He allegedly boiled the pieces of his daughter and threw them in the trash.
Worrying signs for tourismUnless the government comes to some sort of agreement with the country’s creditors and is able to put an end to the economic uncertainty, Greek tourism’s positive course in terms of foreign arrivals is at risk of reversal.The first few months of the year saw strong growth in the tourism flow to Greece as the momentum generated last year continued into 2015. However the initial rise recorded in bookings for this coming summer from key markets such as Germany has now declined to zero and interest has moved to rival destinations.
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Most want euro even with new bailout deal The majority of Greeks want the country to stay in the eurozone should ongoing negotiations with foreign creditors fail, even if that means signing a new bailout deal, a new survey has found.Asked whether they want to keep the euro or return to the drachma, 66.5 percent said they preferred the common currency over 27 percent who would prefer a return to the nation’s old currency. A smaller majority, 55.5 percent over 35 percent, were in favor of euro membership if that entailed signing up to a new memorandum.
New austerity measures aimed at unlocking funds for GreeceDeputy Prime Minister Giannis Dragasakis is unveiling new measures during his meeting with European Central Bank Chief Mario Draghi in Frankfurt on Tuesday in an effort to unlock funds required for Greece. Dragasakis measures include: - emergency contribution for 500 of the richest Greeks (based on their tax statements)- an increase to the extraordinary contribution at last year’s levels for those who have income over 30,000 euros per annum- an increase to luxury tax by 30%- a duty for overnight stays at islands- stopping cash purchases and using plastic money for transactions over 70 euros- joint VAT contributions from 2016 onwards
Cocaine worth €15m discovered in Aldi crates of bananasAldi has unwittingly taken delivery of a huge shipment of cocaine, for the second time in 18 months, across 13 of its stores in Berlin.
Greece is willing to quickly finalize a 1.2 billion-euro deal with German operator Fraport to run regional airports and reopen bidding for a majority stake in Piraeus port, a senior privatisations official told Reuters on Tuesday.The plan to press ahead on the two major asset sales - whose fate had been in doubt since Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras took power - appeared to be the latest concessions offered by his government in an effort to secure aid from EU and IMF lenders.
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QuoteNew austerity measures aimed at unlocking funds for GreeceDeputy Prime Minister Giannis Dragasakis is unveiling new measures during his meeting with European Central Bank Chief Mario Draghi in Frankfurt on Tuesday in an effort to unlock funds required for Greece. Dragasakis measures include: - emergency contribution for 500 of the richest Greeks (based on their tax statements)- an increase to the extraordinary contribution at last year’s levels for those who have income over 30,000 euros per annum- an increase to luxury tax by 30%- a duty for overnight stays at islands- stopping cash purchases and using plastic money for transactions over 70 euros- joint VAT contributions from 2016 onwardshttp://en.protothema.gr/dragasaki-offers-draghi-14-bln-euros-worth-of-austerity/
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