At least eight Mumbai policemen are among 29 individuals whose bank cards were cloned and used to fraudulently withdraw cash from ATM machines in Greece, a Mumbai police official said Friday. A total of 1.3 million rupees ($23,000) was withdrawn from 29 accounts with Axis Bank Ltd., said Satyanarayan Chaudhary, deputy commissioner of police at [...]
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Extremists Group Damage Jaffa’s Greek Orthodox Cemetery
On Thursday 13th June, a group of extremists, believed to be Jews, damaged the Greek Orthodox cemetery in the mixed Arab-Jewish city of Jaffa, and sprayed “price tag” and the Star of David on its graves. The extremists also slashed tires of several cars in the area and painted hate slogans on walls of building [...]
U.S. Renews Call for Release of Syrian Bishops
U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Maura Connelly renewed Tuesday her government’s call for the release of the two bishops recently kidnapped by gunmen in Syria, following a meeting with Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East John X. “Connelly condemned in the strongest terms the kidnapping of the patriarch’s brother, Archbishop Metropolitan Paul Yazigi [...]
Panagiotis Giannakis to Head Coach Chinese National Basketball Team
The Chinese Basketball Federation hired Panagiotis Giannakis as head coach of the National Team. Giannakis will coach the team at FIBA World Champioship scheduled for 2014 in Spain and at Rio 2016. Giannakis is also the head coach of the French basketball team Limoges. Panagiotis Giannakis, a retired Greek professional basketball player, was born January [...]
Confusion Surrounds Fate of Abducted Bishops
The Greek Orthodox Church denied Tuesday circulating reports that the two archbishops abducted in Aleppo, Syria, had been released. The fate of Greek Orthodox Archbishop Paul Yazigi and Syriac Orthodox Archbishop Yohanna Ibrahim remained mired in mystery after the two clergymen were abducted and their driver killed in Aleppo Monday night. The news prompted global [...]
Two Kidnapped Syrian Bishops Freed
A church official said two bishops who were abducted by gunmen while traveling in northern Syria have been released. Greek Orthodox Bishop Tony Yazigi says the kidnapped priests, Bishop Boulos Yazigi of the Greek Orthodox Church and Bishop John Ibrahim of the Assyrian Orthodox Church, were released Tuesday and have arrived safely in the city [...]
Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Aleppo Kidnapped
Two Aleppian bishops were kidnapped by Syrian rebels in the outskirts of the city Monday evening, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported. The Christian clergy members were reportedly carrying out humanitarian work when they were abducted at gunpoint. Syrian state news agency SANA reported on Monday that two bishops from the Syriac Orthodox and Greek Orthodox [...]
Greek Passengers in Alexandria Bus Crash
By Christina Flora A bus with 19 passengers, 16 of whom Greeks from the Diaspora in Alexandria, were involved in a bus accident on the morning of March 31 at the 55th kilometer of the Alexandria – Cairo route, on the way to the Egyptian capital. According to a statement issued by the Greek Foreign [...]
Chinese Investors Set Sights on Greek Property
The property price slump in Greece, fueled by the ongoing financial crisis, has started to attract Chinese investment. “Some Chinese businessmen have shown an interest in investing in Greek property, such as investing in hotels, or buying pieces of land on Greek islands,” the Mayor of Athens, Georgios Kaminis, said on March 29. Property, mainly [...]
Key Finds at Egypt’s Heraklion
By Christina Flora A series of important archaeological findings has gradually been unearthed by the sunken submarine research in the Heraklion port located in ancient Egypt, the last years, according to announcements made at an international scientific conference at the University of Oxford. The coastal city on the delta of the Nile, called Heraklion by [...]
