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Greek truck drivers continue border crossing, port blockades

Athens - Greek truck drivers continued Saturday to block key ports and border crossings across Greece, demanding that authorities increase inspections on foreign trucks entering the country.

A key blockade was at the Promahon-Kulata crossing on the border with Bulgaria. The truckers permitted private cars and buses to pass, but stopped all lorries, state television reported.

The truckers also blocked the Evzones crossing on the border with Macedonia as well as the main port of Patras in western Greece and at Korinth.

Greek leftist group claims attack on television station

Athens - The leftist Greek group Revolutionary Sect claimed Saturday responsibility for a gun attack on the country's fourth- largest television station earlier this week and threatened further suc

Truck drivers block Greek border crossings

Athens - Hundreds of truck drivers blocked key ports and border crossings across Greece on Friday, demanding that authorities increase inspections on foreign trucks entering the country.

Angry truck drivers blocked the crossings of Evzones and Promachonas, at the border with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria, as well as the main port of Patras in western Greece.

The drivers say foreign trucks smuggle undocumented immigrants into the country.

"Greek trucks always get pulled over for inspections, but drivers bringing foreign goods into Greece cross the border without any checks," Apostolos Kenanidis, the head of the union representing the drivers, told the Greek daily Kathimerini in remarks published Friday.

Italy, Spain, Greece head EU offenders list as Poland catches up

European-UnionBrussels - Italy, Spain and Greece are the worst countries in the European Union for breaking the bloc's laws on creating a single market, with Poland catching up fast, a study published by the European Commission in Brussels on Thursday showed.

Italy is currently facing legal action - known as "infringement proceedings" - from the commission in no fewer than 112 cases, the highest figure in the bloc, the EU executive's report said. Spain was second with 103 cases.

Greece came in third, with 91 cases, closely followed by Germany, with 90.

Athens police defuse car bomb outside Citibank branch

Athens police defuse car bomb outside Citibank branch Athens  - Greek police defused a car bomb outside Citibank's headquarters in Athens on Wednesday, hours after gunmen shot at a private television station.

Reports said the stolen car was parked in the courtyard of Citibank's offices in the northern Athens suburb of Kifissia.

Ani-bomb forces defused the home-made device after a security guard called police after seeing three men leave the vehicle.

Fragments of Greek inscription found in Israel shed light on ancient Jewish warriors

Israel rabbinate cuts ties with Vatican over controversial bishop Jerusalem , Feb 18 : Archaeologists have found three fragments of a Greek inscription, believed to be part of the famous "Heliodoros stele", in an Israeli excavation, has shed light on ancient Jewish warriors.

The Heliodoros stele, dating back to 178 B. C. E. and consisting of 23 lines inscribed in limestone, is considered one of the most important ancient inscriptions found in Israel.

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