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Friday 14 November 2014
Riot police attack students outside Athens Polytechnic
Liberal use made of batons, stun grenades and tear gas
Video footage shows riot squad officers – who reportedly had given no prior warning to the students to disperse – chasing protesters, hitting them indiscriminately with batons, and spraying gas into a crowd of people they had cornered around the university entrance
Highlights
Unemployment falls slightly in August to 25.9%
Figures show that about 3.5 million people are working to support more than 4.5 million unemployed and economically inactive people
'Why did you annoy them?' Coastguard officials acquitted of torture convictions
Calling for the sentences to be squashed, the prosecutor claimed that no torture could have taken place as there was no evidence that the coastguard officers had received training in torture methods
Watch the Greek tourism videos that work
No gods, no myths, just Greece (or Crete). Six new advertisements from Crete show how tourism videos should be made
Controversial Greek tourism video hit by plagiarism claims
New 2015 Greek tourism promotional video, which had to be re-edited last week because it included footage from the Nazi-influenced 1936 Berlin Olympics, plagiarises the work of two photographers, one from Norway and the other from Australia
There are more Greeks like me
New video launched to support campaign calling on the European Union and the Greek government to ensure that Greek citizenship is made available to children born and/or raised in Greece
Greek companies among those with secret Luxembourg tax deals
Leaked documents show that one of the EU’s smallest states helped multinationals save millions in tax
Not the gods again!
Hackneyed, corny and stodgy, Greece's 2015 tourism promotional video makes plenty of references to the physical remains of the country’s classical past but deals little with its present, save for a couple of rustic scenes
British man acquitted of murder of compatriot in Crete
Myles Litchmore-Dunbar, who spent 16 months in pretrial custody, always protested his innocence, claiming he was trying to break up a fight involving multiple British tourists
Greece suffers 'great leap backwards' in child poverty
Unicef says median Greek household incomes for families with children sank to 1998 levels in 2012 – the equivalent of a loss of 14 years of income progress – while the child poverty rate jumped 17.5 points, from 23% in 2008 to 40.5% in 2012
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