(Athens News)

  BUSINESSMAN Petros Kyriakides outlined his plans for the NEP-Kyriakides Publishing group and his other enterprises at a New Year’s pita cutting held in Egli Hall at Athens’ Zappeio on February 3.  

General James l. Jones US national security advisor

  THE TIES and technologies of our interconnected world mean that threats are emerging and challenging our national security faster than ever before and, as I said, in the cyber world, at network speed.  As a nation and as a government, we have to be just as fast in responding to those threats…

Dimitris Yannopoulos

 CSIS Statesmen’s Forum Speaker Series in 2010 is made possible by the Lavrentiadis Group of Companies

(Athens News)

 DESPITE the remarkable progress in stabilising the western Balkans and positioning the region for Nato and European Union membership over the past decade, significant work remains to be done in order to fully develop the region as a component part of the Euro-Atlantic community. 

(ANA)(Athens News)

 Remembering Greeks killed in gulags      -Kalimera Deutschland      -Greeks in Australia    -IB scholarship   -Creative writing

(ANA/Reuters)

  AS farmers carried their roadblock protests into a third week, the European Commission said on February 2 that it was prepared to take legal action to end road blockades put up by Greek farmers at the Greek-Bulgarian border that have hurt businesses in both countries.     

Nikos Arvanitidis, ( ANA )

   Human sacrifice? Archaeologists on Crete unearthed the bones of a young woman who they believe could have been ‘sacrificed’ to the gods in order to prevent an imminent disaster. 

(ANA/AP/Athens News)

 It’s carnival time    -Corfu trial begins         -Philosopher Axelos dies     -Metro station heist      -Dukakis to act in Greece    -Police arrest suspected anarchist 

(ANA)

 Citizens’ Protection Minister Michalis Chrisochoidis has written to Turkey’s Interior Minister Besir Atalay and formally requested a meeting some time in February to discuss ways of stemming the tide of illegal migrants crossing the Turkish border into Greece.

George Gilson

  In a move seen as signalling indirect recognition of the occupation regime, Ban meets Turkish-Cypriot leader at seat of breakaway government’s executive