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ATHENS: A wave of anti-austerity strikes hitting Europe this autumn will disrupt life and may hurt some economies but is unlikely to topple governments or shake their resolve to push on with tough salary and pension cuts.

Metal combo Methods of Mayhem was formed by frontman Tommy Lee after quitting his drumming duties in Motley Crue.

Police out in force for 2010 Thessaloniki International Fair Over 3,500 police officers have been assigned to the security detail for the Thessaloniki International Fair, where Prime Minister George Papandreou will be giving a keynote economic speech on Saturday.

On September 9, Bulgaria and Greece will open a new crossing point on their joint border, thus celebrating the 130th year since the establishing of formal diplomatic relations.

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During the second feast of St Gerasimos, his incorruptible remains are paraded through the streets and the island descends into raucous celebration Photo: ALAMY Goats potter around the Lixouri peninsula, where ruined homes and subsided fields still dot the landscape Photo: CORBIS Why go? The setting for Louis de Bernires' fabulous novel Captain ...

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Bulgaria 's finance ministry has denied their representatives are expected in Moscow on September 8 for talks on the construction of the Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline .

The newly-erected statues of four bronze lions on a Skopje bridge attracted the attention of the Macedonian public by the end of August.

Mafia gunmen shot dead a police chief and two special forces bodyguards with a Kalashnikov rifle as they dined in a posh restaurant called The Big Fish in Skopje, Macedonia, in revenge for a drugs crackdown, say police.

European Union countries have approved a financial oversight structure meant to shield against market turmoil and contain the excessive risk-taking that many blame for the global financial crisis.

The upcoming Greek strike forced Bulgaria's BDZ to alter the Wednesday and Thursday train schedule.

Pristina, Skopje Balkans criminal Lirim 'Nazi' Jakupi, recently apprehended in Kosovo after escaping from prison, is to serve the rest of his sentence in the country.

Plovdiv Bishop Nikolay of Bulgaria has handed out awards tothe Mayor of the city of Pazarzhik Todor Popov and the Pazardzhik Prosecutor Stefan Yanev for "standing up for Christian values, defending Orthodox Christian morality and spirituality, the sanctity of marriage, family, and statehood," the Sofia News Agency reports.

Skopje Matthew Nimetz The Greek weekly, To Paron, reported on Monday that Nimetz put forward the proposal in July, but it was being kept secret.

A handful of Greece's best environmental organisations warned on Monday that the release of species alien to a specific ecosystem can be disastrous for local wildlife.

Roma people from Macedonia take part in a demonstration to protest against the French government's immigration policy, especially the deportation of the Roma minority, on Sept.

An unfinished luxury villa stands for sale in the Dionysos suburb of Athens, Greece, on Sunday, Sept.

Danielle Dahl had never left the United States until talking with her chiropractor, who hailed from Cyprus.

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