Cretan Chronicles

Greece in the news...

• Greek Football’s Reality Check
  Goal.com - Switzerland
  It turned out a Greek tragedy. Both on the international and domestic stage, Greek football has suffered an unceremonious fall from grace. ...

  Grid computer recreates ancient Greek lute
  Register - London,England,UK
  At the risk of stating the obvious, an epigonion is a stringed instrument plucked by the ancient Greeks, and there aren't many around these days. ...

  Comment: Greek Football's Reality Check
  Goal.com - Switzerland
  It was supposed to be a mythical summer, it turned out a Greek tragedy. Both on the international and domestic stage, Greek football has suffered an ...

  Greek police arrest four in child porn
  TVNZ - New Zealand
  Greek police arrested four men, including a high-ranking police officer from the northern city of Thessaloniki, as part of an international crackdown on ...

• Greece welcomes new Cyprus peace push
  Hürriyet - Turkey
  Greece welcomed the new round of talks to reunify Cyprus which opened Wednesday, saying it hoped Turkey and the Turkish Cypriots would display the will and ...

  Greece gets antiquities back from US collector
  Reuters - USA
  ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece celebrated on Wednesday the return of two rare smuggled antiquities from a prominent US collector and expressed hope other ancient ...

  1 Million Tourists from Russia, Poland, Bulgaria and Romania to ...
  Balkan Travellers - Sofia,Bulgaria
  3 September 2008 | The number of tourists from Russia, Poland, Romania and Bulgaria to visit Greece in 2008 will reach over 1 million, Greek media reported ...

  Greece: Excerpts from FM Ms. Bakoyannis' interview with Mr. D ...
  ISRIA (subscription) - Washington,DC,USA
  He is attempting to provoke statements – or even just a change of tone – in Greece, and then turn them to account. That is why he takes such care in reading ...

  Turkish press on September 3rd
  www.worldbulletin.net - Istanbul,Istanbul,Turkey
  Christofias said, "Turkey and Greece should abdicate their right as guarantor state." It has become definite that President Abdullah Gul will go to Yerevan ...