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Archive - 2011

February 18th

Greek scientist leads a space mission

18 February 2011 / 15:02:41  
On the Valentine's Day eve 340 million kilometers above our heads a historic meeting happened between the NASA’ Stardust space station and the comet Tempel 1 which is in the shape of a potato and is half as large as Manhattan. "The brain" in charge of the entire operation is a Greek scientist named Thanassis Ikonomou, reported Vima newspaper. The spacecraft have been prepared to go only 200 km away from the comet and to study it. This is the second comet caught by the lens of Stardust since 1999 when it was launched.


The new system of primary health care will be effective from early June

18 February 2011 / 13:02:29  
The procedures for the establishment of the united health services organization that will allow all physicians to serve patients from different health insurance funds started at a faster pace. The manager of the organization is expected to be appointed after 15 days and it will start to operate across the country on June 1, said Health Minister Andreas Loverdos during a meeting with doctors’ unions.


Another striker hospitalized, the government is uncertain about illegal immigration

18 February 2011 / 11:02:06  
Another one of the immigrants who have been on hunger strike for 24 days was rushed to the hospital by an ambulance yesterday at noon. The reason for the hospitalization of the immigrant were symptoms of dehydration.


Djibril Cisse flared up the audience in his…skirt

18 February 2011 / 10:02:12  
Peroxide hair, numerous tattoos, and bizarre behaviour in and outside the stadium. This is the international soccer ace Djibril Cisse who got into the spotlight again.


February 17th

Insurance vultures hover about the victims of Aspis Pronia

17 February 2011 / 20:02:22  
"Attention, misleading phone calls!" was the warning that struck the home page of the association of the affected by the collapse of Aspida. Other insurance companies have begun to seek new customers from the portfolio of Aspis and their sole purpose was to deceive the victims that they would be able to continue their old contracts


More technicians are affected by redundancies in televisions

17 February 2011 / 13:02:15  
Television technicians working with teams outside the studios are most affected by redundancies in televisions. Over the past two years, technicians signed collective agreements under which the 2009 wages increased by 5.6 percent, and they gave up the 2010 wages increase in order the televisions to be able to handle the severe economic situation and not to lay off people.


Prosecutors run after NGOs

17 February 2011 / 11:02:54  
An example of incredible causes supported over the years besides the familiar social problems is the program for growing tomatoes in the Ivory Coast in Africa for which the relevant NGO received two million drachmas or about 700,000 euros more than ten years ago.