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Europe
London Metropolitan Police Recruits Greek Speaking Officers
The current London Metropolitan Police recruitment program has set a new prerequisite. Candidates need to be fluent in English, as well as one of 14 other languages, including Greek, Hebrew, Arabic and Portuguese.
According to the Scotland Yard, this new prerequisite...
Crime
London: Greek Man Murdered Outside Waterloo Station [Update]
A 43-year-old Greek man was found brutally murdered near London’s Waterloo Train station, early in the morning on Saturday, January 3.
According to London authorities, the deceased is Menelaos Agisilakis and his family has been alerted about the tragic incident. The...
Crime
Fearing Terrorists, Anxious Athens Steps Up Security
Greece has taken extra precautions and beefed up security in the wake of the disappearance of a convicted November 17 terrorist who walked away from a holiday furlough and then appeared in an Internet video promising a wave of...
Crime
TT Scandal Fugitives Free Again
A Greek couple wanted in the Hellenic Postbank scandal and who turned themselves in to British authorities after being the subject of a worldwide hunt with the help of Interpol were released almost as soon as they surrendered on...
Crime
Hellenic Postbank Fugitives Caught in London
British authorities said that Kyriakos Griveas and his wife Anastasia Vatsika, who were subjects of a worldwide hunt and being sought with the help of Interpol as Greek officials said they had absconded with as much as 17 million...
Greece
What Lies Beneath The Hoodie: London 2011 vs. Athens 2008
August 2011: as a result of a police fatal shooting, disaffected hooded youth burn[...]