| May 2, 2007 | - Tommy Lee was reportedly buying the manmade island of “Greece” in Dubai's “The World” project for his ex-wife Pamela Anderson, who has accused him in the past of domestic abuse and giving her hepatitis C.
| Source:
Mirror.co.uk
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| January 14, 2007 | - A rocket-propelled grenade struck the U.S. Embassy in Athens.
| Source:
New York Times
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| June 7, 2006 | - A report by the Council of Europe charged that European countries (including Germany,
Spain,
Sweden,
Greece, and Italy) served as a “global spider web” for the CIA's secret abduction and unlawful transfer of terrorism suspects to its network of torture camps around the world.
| Source:
New York Times
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| January 8, 2006 | - An earthquake struck Greece.
| Source:
CNN.com
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| September 26, 2005 | -
Greece won the Eurobasket.
| Source:
FIBA.com
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| January 21, 2005 | - A cartoonist was sentenced by a Greek court to six months in prison for depicting Jesus as a pot-smoking hippie.
| Source:
Ananova
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| January 8, 2004 | - The prime minister of Greece announced his resignation and said it was time for younger, more daring politicians to take over.
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 4, 2003 | -
An American diplomat in Athens, Greece, resigned in protest over the President's policy toward Iraq and said that “our fervent pursuit of war with Iraq is driving us to squander the international legitimacy that has been America's most potent weapon of both offense and defense since the days of Woodrow Wilson.” Russia's foreign minister threatened to veto the new American resolution on Iraq.
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| December 17, 2002 | -
Fish fell from the sky in northern Greece.
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| April 30, 2002 | -
Several British tourists who were arrested for “plane-spotting” in Greece last year were convicted of “illegally obtaining state secrets.” All England was aghast.
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| December 18, 2001 | -
Greece dropped spy charges against a group of British tourists who enjoy “plane spotting.” Federal officials arrested 35 people for smuggling cocaine using infants rented from poor families in Chicago.
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| December 4, 2001 | - Greek policemen, believing them to be spies, arrested a group of British plane-spotters who traveled to Greece to practice their hobby, which is unknown in most of the world.
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| July 10, 2001 | -
Greece announced its first case of mad cow disease.
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| May 8, 2001 | - The Pope visited Greece, the first such visit in about 1,300 years; Orthodox Christians protested, apparently still upset about the sacking of Constantinople in 1204, and held up insulting placards calling the Holy Father, among other things, a “two-horned monster of Rome.” President Macapagal Arroyo declared that a “state of rebellion” existed in Manila as thousands of supporters of former president Joseph Estrada (who was arrested recently on corruption charges, fingerprinted, and photographed like a common thief) stormed the presidential palace.
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| June 2, 2000 | - Structures built for the 2004 Athens
Olympics were falling into ruin.
| Source:
Telegraph
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