London, June 23: The Greek government has dispatched extra staff to guard the great cultural antiques of Greece, in a response to the criticism that it has faced of the handling of its national treasures at museums and archaeological sites.

According to a report in The Guardian, tour guides, travel companies and tourists have expressed their irritation with the conditions at prime archaeological sites in Greece.

“The situation at museums and sites around the country is bad,” the culture minister, Michalis Liapis, conceded in parliament last week. “It has to be corrected,” he added.

In lie of the current situation, the ruling conservatives last week rushed hundreds of additional personnel to staff museums and open-air antiquities.

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Athens  - Seismologists warned Monday that the strong earthquake that struck southwestern Greece over the weekend, killing two and injuring more than 150, will be followed by a strong aftershock.

Skopje, Macedonia  - Neighbourly relations between Athens and Skopje were further soured Thursday when Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovski cancelled a trip to Athens in protest at a Greek ban o

Athens - Three people were injured on Wednesday following clashes between rival student unions outside a university in the Greek capital in protest of education reforms, reports said.

Police said a group of students hurled rocks and petrol bombs at opposing student groups outside a university at the capital's port of Pireaus.

Similar clashes were also reported in the northern port city of Thessaloniki were the dean was injured in clashes with students.

Three people were taken to hospital with injuries, including the dean in Thessaloniki.