| 1 | THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) " Greek police have arrested two union leaders after hundreds of miners blocked roads to protest the temporary closure of a controversial gold mine in northern Greece. |
| 2 | The men were charged with disrupting transportation Monday and released, while protesters later lifted the roadblocks in the Halkidiki peninsula " a major tourist destination. |
| 3 | Some 2,000 workers at the Canadian-run mine face up to three months' suspension, after the government halted work at the mine claiming it violated technical standards. |
| 4 | The project has been fiercely criticized on environmental grounds, but is also a test of Greece's ability to attract foreign investment. |
| 5 | On Sunday, police arrested 78 anti-mining protesters " mostly non-Greeks " near the mine. |