is the life blood of the Greek economy. If it dries up, the already grim economic crisis will worsen. More than 17 percent of Greece’s GDP depends on tourism, according to the World Travel and Tourism Council, with around 350,000 Greeks directly employed in the sector.

There has been a sharp reduction in bookings since Sunday, when Greece held a referendum on whether to swallow more austerity in return for another bail-out.

The "No" vote – rejecting any such deal – won an overwhelming victory, with 62 percent of the vote, in what many European leaders regarded as a slap in the face, after five months of painstaking negotiations with the radical leftist government of Alexis Tsipras, the prime minister.

"Since the announcement of the referendum and the imposition of capitalPopular

January 24, 2006

US ‘Outsourced’ Torture: Probe

by Sam Savage

By Jon Boyle

STRASBOURG, France -- A European human rights investigator said on Tuesday there was evidence the United States had "outsourced" torture to other countries and it was likely that European governments knew about it.

But Swiss senator Dick Marty, who heads an investigation by the Council of Europe human rights watchdog, said he had not uncovered any irrefutable evidence to confirm allegations that the CIA operated secret detention centers in Europe.

His remarks, in a preliminary report, kept pressure on the CIA and European governments over allegations that the U.S. intelligence agency flew prisoners through airports in Europe to jails in third countries where they may have been tortured.

"There is a great deal of coherent, convergent evidence pointing to the existence of