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How the world sees Greece
Thursday, October 24, 2013
The Sun 'Flips' Every 11 Years And Seven Other Things You Didn't Know About The Sun
There are about 70 sextillion stars in the universe, including at least 100 billion right here in our Milky Way galaxy. But the star that really matters to earthlings, of course, is the one that lies at the center of our solar system -- our sun.
But how much about this brilliant ball of gas do you really know? Do you have any idea just how big it is? How hot? Or even how old?
Take a look at our list of eight awesome facts to learn something new about the true rockstar of our solar system.Fact #1. It's even more ginormous than you might have imagined. The sun is so big, in fact, that one million Earths could fit inside it. It weighs a mind-boggling 4,385,214,857,119,400,000,000,000,000,000 pounds, and makes up 99.8 percent of all the mass in the solar system. Fact #2. It's EXTREMELY hot on the outside -- and thousands of times hotter on the inside. The sun's visible surface, or photosphere, is roughly 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit, while the core's temperature is about 27 million degrees. That's more than 40,000 times as hot as boiling water. The energy produced in the core generates essentially all the heat and light we receive on Earth -- you would need to explode 100 billion tons of dynamite every second to match the sun's energy output. Fact #3. Copernicus WASN'T the first to place it in the center of our solar system. In fact, Greek astronomer Aristarchus of Samos proposed the first known heliocentric (sun-centered) model in the third century B.C., nearly 1,800 years before Copernicus did.Portrait of astronomer Nicolas Copernicus, 1580.Fact #4. It's VERY far away. The sun is 93 million miles from Earth. It takes eight minutes and 19 seconds for sunlight to travel through space and reach us. If it were possible to fly a plane all the way to the sun, the trip would take 26 years, according to NASA.Fact #5. You'd be really heavy if you walked on the sun. In fact, a person who weighs 150 pounds on Earth would weigh about 4,200 pounds on the sun because the sun's gravity is 28 times that of Earth. Of course, no one is ever going to walk on the sun, as Buzz Aldrin explains in the silly interview with Ali G below.Fact #6. It's middle-aged. The sun is about 4.6 billion years old now and is expected to last another five billion years before it starts burning helium and expanding into a red giant. At that point it will swallow up Venus, Mercury, and maybe Earth too. It will spend approximately one billion years as a red giant before it shrinks into a white dwarf.Fact #7. It "flips" every 11 years. When the sun reaches its so-called solar maximum -- its period of greatest activity -- its magnetic field reverses polarity, meaning the north and south pole essentially switch. Scientists observed the field reversal begin in August this year.Fact # 8. It's something to sneeze at. Achoo! A third of the population experiences what's called the photic sneeze reflex -- sneezing when exposed to sunlight or another bright light. Why does this happen? Aristotle thought it was because the sun warmed the nose. Today scientists think the culprit might be "crossed wires" in the brain -- the trigeminal nerve, which senses irritations in the nose and triggers sneezing, lies close to the optic nerve, which senses light entering the retina. When the optic nerve fires, the trigeminal nerve may pick up those signals and mistakenly activate a sneeze response.
Newport News Greek Festival happening on Oct. 24-26
The Newport News Greek Festival is coming up Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 24-26. The fall festival is an indoor event that takes place inside the Hellenic Center adjacent to Saints Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church, located at 60 Traverse ...
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Greece Roma child DNA test
A Roma woman in Bulgaria has undergone DNA testing to determine whether she is the mother of the mystery blonde girl Maria, who was taken from a couple in Greece after she was suspected to be unrelated to them. A Roma woman in Bulgaria has ...
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Bulgarian woman says she may be mother of blonde ‘Maria’
Bulgarian police have questioned a Roma couple who say they may be the biological parents of the blonde girl named “Maria” found in a Roma camp in Greece last week, state television said today. Local media in Bulgaria identified the Roma woman as Sasha ...
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Roma fear witch hunt after Greek case
Roma fear witch hunt after Greek caseThe GuardianGabriela Hrabanova, the former head of the Czech government's Roma office, and now policy coordinator for the European Roma Grassroots Organisations Network, in Brussels, warns that speculation around the Greek case may fuel the rhetoric of ...and more »
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Greece girl Maria 'bought as an investment by jailed foster parents'
Mirror.co.ukGreece girl Maria 'bought as an investment by jailed foster parents'Mirror.co.ukGreece girl Maria 'bought as an investment by jailed foster parents'. 24 Oct 2013 08:42. Greek police believe Gypsy family planned to make big money by selling her into a forced marriage at the age of just 12. Investment: Eleftheria Dimopoulou, Hristos ...and more »
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More Gypsy abduction arrests in Greece
More Gypsy abduction arrests in GreeceUSA TODAYATHENS — Greek police arrested three Gypsies Wednesday on the island of Lesbos who are accused of abducting a 3-month-old baby boy, the second such allegation of child kidnapping by Gypsies in a week. The three Gypsies, also known as Roma, had ...
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Greece mystery girl: Bulgarian woman says she’s been questioned in ‘Maria’ case
SOFIA, BULGARIA—A Roma woman in Bulgaria said Thursday that police have questioned her about whether she is the mother of a girl found living with an unrelated couple in Greece, and that she is willing to do a DNA test and take the child back ...
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Bulgarian police question Roma couple over Greek 'Maria' case
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgarian police have questioned a Roma couple who say they may be the biological parents of a blonde girl named Maria found in a Roma ... ago when she and her husband worked in the Greek town of Larissa but needed to go back to Bulgaria ...
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FOTOGRAFIA: Dedicated Followers of Fashion
There may be a raging economic crisis, but Greek fashion designers went ahead with the Athens Exclusive Designers Week (AXDW) event that featured 23 of the country?s most prominent who also celebrated the work of one of their colleagues, Michalis Aslanis, who was found dead in his Athens apartment in August.
There was a special exhibition commemorating him and fashion fans found plenty of else to ogle as they sat around the catwalk watching models like this one, who was presenting an outfit by Greek fashion designers 180Degrees that was one of those featured in collections Spring - Summer 2014.
AXDW said it strategically chooses to work with Greek Designers that work abroad and this event also featured the noted Panos Papadopoulos, the designer that is behind the very successful brand Panos Emporio, world recognized for its cloth and swim-suits collections! ?Panos is now one of the most worthy deputies of our country overseas and he is presenting his work for the first time in Greece,? officials said.
He had plenty of rivals, including Makis Tselios with his Collection Atelier 2014 for men and women, influenced from the 1920s and 1930s with jazz-swing music and the Deluxe Street Wear creations of Apostolos Mitropoulos for Underground and the Ancient Greek concept.
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Greek Gypsies Say They're Vilified
FARSALA, Greece - Some of the houses in the Roma settlement near the central Greek town of Farsala resemble containers ? the kind that would usually be found on ships. Outside, groups of children are playing and laughing in the early evening. Inside, the mood is more somber as their parents watch the latest developments of a case that is very close to their hearts unfold on television.
'They call us Roma on the TV but in the streets they shout out Gypsy, spitting and walking away from us,' says Maria, a 20 year-old Roma mother of one. A sparkling golden colored pin holds her long blonde hair in a bun, her fair cheeks are flush with pique and her fists are restless as she places them in the pockets of her white jumper. 'The press says we dance like monkeys or bears, just because we're celebrating - they want to ridicule us.'
Maria is livid. She feels her community is being vilified by Greek and international media after the fair-haired infant, who is now known across the world as 'Maria', was found with a Roma couple who claimed to be her parents at the settlement.
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Samaras, Venizelos Now Oppose Austerity
ATHENS - After jointly backing harsh austerity measures demanded by international lenders in return for rescue loans, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the New Democracy Conservative leader, and his coalition partner, PASOK Socialist chief Evangelos Venizelos said they won?t any more.
The Troika of the European Union-International Monetary Fund-European Central Bank (EU-IMF-ECB) said if Greece needs more aid that it would come with conditions of additional reforms, such as the pay cuts, tax hikes, slashed pensions and worker firings that have decimated society in an attempt to save it.
The Troika sees a potential two billion euros ($2.76 billion) budget gap looming despite ongoing loans that will total $325 billion over nearly four years before they run out.
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Woman in Bulgaria says girl found living with family in Greece may be hers
Woman claims to have left 'Maria' with family in Greece and says she is willing to take DNA test
A Roma woman in Bulgaria says police have questioned her about whether she is the mother of a girl found to be living with an unrelated couple in Greece.
She says she is willing to do a DNA test and take the child back if the girl is hers.
Sasha Ruseva, 38, says she was working in Greece a few years ago when she had a baby girl and left her with another family in the Roma community because she did not have enough money to keep her.
She spoke to Bulgarian TV on Thursday.
Greek authorities took the girl, known as Maria, after noticing the blonde child looked nothing like the couple she lived with.
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Woman offers to submit DNA in 'Maria' case
Sasha Ruseva says she gave birth to a girl while working in Greece years ago and left her.
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Is this 'Greek girl' Maria's real brother and sister? Picture shows strikingly similar children in Bulgaria
This morning Sasha and her husband Atana Rusev, 37, were arrested in a joint Bulgarian-Greek operation near Stara Zagora in central Bulgaria. Maria's adoptive Greek Roma parents - Hristos Salis, 39 and Eleftheria Dimopoulou, 40 - are currently in custody ...
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Maria mystery: 'That's our girl,' say Bulgarian family
Telegraph.co.ukMaria mystery: 'That's our girl,' say Bulgarian familyTelegraph.co.ukMaria was discovered living in a Roma camp near the Greek town of Farsala last week, with a couple who DNA tests proved were not her parents. Authorities launched an international hunt to find her biological relatives. When the images were shown on ...Woman offers to submit DNA in 'Maria' caseUSA TODAYHas the mother of Maria been found? Bulgarian family say they will take DNA testThe IndependentAnother mystery girl found with Roma familyeuronewsMirror.co.uk -Daily Mail -The Australianall 1,193 news articles »
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Greece arrests three Roma over baby
View of caravans at an encampment of Roma families in Triel-sur-Seine, near Paris. Camps of migrant Romanians, like this one, are found throughout Europe. REUTERS/Benoit ...
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Lavrov to visit Greece October 29-20
MOSCOW, October 24 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit Greece on October 29-30 for talks on Russian-EU relations and the situation in Syria, the Foreign Ministry reported on Thursday. Lavrov is expected to hold talks with his Greek counterpart Evangelos Venizelos. The Russian minister is due to meet Greek President Carolos Papoulias and Prime Minister Antonis Samaras. ...
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“Greeting” Competition Winner in Greece to Meet Putin
An original gesture in social media (Facebook), is landing Julia Gavrilova a face to face meeting with President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. This is to be arranged by the President of the Cultural Association “Russian House”, based in Alexandroupoli, within the next year. More specifically, Ms. Gavrilova participated in the international competition with […]
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Arab Investments in Greece
Significant inflows for investment in Greece are expected from the government after the current completion of negotiations between Greek and UAE delegation, on the text of the Agreement on Reciprocal Promotion and Protection of Investments. The text takes under consideration points of Greek interest, particularly as far as the compliance with the EU acquisitions is […]
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Little Blond Girl Maria’s Biological Parents Found in Bulgaria?
According to the Bulgarian media, there is new data for the case of Maria, the little blond girl found in Greece. It appears that her biological parents were found in the town Stara Zagora in Bulgaria. As reported in the website of the newspaper Trud, her parents are Atanas and Sasa Rusevi, who are now […]
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Greek MPs to get free pass on highway tolls
Greek Parliament voted on Thursday to reward regional lawmakers who choose to give up their right of free air tickets to their electoral constituencies, which are paid for by the state, by giving them a free pass on highway tolls.
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Woman in Bulgaria questioned in 'Maria' case, says she left baby girl in Greece
A Roma woman in Bulgaria says police have questioned her about whether she is the mother of a girl found to be living with an unrelated couple in Greece. She says she is willing to do a DNA test and take the child back if the girl is hers.
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Roma woman tells Bulgarian TV she's been questioned in 'Maria' case, is willing to do DNA test
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Woman in Bulgaria questioned in 'Maria' case
Associated Press - 24 October 2013 09:51-04:00
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — A Roma woman in Bulgaria says police have questioned her about whether she is the mother of a girl found to be living with an unrelated couple in Greece. She says she is willing to do a DNA test and take the child back if the girl is hers.
Sasha Ruseva, 38, says she was working in Greece a few years ago when she had a baby girl and left her with another family in the Roma, or Gypsy, community because she did not have enough money to keep her. She spoke to Bulgarian TV on Thursday.
Greek authorities took the girl, known as "Maria," after noticing the blond child looked nothing like the couple she lived with.
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Bulgaria police 'quiz Maria parents'
A Bulgarian couple suspected of being the biological parents of Maria, the girl found in a Greek Roma community, are questioned by police, reports say.
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Greek Mystery Sold By Bulgarian Roma 'Parents,' Reports Claim
Bulgarian police are questioning a Roma couple who might be the biological parents of Maria, a mysterious blonde girl found in a Greek Roma camp, media reported Thursday. According to the reports, the couple, named as Sasha Ruseva and Atanas ...
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Sir Anthony Caro, one of Britain's finest sculptors, dies aged 89
Tributes pour in for world-renowned tireless sculptor 'of humility and humanity' famous for pioneering plinth-less statues and design brains behind Millennium bridge
The sculptor Sir Anthony Caro, regarded as one of the leading artists of his generation and represented in museum collections all over the world, has died of a sudden heart attack at the age of 89.
Major retrospectives of his sculpture in recent years – which almost invariably also featured brand new work – have seen his reputation steadily grow; an exhibition of his work is currently on display at the Correr Museum in Venice.
Caro was described as "a man of great humility and humanity" by Sir Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate, which filled the main galleries of Tate Britain with his work in 2005.
Uniquely among British sculptors, thousands of pedestrians walk across Caro's work every day: he was the artist in the design team which created the Millennium bridge across the Thames in London, linking St Paul's Cathedral and Tate Modern.
Caro became instantly famous with an exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1963 with brilliantly coloured abstract sculptures, breaking the tradition of displaying sculptures isolated on plinths by placing them directly on the floor, an innovation much copied since. His degree from Christ's College Cambridge was in engineering, before he went on to study sculpture at the Royal Academy Schools. In the 1950s, Caro worked as an assistant to another giant of British 20th-century sculpture, Sir Henry Moore.
Serota ranked him among the great names in the world of sculpture. "Anthony Caro was one of the outstanding sculptors of the past 50 years, alongside David Smith, Eduardo Chillida, Donald Judd and Richard Serra. In the 60s, he established a new language for sculpture in a series of elegant, arresting, abstract steel sculptures placed directly on the ground. His development of this vocabulary, building on the legacy of Picasso, but introducing brilliant colour and a refined use of shape and line, was enormously influential in Europe and America.
"Caro admired the sculpture of ancient cultures and Greece, and from the 80s onwards produced a series of large-scale abstract works that reflected a continuing interest in the human body, but also a growing fascination with architecture. Caro was a man of great humility and humanity whose abundant creativity, even as he approached the age of 90, was still evident in the most recent work shown in exhibitions in Venice and London earlier this year."
He was married to the painter Sheila Girling, and their long personal and working relationship was celebrated in a joint exhibition in 2007 at the Roche Court arts centre in Wiltshire.
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Greece can choose its government, but not its economic policy
Brussels - Responding to a question from SYRIZA MP, Nadia Valavani, during a conference in Lithuania, last week, European Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner, Olli Rehn, confirmed that Greece’s fiscal monitoring would not end when its bailout expir... ...
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Three arrested in Lesvos on suspicion of child abduction
Three Greek Gypsies were arrested on the eastern island of Lesvos Wednesday on suspicion of child abduction, days after a similar case involving a girl known as "Maria" prompted an international investigation.
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Bulgarian woman, 35, the mother of mystery girl 'Maria,' reports claim
A 35-year-old Bulgarian woman is believed to be the mother of the 4-year-old mystery girl nicknamed “Maria” that was found last week living in a Roma settlement in Farsala, in central Greece.
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“KaliMerhaba” Project-Exploration of Thessaloniki and Izmir
Five young people from Thessaloniki, Greece, and five from Izmir, Turkey, started a ten-month voyage in order to investigate the common elements of the two cities and record them using new technologies. As the project’s official facebook account informs us “KaliMerhaba” is a 9-month transnational project which aims to bring together young people from the […]
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Greece girl Maria's real mum 'is Bulgarian farm hand who was too poor to keep her'
Police believe Sasha Ruseva - who already had two children when she fell pregnant in 2008 - sold her blonde-haired daughter to child traffickers The mother of 'blonde angel' Maria rescued from a Greek gypsy camp is a Bulgarian farm hand who was too poor to ...
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Another mystery child: Second alleged Roma abduction case rocks Greece
Another mystery child: Second alleged Roma abduction case rocks GreeceNBCNews.com (blog)A Roma couple was arrested Wednesday in Greece on suspicion of abducting a two-month-old baby -- just days after authorities discovered a blond, blue-eyed girl known as "Maria" living with a duo who weren't her biological parents. "The initial evidence ...
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Is George Osborne really a hero of global finance?
Economist Ken Rogoff is wrong to claim the chancellor had to embrace austerity given Britain's history of debt defaults
Was the British government's decision to embrace austerity in the wake of the global financial crisis the right policy after all?
Yes, claims the economist Kenneth Rogoff in a much-discussed recent commentary. Rogoff argues that while, in hindsight, the government should have borrowed more, at the time there was a real danger that Britain would go the way of Greece. So Chancellor George Osborne turns out, on this view, to be a hero of global finance.
To show that there was a real threat of capital flight, Rogoff uses historical cases to demonstrate that the United Kingdom's credit performance has been far from credible. He mentions the 1932 default on its first world war debt owed to the United States, the debts accumulated after the second world war, and the UK's "serial dependence on International Monetary Fund bailouts from the mid-1950s until the mid-1970s."
What Rogoff's analysis lacks is the context in which these supposed offences were committed. The 1932 default on Britain's first world war loans from America remains the largest blemish on the UK's debt history, but the background is crucial. The world emerged from the Great War in the shadow of a mountain of debt that the victorious Allies owed to one another (the US being the only net creditor), and by the losers to the victors. John Maynard Keynes predicted accurately that all of these debts would end up in default.
The UK was the only country that made an effort to pay. Having failed to collect what other countries owed it, Britain continued to pay the US for 10 years, suspending debt service only in the depth of the Great Depression.
Rogoff's discussion about the debts accumulated after the second world war is beside the point. It is neither here nor there to claim that "had the UK not used a labyrinth of rules and regulations to hold nominal interest rates on debt below inflation, its debt-to-GDP ratio might have risen over the period 1945-1955 instead of falling dramatically". The fact is that the UK did manage to reduce its debt using a series of policies, including encouragement of economic growth.
As for the UK's "serial dependence" on the IMF from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s, there were actually only two episodes: the 1956 bailout during the Suez crisis and the 1976 bailout that preceded the winter of discontent when strikes in many essential industries – even the dead went unburied – practically brought the country to its knees. (It hardly needs stating that borrowing money from the IMF is not a default.)
In 1956, the UK was facing a speculative attack in the midst of the Suez crisis. The country was running a current-account surplus, but the pound was slipping against the dollar, causing the Bank of England to sell its dollar reserves to defend the fixed exchange rate. As its reserves drained away, Prime Minister Anthony Eden was forced to appeal for help, first to the US and then to the IMF.
The IMF's involvement was necessitated only by America's unwillingness to provide support. Furthermore, US President Dwight Eisenhower went so far as to use America's clout within the IMF to force Eden to withdraw British troops from Egypt in exchange for the loan.
The reality of the 1976 bailout is even more complicated. In the aftermath of the crisis, Chancellor Denis Healey revealed that the Public Sector Borrowing Requirement had been grossly overestimated in the 1970s, and that, had he had the right figures, the UK would never have needed a loan. According to him, the Treasury even failed to recognize that the UK would have a tax surplus.
Of course, all of this had drastic implications for the economy. Tony Benn, a Labour cabinet minister in the 1970s, later revealed that the "winter of discontent," which ushered in a Tory government at the end of the decade, had been caused by the severe cuts in public expenditure demanded by the IMF: "Why did we have the winter of discontent? Because in 1976, the IMF said to the Cabinet, 'You cut £4bn off your public expenditure or we will destroy the value of the pound sterling.'"
There is little evidence for Rogoff's implicit assumption that investors' decisions today are driven by the government's handling of its debt in the past. The number of defaults is largely irrelevant when it comes to a country like the UK, which is politically stable, carries significant economic weight, and has an independent central bank.
Consider Germany, the "biggest debt transgressor of the 20th century," according to the economic historian Albrecht Ritschl. In the table on page 99 of their book This Time is Different, Rogoff and his co-author, Carmen Reinhart, show that Germany experienced eight debt defaults and/or restructurings from 1800 to 2008. There were also the two defaults through inflation in 1920 and 1923. And yet today Germany is Europe's economic hegemon, laying down the law to miscreants like Greece.
The truth is that a country's past failures do not influence investors if its current institutions and economic policies are sound. That was clearly the case when Osborne and his colleagues opted for austerity.
Copyright: Project Syndicate, 2013.
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Bulgaria questions 'parents' of Greece mystery girl
Sofia (AFP) - Bulgarian police are questioning a Roma couple who might be the biological parents of Maria, a mysterious blonde girl found in a Greek Roma camp, media reported Thursday. According to the reports, the couple, named as Sasha Ruseva and Atanas ...
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MTSU's Greek Row hosts pre-Halloween festivities
(AP) - Fraternities and sororities at Middle Tennessee State University are hosting some family-friendly pre-Halloween festivities. Trick-or-Treat on Greek Row will feature activities such as bowling and face painting, and a blow-up slide will be available.
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Golden Dawn state funding suspended by Greek parliament
Greek MPs pass a bill that means the far-right party Golden Dawn will no longer receive state funding. The party's deputy, Ilias Kasidiaris, claims the change to law is illegal and unconstitutional. The vote is the latest in a series of attempts to clamp down on the actions of the neo-Nazi ...
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Greece cuts far-right party state funds
This is repression of a party which enjoys the support of a substantial chunk of the greek population. Samaras can silence the people, yes, but no one can stop the people to think the way they ...
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Second Roma couple charged on suspicion of abducting child in Greece
A second Roma couple have been charged in Greece on suspicion of abducting a child.A two-month-old baby was found living with them on the island of Lesbos, with police saying there is strong evidence they're not the parents.It is just a week after the discovery of a girl at a Roma camp in ...
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More Roma arrests in Greece over suspected child abduction
Greece A Roma couple is being questioned by police on the Greek island of Lesbos on suspicion of kidnapping a baby, just a week after the discovery of a girl dubbed the "blonde angel" made headlines around the world.A 21-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman were detained for questioning, along with the man's 51-year-old mother, according to Panagiotis Kordonouris, police chief ...
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Greece Arrests 3 Gypsies For Child Abduction
A poster illustrates the story of a young girl found in a gypsy camp in northern Greece. Two people were arrested and three have been charged in a similar case on the island of Lesbos. Officials are investigating flaws in child registrations. ATHENS (AP) -- Three Greek Gypsies were arrested on the eastern island of Lesvos on Oct. 23 on suspicion of child abduction, days after a similar case ...
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Greek Media Mystery Childs Mother Is Bulgarian
Greek media are claiming Thursday morning that the biological mother of the blond girl, found in a Roma camp in northern Greece on October 16, has been identified. They say she is Sasha Ruseva from the Black Sea city of Burgas. According to her ID card, which was published in Greek press, the woman was born in the town of Yambol. The investigative report of team of journalists from ...
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Aussie archaeologists aim to solve Greek mystery
Fifty Australian archaeologists have begun a bid in Greece to try and solve the mystery of why a bustling early Iron Age city was abandoned. They're in Zagora, once a city that was thriving with farming and industry on the island of Andros in the 9th century BC before it was inexplicably abandoned. One of the dig's co-directors is Lesley Beaumont from Sydney University's ...
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3 Roma Gypsies arrested after ANOTHER child found 'kidnapped' in Greece
The Roma were arrested today on the Aegean island of Lesvos. It comes days after a couple of the mainland were charged with abducting a girl known as 'Maria' (pictured).
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Angeliki Nikolouli Talks Latest Findings About Little Maria Found in Greece
The Greek investigative journalist who has found more than 650 missing persons talks about Maria, the girl who was found by police at a Roma camp in Greece. Angeliki Nikolouli, who has been twice included in the Guinness book of records for solving mysteries and uniting families with their missing loved ones, recently wrote two […]
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“Kismet” Looks at Impact of Turkish Soaps on Women
Turkish soap operas have millions of fans all across the Balkans, the Middle East and North Africa and this is a well-known fact. But what remains largely unexplored, is how they have affected the social and religious lives of Muslim women, especially in the Arab world, and changed the way they see themselves and their […]
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President of Democracy in Thessaloniki for Triple Celebrations
Greek President Karolos Papoulias is going to attend the celebrations on the 28th of October in Thessaloniki. The liberation of the city, as well as the city’s patron St. Dimitrios are also celebrated on the same day. On Saturday President Papoulias with Vice President Evangelos Venizelos will meet Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the St. Dimitrios […]
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Stournaras: Supervision For All European Countries
Yannis Stournaras, the Greek Minister of Finance stated that the statement of Olli Rehn, regarding a stronger supervision in Greece, is concerning all the European countries. He also said that Olli Rehn’s reaction is normal. According to the European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs, Greece has to be under supervision until we repay the […]
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