Nia Vardalos and John Corbett return for the sequel to the hit romcom My Big Fat GREEK Wedding — and there is another Big Fat Wedding in the works ...
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How the world sees Greece
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
First Look: Nia Vardalos and John Corbett in My Big Fat GREEK Wedding 2
New Report Shows Abortions in Greece Have Doubled Since Financial Crisis Began
An article by Kathimerini newspaper reveals the findings of a study on the increased abortions and decreased birth rates in Greece since the start of the financial crisis. According to Kathimerini’s report on the study, which was presented during the 7th Panhellenic Conference of Family Planning in Athens between October 17 and October 18, since the commencement of the ongoing
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Greek and American Archaeologists Discover Parts of Mycenaean Throne
Archaeologists have possibly found a part of the ancient Mycenaean Kingdom’s throne, according to a report by “Real news.” The article notes that this part of the throne, which is estimated to have been built around the 13th century B.C., was found a few meters away from the Mycenaean Acropolis and weighs around 50 kilos. The discovery was
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Greek Government Seeks Criminal Prosecution Over Tape Leaks
Greek government seeks criminal prosecution over leaked tapes claiming it has ties to radicals
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Deputy FM Mardas’ welcome address at the 20th National Energy Conference, “Energy and ...
Deputy Foreign Minister Dimitris Mardas delivered a welcome address today at the opening of the proceedings of the 20th National Energy Conference, “Energy and Development 2015”, which is being hosted on 11 and 12 November, in Athens, by the Institute of Energy for South East Europe (IENE).Below is the text of his address:“Mr. President,Ladies and Gentlemen,I would like to congratulate the IENE on its holding of the 20th National Energy Conference, which this year puts particular emphasis on the role of the energy sector in the recovery of the Greek economy, which is also a priority of our government.Among the...
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Research and Markets: Caustic Soda Market in Greece: 2015-2019 Review
… IN GREECE 2. CAPACITY IN GREECE 3. CAUSTIC SODA SUPPLY IN GREECE 4 … SODA DEMAND IN GREECE 6. CAUSTIC SODA TRADE IN GREECE 7. FUTURE … . SUPPLIERS IN GREECE 9. CAUSTIC SODA END-USERS IN GREECE For more information …
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Everything big is GREEK again in My Big Fat GREEK Wedding 2 trailer
Thirteen years have passed since My Big Fat GREEK Wedding was loosed upon the world, so at the risk of heightening your triskaidekaphobia, we're ...
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My Big Fat GREEK Wedding 2 Trailer Is Big And GREEK
When the original My Big Fat GREEK Wedding hit in 2002, it was a huge sleeper hit. Starting with a limited release and a minuscule budget, the film ...
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'My Big Fat GREEK Wedding 2' Trailer: Nia Vardalos & Family Are At It Again
“A long time ago, I had a big, fat GREEK wedding,” Nia Vardalos says at the beginning of this trailer. Yes it was — 2002, to be exact. That's when her ...
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GREECE Needs More Leaders Like Gianna Angelopoulos
In 2004, Gianna Angelopoulos was the president of the organizing committee for the Olympic Games taking place in Athens. She was the woman who ...
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The My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 Trailer Has Arrived
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 sees the return of the bulk of the original’s cast, although Kirk Jones has stepped in for Joel Zwick in the director’s chair.
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National Bank of Greece Averts Turkish Lira Weakness ...
National Bank of Greece investments have been focused internationally on Turkey, but it also has operations in the United Kingdom, Cyprus, South Africa, as ...
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UPDATE 1-Greece's Attica Bank plans share issue to raise ...
Last month the Bank of Greece carried out a comprehensive assessment of Attica, in line with the European Central Bank's health check of Greece's four big ...
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Eight Turkish jets violate GREEK air space
Eight Turkish fighter jets violated GREEK national air space in the northeastern, central and southeastern Aegean on Wednesday, defense officials said.
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The First Taste of My Big Fat GREEK Wedding 2 Is Bigger and Fatter Than You Dreamed
The trailer for the highly-anticipated sequel to My Big Fat GREEK Wedding (2002), aptly titled My Big Fat GREEK Wedding 2, dropped today. And it's ...
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13 "My Big Fat GREEK Wedding 2" Trailer Moments That Prove This Sequel Was Worth The Wait ...
I'm about to get a little vulnerable with you guys here, so be nice to me, okay? I really loved My Big Fat GREEK Wedding, and I feel the exact same way ...
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Trailer released for 'My Big Fat GREEK Wedding 2'
We've waited 13 years for this. The trailer to "My Big Fat GREEK Wedding 2" is out, and it's everything you hoped it would be. In the sequel to the 2002 ...
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EU leaders seek to share responsibility for migration in Malta
A problem shared is a problem divided into 50 small parts? EPA/Lino Arrigo Azzopardi European and African leaders are in the Maltese capital Valletta to discuss how they can better cooperate on migration. Attendees will discuss ideas about how to deal with the devastating consequences of people trying to enter Europe by unauthorised channels. European leaders have agreed to provide African partners with resources to manage migration. But this, like so many other measures to be discussed at this summit, seems a lot like one side trying to persuade another to take a problem away. Cooperation on this issue is by no means new, but the events unfolding on European shores over the past year show just how limited the results of this co-operation have been. As more and more people die trying to cross the Mediterranean from places such as Libya and Turkey to Italy or Greece, pressure has grown to come up with a solution that gets to the roots of the current situation. At this summit, European leaders are seeking to emphasise the importance of “shared responsibility” in managing and preventing migration. The EU’s “global approach” to migration is under the spotlight. ON THE TABLE IN MALTA The European Commission is launching a €1.8bn emergency trust fund for Africa at Valletta, to help address migration at source. This pools resources from the EU development fund and European member states. It can be used in regions of the Sahel and Lake Chad, Northern Africa, and the Horn of Africa to tackle the “root causes” of migration, such as economic and social instability. But while this may appear a generous deal, the fund creates a donor-type relationship with Africa that privileges European concerns to prevent migration. This runs the risk of reinforcing inequality by stopping people from escaping conflict, poverty and instability to start a new life in Europe. The EU has agreed to resettle more than 20,000 refugees from outside the EU at the request of UN, and to relocate 160,000 people who have already arrived and are in need of protection. Yet an emphasis on border security and regional development mechanisms nevertheless suggests that “shared responsibility” in the area of protection is orientated toward preventing vulnerable migrants from reaching the EU. Images of migrants are projected onto the walls of the conference centre. Reuters/Darrin Zammit Lupi Discussions about legal migration channels to date have mainly focused on plugging the labour market gaps that benefit the EU. This includes highly skilled migration, intra-corporate transfers, temporary seasonal migration, as well as migration for research and studying. What is described as a “shared responsibility” is heavily skewed towards meeting EU requirements. Cooperating on “return and readmission” is presented as an important complement to an open migration policy and as necessary for the credibility of an EU that facilitates international protection and legal migration. But return only works in one direction – from the EU to Africa. The “global approach” being touted in Malta does not exactly involve “shared responsibility”. The whole discussion on managing migration – from investing in development to bolstering security and expanding humanitarian efforts – is geared towards preventing unauthorised entry into the EU. Even talk of protecting the most vulnerable reflects a desire to keep them out. Surely European leaders can do better than this by now? _Vicki Squire receives funding from ESRC and the Leverhulme Foundation. _
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European rabbis distribute aid to Syrian, Iraqi refugees in GREECE
(JTA) — European rabbis who gathered in GREECE for a conference brought with them blankets and other goods to hand out to refugees from Syria ...
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Refugee boat sinks off western Turkey, 14 dead
Ankara, November 11, 2015/Independent Balkan News Agency Migrant-carrying ship found in trouble off coast of Canakkale, near Greek island of Lesbos Fourteen people drowned off Turkey’s western coast when a boat packed with refugees sank in the early hours of Wednesday, the Turkish Coast Guard said. The incident is the latest tragedy to affect refugees […]
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Watch Students Realize Arabic And Spanish Aren't Very Different
"I basically speak Arabic." That's how one Spanish speaker reacted after Barbara Estrada and Taylor Villanueva, two journalism students from the University of Southern California, produced a video to show the similarities between Spanish and Arabic. In the viral video, a Spanish-speaking student and an Arabic-speaking student simultaneously translate words like "sugar," "pants" and "scorpion" to compare the languages. They were pretty blown away by the results and so were the millions who’ve viewed the video since it was published on Thursday. > Similaries Between Arabic And Spanish > > Spanish and Arabic have more in common than you think, and it's not > a coincidence.Posted by Annenberg Media on jueves, 5 de noviembre de > 2015 Those who’ve delved deep into the history of the Iberian peninsula know the immense impact the Moorish empire continues to have on present-day Spain. But many may still not know that the reason so many words in the Spanish-language begin with “al,” for example, has to do with Arabic-language influences. That’s right, everyday words like _alfombra_, _albóndiga, algodón _are borrowed from Arabic. In fact, "al" is the definite article meaning "the" in the Arabic language. On Tuesday, Villanueva, 21, told Fusion she was inspired by her Mexican-Lebanese roots to create the video. “I just wanted to open people’s minds to help them realize that the two cultures aren’t that different,” Villanueva said. “I’ve grown up seeing the similarities between the two cultures and I wanted other people to see it, too.” While the etymology of some of the Spanish words in the video, like _música_, are traced back to other Greek or Latin origins -- the clip certainly shows how two seemingly very different languages can actually be very similar. Watch the video above and share your thoughts in the comments below. _ALSO ON HUFFPOST:_ -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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Watch: 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2' Trailer Brings Anothe ...
In what may be the biggest rom-com news in recent memory, a new trailer has been released for "My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2." The original "My Big Fat Greek ...
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Deputy FM Mardas meets with the Tunisian Ambassador to Greece, Tarek Saadi (Foreign Ministry, ...
The Deputy Foreign Minister for International Economic Relations, Dimitris Mardas, met at the Foreign Ministry today with the Tunisian Ambassador to Athens, Tarek Saadi.The discussion, which took place in an excellent atmosphere, focused on issues of common interest, with emphasis on the further expansion and strengthening of bilateral cooperation between the two countries.Reference was made to the upcoming political consultations that will provide an opportunity for a detailed review of the course of bilateral relations, based on, among other things, the deepening of economic cooperation and its extension into various sectors, including tourism, culture and educational affairs.With regard to business...
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First 'My Big Fat GREEK Wedding 2' Trailer Promises Bigger, Fatter Sequel
Universal has released the first My Big Fat GREEK Wedding 2 trailer. The upcoming film contains the reveal of a secret and a new wedding that is even ...
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Nia Vardalos and John Corbett Are Back in 'My Big Fat GREEK Wedding 2' Trailer
The Portokalos family is back in the trailer for My Big Fat GREEK Wedding 2, the sequel to the 2002 surprise hit film. And when we say the Portokalos ...
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Teen “Finds Herself While Getting Lost” in GREECE
A heartfelt journal entry in a college writing journal written by a Pittsburgh teenager about her first trip back to GREECE in almost two decades has gone ...
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US Millionaire on a Refugee Rescue Mission to GREECE
syrian_refugees A non-governmental organization founded and run by American millionaire Christopher Catrambone, announced that it will be ...
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The refugee conditions in GREECE demand attention and improvement
Consider GREECE, for example. The cash-strapped country only offers two first reception centers for refugees, and, according to Amnesty International, ...
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More Russian tourists likely to come to GREECE after Sinai crash
GREECE stands to benefit in terms of Russian tourism flow from the cancellations in Egypt following the crash of a Russian jet at Sinai last month.
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Watch: 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2' looks hilarious
There's a trailer out for "My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2." And it looks funny. John Corbett and Nia Vardalos reprise their roles as Gus and Toula, the ...
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Tsipras’ party calls on people to join anti-austerity general strike, Nov 12/2015 ( +strike schedule)
It is not only the workers and trade unions of the public and private sectors that have urged people to join the general 24-hour strike on Thursday, November 12 2015. It is also left-wing SYRIZA the party of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras that urged Greeks to go on the streets […]
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'My Big Fat GREEK Wedding 2' Trailer: Toula & Ian Are Back For Round Two - Watch
The Portokalos are back — just in time for wedding season. Nia Vardalos and John Corbett are back for My Big Fat GREEK Wedding 2, and well, it's just ...
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This Trailer Proves My Big Fat GREEK Wedding 2 Is Even Funnier Than the First
The Portokalos's are back! The trailer for My Big Fat GREEK Wedding 2 was released today, and it's safe to say that fans of the original hit movie will be ...
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My Big Fat GREEK Wedding 2 Trailer Released-Nia Vardalos & John Corbett Bring the Funny Again
The trailer for My Big Fat GREEK Wedding 2 was released on Wednesday, via NBC's Today show, and, as expected, the movie looks hilarious.
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'My Big Fat GREEK Wedding 2' Trailer: The Portokalos Family Is Back For Another Trip Down The Aisle
Nia Vardalos and John Corbett return as Toula and Ian Miller, who are now raising a teenage daughter determined to flee her crazy GREEK family just ...
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The Portokalos family returns in trailer for 'Big Fat GREEK Wedding 2'
My Big Fat GREEK Wedding is just the latest in an unending parade of classic films that Hollywood refuses to leave untouched. That said, the trailer for ...
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Abortions Skyrocketing in GREECE, They're Being Used for Birth Control During Economic Crisis
GREECE'S major financial crisis has influenced another massive tragedy in the small Mediterranean nation – skyrocketing abortion rates.
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'My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2' Trailer: The Cast is Back for ...
The cast from My Big Fat Greek Wedding is back for a second round of nuptials. The trailer for My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 sees Toula (Nia Vardalos) and Ian (John ...
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From The Aegean Sea To Berlin's Pools: The Story Of 2 Syrian Swimmers
BERLIN (AP) — Sarah and Ysra Mardini pull bathing caps over their long, black hair and slide into the water, disappearing among the throng of swimmers with powerful, practiced strokes. Two months ago the sisters were swimming for their lives, after jumping off an inflatable boat that began taking on water carrying refugees to Greece. Now they are ploughing down the length of a pool built for the 1936 Olympics in Berlin that has become a home away from home for two young women, who were once among Syria's brightest swimming stars. "Everything was good," said 20-year-old Sarah. "That was before the war." After the conflict began, the Mardini family moved around to avoid the fighting and tried to ensure their daughters could keep on swimming. Ysra, now 17, even represented Syria at the short-course world championships in Turkey in 2012. But as the war intensified fellow swimmers drifted away. "We were 40 or 50 swimmers, and now we are maybe 10 or 7 swimmers in Syria," said Sarah. "We want to have a future. I want to be in college, I want to be an international swimmer and my sister too. But if we stay there we will not reach that because the situation is not OK in Syria." The Mardini sisters eventually left Damascus in early August, joining a fresh wave of Syrians who had given up hope of seeing the conflict end soon. The sisters traveled to Lebanon, then Turkey, where they paid smugglers to take them to Greece. Turkish coastguards drove their boat back on the first attempt. The second time they boarded a small inflatable dinghy at dusk. Within a half hour it was taking on water, hopelessly overloaded with people, most of whom couldn't swim. As evening winds churned up the Aegean Sea, all bags were thrown overboard to give the small boat a chance to stay afloat. When that wasn't enough, Ysra, Sarah and three others who were also strong swimmers jumped into the water in order to give the boat more buoyancy. "I was not afraid of dying, because if anything happened I could swim to arrive at the island. But the problem was that I had 20 persons with me," said Sarah. "In Syria I worked in a swimming pool to watch people not drowning, so if I let anyone drown or die I would not forgive myself." For three hours they clung onto ropes hanging from the side until it reached shore on the Greek island of Lesbos. In the weeks-long overland trek that followed, strangers gave them clothes, while others stole from them. Friends were arrested at borders and expensive tickets proved worthless, as authorities refused to let trains full of refugees cross borders. Eventually, the sisters made it to Austria and then Germany. Shortly after arriving in Berlin a local charity put them in touch with the Wasserfreunde Spandau 04, a swimming club based near their refugee shelter. The club has embraced its newest recruits, putting them straight into a daily training routine. Sven Spannekrebs, their coach, says the sisters are making amazing progress, though he is realistic about their prospects as athletes. "They can swim at the highest level for the Arab world, but there's a difference to Europe because of the training conditions," he said. Ysra, who specializes in butterfly stroke, is aiming high. "Maybe when I learn German I will start school. I want to be a pilot," she said. "And with my swimming I want to reach the Olympics." Her older sister, meanwhile, is battling bureaucracy to bring the rest of the family to Germany. In the pool, she prefers long-distance swimming. "It seems to me that I have balanced my life," said Sarah. "We can't do anything good in our life if we don't have swimming." > MORE FROM THE WORLDPOST: > > - More People Fled To Europe By Boat This Year Than The Population > Of Washington, DC > - Heart-Wrenching Photos Show Rescued Refugees Arriving In Lesbos > - Chilling Photos From Greece's Shores Capture The Dark Side Of The > Refugee Crisis > - How Europe's Tragic Refugee And Migrant Crisis Got So Dire _RELATED ON THE WORLDPOST:_ -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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Former Child Refugee Wants To Help Solve Europe's Migrant Crisis
Gulwali Passarlay was just 12 years old when he and his brother left Afghanistan's Nangahar province in 2006 to escape the Taliban. The Taliban targeted him and his brother for recruitment. Fearful her sons might end up with the militant group, Passarlay’s mother sent them out of the country. What followed was a dangerous and traumatizing journey through the Middle East and Europe. Passarlay was alone for much of the journey. Shortly after leaving Afghanistan, he and his brother were separated in Peshawar, Pakistan. Over the course of his year-long trip, Passarlay traveled by foot, car and boat across ten countries to reach the United Kingdom, he told The WorldPost, risking death and enduring prison multiple times along the way. He eventually reached Britain, but went through five years of asylum processing. "The system of asylum that I had to go through was just so many inquiries, so many talks and petition filings," Passarlay said. "I actually came to the point with the whole Home Office and asylum claim procedures that I wanted to take my own life, that's how bad things were." Now a third-year politics student at the University of Manchester, in the U.K., Passarlay authored _The Lightless Sky_, a book documenting his journey. He hopes that sharing his story will not only raise awareness of the plight of refugees, but also inspire volunteers to help address today’s crisis. > Excited and looking forward to the publication of #TheLightLessSky > by @AtlanticBooks in just two months time. #TheJourneyContinues > #SpeakingUpForTheVoicless #refugeeswelcomePosted by Gulwali > Passarlay on Saturday, August 15, 2015 Almost 219,000 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea this October alone, according to the U.N. Refugee Agency. That figure is roughly the same number of people who entered Europe by sea in the whole of 2014. Europe has struggled to respond to the crisis, and EU nations have failed to achieve a comprehensive agreement on how to manage the surge in arrivals, spurring contentious international debate. "With the current refugee crisis, we're not looking at any solutions, we're not showing any solidarity," Passarlay said. "It's all talk about costs, politics and policies, and it's about protecting borders rather than protecting people, and it's more on a political level rather than dealing with a human face." "I've been actually losing hope in humanity recently," he added. While Passarlay believes that the British government and many other European states have been ineffective and disappointing in providing solutions in the refugee crisis, he hopes that grassroots activism and popular action can change policy. "Politicians will make decisions based on people's demands and people's voices," he said. "So the more people we have on the street, the more people arriving there in peace, the more people engaging with the issue and trying to understand it, that is what will get changed." In September, Passarlay led a march in London welcoming refugees into the country and urging the U.K. government to take in more refugees than the 20,000 it pledged to resettle over a five-year period. Human rights and migration groups, as well as some politicians in the nation, have criticized Britain for its meager response to the refugee crisis. As of September, only 216 Syrian refugees had qualified for the government’s official relocation plan. In addition to calling for more action from the government, Passarlay has been engaged in volunteering to help refugees and migrants on the ground. He and members of Afghan Youth Movement UK have twice taken food, clothes and medicine to Afghan refugees living in the "Jungle," a sprawling makeshift refugee camp at the port of Calais, France. "There are huge convoys, movements of people going to Calais, going to Greece, going to the border of Hungary, taking food, supplies, medicine," he said. "Just normal people literally doing charity work and saying, 'Well, if the government is not doing it, let's do something about it.'" This outpouring of support from ordinary people towards refugees gave the otherwise pessimistic Passarlay the sense that something can be done to shift fortunes in the refugee crisis. "It was good to see the solidarity of people from across Europe, coming together to try to do something," he said. "I think it's ultimately the people who will bring the positive change." > More from The WorldPost: > - How You Can Help Refugees Stay Safe And Warm This Winter > - How The Refugee Crisis Is Fueling The Rise Of Europe's Right > - How Europe's Tragic Refugee And Migrant Crisis Got So Dire > - Europe's Refugee Crisis And International Accountability _ALSO ON THE WORLDPOST:_ -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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Report: Germany spied on FBI, US companies, French minister
BERLIN (AP) — German public radio station rbb-Inforadio reported Wednesday that the country's foreign intelligence agency spied on the FBI and U.S. arms companies, adding to a growing list of targets among friendly nations the agency allegedly eavesdropped on. The station claimed that Germany's BND also spied on the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the World Health Organization, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and even a German diplomat who headed an EU observer mission to Georgia from 2008 to 2011. It provided no source for its report, but the respected German weekly Der Spiegel also reported at the weekend that the BND targeted phone numbers and email addresses of officials in the United States, Britain, France, Switzerland, Greece, the Vatican and other European countries, as well as at international aid groups such as the Red Cross. The claims are particularly sensitive in Germany because the government reacted with anger two years ago to reports that the U.S. eavesdropped on German targets, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, who declared at the time that "spying among friends, that's just wrong." German lawmakers have broadened a probe into the U.S. National Security Agency's activities in the country to include the work of the BND. Government spokeswoman Christiane Wirtz declined to confirm the reports. "The facts behind these various press reports will be comprehensively investigated and of course the chancellery is involved in this investigation," she told reporters in Berlin. Parliament's intelligence oversight committees would be informed, she said. The spy agency refused to elaborate beyond what Wirtz said. Join the conversation about this story »
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In a first, Greek ruling party calls on workers to strike against its own government's cuts. By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press
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They're baaaack! Watch the trailer for 'My Big Fat Greek ...
It's time for another big, fat, Greek wedding. 13 years after My Big Fat Greek Wedding stole our hearts, Nia Vardalos is back with My Big Fat Greek Wedding ...
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Slovenia putting up fence along border with Croatia to control migrant flow
By Marja Novak LJUBLJANA/VELIKI OBREZ, Slovenia (Reuters) - Slovenia began erecting a razor wire fence along parts of its border with Croatia on Wednesday, saying it wanted better control over a tide of migrants flowing through the tiny country en route to other areas of Europe. The continent is grappling with its biggest influx of migrants - more than one million are expected this year - since World War Two and is deeply split over how best to respond. Around 180,000 people, many fleeing war in Syria and Afghanistan, have streamed into Slovenia since mid-October after trekking northwards along a Balkan corridor from Greece, most of them bound ultimately for Austria and then Germany.
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Greek banks battle capital shortfall
Shoring up bank finances is seen as a key route out of recession
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Greek Police Arrest Leading Member of Group that Killed Restaurant Owner on the Island of Hydra
Greek Police have arrested a 39-year-old Georgian male, who is being described as the leading member of the group that committed a robbery and murder on the Greek island of Hydra this past August. An elderly couple who lived and owned a restaurant on the island had fallen victim to a home burglary in mid-August. Greek police concluded that
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The Greek government’s goals at the Valletta Summit on migration PM Tsipras to meet Swiss President on Summit sidelines - Summit to be carried out on Wednesday and ...
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Watch: Here's the trailer for that Big Fat GREEK Wedding sequel you didn't ask for
Maybe it's just us, but My Big Fat GREEK Wedding did absolutely nothing for us. If you want to talk about wedding movies in the early '90s, you can talk ...
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Look who's getting married in My Big Fat GREEK Wedding 2 trailer
In the first trailer for My Big Fat GREEK Wedding 2, there's another big fat GREEK wedding on the way. As Toula and Ian's daughter, Paris, prepares to ...
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My Big Fat GREEK Wedding 2 Trailer Brings Laughs as Toula Becomes Her Parents: Watch!
Opa! The trailer for My Big Fat GREEK Wedding's highly anticipated sequel, My Big Fat GREEK Wedding 2, was finally released on Wednesday, Nov. 11.
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