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How the world sees Greece
Saturday, December 19, 2015
Miners, families march after last British coal mine closes
Portlander helps Syrians fleeing to GREECE
Life vests pile up on a beach in GREECE. These vests are actually filled with foam and won't save a person from drowning, Dec. 19, 2015 (JAVIER ...
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Olympiakos starts season with Greek-record 14th straight win
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Olympiakos earned a Greek league-record 14th straight win to start the season when it beat Kalloni 2-0 on Saturday. The defending ...
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Reception with Republic at City Hall moves step closer
The Northern Ireland team celebrates at Windsor Park following the win against GREECE that secured EURO 2016 qualification. Pic by PressEye Ltd.
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Last-minute obstacle to loan tranche
GREEK government officials and representatives of the country's creditors were Friday seeking to resolve a last-minute disagreement regarding the ...
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Turkish news agency: 18 refugees drown, 14 saved at sea
An elderly local woman stands on a beach next to a pile of life vests after the arrival of refugees and migrants from the Turkish coast to the GREEK ...
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EU's deal with Turkey is endangering migrants
The total number of deaths of refugees and migrants making the crossing from Turkey to GREECE in 2015 is now larger than the number of fatalities that ...
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Thousands march on International Migrant Day in GREECE
Thousands of protesters marched on the streets of Athens on Friday to mark International Migrant Day. The gathering included members of various ...
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Survey: 90% of Greeks expect “even tougher” austerity measures for 2016
No one should wonder that Greeks will not welcome the New Year with full of optimism. Why should they? Austerity and its impact in real life is here also for 2016, new austerity measures that will hit broader groups of the society are on the way. No one here has […]
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Kalloni
GREEK Super League – Follow the Football match between Kalloni and Olympiacos live with Eurosport. The match starts at 17:30 on 19 December ...
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GREEK MPs to deliver resolution during Palestinian leader's visit
The president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, is due to hold talks with GREEK President Prokopis Pavlopoulos and Prime Minister Alexis ...
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Anniversary Match: Asante Kotoko friendly against GREEK side Veria FC now fixed for 03 January
Asante Kotoko's much-anticipated 80th Anniversary friendly against GREEK side Veria FC have now been scheduled for 03 January 2016. The match ...
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Actress Susan Sarandon meets Israeli aid workers helping migrants on GREEK island
Academy Award winning actress Susan Sarandon met on Saturday with a team of Israeli aid workers assisting refugees on the GREEK island of Lesbos ...
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18 Migrants drown in bid to reach GREEK island from Turkey
At least 18 migrants from Syria, Iraq and Pakistan, including 10 children, drowned when the boat transporting them from Turkey to the GREEK island of ...
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Creditors delay next tranche of 1 billion euros to Greece because of “unacceptable health expenditures”
Athens, December 19, 2015/ Independent Balkan News Agency By Olga Mavrou Greek government is under pressure for even bigger cuts in health expenses, though the Greek health system is already pushed in its limits. Greeks insist on saving the few health benefits left, while the 4 representatives of the creditors want to cut down 40% […]
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What migrants left behind
After arriving in Lesbos, a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, Anna Pantelia lined up with other photographers as they waited for another wave of migrants to arrive by boat.
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She's dedicated her life to helping the world's most desperate people
Standing at the edge of a tiny marina on the Greek island of Lesbos, two strangers are clinging to one another. They do not know each other's names. They don't speak the same language. But they are locked in an embrace as if they are mother and daughter.
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At Least 18 More Migrants Drown After Shipwreck Off Turkish Coast
Another boat sank in the Bay of Bodrum Friday while trying to reach the GREEK island of Kos. These GREEK islands are closer to Turkey than to Greece ...
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Tsipras attempts to shift focus
He said that the threat of Grexit is off the table at the moment as the GREEK government is living up to the pledges it made as part of the third bailout ...
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Last surviving WWII GREEK submarine hero dies
The last surviving member of the GREEK navy's Papanikolis submarine, famed for its achievements in the World War II, has died. Nikolaos Tasiakos is ...
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Boys basketball results from Dec. 18
Kailee White Jr. had 19 points and nine rebounds and Corey Powell added 13 points and six assists for Gates (4-2). Batavia 51, GREECE Odyssey 46 ...
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18 dead after refugee boat sinks before making it to GREECE
People on board the ship attempted to sail to GREECE, but sank off the southern Turkish town of Bodrum. Fishermen hearing the panicked screams ...
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At least 18 migrants drown as boat sinks off Turkish coast
Winter weather is not stopping some migrants from trying to get to Europe. At least 18 have drowned after a boat headed for Greece sank off the…
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Under the spell - again - of Mykonos, Greece
A return visit to Mykonos, Greece, is just as mesmerizing as the first time, 38 years ago. Priorities might've changed (sightseeing and relaxing versus sunbathing and ...
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As year nears end, migrants continue to die at sea
The Turkish Coast Guard rescued 14 people from the boat, which was attempting to transport 32 Iraqis and Syrians to the GREEK island of Kos.
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National Bank of GREECE: A Step Towards Progress
National Bank of GREECE might not have fully recovered from its problems, but its recent moves show that progress is in the making. GREECE'S largest ...
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Did play props cost a Minnesota college instructor his jobs?
Hillman, 44, who was hired to translate the ancient GREEK tragedy, said he was fired after protesting what he saw as censorship and an attack on ...
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18 migrants trying to reach GREECE drown in freezing Aegean Sea
EIGHTEEN migrants trying to reach GREECE when their boat sank in the Aegean Sea early today. Another 14 people were pulled to safety by the ...
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AP PHOTOS: In 2015, Greece Stuck in Debt and Migrant Crises
AP PHOTOS: Greece at the center of Europe's 2015 challenges: Refugees, borders, surging debt
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White House Christmas tree with GREEK touch
GREEK decorator Maria Lalagos, descending from Crete and the Peloponnese, was one of the 89 volunteers selected to decorate the White House for ...
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GREEK stocks continue upward rally
GREEK stocks continued to rally strongly in the Athens Stock Exchange on Thursday, assisted by a positive climate in European markets and the Fed's ...
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GREEK march in Athens calls on EU to open the borders to migrants
Greeks and migrants took to the streets of Athens on Friday (December 18) calling on European leaders to stop erecting fences and to open the ...
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Sweden is now housing refugees in ski resorts above the Arctic Circle
RIKSGRANSEN, Sweden (Reuters) - Far above Sweden's Arctic Circle, two dozen refugees stepped off a night train onto a desolate, snow-covered platform, their Middle Eastern odyssey abruptly ending at a hotel touted as the world's most northerly ski resort. It was Sweden's latest attempt to house a record influx of asylum seekers. No one was here to greet them. Only a few, swaying lights flickered on the otherwise empty platform as women fruitlessly wrapped hijabs around their faces to protect themselves from the mountain blizzard. "Where are we? Is this the final destination?" said Alakozai Naimatullah, an Afghan who worked as a U.S. military translator. He wore tennis shoes, buried in the snow. His words went unanswered in the disorder of arrival. Their bare hands frozen, husbands, wives and children bent over to drag plastic bags filled with worldly possessions over a steep, snowy path to hotel lights a hundred meters below. They joined around 600 refugees, mainly from Syria and Afghanistan, holed up for two months in Riksgransen. It is some 124 miles (200 km) north of the Arctic Circle and a two-hour bus ride to the nearest town - if the road is not closed by snow. It is an example of the extremes Sweden is going to in order to house some 160,000 refugees this year in a country of 10 million people. Shelters range from heated tents to adventure theme parks, straining resources. The sun never rises in Riksgransen at this time of year and temperatures can plummet to minus 30 degrees Celsius. But the hotel offers food, shelter and security after a dangerous month-long trip from the Middle East by boat, train and bus. The jovial hotel manager Sven Kuldkepp has helped arrange temporary classes and free sledges for children. There is a gym and boxing classes for adults. A room once used for meditation has been turned into a mosque. Yoga mats now face Mecca. But the hotel mostly has the feel of an airport lounge with a delayed flight - with a two-month wait. Riksgransen will be home until the ski season starts in February, but many face more than a year's wait until they get news of asylum requests. SMARTPHONES Some refugees, only a hundred meters from ski slopes, still dream of Syrian beaches. Wael al-Shater was a chef at a 60-table restaurant called Sky View in Homs, specializing in chicken. He had aspirations and applied to study as a chef in Cyprus, but never got a visa. He had friends in Dubai but didn't want to live outside Syria. "Life was so easy. I made $1,200 a month," al-Shater said. "It was so safe that my friends and I used to drive 60 kilometers to the beach just to have a coffee late at night at two in the morning and return home." But war came. His work day was cut in half as fighting erupted in the streets, and his father died of a suspected heart attack during fighting in Homs. "I could not take him to hospital. He died on the street," Al-Shater said. He paid $1,200 to be smuggled by boat to Greece some 25 days ago and ended up in Riksgransen with his wife, an English teacher. "In the end I had no option but to leave or join the killing. Or become a protester and get killed. I had to leave." Sitting along dark corridors, refugees' faces are illuminated by flickering smartphone screens. Some play video games, others Skype friends. Most, like al-Shater, are eager to share memories, using their phones to swipe through photos. One elderly man showed pictures of his wife and daughter at the beach in the Syrian town of Latakia, a seaside resort and near a Russian military airbase. Smoking outside in the freezing dark, he raised his face to the sky, as if bathing in Latakia's imaginary sun. "Please turn on the sun again," he laughed. Another pale, old man had charmed hotel staff with tales of his perfume shop in Syria before he was moved to a Swedish hospital due to a heart ailment. MEMORIES Trauma and illness abound. Flu and chicken pox already spread through the hotel. But the most common ailment is insomnia, a sure sign, say nurses, of war trauma. To make matters worse, few refugees venture outside, spending days in rooms. Many fear taking children out in such freezing temperatures, despite tourists spending thousands of dollars to visit a place famed for views of the northern lights. "This place is like a desert island," said nurse Asa Henriksson in a makeshift clinic by the spa's swimming pool. "It is surrounded by a wall of mountains." "When the aurora comes, we tell people to go outside, lay down in the snow, and look up," she added. "The refugees don't. Many people here think their children could die in this cold." There have been cases of bus loads of refugees arriving in the north overnight, having a glance at the surroundings and refusing to get off, insisting on returning to warmer regions. Some return to southern Sweden while others, like most in Riksgransen, accept their lot. In Riksgransen, many still want to visit the nearest town of Kiruna. They receive around 2 euros a day, some saving for days to buy small toys for children. Al-Shater still yearns for his homeland. "There is no human being who does not dream about returning to his country," he said. "But when it comes to Syria, this is simply impossible. We are planning our future in Sweden." (Additional reporting by Michael Georgy in Cairo; Editing by Janet McBride) NOW WATCH: This is the Marine Corps' monstrous new assault vehicle
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Europe sets common external border guard Frontex with GREECE'S consent
A six-month timeline was set for the adoption and implementation of the EU border guard while GREECE accepted the proposal despite initial ...
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Report: Refugees drown as boat sinks off Turkey
Turkish media reports that 18 died and 14 were rescued after boat capsized in the Aegean Sea, between Turkey and Greece.
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Duma mulls outlawing denial of GREEK, Assyrian genocides
PanARMENIAN.Net - A group of Socialist-Revolutionary deputies introduced a bill to Russia's State Duma, seeking to criminalize public denial of ...
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18 killed in latest migrant boat capsizing between Turkey and GREECE
Istanbul (dpa) - Eighteen people were killed and another 14 rescued after a migrant vessel capsized off the Turkish coast, the Anadolu news agency ...
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Behrakis Awarded Honorary Doctorate by Greek University
By John Sofianos Translated from the original Greek ATHENS – In a ceremony replete with academics and other dignitaries at the University of Athens on December 11, acclaimed businessman and philanthropist George D. Behrakis received an honorary doctorate from the Medical Faculty of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens for his contributions to science, […] The post Behrakis Awarded Honorary Doctorate by Greek University appeared first on The National Herald.
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Susan Sarandon travels to GREEK island of Lesbos to satisfy with refugees, which...
STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images Susan Sarandon poses with a team of lifeguards on the GREEK island of Lesbos on Fri.. As refugees are expected to ...
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Pro-refugee rallies held in Greece, Spain
People in Spain and Greece have held demonstrations to express … holding a demonstration in Athens, Greece, December 18, 2015, in support … the European Commission in the Greek capital, chanting slogans such as …
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Here's What's Coming to Hulu in January
GREECE Post · Classifieds · Jobs · Cars · HOMES. FEATURED ». NEWS NOW. Arcadia girls bowling stays unbeaten, boys struggle ... Hopewell burglar ...
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Heartbreaking! Stray puppy finds a warm bed in Xmas Crib
Have a heart for Greece’s strays. A puppy found a warm place to spend the night: in the public Christmas Crib in the city of Kalamata. Baby Jesus & a stray dog Please, support animal welfare associations in Greece and put a bowl of food for the strays in your […]
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Eighteen migrants drown as boat taking them to GREEK island sinks in the Aegean Sea
Eighteen migrants drowned overnight when their boat sank in the Aegean Sea as it was heading for the GREEK island of Kalymnos. Another 14 people ...
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Greek Peak gears up for snow
CORTLAND (WENY) - As it's finally starting to feel like winter outside, local ski resort Greek Peak, is gearing up to get snow out on the slopes.
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Rotonda open again after 40 years
Thessaloniki, December 19, 2015/ Independent Balkan News Agency By Olga Mavrou Hundreds of people attended yesterday the celebrations for the opening (after 40 years) of the church of Saint George or Rotonda for the Greeks, the Rotunda of Galerius in Thessaloniki (which later became a Christian church). The Rotunda was severely damaged in the earthquakes […]
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Eighteen migrants drown after boat sinks off Turkey's southwestern coast
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Eighteen people died and 14 were rescued late on Friday after a boat carrying migrants trying to sail to Greece sank off the southern Turkish town of Bodrum, Dogan News Agency reported.
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18 refugees drown in Aegean Sea
Eighteen people drowned overnight when their boat sank in the Aegean Sea as it was heading for the GREEK island of Kalymnos, Turkish media ...
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Wrong connections
The case of Giorgos Loukos is not the first of its type. The artistic director of the GREEK Festival belongs to a growing category of gifted, capable people ...
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It’s abundantly clear that the left can gain ground – but it cannot yet hold it
Grassroots movements and electoral wins across Europe testify to the vitality of the left. But until it works out how to exercise power in the interests of its supporters and challenge global capital, any gains will be shortlived The least interesting thing about Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour party is Corbyn himself. Not because he is a dull person. But because, as the candidate who stood to make a point and only made the ballot because his opponents thought he had no chance, he is clearly the accidental lead character in a drama he never seriously auditioned for and nobody ever thought would be produced. That drama is global and still unfolding. Over the last few years, with varying degrees of success in a handful of places, the left has cohered into the kind of electoral coalitions that can actually command pluralities if not majorities. This is evident in Greece with Syriza, with less ideological clarity in Scotland with the Scottish National Party, and has most recently taken root in Portugal where a social democratic leads a government, comprising communists, both reconstructed and unreconstructed, and greens. This weekend in Spain Podemos is expected to perform respectably for a party that is not yet two years old. While Corbyn’s emphatic victory was within the Labour movement rather than the country at large, it would be perverse to understand it outside this context. So when commentators dwell on his personal and strategic frailties and flaws, they affect a worldliness while betraying a deeply parochial sensibility. Continue reading...
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18 Migrants Drown As Boat Sinks In The Aegean Sea: Reports
Eighteen people drowned overnight when their boat sank in the Aegean Sea as it was heading for the Greek island of Kalymnos, Turkish media reported earlier today.
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