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Monday, February 29, 2016

Living in filth, Greece's migrants battle hunger and cold

By Lefteris Papadimas ATHENS (Reuters) - Mohammed Asif and his family have no food, no shelter and no security. Asif, who though 43 looks at least 20 years older, is one of thousands of Afghans trapped in Greece, their hopes of reaching sanctuary in northern Europe dashed by a cascade of border shutdowns from Austria to Macedonia. "What will we do now?" Most of the 400 Afghans vying for limited pavement space in Athens' Victoria Square are Hazaras, an ethnic minority who have long suffered discrimination and persecution back home, with thousands massacred by Taliban militias in the 1990s.


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Greece: Police fire tear gas at refugees who try to break through border fence into Macedonia

At least 22,000 refugees have been stranded in Greece, after border restrictions were made between its neighbouring country, Macedonia. At the Idomeni camp on Greece's northern border, the main transit point for refugees travelling towards western Europe ...


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Migrants Clash With Police on Greece-Macedonia Border

Hundreds of migrants tried to barge their way across Greece’s northern border, tearing down razor wire in protest at neighboring Macedonia’s tight border controls, which include turning away Afghans.


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Migration Minister bans TV crews and journalists from refugee centers

Greek Migration Minister Yannis Mouzalas banned television crew and journalists and journalists from covering the situation in refugee centers. In a statement issued on Monday, Mouzalas said: “After consultation with the coordinators of reception centers both on the islands and in Greek mainland and until further notice, no permission will […]


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Greek FinMin to conduct frequent checks on refugee routes

FinMin 13-week T-bills sell for 253.9 million... Greece’s Finance Ministry will be conducting more frequent checks in areas along routes taken by refugee and migrant to discourage price-gouging and profiteering at their expense, they announced on Monday.


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Greece to start talks on extending Athens airport concession within days

Under a third EU/IMF bailout agreement signed last year, Greece promised to renew an agreement with Germany-based AviaAlliance and Greek energy group Copelouzos, allowing them to operate Athens International Airport (AIA) until 2046. AviaAlliance, owned by ...


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Euroworking Group to discuss GREEK program review

GREEK government sources confirmed there is convergence between the GREEK side and EU officials on the crucial issues of the negotiation such as ...


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Refugees stuck at Greece-Macedonia border. What’s the solution?

Alexandros Avramidis / Reuters There are over 6,500 migrants stuck on the Greek side of the border with Macedonia. Greece wants to help those fleeing war, so as solution would be to take them by boat to other EU countries, former Greek diplomat Leonidas ...


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EU to Allocate $765 Million for Refugees Stuck in Greece

BRUSSELS—The European Union is preparing to allocate €700 million ($765 million) over the next three years for humanitarian aid inside the bloc, primarily for Greece where tens of thousands of migrants are being bottled up by the imposition of border ...


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Refugees Storm Fence On Greek-Macedonian Border As Passage Slows To A Trickle

Macedonian police used tear gas and stun guns today on frustrated refugees who broke down a fence on the border with Greece. The unrest comes as countries like Serbia and Macedonia reclassify refugees as “economic migrants” (a move started by Austria ...


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Police fired tear gas at refugees after part of a border fence was torn down in Greece

ReutersStranded refugees and migrants try to break a Greek police cordon in order to approach the border fence at the Greek-Macedonian border, near the Greek village of Idomeni, February 29, 2016. Macedonian police and refugees have clashed at the Greek ...


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Boat loaded with weapons seized off western Turkey

A Togo-flagged boat reportedly full of weapons and explosives was seized by the Greek authorities off Turkey’s western coast on Feb. 28


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Migrants storming GREEK border clash with police

Refugees break into the GREEK-Macedonian borders during their protest demanding the opening of the borders near the village of Idomeni.


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Varoufakis, a Man for All Seasons, to Advise Britain’s Labour Party

Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis is advising Britain’s Labour Party on economic matters, its leader Jeremy Corbyn has revealed. The flamboyant ex-minister, who is considered to have caused massive damage to Greece’s economy during his brief tenure on account of producing a deadlock in the negotiation talks between Greece and its official international creditors,


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German Foreign Minister Says Europe’s Refugee Cannot Be Solved at Greece’s Expense

Ιn an interview published in the Greek daily Ta Nea, Germany’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Frank-Walter Steinmeier says that the European Union cannot solve its problems at the expense of a member-state. Mr. Steinmeier emphasized the need for the provision of additional European support to Greece in relation to the refugee crisis, but also explained


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Macedonian police fire tear gas, stun guns at migrants

Macedonian police fired tear gas and stun grenades Monday as several hundred Iraqi and Syrian refugees, frustrated at days of delays in crossing the Greek-Macedonian border, broke down a gate at a nearby rail crossing.


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Anger boils over as EU nations block refugees' path

Police fire tear gas and stun grenades at key choking-point where thousands of desperate refugees want to head north from Greece


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Tension on the border, police uses teargas against refugees

Skopje, 29 February 2016/Independent Balkan News Agency By Naser Pajaziti Tense situation has dominated today the border crossing point between FYROM and Greece, where Macedonian police have intervened with teargas against refugee crowds, who were trying to enter the country. Several refugees have cut through the barbed wire fence and have entered the territory, but […]


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Refugee crisis: Police fire tear gas at migrant families attempt to cross Greece-Macedonia border

Macedonian police fired tear gas on 29 February to disperse hundreds of migrants and refugees who were desperate to cross the border from Greece, bringing down a gate as frustrations boiled over at restrictions imposed on people moving through the Balkans. Macedonian police fired several rounds of tear gas into crowds on a railway line where migrants had sat refusing to move, demanding to cross into the country. Struggling with limited resources to house migrants itself, Macedonia had briefly closed its border last week, only to re-open it but with much stricter controls.


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As Europe bickers, police fire tear gas on migrants storming border

IDOMENI/ATHENS (Reuters) - Macedonian police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of migrants who stormed the border from Greece on Monday as a deeply divided Europe traded barbs over the biggest humanitarian crisis in decades.


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Merkel Warns of ‘Chaos’ in Greece as Refugees Mass at Border

… television interview, Merkel said shielding Greece is on the agenda of … a daily quota on refugees. Greek officials have warned of the … crisis and economic reforms in Greece. --With assistance from Rainer Buergin …


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Greek Fest Takes Over Melbourne and Sydney

Melboure and Syndey “dressed-up” in Greece for the weekend for the annual Greek Festival that took place in both cities. The 29th Lonsdale Street Festival and Sydney’s 34th Greek Festival in Darling Harbour gathered thousands of visitors of various ...


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The Art of Olive Oil: Greek Package Designs Draw from Deep Cultural Roots

Gift shops at Greek museums and archaeological sites, according to Kathimerini, are preparing to sell items that feature contemporary versions of ancient art works. A new interpretation of the Minoan Snake Goddess is also appearing in an unexpected place ...


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Germany says GREEK debt and refugee crisis are separate issues

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FYROM police fire tear gas at migrants amid GREEK border tension

Police in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia have fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of migrants and refugees at the GREEK border, ...


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Refugees tear-gassed in France and GREECE

Refugees in France's 'Jungle' camp, and on the GREECE-Macedonian border, were tear-gassed by border police today (29 February), a week before ...


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Refugee crisis: Tear gas fired on Macedonian border with Greece, in pics

In pics: Macedonian police fire tear gas across Greek border


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Angela Merkel: Closing Europe's borders would plunge Greece into 'crisis'

Her warning came hours just before a crowd of migrants broke through a barbed-wire fence on the Greek-Macedonian border with a battering ram on Monday


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Ed Min Drafts Plan for Adaptation of Refugee Children in Greek Schools

Refugee children who will stay in Greece will attend the local schools where their families are staying, according to a plan drafted by the ministry of education. According to a ministry of education plan, revealed by Proto Thema newspaper, refugee ...


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Merkel Criticises Eastern Europe for Unilateral Approach to Migrants

German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized eastern European countries for acting independently and unilaterally in their response to the refugee crisis. In particular, Merkel criticised the border controls imposed by Austria and several Balkan countries, which have left migrants stranded in Greece as they continue to arrive from Turkey. Recently, Austria introduced daily cap on asylum applications, while Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia tightened their entry conditions. Merkel was firm that Europe should not leave Greece all alone in dealing with the migrant crisis and that the EU can not allow Greece to fall into chaos. In her opinion, the EU did not fight all the way to keep Greece in the eurozone just to allow it to plunge into chaos. In an interview for public ARD television on Sunday, the German chancellor defended her decision to open German borders to migrants. In her words, she had no Plan B on the migrant crisis and she would not change course, firmly rejecting proposed limit on migration. Merkel was convinced that she was on the right track with efforts to redistribute refugees within Europe, while addressing the root causes of the migrant influx. The refugee crisis will be discussed during the forthcoming EU-Turkey summit scheduled to take place on March 7 as well as at the meeting of European Council later in March.  


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Former Nazi SS Paramedic Hubert Zafke Set To Stand Trial At 95

BERLIN (Reuters) - A 95-year-old former Nazi SS paramedic at the Auschwitz death camp, accused of being an accomplice to the murder of thousands, is to stand trial in Germany on Monday, one in a series of such recent cases. Hubert Zafke was serving as a medic in the SS at the biggest death camp in occupied Poland where he was deployed in 1943. During the trial, he will be faced with the accounts of at least two witnesses. Prosecutors in the northern German city of Schwerin say that Zafke, in his function as a medic, supported the slaughter at Auschwitz, where over 1.2 million people, most of them Jews, were killed. Zafke was responsible for treating SS members in case of sickness, not any of the inmates, but prosecutors say he was stationed directly on the path leading to the gas chambers. According to initial investigations, Zafke did not deny having been an SS member at Auschwitz but he maintains not to have witnessed anything about the killings. The prosecutors say that, among being a witness to these gas chambers walks, he also must have been aware of the constant smoke arising from the crematoriums. A precedent for such cases was set in 2011, when former Nazi guard John Demjanjuk was sentenced for being an accessory to the Nazis' mass murder during the Holocaust. Demjanjuk's conviction, allowing the pursuit of those involved in the death camp apparatus even if no individual murder could be proven, paved the way for late Nazitrials, with at least four Auschwitz cases scheduled this year alone. Germany's Nazi past has weighed heavily on the country and even today forms the backdrop to national debates on issues such as how to deal with refugees of war. These latest Nazi trials, among the last as that generation dies out, may help draw a line under this chapter in the country's history. Trials are kept short on health grounds because the age of the accused.    Zafke's charges focus on a month-long period between August and September 1944, when 14 deportation trains from Poland, Slovenia, Greece, Germany and the Netherlands arrived at the camp. One carried Anne Frank, the German-born Jewish writer, whose "Diary of a young girl" became one of the most widely known witness accounts of the Holocaust, documenting her life in hiding during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. Anne Frank and her sister Margot were eventually transferred westwards to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they died shortly before its liberation in April 1945. Zafke has already been charged abroad for his role at Auschwitz. In 1946, a Polish court sentenced him to four years in prison. Afterwards, Zafke returned to Germany, where he worked as an agricultural salesman.   (Reporting By Tina Bellon; editing by John O'Donnell) -- 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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Refugees Try to Breach Greece’s Border With Macedonia

Migrants hit a razor-wire fence separating the two countries with a battering ram after the Macedonian authorities sealed the frontier.


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Greek farmers end road blockades over pension reform ahead of bailout talks

The pension reform is a key term of Greece's third bailout and one of the main sticking points in talks with European Union and International Monetary Fund inspectors assessing its progress on fiscal targets and structural reforms. "Today we are officially ...


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Refugees clash with police on Macedonia-Greece border

IDOMENI , Greece, Feb. 29 (UPI) --Hundreds of refugees in Greece from the Middle East attempted to barge through a razor wire fence Monday on the northern border with Macedonia. Using a steel pole as a battering ram, the group, part of 6,000 to 8,000 ...


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The Greek Gods® Brand Introduces Nonfat Greek Yogurt With Chia Seeds

LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., Feb. 29, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The Greek Gods® brand has unveiled a high protein Nonfat Greek Yogurt with the inclusion of delicious Chia Seeds. The new yogurts are available in a 5.3 oz. single serve cup with chia seeds and vanilla or ...


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Migrants in GREECE break gate on border with Macedonia

Police have fired tear gas and stun grenades after a few hundred migrants angry at long delays in entering Macedonia broke a gate on the border with ...


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Migrants break through Macedonia-GREECE border fence as backlog mounts

(CNN) Scores of migrants broke through a barbed-wire security fence on the GREECE-Macedonia border Monday, as tensions over new restrictions ...


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Can the Greek Theatre's New GM Book Great Shows and Avoid Pissing Off the Neighbors?

Becky Colwell, the new general manager of the Greek Theatre, sits on the floor of her still-unfurnished office, bathed in sunlight and surrounded by the foliage of Griffith Park. Outside, the tranquility of the Greek is broken only by the sounds of ...


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Europe migrant crisis: Macedonian police fire tear gas at refugees at Greece border

Idomeni (Greece): Hundreds of refugees on Monday tried to break through a border fence into Macedonia from Greece where more than 6,000 people are stranded, as Germany lashed out at EU states for abandoning Greece to refugee chaos. Macedonian police fired ...


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Tear gas at Greece-Macedonia fence as migrants try to cross

Idomeni (Greece) (AFP) - Hundreds of refugees on Monday tried to break through a border fence into Macedonia from Greece, where more than 7,000 people are stranded, as anger mounted over travel restrictions on migrants. In a sign of widening divisions ...


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Pope Francis Praises Greece for Helping Refugees

Pope Francis called on Sunday for a united response to help refugees while praising Greece for its generosity in handling the massive inflow. Addressing crowds in Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican, the Pope said that the “refugee drama” was always in his prayers. “Greece and other countries on the front line are giving these


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Greek game theorist Yanis Varoufakis to advise Corbyn's Labour Party

Marxist economist Yanis Varoufakis, who previously accused EU creditors of financial terrorism, will advise the Labour Party on how to challenge the Tories’ austerity policies, Jeremy Corbyn has revealed. The former Greek minister for finance had ...


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Translating the Iliad: webchat with Caroline Alexander – live now

The latest translator of Homer’s masterpiece – the first woman to recreate it in English – will be here to answer your questions about tackling this ancient epic on MONDAY 29 FEBRUARY AT 1PM. Join the discussion below 1.35pm GMT MythicalMagpie _This might be rather cheeky, but there are so many English translations of the Iliad already. Why another one?_ Of all the modern translations few aim to stick closely to the Greek--Lattimore is the great exception. My idea of a good translation, which others may not share, is that it should stick closely to the Greek and it should evoke as much as possible the experience of reading the Greek. Mostly I did the translation because I love the Iliad and always knew I would do this; but I like to think my translation fills a niche. 1.34pm GMT just john _Did you find yourself humming as you wrote, and if so, what sort of music?_ Alas, no; I'm not musical enough. But I did feel the energy, the cadence, if that makes sense. I very much knew I was working in poetry not prose. Continue reading...


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Refugees Used A Battering Ram To Force Open The GREECE-Macedonia Border

Refugees Used A Battering Ram To Force Open The GREECE-Macedonia ... fence on the GREECE-Macedonia border using a makeshift battering ram.


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Ex FinMin Varoufakis to Advise Corbyn & Labor Party in UK

Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has got a new job: he will advise UK’s Labor Party and Jeremy Corbyn. Mr Corbyn says Mr Varoufakis has recently met shadow chancellor John McDonnell and will advise Labour in “some capacity”. “Varoufakis is interesting because he has obviously been through all the negotiations […]


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FYROM tear-gasses refugees awaiting to cross, Austria, Czech Rep sent police units

The situation at Greece’s northern borders escalated when police on the FYROM side fired tear gas and stun grenades against refugees Monday noon. A few hundred of refugees, women and men holding their kids in their arms took down the border fence, broke a gate and tried to enter FYROM. […]


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Brexit, Greece, Schengen: Risks to European Union

Feb. 29 -- Sony Kapoor, managing director at Re-Define, and Jonathan Golub, chief U.S. market strategist at RBC, talk about the influence of refugees on the Brexit debate and the main geopolitical risks to the European Union. They speak on "Bloomberg ...


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Migrant crowd uses battering ram to break open Macedonia fences

Macedonian police use teargas in clashes on Greek border, amid fears bottlenecks could result in humanitarian crisis


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Police fire tear gas at bottleneck of migrants at Greek-Macedonian border

Macedonian police fired tear gas and stun guns Monday as several hundred Iraqi and Syrian refugees, frustrated at days of delays in crossing the Greek-Macedonian border, broke down a gate on a nearby rail crossing. Thousands of people have been stuck for ...


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LIVE: from Greek-Macedonian border as thousands of refugees remain stranded

LIVE from Idomeni, at the Greek-Macedonian border, on February 29, as thousands of refugees remain stranded following Macedonian authorities’ decision to close their frontier gates to refugees originating from Afghanistan.


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