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Taking several years of brutal cuts, Greek pensioners have had all they can stand and they can't stands no more from the Leftist government of SYRIZA. The post World Press View: Greek Pension Protests Turn Ugly appeared first on The National Herald.
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After weeks of speculation and a heated discourse, the Greek Minister of Culture Aristidis Baltas proceeded to the dismissal of Greek Festival director Giorgos Loukos, pending an investigation regarding the organisation's finances. The move came after an ...
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The Greek-American Chief Content Officer of Netflix, Ted Sarandos, vowed to expand Netflix on a global scale this year and he has now done it by expanding to multiple new countries including Greece. Greece was one of 130 countries the Netflix service ...
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Speaking to the Greek radio station Sport FM, Kostas Papanikolaou Greek agent George Sfairopoulos spoke about the decision of the Nuggets to cut his client and also about his possible return to Europe. According to Sfairopoulos the decision of the Nuggets ...
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LESBOS, Greece – They are a poignant symbol … high at dumps on the Greek island that doesn’t know … ), organizers of the project said. Greek volunteer and English teacher Lena …
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel is set to be awarded with the International Four Freedoms Medal this coming April. Merkel will receive the prestigious award for her efforts to tackle the recent major issues that have faced the European Union, ranging from the Greek debt crisis to the refugee influx and the conflict in Ukraine, the Netherlands-based Roosevelt Foundation announced. Recommended: How much do you know about Germany?
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Greece Police ask residents to keep an eye vacant homes Citing an uptick in copper thefts, Greece Police are asking residents watch for suspicious activity around vacant homes. Check out this story on DemocratandChronicle.com: http://on.rocne.ws/1Re283y
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Greek Police announced on Friday the launch, in collaboration with EU border agency Frontex, of round-the-clock ID checks of volunteers and non-governmental organizations (NGO) currently operating in the North Aegean and assisting refugees arriving on the islands. “It is not our intention to offend the volunteers or the NGO staff and their work but only to
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In 2016, Russians will celebrate 1,000 years since they first arrived and settled on Mount Athos, Greece. Numerous events both in Greece and Russia have been organized in order to celebrate this significant anniversary. According to Greek media, the official celebration will start with liturgical celebrations on Mount Athos on May 18 to 20, 2016. This
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January 1, 2016 Greece celebrates Agios Vasilios or Saint Basil’s Day. In Greek tradition, he brings gifts to children every January 1 st. “We would travel to Tripolito attend services at the Cathedral of Agios Vasilios in Agios Vasilios Square ...
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January 1, 2016 Greece celebrates Agios Vasilios or Saint Basil’s Day. In Greek tradition, he brings gifts to children every January 1 st. “We would travel to Tripolito attend services at the Cathedral of Agios Vasilios in Agios Vasilios Square ...
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The current refugee flow is said to be the greatest migration in Europe since WWII. Displaced people from the conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan make up the majority of the refugees - all fleeing violence and searching for a better future. Many ...
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Over the past two months the Republic of Cyprus has hosted a parade of foreign leaders -- German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and Secretary of State John Kerry -- each declaring support for reunification negotiations that will end the 41-year division of Cyprus. With the Middle East in shambles, and no real prospect for Israeli-Palestinian peace in the next year, the prospect of resolving the second longest standing issue before the UN Security Council must be tantalizing to all diplomats. But get past the encouraging rhetoric and delve into the details of the Cyprus negotiations, and one starts to suspect that world leaders desperate for peace in a volatile region and a generation of Cypriots yearning to reunify their home as they ride into the twilight, may all be pushing so hard for a deal -- any deal -- to be reached that they have lost sight of how to negotiate a sustainable deal. The 41-year history of Cyprus since Turkey's invasion in 1974 and subsequent occupation of the northern part of the island features several diplomatic efforts and promising initiatives that came short. The general consensus among diplomats and Cypriot leaders is that Cyprus is to be reunified in a bi-zonal, bi-communal federation (that is, a federal state with two sub-federal entities -- one administered by Greek-Cypriots, the other by Turkish-Cypriots). One of the failed initiatives to reunify Cyprus that many consider a "near miss" was the 2004 Annan Plan that was overwhelmingly defeated when put to a referendum. More than 10 years later, there is little analysis -- either by diplomats or by the media covering Cyprus -- as to exactly why the Annan Plan failed. Perhaps they don't know why, or maybe they are just hoping that "this time is different". Yet any plan for reunification is going to be put to referendum once again, and the disregard for the failures of 2004 do not inspire hope that a different result will ensue. The most puzzling aspect of the present Cyprus negotiations is that Turkey is being treated as a facilitator of peace when it remains the biggest obstacle. Turkey has made many positive statements and declared its commitment to resolving Cyprus. Moreover, its occupation forces on Cyprus have made some minor moves in association with crossings of the Green Line (the line of occupation) and allowing access to sites so the search for 1,500 Cypriots missing for four decades can continue. What Turkey has not done is make any concessions regarding its presence on Cyprus -- either now or in the future. A 2004 exit poll showed that 75% of those who voted against the Annan Plan listed "security" issues as their reason for voting "No". Despite this, security issues are being pushed to the final stages of negotiations. If one wished to set any future referendum on a course to failure, they would allow Turkey to continue to claim a right to intervene in Cyprus. Just as it did in previous failed negotiations, that is exactly what is happening in Cyprus. The stakes are much higher today than in 2004 when it comes to Cyprus, and that is why the mistakes of the Annan Plan must be avoided. Cyprus is an EU member with a veto not only within the Union but over cooperation between NATO and the EU. A proposed pipeline enabling natural gas sales from Israel to Turkey would have to traverse the Exclusive Economic Zone of Cyprus. All of this needs a sustainable solution and a stable Republic of Cyprus resulting from that solution. We should all be thankful for the "near miss" of 2004 -- it would've introduced the instability of the Bosnian or Iraqi federations into the wrong place at the wrong time. The main outside facilitators of the Cyprus peace process -- the UN, the US and the EU -- need to show that they've learned from the failures of 2004. The stars may be aligning for Cyprus to be reunified, but if not enough attention is paid to the sustainability of any deal, a historic opportunity for peace will be wasted. As the Obama Administration enters its final year, taking the island of stability that is Cyprus and making the latest volatile flashpoint cannot be the legacy the President wishes to leave in the Eastern Mediterranean. -- 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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The Alternate Foreign Minister for European Affairs, Nikos Xydakis, met at the Foreign Ministry today with the Belgian Ambassador to Greece, Luc Liebaut.The discussion, with took place in a very friendly atmosphere, focused on the implementation of the Greek programme and the management of the refugee crisis, and the excellent level of Greek-Belgian bilateral relations was affirmed.
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Two Greek nationals were sentenced to prison … information on his contact in Greece, who was part of a … sentenced to seven years in Kerkyra, Greece, for similar crimes but got …
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… , Reuters reports. Greece debt crisis: Pensioners pay the price Greece bailout: What are eurozone conditions? Is Greece really on … % of GDP in 2016, the Greek government is proposing increasing employer …
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Greece has confirmed that it will proceed with plans to revise its online gambling licensing regime to ensure new revenue streams for the cash-strapped government. On Thursday, Greece’s Deputy Finance Minister Tryfon Alexiadis (pictured) informed ...
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Just a day after Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras appeared to have secured the backing of associations representing GREEK employers on his ...
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They are a poignant symbol of Europe's refugee crisis: Mountains of life vests strewn on the beaches of Lesbos, and piled high at dumps on the Greek island that doesn't know what to do with them. Now some of those refugees are working on a solution. A group of volunteers at a refugee shelter on the island has launched a project to make handbags, totes, and messenger bags out of the brightly colored vests, hoping to raise money for charity efforts on the island. At a tiny makeshift workshop, Afghan tailor Yasin Samadi works with a sewing machine to make a small orange dispatch bag, as children and other curious onlookers wander in and out, drawn by the bursts of noise from the machine. "If there's work here, I will stay here," says the 27-year-old from Kabul, who's been living with his family at the shelter, known as the PIKPA camp, for 18 months. "If not, we'll need to leave." Lesbos has been at the center of the refugee crisis that escalated dramatically last year. More than 500,000 refugees and other migrants arrived to the island in 2015, nearly half the total number of people who traveled to Europe. The numbers peaked at 7,000 per day in October, with people traveling in dinghies and boats that were barely seaworthy, and many wearing counterfeit-brand life vests bought in shops on the Turkish coast. The bags are due to go on sale by mail-order later this month, priced between 10 and 30 euros ($11-$32.5), organizers of the project said. Greek volunteer and English teacher Lena Altinoglou said the bag project was aimed at helping refugees cover their living expenses and retain a sense of dignity. "These people don't want to become beggars ... It's important for people here to able to work, create something, to make a living and help other (refugee) families," she said. "These life vests remind us of the crossing from Turkey to Lesbos, which is a dangerous journey. Many do reach our camp safely, but others don't. So it's a reminder of the need to find a better solution." --- AP writer Derek Gatopoulos in Athens contributed. --- Follow Apostolou at http://www.twitter.com/NikoliaA --- Online: http://lesvosvolunteers.com/ © 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Learn more about our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. _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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Viktor Orban leaders to construct a new frontier on Greece's northern borders with Macedonia and Bulgaria or risk 'losing the possibility of free movement' within the Schengen zone.
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Greece will face the European Court of Human Rights as 42 people from Bangladesh who worked in a strawberry farm in Manolada are suing the European nation for failing to prevent human trafficking. This lawsuit marks the first time that Greece is being ...
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Scuffles broke out in central Athens during a protest against the Greek government's proposed pension reforms. Tensions reportedly flared when demonstrators from the Communist-affiliated PAME union broke past a line of riot police near the prime minister's ...
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He urged leaders to construct a 'European defence line' on GREECE'S northern borders with Macedonia and Bulgaria or risk 'losing the possibility of ...
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Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants stranded on the Greek island of Lesvos in 2015 and left behind mountains of life-jackets. The orange life-savers have been abandoned at the beaches or waste dumps, dissolving extremely slowly and polluting the environment. But the volunteers operating on Lesvos had a brilliant […]
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"The first review mission is tentatively to start in the week beginning on Jan 18th. In practice, it might probably be a bit later," one senior official said. A Commission spokesperson confirmed the EU executive expected the review mission to start later ...
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Athens, January 8, 2016/Independent Balkan News Agency By Olga Mavrou The Union PAME (aligns with the Greek Communist Party) rallied today against the pension cuts and the unpopular social security bill and there were clashes and minor injuries. Earlier in the morning some demonstrators of PAME managed to reach the office of the Prime Minister pretending […]
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Athens, January 8, 2016/Independent Balkan News Agency By Olga Mavrou The Deputy Finance Minister Tryfonas Alexiadis said (in his speech in the Greek parliament) that there must be a final regulation for online gambling and that the transitional period has to end since it brought to the state a ridiculous amount of taxes. Deputy Finance […]
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Athens, January 8, 2016/Independent Balkan News Agency By Olga Mavrou The Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF), is trying to sell Greek properties abroad. For this purpose advertisements are placed in “The Economist”. According to the ads, the properties for sale are in Rome, in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana and in Pretoria. In Rome HRADF put […]
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A local British court has blocked a number of Turkish bank accounts, including those of Turkish diplomats in the country, over another court’s decision taken by Greek Cypriots
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Travel plans for Greece in 2016 will not be affected by the economic crisis, according to research conducted by LoveHolidays, a U.K. online travel agency. The study shows that despite the economic situation in Greece, 66 percent of participants perceive the country as a safe holiday destination. In fact, 21 percent of people aged between
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More than six months into the restrictions the Greek government has further eased capital controls, lifting some of the restrictions on Thursday. Among the liberties restored concerns premature repayment of loans. A full or seen partial premature repayment is not allowed, but following the latest decision, using money that comes from abroad as well as taking
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Protests took place in downtown Athens, Greece, on Friday in a response to the government’s social security reform plan. Amid the developing tension, riot police clashed with a group of senior protesters who were members of the All Workers Militant Front (PAME) and the Greek Civil Servants Confederation (ADEDY), according to Greek media. Video footage from the protest shows police dragging a man while other
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“For the first time we will have one-speed pensioners,” Greek Labor Minister George Katrougalos said on Friday in a press conference on social security reforms. He added that the Memorandum along with the peculiarities of the system and the PSI are the three main reasons why social security reforms are required. Regarding the contacts in the
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Greece’s Alternate Finance Minister Tryfon Alexiadis left open the possibility of abolishing VAT on Greek islands that are up against the social and economic stresses caused by the mass influx of refugees, while speaking in Parliament on Friday. Alexiadis also admitted that the property taxes imposed via the Unified Property Tax (ENFIA) were “disproportionate” and that the
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The Greek Appeals Council refused the extradition of two of the five students who were being called by Italian authorities to face charges for their alleged participation in protest and clashes in the “No Expo” demonstration in Milan this past May. In a hearing later in the afternoon, the Council also decided that two other students will not be sent
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) --A former treasurer with the St. George Greek Orthodox Church will serve a 10-year sentence for stealing more than $400,000 from the church. Under the terms of Constantine Dimitri Christodoulou's guilty plea deal, he will serve one ...
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European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker is looking for a change in the European Union member-state’s approach to the challenges the union faces. In an article he penned on the Project Syndicate on the need for European solidarity and ...
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The European Union should establish a new frontier on the northern border of Greece because an agreement with Turkey would not suffice to stop the massive inflow of migrants coming to Europe, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday.
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Hungarian prime minister calls for fences to be built on Greece's northern border to stem flow of refugees
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Politicians crying in public always make the headlines – and the tears shed recently by US president Barack Obama have triggered a new round of debate about whether it is acceptable for public figures – particularly male public figures – to express their emotions so openly. Most of us will remember the picture of the tearful Mrs Thatcher as she was driven away from Downing Street after being toppled by her colleagues. Over the last generation it has become more acceptable for rulers – monarchs, presidents, prime ministers – to show their emotions in public. After the Madrid train bombings we saw the king of Spain in tears at the commemoration service. But in most cases, these tears have been shed in the immediate aftermath of a national or personal disaster – and what is unusual about Obama’s tears is that they were triggered by the recollection of tragedies in the recent and not so recent past, and his frustration at being unable to tackle the problem in the face of a hostile congress and powerful gun lobby. The “stiff upper lip” is clearly now a thing of the past. Sports stars and film and TV actors repeatedly shed public tears at moments of triumph or disaster, and the public more often responds now with sympathy than disapproval. In politics the public mood is more ambivalent. Most of the MPs defeated at the last election tried to maintain a dry-eyed dignity – and when Jeremy Corbyn’s victory was announced after the Labour Party’s leadership battle, his rivals all felt obliged to smile and attempt to look pleased for him. We know now that this approach is not a timeless feature of British culture. Thomas Dixon’s fascinating new book, Weeping Britannia, argues that the “stiff upper lip” was no more than an aberration of the early and mid-20th century, a view taken up by Ben Macintyre in The Times. But it might be better to see a pattern of cultural cycles across the generations, with the cultural pendulum swinging to and fro between the rival virtues of self-control and emotional honesty. JESUS WEPT (AND SO DID OLIVER CROMWELL) The Bible is full of crying men, and tears are plentiful among the Greek heroes such as Achilles in the Iliad. In medieval Europe the elite felt little obligation to conceal their emotions and that continued as late as the reign of Henry VIII, when we find his chief minister, Cardinal Wolsey, repeatedly weeping in public without embarrassment after his fall from power. The Renaissance ushered in a different set of attitudes. In the 16th and 17th centuries, under the influence of Stoic and other classical authors, it became essential for elite men to command their emotions, especially in public. Civility and decorum demanded self-control, even in the most distressing circumstances – if a man could not govern himself, how could he be capable of governing others? This new culture applied primarily to aristocrats and gentlemen; those without education or “breeding” were not expected to possess such self-control. Religious tears became increasingly associated with Puritans and later the Nonconformists – Oliver Cromwell was notorious for his readiness to cry in public. As a result, the idea of a man crying became far less acceptable to royalists and Anglicans, who came to associate spiritual tears with fanaticism and hypocrisy. SENSE AND SENSIBILITY The mid-18th century witnessed another reversal. The Methodists revived much of the emotional fervour of the Puritans, while a new culture of “sensibility” made tears acceptable among sections of the elite as a sign of refinement. The novelist Laurence Sterne reflected this culture in works such as A Sentimental Journey and it reached its apogee in Henry Mackenzie’s The Man of Feeling (1771). This featured a gentle, sensitive hero who melts into tears at every sad story he hears. The novel enjoyed huge success, even among such unlikely readers as the economist Adam Smith. We think today of the Victorian period as the high point of emotional repression and the brutal discipline of the public schools was explicitly designed to instil such behavioural values. But even in the Victorian period there was a countervailing strand present in the sentimentality of Dickens’s novels – and the emotional flavour of his public readings exemplified this (remember the outpouring of public grief at the death of Little Nell). Paul Gascoigne shed tears when he talked of his alcohol-related depresion. Owen Humphreys/PA A generation ago the tears of England’s first crying footballer Gazza (Paul Gascoigne) created a media sensation, but today footballers’ tears pass almost unnoticed and it’s a similar story in other sports; pictures of Andy Murray, Novak Djokovic or Roger Federer shedding tears at a Wimbledon final no longer attract surprise or disapproval. LOOKING FOR ONIONS But as far as US politics is concerned, the precedents should be a concern for Obama. In 1972 the leading contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, Ed Muskie, found his political career destroyed overnight after he shed tears at a press conference responding to personal attacks on his wife. His annihilation was one of Nixon’s “dirty tricks”, and a pundit remarked: “There is no crying in presidential politics.” The conservative reaction was as you might expect: Fox News' Andrea Tantaros said she would “check the podium for onions” because she felt Obama’s reaction was “not really believable”, while co-host Meghan McCane dismissed it as “bad political theatre”. So it seems highly unlikely that the president’s tears will change public opinion in the US. More likely, opponents will brand them a sign of weakness or hypocrisy, which is how opponents have dismissed the tears of public figures down the centuries. [The Conversation] _Bernard Capp does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond the academic appointment above._
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[greece protest iran shiite nimr]Thanassis Stavrakis/AP Photo Iranians held mass protests Friday across the Islamic Republic, angered by Saudi Arabia's execution of a Shi'ite cleric that has enflamed regional tensions between the Mideast rivals. The crisis has seen Saudi Arabia sever ties with Iran after crowds of protesters in Iran attacked two of its diplomatic posts. Those assaults came after Saudi Arabia executed Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, a prominent opposition Shi'ite cleric, on Jan. 2. After Friday prayers in Tehran, thousands of worshippers joined the rally, carrying pictures of al-Nimr and chanting "Death to Al Saud," referencing the kingdom's royal family. They also chanted "Down with the U.S." and "Death to Israel," traditional Iranian slogans at protests. The rally in Tehran lasted some 40 minutes and took place in an outdoor space at the Mosalla Mosque, the main site for Friday prayers in Tehran. Iranian state media reported similar protests taking place in other Iranian cities and towns. In Bahrain, more protests were planned Friday, while Shi'ites across the greater Mideast have rallied throughout the week over al-Nimr's execution. The protests come after Iran claimed Thursday that a Saudi-led airstrike the previous night had hit the Iranian Embassy in Sanaa, citing Iran's Foreign Ministry. However, an Associated Press reporter who reached the site just after the announcement saw no damage to the building, which sits in a neighborhood near a presidential palace that's seen many previous strikes. [Shi'ite Muslims hold pictures of Shi'ite Muslim cleric Nimr al-Nimr during a protest against his execution in Saudi Arabia, in Basra, January 6, 2016. REUTERS/Essam Al-Sudani]Thanassis Stavrakis/AP PhotoIran vowed to file a report about their claim to the United Nations, while the Saudi military issued a statement through the kingdom's state news agency, dismissing the allegation as false. In eastern Saudi Arabia, the home of al-Nimr and much of the kingdom's roughly 10 to 15 percent Shi'ite population, Shi'ites held a memorial service for the cleric Thursday night. It wasn't a funeral, as the sheikh's brother has said Saudi authorities had already buried his body in an undisclosed cemetery. The service ended peacefully, despite gunfire echoing in the night in the region over the last week. On Friday, the state-run Saudi Press Agency said that a man complained of being kidnapped at gunpoint by a gang and beaten in eastern Saudi Arabia. It quoted police as saying an investigation was ongoing. _(Associated Press writers Jon Gambrell in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Reem Khalifa in Manama, Bahrain, contributed to this report.)_
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[crowd]Getty Images/Oli Scarff OSLO (Reuters) — The indelible imprint left by human beings on Earth has become so clear that it justifies naming a new geological epoch after mankind, experts said on Thursday. The dawn of the "Anthropocene" would signal the end of the Holocene epoch, considered to have begun 11,700 years ago at the end of the Ice Age. The new term, suggested in 2000, is based on the Greek word "anthropos", meaning "man". “Human activity is leaving a pervasive and persistent signature on Earth,” said a report in the journal Science by an international team led by Colin Waters of the British Geological Survey. “We are becoming a geological agent in ourselves,” Waters told Reuters. The start date could be around the mid-20th century, the authors wrote. They said the atomic age, starting with a bomb test in New Mexico in the United States on July 16, 1945, and the post-war leap in mining, industry, farming and use of manmade materials such as concrete or plastics all left geological traces. Concrete, invented by the Romans, was now so ubiquitous that it would amount to one kg (2.2 lbs) for every square meter (11 sq feet) of the planet's surface if spread out evenly, they said. Any formal recommendation to adopt the Anthropocene as a new geological epoch would require years of extra research, partly to pin down a start date, Waters said. Some experts reckon the Anthropocene began with Europe's Industrial Revolution in the 18th century. Others would give it a more widespread origin, dating it from the spread of agriculture several thousand years ago. "Any definition will inform the stories that we tell about human development," said Professor Simon Lewis of University College London, who was not involved in the study. He favors 1610 as a start date, marking the spread of colonialism, disease and trade to the Americas from Europe. Erle Ellis of the University of Maryland, a co-author of the study released on Thursday, said pinning down the Anthropocene would transform understanding of humanity's role on the planet. He said it was a "challenge no smaller than a second Copernican revolution". In the 16th century, Nicolaus Copernicus helped show the Earth rotates around the sun. NOW WATCH: Animated map shows all the major oil and gas pipelines in the US
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Greek Riot Police were called in to stop a protest by Communists against pension cuts and had to fire tear gas outside the Parliament building on Jan. 8. The post Communists Protest Pension Cuts appeared first on The National Herald.
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To the Greeks of America, I am reaching out to you, a few hours prior to the elections on the 10th of January, in order to express my deep satisfaction for the messages of broad support that I have been receiving regarding my candidacy from the Greek-American Community, a part of Hellenism that I am […] The post We Can Change Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis Tells The National Herald appeared first on The National Herald.
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… to implement measures demanded by Greece’s international creditors, who must … lenders and Eurogroup secretariat in Greek only, and as of Friday … will continue receiving a pension.” Greece must implement the reforms to …
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… - AFP Athens: Hundreds of Greek pensioners and workers marched in … to implement measures demanded by Greece's international creditors, who … continue receiving a pension." Greece must implement the reforms to …
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… Aegean Sea, according to the Greek Ministry of Defense, which also … in the Eastern Mediterranean,” said Greece’s former deputy military chief … from southern Russia into eastern Greece. The deal, which is still …
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… activities of Greek Frontex vessels in Greekterritorial waters east of the Greek island … while trying to reach the Greek island of Lesbos. Justice and … on Jan. 6 that the Greek naval authorities directed boats carrying …
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Greece on Thursday said it condemned all forms of discrimination after Palestinian leaders complained at the removal of two Arab passengers from an Israel-bound flight. The Palestinian leadership on Wednesday demanded the Greek government take "strong ...
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