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Saturday, January 9, 2016

Death toll in migrant bus crash in Turkey increases to 6

The deal offered Turkey easier access to travel visas and a renewed focus on the prospect of the country joining the 28-nation European Union, in return for its aid in stopping migrants from crossing the Aegean to the islands of eastern Greece. However ...


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Drawn-Out Bailout Irks Greece

Greek officials aren't happy Eurozone chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem said a review of the country's bailout terms could take months to complete. The post Drawn-Out Bailout Irks Greece appeared first on The National Herald.


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Greek-American Father and Daughter Battle Cancer Courageously

Manolis Hajiantoniou and his 11-year old daughter have surprised doctors with their courage in dealing with terminal cancer and a brain tumor. The post Greek-American Father and Daughter Battle Cancer Courageously appeared first on The National Herald.


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World Press View: Greece Crisis Proves Never-Ending Story

This year the Greek economic crisis will hit six years running with no signs on the horizon it will be over for many years, world press reports say. The post World Press View: Greece Crisis Proves Never-Ending Story appeared first on The National Herald.


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Teachers Push Cyprus Unity Hopes

Some 60 Greek Cypriot teachers recently crossed over to the north side of Nicosia to visit Turkish Cypriot schools to convey messages of peace. The post Teachers Push Cyprus Unity Hopes appeared first on The National Herald.


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To Be a Leaver or Not, that is Never the Question!

Famines go back to Greece and Egypt and Spain and Italy . . . thousands of years ago. What accounts for this, when our population goes up and farming goes up with it? Growing crops by clearing the land, killing the species, mucking the waters, it became a ...


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Greek Government Claims Majority To Enact Pension Bill Demanded By EU Creditors

Greece's leftist government will be able to push through a crucial pension change in parliament, one of the measures the country has agreed to under its international bailout, the deputy prime minister said in a newspaper interview released Saturday.


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Harvard Team Wins 2016 World Debating Championship

Hosted in Thessaloniki, Greece from Dec. 27- Jan. 4, the 36th world debate championships featured students from more than 250 institutions. Mashwama and Seo’s victory marks the third time a Harvard team has ever won the international competition ...


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Migrants Sue Greece in European Court Over Human Rights Violations

… case has been filed against Greece, and the first time that … to support the lawsuit. The Greek authorities are invited on January … of the 2013 events across Greek society and politics. In July …


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Bristol volunteers to set up more refugee field kitchens on Greek Islands

A group of food waste campaigners from Bristol who travelled to a Greek island to help feed refuges are looking to expand their operation. Volunteers from the Skipchen organisation travelled to Lesbos in November to build a field kitchen. Sam Joseph, co ...


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Hotel Grande Bretagne in Athens Named Among World’s Most Elegant Hotels

Hotel Grande Bretagne, located in downtown Athens, was included among the seven of the world’s most elegant hotels by Conde Nast Traveler. “If these walls could talk! Originally the mansion of a wealthy local aristocrat, throughout its 173-year history, this lavish property has been the center of Greek high society, occupied by Nazis, liberated by Allies and


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AGORA: U.S. Education’s Failing Grades

When it comes to America’s failed education system, Dan Georgakas and Constantinos Scaros are in total agreement. Their only differences are which part of the problem they focus on – as illustrated herein. GEORGAKAS PRESENTS HIS POINT OF VIEW Dino, Attaining higher education has been a cornerstone of Greek-American prosperity. Our percentage of college graduates, […] The post AGORA: U.S. Education’s Failing Grades appeared first on The National Herald.


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Much needs to be done to bring higher education at world level, says President Mukherjee

Taxilla University of ancient India was a seat of specialised learning for Indian, Greek and Persian Civilisations. The President hoped that recent listing of Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Banglore, and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi ...


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Table and stools based on architectural cross vaults by Graft Object

Related story: David Chipperfield presents cabinets referencing Greek architecture at David Gill Gallery "The structural functionality of an intersected vault is not only useful for spanning architectural elements, but also to support people," said Graft ...


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Greek government has solid majority to pass pension reform -deputy PM

ATHENS, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Greece's leftist government will be able to push through a crucial pension reform in parliament, part of measures the country has agreed to under its international bailout, the deputy prime minister said in a newspaper interview ...


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Violent Protests in Cologne Test Merkel's Response on Refugees

The Turkish government has undertaken a number of measures, though efforts to scale back illegal migration over the waters of the Aegean Sea to Greece were “not yet satisfactory,” Merkel said. In addition to ruling out an upper limit on migrants ...


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Greek Govt Officials Reportedly Upset by Dijsselbloem Comments

Greek government officials were not happy with Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem’s recent comments on the Greek bailout’s upcoming review, Kathimerini newspaper reported. Dijsselbloem claimed on Thursday that the review will take months to ...


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New Research Claims Hitler Escaped and Fled to Argentina, Possibly Through Greece

A new round of research into US government archives and other sources alleges that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler did not commit suicide in his bunker in Berlin but fled to Argentina, potentially through Greece and the Canary Islands. Ex-CIA officer Bob Baer ...


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Greece: Refugees turn life vests into handbags to raise money for charity

LESBOS, Greece--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 ...


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Four out of five extradition requests, rejected

Athens, January 9, 2016/ Independent Balkan News Agency By Olga Mavrou The Athens Court of Appeals (Council of Appeals) rejected another two extradition requests for Greek students that Italian authorities accuse of “destruction and looting”, during a demonstration in Milan  and concerning the  squatting of a building. Earlier yesterday, Friday, were rejected the first two […]


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Book review: 'SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome' by Mary Beard

The opening incident is hardly the dawn of Roman history: The absorption of the Italian peninsula, the wars with Carthage, and the establishment of control over Greece and other foreign territories were well past. Beard says that she opens where she does ...


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Toronto group helping refugees at transit camp get a decent meal

Her family, who were initially supportive, suddenly said no. So she redirected her attention to the small and largely forgotten island of Leros, Greece. She quickly realized, the need for help there — and the basic necessities — was more than she could ...


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Greek Main Opposition New Democracy Prepares for Sunday’s Leadership Election

If everything goes smoothly on Sunday, Greece will have a new permanent leader at the helm of the country’s main opposition for the first time in more than six months. Former interim President Vangelis Meimarakis faces off against Kyriakos Mitsotakis for New Democracy’s presidency. In the first round of elections held on December 20, Meimarakis collected 39.8% of


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Little-known Fleurieu Peninsula, Australia, is heavy with local culture and light on commercialism

As the sun headed for the horizon, we settled our salt- and sand-encrusted bodies on the cliff-top deck of the Star of Greece at Port Willunga overlooking a beach dotted with surf fishermen. Once a 1950s bait and tackle shop, it's now a deluxe beach shack ...


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In Memoriam: James Skrepetis

His loving family was at his side. Jimmy, as he was affectionately known, was born in Pardali (Sparta), Greece on March 15, 1922 and was the youngest of 13 children born to the late Themistoklis and Tasia (Perdikis)Skrepetis. Jimmy is survived by his ...


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Greek Bailout Review to Reportedly Begin on January 18

Greece has already received 21.5 billion euros thus far. Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem had claimed on Thursday that the completion of the review could take months. The bailout review itself will include legislating reforms in the country’s ...


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Diaspora leaders head to Cyprus, Israel, Greece

Eastern Mediterranean Basin: Still a lot to... Delegations from Greek American and Jewish American organisations will be start their visits to Israel, Cyprus, and Greece Sunday, with the 12 community leaders stop in Jerusalem, an announcement said.


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Happy 42nd birthday Hrithik: 5 unforgettable dance numbers of B-town's Greek...

New Delhi: Actor Hrithik Roshan was recently voted the second sexiest Asian man alive. Blessed with drool-worthy looks, Hrithik turns 42 tomorrow. Son of an actor, director and producer, Hrithik debuted with the 2000 super-hit Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai. The …


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Greek President to Meet With Putin, Medvedev in Moscow Next Week

…  further improvement of relations between Greece and Russia, and is also … cross-cultural year between Russia and Greece, the media reported. Relations between … for another year. In November, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called …


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Soccer-Greek championship results and standings

Jan 9 (Infostrada Sports) - Results and standings from the Greek championship matches on Saturday Saturday, January 9 Atromitos Athinon 0 Platanias 0 Standings P W D L F A Pts 1 Olympiakos Piraeus 16 16 0 0 44 9 48 2 AEK Athens 16 9 3 4 27 14 30 3 ...


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Lanarkshire's Royal Scots Borderers patrol the buffer zone between the Turkish and Greek Cyriot communities

Lt Cameron Dickie, (29), from Hamilton, and privates Doyle Slater, (22), and Kyle Rae, both Uddingston, are with the Royal Scots Borderers forming part of the British contingent in the demilitarized zone between the Turkish and Greek Cypriot communities.


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Conspiracy theories: Hitler faked his death and escaped via Greece

A team of former CIA investigators uncover secret FBI files to ‘reveal’ exactly what happened to Adolf Hitler. Using a collection of never-before-seen documents, the team claim to have proof Hitler did not kill himself in his underground bunker at the end of the Second World War. Instead, the investigators […]


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Best Greek Pizza, Pizza Palace, Old Saybrook

Her parents John and Toula Sourvalis opened the business after immigrating to the U.S. from Greece in 1971, and it has remained in the same place ever since. “We make sure it’s made the way we would want it,” says Mirsina, about the food her family ...


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Mozart at 250: how to explain a 10-year-old talent for all time

Conductor Ian Page has embarked on a 27-year project to play Mozart’s music, in order, 250 years after it was written. He has reached 1776, when Mozart was 10 and his music was already breaking new ground Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756‑1791) is probably the most famous composer of all time. But how much do we really know about him, and how do we separate reality from myth? After all, even the name by which we know him is inauthentic: he was baptised Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart – Theophilus being the Greek form of Gottlieb, his godfather’s name, meaning “beloved by God”, and although Mozart referred to himself as Wolfgang Amadé throughout his adulthood, he was never known as the Latinised “Amadeus” during his lifetime. We have a partial appreciation of his music, too, as fewer than a quarter of his works are regularly played and a large proportion of those are mostly neglected. Mozart seems not to be interested in writing tunes but plays with the orchestra as if it were a new toy Continue reading...


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Deformed mountain lion an Idaho mystery

They then grew on their own. Another explanation is a so-called "teratoma" tumor. This type of abnormality, whose Greek name translates to "monster tumor," can grow teeth and hair. In humans, it can grow fingers and toes. Mountain lions are common ...


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Athens Expresses ‘Extreme Concern’ Over N. Korea Nuclear Test

Greece’s Foreign Ministry expressed “extreme concern” over the nuclear test carried out by North Korea. “We express our extreme concern at the nuclear test carried out on January 6 in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. This test constitutes a threat to international peace and security, and runs counter to UN Security Council resolutions and


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Greek Films Featured in Washington, DC’s National Gallery of Art

  WASHINGTON, DC – The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, in association with the New York City Greek Film Festival, is presenting “Athens Today: New Greek Cinema,” a series of six films to be shown weekends during January and February at the National’s East Building Auditorium, 6th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW. Opening […] The post Greek Films Featured in Washington, DC’s National Gallery of Art appeared first on The National Herald.


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Greek giants AEK Athens move close to signing French winger from Aston Villa

The French winger is set to join Greek side AEK Athens, ending a stay that has cost Villa pennies short of £400,000 for every time he has started a game. N’Zogbia cost £9.5m from Wigan in July 2011, when he signed a £65,000-a-week five-year deal.


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Greek Island of Crete: A Beautiful Winter Holiday Destination

Crete is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, located in the country’s south border. It is known worldwide as an amazing summer destination with beautiful cities and numerous areas across the island where tourists can enjoy their vacation.


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Greek Foreign Minister Receives DUI Party Leader Ali Ahmeti in Athens

Greece’s Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias received on Friday DUI President Ali Ahmeti, leader of FYROM’s largest ethnic Albanian party, which is a coalition partner in the Skopje government. In statements afterwards, Ahmeti noted that the issue of ...


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Greece's lenders arrive for first evaluation on 18 January

EU-US: Negotiations on TTIP will continue into... Greece’s international lenders will be arriving in Athens on 18 January to start the evaluation of the country’s economy, an authority had told Reuters on Saturday. The goal he had said is to finish the ...


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Greece Offers Investor Tax Breaks

Hoping to offset a crushing economic crisis, Greece will give entrepreneurs and investors big tax breaks and cover losses for a previous failed loan program. The post Greece Offers Investor Tax Breaks appeared first on The National Herald.


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ECHR Probes Migrant Shootings

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) said it will review a complaint by 42 Bangladeshi workers against Greece in a farm shootings incident. The post ECHR Probes Migrant Shootings appeared first on The National Herald.


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Why should muesli munching be a term of abuse? It’s the fault of Orwell

Insults based on others’ unusual food tastes have a long history. Jeremy Corbyn is only the latest to have perfectly legitimate breakfast habits used against him On a lovely afternoon in the summer of 1969 I sat in the smart and, for a newspaper, remarkably silent offices of the Observer being interviewed for a job on the paper’s magazine. “How would you describe our magazine’s readers?” wasn’t the sort of question I had been asked before. “How would you describe your parents?” “How would you describe your upbringing?” Intimate enquiries of that kind invited an articulate self-awareness that was then not generally available, or not to me. In any case, in journalism at that time you hardly gave a thought to the consumer – the product was the thing. I had come down from Glasgow. I said: “Maybe they’re the kind of people who eat french beans with their mince rather than peas,” a clever-clogs reply that was probably puzzling or irritating to my interviewer and yields no pleasure at all to remember. It interests me now for two reasons: one, in its implication that, in 1969, french beans could still be thought of, at least in Glasgow, as an aspirational or pretentious food; two, as an example of what might be called gastro-synecdoche, in which people are characterised by a part of their diet. I don’t know how much anthropological study has been devoted to the idea – perhaps a great deal. Obviously, it must go back a long way, possibly to the days of the hunter-gatherers and the dietary differences between tribes and localities. The ancient Greeks knew the Romans as _pultiphagonides_ – after _puls_, a pap made from coarse bread – rather as “bean-eater” is the pejorative in the US for Mexicans. Later, national rivalries played a part. The French and the English began to characterise each other in terms of roast beef and frogs in the 18th century (although the Simpsons waited until 1995 to describe the French as cheese-eating surrender monkeys). In Lilliput, Swift imagined a conflict between the Big Endians and the Little Endians over the correct way to break open a boiled egg. Continue reading...


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Owner of Niko's Greek Kitchen passes away from cancer

RENO-SPARKS, Nev. (KRNV & MyNews4.com) - The well-known owner of Niko's Greek Kitchen and the former Grekos Pizza and Play land lost his battle with cancer Thursday morning. Nikos Theologitis, 62, was known in Reno-Sparks for his food and friendliness at ...


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Court Won’t Extradite Students

Two Greek students won't be extradited to Italy to face charges of vandalizing and destroying property during Expo 2015 protests. The post Court Won’t Extradite Students appeared first on The National Herald.


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Euro Wins for Greek Hoopsters

Greek basketball powers Olympiacos and Panathinaikos took impressive wins in Euroleague play on Jan. 8 over two top Spanish teams. The post Euro Wins for Greek Hoopsters appeared first on The National Herald.


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Armed Turkish Jets Breach Greek Airspace

Greece has accused Turkey of violating airspace rules by flying military aircraft over the northeastern and southeastern Aegean without permission, the Greek Defense Ministry said Friday. The officials said that the seven Turkish fighter jets infiltrated ...


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GREEK Police, Frontex to 'check' volunteers on islands receiving migrants

The GREEK Police and Frontex are to carry out checks on non-governmental organizations and volunteers on islands of the northern Aegean which ...


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Greek Unions Call for General Strike!

Fight Back News Service is circulating the call from the Greek labor organization, the All-Workers Militant Front (PAME), for a general strike. Dozens of trade unions, federations, and labor centers already responded to PAME’s call for a General Strike ...


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