As might be expected, "My Big Fat GREEK Wedding 2" is the movie equivalent of a family reunion. You will dread it or look forward to it depending on ...
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How the world sees Greece
Monday, March 28, 2016
ND Slams SYRIZA MP on FYROM Statement
New Democracy said on Monday, that a statement by SYRIZA MP Makis Balaouras that he wouldn’t object to Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) being recognized as “Macedonia” by Greece undermines the country’s efforts to negotiate a solution to the long-running name dispute. “This undermines the national strategy line,” ND said in a statement, adding
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International Distinction for Aristotle University of Thessaloniki’s Law School
The Law School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki ranked third among 60 other universities in an international competition for investment arbitration that took place in Frankfurt. The Greek students managed to prevail over universities with a much higher international ranking and more specifically, they managed to face last year’s winners from India – Jindal Global
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Greece to set up loudspeakers at border camp
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- The Greek government said Monday it will set up loudspeakers at the country's border with Macedonia to try and persuade thousands of refugees and migrants to ignore false rumors that the Balkan route to central Europe will reopen.
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Supervisor Reilich, GREECE Public Library unveil preschool art exhibit
GREECE Public Library, 2 Vince Tofany Blvd., Rochester, will exhibit art created by students in preschool classes at the Northwest Family YMCA during ...
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Deftones Extend US Tour – Announce Greek Theatre Show August 24
Deftones are extending their upcoming US Tour. The band initially kicked things off on March 5th in Costa Mesa at Travis Barker’s Musink Festival and today (March 28), announced that their stint will continue through Aug. 31 in Arizona – including a ...
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US pledges another $20 million for refugee aid in Europe
[Women sit by tents at the makeshift camp of the Greek-Macedonian border on March 27, 2016]The United States will provide an additional $20 million (18 million euros) in aid for refugees in Europe, a senior US official said Monday.
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'My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2': 3 points for parents
… film "My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2." IMDb: video … film "My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2." Points for …
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Report: Greek Police knew of Brussels Airport attack
… of Brussels airport was found. Greek police have not yet issued … Athens. French police had provided Greek police with Abaaoud‘s DNA … over to Belgium by the Greek authorities.
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Elle Macpherson's sons join Greek royals for Cuba Rolling Stones concert
… the holiday. Princess Maria-Olympia of Greece, 19, spent her spring break … . Royal family: Princess Maria-Olympia of Greece and her father Pavlos, the … celebrated the holiday with the Greek Royal family. Digital distraction: Pavlos …
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Danai-Magdalini Koumanakou: Refugees will not disturb tourists on Greek islands
… to Greece decreased substantially last year. Do you think this year Greece … to Greek tourism as well, but it touched not only Greece but … the government of Greece but especially people of Greece who have contributed …
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New Ferry service between Izmir (Turkey) and Lesbos (GREECE)
GREECE Turkey SeaTourism2016 Mayor of Metropolitan Izmir; Aziz Kocaoğlu announced their plans to start a new ferry service between Izmir and ...
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GREEK stock market reopens on Tuesday
After a four-day break due to the national holiday and Western Easter, the GREEK bourse reopens on Tuesday, with the Athens Exchange (ATHEX) ...
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Familiar and new faces star in My Big Fat GREEK Wedding 2
NEW YORK CITY -- It took a long time, more than a decade, to make "My Big Fat GREEK Wedding 2" happen. But, screenwriter and actress Nia ...
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My Big Fat GREEK Wedding 2 News Update: A Warm Box-Office with a $18.5 million Opening
"My Big Fat GREEK Wedding 2" has clashed with "Batman v Superman" at the box-office. And, though, it has mixed reviews, but the sequel has opened ...
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Greece Tries to Squash Open Border Rumors Among The Refugees
Greece's government is appealing to volunteers and aid groups working with desperate refugees on the border to make sure the migrants they don't get misinformation that led hundreds to try to get past the closed border at FYROM.
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Brussels Terrorist Khalid el-Bakraoui Traveled to Greece From Italy
Suicide bomber Khalid el-Bakraoui, who detonated a bag of explosives on a subway car as part of the coordinated terror attacks in Brussels on Tuesday, traveled to Greece from Italy last summer, according to an Italian police spokeswoman and Italian media.
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Greece can conclude Hellenikon property lease by autumn
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece can conclude a multi-billion euro deal to lease a prime seaside property at the former airport site of Hellenikon by autumn, the finance minister said on Monday. In 2014, Greece signed a 915-million-euro (716.70 million pound ...
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'A Greek tragedy:' The rise and fall of TABOR author Douglas Bruce
… . "It's a Greek tragedy," said Bob Loevy … emeritus of political science. "Greeks like to record the rise …
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Loudspeakers planned for use at Greek border to end chaos of rumors
… rumors it would be opened. Greek police and other migrants helped … ,000 migrants are stranded in Greece after other European countries sealed … Idomeni. The trail leads from Greece – the landing point for …
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Situation in Idomeni Affects Greece’s Image on International Trade, Say Reps of Piraeus Container Terminal
Representatives of the business community have described as quite negative Greece’s image on international trade on account of the prevailing situation in Idomeni — a small village near the borders with FYROM, where thousands of refugees are stranded ...
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ISIS' campaign in Europe mapped
[ISIS Islamic State]Reuters ISIS is using its foreign fighters and safe haven in Iraq and Syria to execute a terror campaign within Europe. _ISIS’s March 22 Brussels attacks support a larger strategy to punish, destabilize, and polarize the West. ISIS will likely continue to attempt attacks in France and Belgium in 2016, using its large Francophone foreign fighter population and local supporters. _ _ISIS’s support networks in southern Europe may enable ISIS’s operatives to launch operations in other parts of the continent, including Austria, Germany, Spain, and Italy. _ _ISIS may also increasingly target Westerners in Turkey in order to punish members of the anti-ISIS coalition and undermine the Turkish economy, as part of its stated objective to seize Constantinople. Current efforts to address these threats through law enforcement, surgical strikes on ISIS’s leadership, and linear attrition of ISIS’s terrain and resources are necessary but not sufficient to destroy the ISIS threat to Europe. _ _The anti-ISIS coalition must deprive ISIS of its primary source of strength, its territorial control as a caliphate in Iraq, Syria, and now Libya._ ISIS’s suicide bombings in Brussels demonstrate that the jihadist threat to Europe is outpacing domestic and international law enforcement efforts. ISIS is successfully using its safe haven in Iraq and Syria to train as many as 600 foreign fighters for external attacks. ISIS’s fighters benefit from extensive support networks across the European continent. The logistical requirements for facilitating European foreign fighter travel into Iraq and Syria can also export those fighters from ISIS’s safe havens back to Europe. Reports following the November 2015 Paris attacks and the recent Brussels attacks indicate European governments have incomplete, fragmented intelligence on the identity and communications of ISIS’s members in Europe. ISIS likely retains attack cells and logistical networks within Europe that will enable it to launch additional spectacular attacks, with support from the organization’s leadership within Iraq and Syria. ISW last published its ISIS’s Campaign in Europe map on December 2015. The graphic below updates that visualization to depict all attacks inspired or coordinated by ISIS in Europe from January 2014 to present. This group includes attempted and successful attacks in the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Turkey. [ISIS foreign fighters ISW 3/27/16]Reuters The graphic also marks locations where ISIS-linked individuals have been arrested in that timeframe. Locations with more than two arrest events are depicted with opaque circles with varying sizes depending on the number of events. Events that occurred at an unspecified location within a country are marked on that country’s capitol. The graphic also highlights where ISIS has directed public threats or recruitment calls. Individuals inspired by and responsive to ISIS are active across Europe, particularly in France, Belgium, Germany, and the United Kingdom. ISIS-linked attacks and arrests in Europe are distinct from ISIS’s activity in Turkey, which reflects spillover from ISIS's campaigns in Iraq and Syria as well as ISIS's campaign to attack the West. NOW WATCH: IAN BREMMER: Greece is headed for a humanitarian disaster
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Fidel Castro writes 1,500-word letter ripping into Obama after historic visit
[Fidel Castro]REUTERS/Cubadebate Retired leader Fidel Castro accused U.S. President Barack Obama of sweet-talking the Cuban people during his visit to the island last week and ignoring the accomplishments of Communist rule, in an opinion piece carried by all state-run media on Monday. Obama's visit was aimed at consolidating a detente between the once intractable Cold War enemies and the U.S. president said in a speech to the Cuban people that it was time for both nations to put the past behind them and face the future "as friends and as neighbors and as family, together." "One assumes that every one of us ran the risk of a heart attack listening to these words," Castro said in his column, dismissing Obama's comments as "honey-coated" and reminding Cubans of the many U.S. efforts to overthrow and weaken the Communist government. Castro, 89, laced his opinion piece with nationalist sentiment and, bristling at Obama's offer to help Cuba, said the country was able to produce the food and material riches it needs with the efforts of its people. "We don't need the empire to give us anything," he wrote. Fidel Castro took power in a 1959 revolution and led the country until 2006, when he fell ill and passed power to his brother Raul Castro. He now lives in relative seclusion but is occasionally heard from in opinion pieces or seen on television and in photos meeting with visiting dignitaries. The iconic figure's influence has waned in his retirement and the introduction of market-style reforms carried out by Raul Castro, but Fidel Castro still has a moral authority among many residents, especially older generations. Obama did not meet with Fidel Castro, 89, during his three-day visit, nor mention him in any of his public appearances. It was the first visit of a sitting U.S. president for 88 years. Fidel Castro blasted Obama for not referring in his speech to the extermination of native peoples in both the United States and Cuba, not recognizing Cuba's gains in health and education, and not coming clean on what he might know about how South Africa obtained nuclear weapons before apartheid ended, presumably with the aid of the U.S. government. "My modest suggestion is that he reflects (on the U.S. role in South Africa and Cuba's in Angola) and not now try to elaborate theories about Cuban politics," Castro said. Castro also took aim at the tourism industry in Cuba, which has grown further since Obama's rapprochement with Raul Castro in December 2014. He said it was dominated by large foreign corporations which took for granted billion-dollar profits. _(Reporting by Marc Frank; Editing by Bill Rigby)_ NOW WATCH: IAN BREMMER: Greece is headed for a humanitarian disaster
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FYROM to keep borders to Greece & Serbia “closed” until Dec 31/2016
The Parliament of Former Yugoslavia Republic of Macedonia decided today, Monday, to keep its borders to Greece and Serbia closed until the end of the year, until December 31st 2016. Reason for extending this measure was the migration and refugee crisis and “the increased efforts by migrants to enter the […]
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Israeli high court ruling imperils Cyprus, Greece energy deal
Israel’s Supreme Court’s decision on March 27 to block a government plan to develop offshore natural gas fields was disappointing news for oil and gas investors. “In effect the High Court has shaken up the Israeli energy sector by ruling against the ...
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'My Big Fat GREEK Wedding 2' Review: Bigger, Greeker, More Pointless
Say what you will about the decade-late sequels to 'Anchorman' and 'Zoolander', but at least those movies had adoring cult audiences that demanded ...
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GREEK civil servants to strike on April 7 over pension system reform
The GREEK civil servants' union federation ADEDY on Monday announced a 24-hour strike on April 7 against planned social security reforms.
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Refugees block main highway in Greece during protest
Greece requests 279 billion euros compensation... A group of protesting refugees and migrants on Monday blocked the lanes to Evzones on the Thessaloniki-Evzones national highway, demanding the opening of borders. The group set off from the hotel in the ...
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Greek PM Has ‘Unofficial’ Meeting with President of European Parliament
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met a short while ago at Maximos mansion with the president of the European Parliament Martin Schulz. Mr. Schultz, who is considered to be an ally in Greece’s efforts to end austerity, was in Athens for a few hours while on his way to an official visit in Cyprus. The
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Syriza’s Stance on Macedonia Indicative of an Ahistorical-Minded and Machiavellian Bent Organization
Say what you will, but the fact of the matter is that many leftists of the Syriza persuasion (intrinsically ahistorical and naïve) would not have a problem accepting the use of the name Macedonia by Greece’s northern neighbor if Greek public opinion was not so much staunchly against it. Following the recent incident with alternate
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Greek Minister invites immigrants to invest in GREECE and get residence permit
“NATO came to Aegean Sea and realized how difficult it is to manage the issue,” the minister said, while stating that those who talk about GREECE'S exit ...
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Greek officials say more time needed to begin refugee deportations
But their fate in camps there is unclear and most said they were unsure about what the Turkey-EU agreement meant for them. Greek authorities said 875 migrants landed on the islands overnight, with some 15 boats, each carrying dozens of migrants, arriving ...
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Minister of States Nikos Pappas Foresees Explosion in Investment in Greece
Greece is “very close” to reaching an agreement with creditors that will cause an “explosion in investments,” said Minister of State Nikos Pappas during his greeting comments a short while ago to a British American Tobacco event for the creation of ...
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FYROM Closes Its Borders With Greece and Serbia Until the End of 2016
The FYROM Parliament decided on Monday to extend the “emergency” measures on its borders with Greece and Serbia until December 31, 2016, due to the refugee and migrant crisis. FYROM’s Defense Minister, Joran Yolevski, highlighted that it is important ...
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Scuffles erupt at far-right ‘anti-Islamification’ rally in Greece
Scuffles erupted as hundreds of far-right protesters, mostly members of the social group "Sacred Band," demonstrated against refugees and the so-called 'Islamification' of Greece in Thessaloniki on Sunday. A counter-protest staged by a group of around 200 ...
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Refugees face uncertain future on GREEK island
Since the EU-Turkey refugee deal came into effect more than a week ago, thousands who have landed on the GREEK island of Lesbos have been ...
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Greece Linked to Brussels Attack
The alleged mastermind of the Parish terror attacks had drawings and a map of the Brussels airport on a computer in an Athens apartment.
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ADEDY Calls Pension Reform Strike
Although none worked, Greece’s public sector union ADEDY said it will lead a 24-hour strike on April 7 to protest pension cuts and reforms.
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HAMDS Honors Promising Greek American Dental Students
HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA – The Hellenic American Medical & Dental Society’s (HAMDS) recent Scholarship Dinner & Entertainment Ceremony in Huntington Beach, CA featured as its guest speaker Diane Kochilas, a pioneer of healthy Greek Cuisine and prolific cook book author. HAMDS was established in 1980 by Dr. James G. Kallins, an obstetrician-gynecologist, who had […]
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Greece hoping to avoid FIFA sanctions after cancelling this season's Greek Cup due to uncontrollable levels of crowd violence
Deputy Sports Minister Stavros Kontonis is hoping his country will avoid international sanctions after cancelling this season's Greek Cup because of crowd violence. FIFA and UEFA, the respective ruling bodies of world and European soccer, have asked for ...
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Creditors Return to GREECE to Continue Bailout Review
Creditors ask from GREECE to cover an estimated fiscal gap of 1 percent of GDP, or 1.8 billion euros, by 2018. This would bring the government closer ...
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The Turmoil in the Mideast Underlines the Erosion of the Arab State System
_Kanan Makiya is the author of "The Rope: A Novel," released March 15._ Amidst the tumult and chaos raging everywhere in the Middle East, a constant stands out: the eroding power and influence of the state. It is perhaps best described as a tendency toward erosion, even fragmentation, that seems to be underway across the region, but nowhere more so than in Arabism's heartland -- Syria and Iraq. And yet, while the whole Arab region seems to be affected to one degree or another, Turkey and Iran are not. Why? What accounts for this "Arab" exception? And just how deep-rooted is this state of affairs? The phenomenon is unlike anything so-called experts on the region, like myself, recognize from the post-Ottoman past; the deeper, pre-Ottoman past, is even less relevant. The best one can say is that we seem to be at another of those great historical junctures in Arab history, like the early 1960s, during the peak of pan-Arabism's ascent, when events in one country leapfrogged into others with the greatest of ease. The difference now is that there are declining states, not centralizing and powerful ones, and there are no charismatic leaders or integrating ideologies like pan-Arabism, Arab socialism, Arab revolution or the struggle against imperialism and Zionism. Even political Islam, in its latest and most venal incarnation -- the so-called Islamic State -- seems to be constructed to repel rather than attract large numbers of people to its cause. [nasser syria egypt] _Syrians celebrating the announcement of the union agreement between Syria and Egypt as the United Arab Republic on Feb. 7, 1958. (STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images) _ In the midst of all this upheaval, new realities are asserting themselves: the future of Iraq, for instance, can no longer be disentangled from that of Syria, in part because ISIS has redrawn the maps of each country. If the Lebanese civil war (1975-1989) could be contained, the Syrian civil war clearly cannot. Anyway, it is at this stage more of a proxy war than a civil war. The fates of Lebanon and Syria, along with Iraq, have become inextricably intertwined. It is worth noting that not only are strong leaders or integrating ideologies absent as the fates of whole countries merge, but their emergence has become difficult to imagine. There was a time in Iraq, in the 1960s before the Baath Party, when you could expect a group of army officers leading a column of tanks to take over strategic points in the capital and then conquer the state. That scenario is a thing of the past now. Political power is just too fragmented, like a sheet of glass that has shattered into a thousand pieces. Power is about people coalescing around an idea, whether represented by a leader or not. It may be the idea of single Arab nation, or the idea of Syria or the idea of Iraq, or the great illusory nostalgia of another Caliphate. > There is no longer any unifying principle in the sphere of politics > around which people can coalesce. But nowadays, there are just too many ideas out there, not merely in the sphere of culture and personal identity -- which is normal and healthy -- but in the sphere of politics. Am I an Arab first, or an Iraqi? Should I, for the first time in my centuries-long history, be a Shiite, politically speaking? Or a Sunni? What does that even mean? Or perhaps I am a Kurd and not any kind of Syrian or Iraqi. Much of what counts as politics has turned into competing narratives of victimhood. So what does all of that do to a person's identity, politically speaking? There is no longer any unifying principle in the sphere of politics around which people, and therefore political power, can coalesce. [saddam hussein kuwait] _U.S. Army engineers move into position on March 18, 2003 near the Kuwait-Iraq border. (Scott Nelson/Getty Images)_ What caused this tendency toward erosion and fragmentation? Could it have been the ouster of a particular dictator in 2003? Or perhaps it was the fall of a whole slew of them during the course of the Arab Spring? Or perhaps it was caused by the rapid transformation of the Arab Spring into the deep winter we are now living through. It is enough to ask the question to see the fallacy of looking too closely at the present. Far more convincing is the realization that the fall of dictators and an Arab Spring-turned-deep-winter are all symptoms of a much broader, decades-long erosion of state and politics in the Arab world. These tendencies toward erosion were there all along but only became visible after these watershed events. We should not reduce the Arab state to its dictators, tempting though that may be. Some sectors of the Iraqi and Syrian public, demoralized as they are by a new crop of leaders or by the failure of the Arab Spring, look back with nostalgia at life under Saddam Hussein or Syrian President Bashar Assad. Thinking that life then was better than life today -- and that the ouster of the dictator was a bad idea -- is to suggest that no form of governance other than by a "strongman" is conceivable in countries like Iraq and Syria. Certainly the argument is a rational one, given the chaos. But it is also a cynical one. And I at least will not go there. [bashar assad] _Assad, left, talks to government soldiers in the village of Maaloula, Syria, on April 20, 2014. (SANA via AP, File)_ If there is an exception to this way of looking at things, it has got to be that of the Kurdish experience in northern Iraq. But here a slightly different version of the problem raises its head. It is not that the Kurds don't want to constitute a state or are somehow unqualified and too divided to do so -- most certainly not. It is that it has become too dangerous for them to do so. And not because of dangers emanating from the Iraqi state, as was previously the case, but because of dangers emanating from the region around them. And yet the Kurds' fighting prowess against ISIS is altering the perceptions of European and American powers working with them -- for the first time in modern Arab history. One can therefore imagine a pro-Western Kurdish garrison state that buttresses Western interests in an Arab landscape in turmoil, alongside Israel. There is nothing desirable about that scenario -- certainly not for the Kurdish people. But the state of Arab affairs is pushing the Kurds in that direction. So how are we to understand what is going on? Wars, and the political inability of the Arab states to deal with their aftermath, are a good place to begin understanding the origins of the fragmentation afflicting the region today. Four of them have defined the Arab landscape as we see it today: * THE 1967 WAR BETWEEN ISRAEL AND ITS ARAB NEIGHBORS. The outcome of this war, in the shape of the occupied Palestinian Territories, still haunts the region -- both Palestinian and Israeli political thinking is still entirely dominated by it. * THE EIGHT-YEAR IRAN-IRAQ WAR. The long-term impact of this war on Iraq and Iraqi-Iranian relations is still evident today. Just look at the background of those now running the show in Iraq, like Qassem Suleimani -- the leader of the Quds Force, a division of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard -- and the Shiite political elite in Iraq. * THE 1990-91 IRAQI OCCUPATION, ANNEXATION AND DESTRUCTION OF KUWAIT, FOLLOWED BY THE U.S.-LED GULF WAR. There are unique features of that war that need to be mentioned: Saudi Arabia paid for it and the U.S., not the Arab world, waged it. Why? To restore the Arab state system to what it had been before Saddam violated it -- the same system that is falling apart everywhere today. A new kind of event in Arab politics had taken place, one that, like 1967, underlined the fragility and helplessness of the Arab state system. * THE AMERICAN INVASION OF IRAQ IN 2003. Quite unexpectedly, this war lifted the lid and made visible the extent of the rot. Here was a war that showed that the emperor -- the all-powerful Baath state that Saddam built -- was without any clothes. The extent of has nakedness caught everyone by surprise, from the Americans who waged the war to the Iraqis like myself who supported it to those who opposed it. In point of fact, there was no war to speak of in 2003, certainly not in the sense of the other wars that Saddam had waged. The Iraqi army collapsed long before Paul Bremer, President George W. Bush's special envoy to Iraq, called for its dissolution. There was no fighting to speak of. All the rest of the state's institutions followed suit, which is why Iraq is now traversing completely uncharted and dangerous waters in state building. [yazidi] _A group of Yazidis from Iraq walk on train tracks near the Greek village of Idomeni on March 3. (LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP/Getty Images) _ [kanan makiya the rope]So where do we go from here? Bringing the state back into the picture seems to me the most urgent task facing the region. In the political firmament, there is absolutely nothing worse than not having a state, as any Palestinian -- or, nowadays, any Iraqi or Syrian as well -- will tell you. What better proof of this proposition than all the refugees piling up on Europe's borders? And it has to begin in Syria. Bringing back the Syrian state -- to be sure, not in the image of the old one — is a very tall order that cannot be left to the Arab world alone. It can only come about through a regional and international consensual arrangement, which at the moment seems most unlikely to happen. _ALSO ON WORLDPOST:_ -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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Soccer-Greek championship fixtures
March 28 (Infostrada Sports) - Fixtures from the Greek championship matches on Monday Sunday, April 3 (GMT) Atromitos Athinon v Panaitolikos Agrinion (1600) Iraklis v Asteras Tripolis (1600) Kalloni v AEK Athens (1600) Levadiakos v PAS Giannina (1600 ...
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Navy SEALs gone wild: publicity, fame, and the decline of the quiet professional
Do former members of the spec ops community have a right to discuss their service and, if so, where is the line drawn concerning when, where, or how they do so?Do former members of the spec ops community have a right to discuss their service and, if so, where is the line drawn concerning when, where, or how they do so?Do former members of the spec ops community have a right to discuss their service and, if so, where is the line drawn concerning when, where, or how they do so?Do former members of the spec ops community have a right to discuss their service and, if so, where is the line drawn concerning when, where, or how they do so?Do former members of the spec ops community have a right to discuss their service and, if so, where is the line drawn concerning when, where, or how they do so? NOW WATCH: IAN BREMMER: Greece is headed for a humanitarian disaster
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Turkey's Erdogan warns diplomat over this 'selfie' taken at the trial of 2 journalists
[erdogan]Umit Bektas/Reuters Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan warned a foreign diplomat on Monday over a "selfie" taken at the espionage trial of two journalists, after Britain's consul-general tweeted a photo of himself with one of the reporters. Erdogan has harshly criticized Western diplomats after several showed up on Friday to support Can Dundar, editor-in-chief of the Cumhuriyet newspaper, and his colleague Erdem Gul on the first day of their trial in Istanbul. The journalists are accused of trying to topple the government with the publication of a video purporting to show Turkey's state intelligence agency helping to ferry weapons into Syria by truck in 2014. The two face life imprisonment and their case has brought international condemnation and raised concerns about freedom of the press in Turkey. "The consul general of a certain country went to the trial of a journalist charged with espionage, to support him. Moreover he gets a picture taken cheek to cheek (with the journalist) and had it published," the state-run Anadolu agency quoted Erdogan as saying, citing the text of a speech to Turkey's War Academy. "And he does not stop at that, on social media he says things like 'Turkey needs to decide what kind of country it will be', words that exceed their intended meaning." Erdogan did not name the diplomat. British Consul General Leigh Turner on Friday posted a photograph of himself with Dundar on Twitter before the start of the hearing. Several other ambassadors, consuls-general and diplomats also attended. Tweet Embed: https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/713274931224649728 With #Cumhuriyet journalist Can Dundar before opening of trial today #frredomofexpression pic.twitter.com/WgHAiyTVMd Turner tweeted: "Key point not comparisons or history but Turkey deciding for itself what kind of country it wants to be." The British Foreign Office in London made no immediate comment on the matter. HOSPITALITY [Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses members of parliament from his ruling AK Party, during a meeting at the Turkish parliament in Ankara in this October 5, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Umit Bektas/Files]Umit Bektas/ReutersErdogan said the diplomat was only in Turkey because of the hospitality of the Turkish government, Anadolu reported. "If this person could still go on working here that's because of our generosity and hospitality. If it were another country they wouldn't let a diplomat who exhibits this kind of behavior to stay there a day more," it quoted him as saying. The Turkish foreign ministry is conveying its displeasure to some foreign governments over social media postings from the trial, an official said, adding that the sharing did not conform with the principle of impartiality and could interfere with an independent judicial process. Erdogan, who has cast Cumhuriyet's coverage as part of an attempt to undermine Turkey's global standing, has vowed that Dundar will "pay a heavy price". On Friday, the court accepted the prosecutor's request for Erdogan to be one of the complainants and ruled the trial should be heard behind closed doors, decisions that drew anger from the journalists' supporters. The trial comes as Turkey tries to deflect criticism from the European Union - which it aspires to join - and from rights groups that say it is muzzling a once-vibrant press. Dundar and Gul spent 92 days in jail, almost half of it in solitary confinement, before the constitutional court ruled last month that their pre-trial detention was unfounded since the charges stemmed from their journalism work. _(Additional reporting by Tulay Karadeniz in Ankara and William James in London; Writing by David Dolan; Editing by Nick Tattersall and Gareth Jones)_ NOW WATCH: IAN BREMMER: Greece is headed for a humanitarian disaster
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Greece to employ loudspeakers at border after rumour chaos
[Migrants behind the fence at the Macedonian-Greek border on March 27, 2016, where thousands are stranded by the Balkan border blockade]Greece said Monday it would make use of loudspeakers at a migrants' camp on the Macedonia frontier to dispel "irresponsible rumours" that the border is about to reopen.
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A proudly independent GREEK
I have hundreds of sisters on this campus right now, but I have thousands more if you count every woman of my chapter who has come before me, ...
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'My Big Fat GREEK Wedding 2' warms hearts over a decade after original film
Fourteen years ago, the world witnessed the love story between Toula Portokalos (Nia Vardalos), an independent GREEK woman, and Ian Miller (John ...
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Brussels Attacks – Media: at least 2 suicide bombers in Italy & Greece in summer 2015
Khalid El Bakraoui, the suicide bomber of metro station Maelbeek in Brussels last tuesday, has allegednyl traveled form Belgium to Greece through Italy in summer 2015. According to Italian broadcaster Sky Italia that got access to several documents: “Khalid El Bakraoui arrived in Italy at 8.25 in July 23th 2015 […]
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Greece to dispel rumour of Macedonia border reopening using loudspeakers
Extra interpreters will also be sent to migrants’ camp on the border to make clear to refugees the rumours are not true Greece is to use loudspeakers at a migrants’ camp on the Macedonian border to dispel “irresponsible rumours” that it is about to reopen. “We are trying to step up efforts to address refugees and migrants in their own language and without an intermediary,” said Giorgos Kyritsis, spokesman for the government’s coordination panel on migration. Continue reading...
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