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Sunday, October 2, 2016

Feature: Sino-Greek relations advancing with "two wheels"

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras got a special gift from his Chinese hosts during his official visit to China in July: a two-wheeled bicycle. Explaining the symbolic value of the gift, Tsipras said that the bilateral relations are like a two-wheeled ...


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Low Turnout Invalidates Hungary Ballot on EU Refugee Quotas

Separately from the referendum, the Orban government is also suing at the European Court of Justice because of the EU's 2015 decision to relocate 160,000 asylum seekers from overburdened Greece and Italy. Under the original plan, 1,294 asylum seekers would ...


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Germany wants migrants sent back to Greece, Turkey

[Refugees and asylum seekers at the 'grain market' in Bautzen, eastern Germany on September 14, 2016]Germany called Sunday for asylum seekers who entered the European Union via Greece to be forced to return there, while also urging Athens to send more migrants back to Turkey.


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Whipped Feta Blistered Tomatoes Greek Salad Spread

I was at Ten Foot Henry in Calgary not that long ago and so enjoyed their whipped feta and warmed tomato appetizer that I had to make some of my own. Actually my girlfriend Jill also gave me the challenge to do a recipe with whipped feta. I accepted the ...


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Greek Spinach-Beef Pie

I got to thinking today about those wonderful Spanakopita spinach-stuffed phyllo pastries they serve at Greek restaurants and decided that’s the taste I want today. I thawed ground beef and just threw together my typical ingredients for Spanakopita and ...


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Hungary hopes to deploy thousands of 'border hunters' in bid to stop migrants

They have created a great opportunity for racists.” More than 100,000 migrants remain holed up in Greece and Italy, the countries where most asylum seekers begin their European trek. The European Union has said all of its countries must help with ...


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One-stop shop and fast-track process turn into market joke

GREECE'S constant slide down the international competitiveness charts reflects just some of the problems that anyone wishing to start an enterprise in ...


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Athens Conservatory’s Ground Floor to Finally Be Utilized After 40 Years

Although recently the state along with private companies put together an initiative to refurbish the space which had attracted scholars from abroad and Greece alike. “The completion of the ground floor will fully reveal Despotopoulos’s concept ...


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Western Trophies 2016: Our Modern Marathon

If you add your vote to my side, Athens will be free and becomes the foremost city-state in Greece. But if you give it to the other side, the opposite will follow." Weighing the costs Callimachus finally sides with Miltiades and the other four generals who ...


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State Department 'Loses' Smoking Gun Email of Possible Clinton Insider Trading

The Washington Examiner described the missing email as containing "an attachment memo about GREEK bonds – a significant detail given the heavy ...


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72 migrants en route to GREEK island caught

The Turkish Coast Guard has apprehended 72 migrants off the shore of the western Izmir province, blocking their illegal journey to the GREEK island of ...


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Reaction of GREEK Foreign Ministry to Turkish Foreign Min Comments

foreign_ministry “It is obvious that the governing and the opposition parties in Turkey are picking a fight for someone else's barn,” the GREEK Foreign ...


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Amending the Treaty of Lausanne and the Leap into the Darkness

During the course of a speech in Ankara on Thursday 29 September 2016, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey, announced: “We gave away islands to Greece that we could... The post Amending the Treaty of Lausanne and the Leap into the Darkness appeared first on The National Herald.


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Greece forecasts economic growth of 2.7% in 2017

Upswing due to tourism surge although economists deride optimism as government attempt to project success After seven years of gruelling, austerity-driven recession, Greece is forecasting economic growth in 2017, in what would be a first-time rebound for ...


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Daily news summary

In GREECE for a private conference by a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin's, the Czech president warned of a “strong connection” between ...


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Low turnout will nullify Hungarian vote on refugees, initial results suggest

Internationally, Orbán’s referendum was seen as a plebiscite not just on the EU’s refugee-sharing quota – which amounts to 1,294 refugees resettling in Hungary from Greece and Italy – but on the role of nation-state and the future of liberal ...


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Deep Fried Shellfish with Greek Sauce / Frityrstekte Skalldyr med Gresk Saus

Deep fried mussels, shrimp, crayfish and other types of shelfish are suitable as a starter or snacks. A mixture of various shellfish and boiled fish cut into pieces, offers many delicious possibilities.


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The Saint and the Pope: The tale of two Francises (Column: Bookends)

Kazantzakis (1883-1957), best known for his "Zorba the GREEK" (1952), and "The Last Temptation of Christ" (1961) -- banned by the Catholic Church ...


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Tourist Discovers Active WWII Mine off Coast of Skopelos

According to authorities, an active mine from WWII was discovered by a tourist on Skopelos some 70 meters from the beach of Loutraki while diving. Local authorities just announced the discovery of the mine on Saturday, although the tourist found it some 40 days ago. The Greek military was alerted and sent de-mining teams to deactivate the live […]


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Gnostic worldview of the Abrahamic God

… the Greek Scriptures (New Testament), the term “gnosis” (Strong’s Greek Concordance … a connection with “Sophia” (#4678, Greek for “wisdom”) for the improvement … the “Bythos” (Greek for “the Depth“ or “Profundity“). Other Greek terms include …


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Low turnout seen in Hungary referendum on EU refugee quotas

Separately from the referendum, the Orban government is also suing at the European Court of Justice because of the EU's 2015 decision to relocate 160,000 asylum seekers from overburdened Greece and Italy. Under the original plan, 1,294 asylum seekers would ...


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The Greek Government Is Both For and Against Its Own Privatization Plan

ATHENS—The day that Christos Spirtzis became responsible for much of Greece’s ambitious privatization program, he vowed to ensure it failed. Greece’s leftist infrastructure minister has resisted every sale of roads, airports and trains, even though ...


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List of Greek Gods Goddesses

The god of wine and the grapevine predates the Greeks with an origin covering Thrace, Asia Minor, Syria, and even as far as Egypt. Firstly an agricultural god, this “deity of Mt. Nysa” was an early supreme being whose wild and riotous worship was ...


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Bumpy Road for Greek Privatizations

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Second annual Greek Summit kicks off with Title IX training

SF State’s Greek Summit included mandatory training last week to better educate Greek organizations on sexual violence and sexual assault response protocols. It has been found that fraternities and sororities are much more likely to be involved in ...


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Deutsche Bank Is Going Under: Is The Real Reason Germans Were Told To Prepare For A National Crisis?

People who try to prepare after the government tells them to will be dealing with limited supplies as everyone else tries to get prepped too. It happened in Greece and Venezuela both, and it’s highly possible that we’re about to watch history repeat ...


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Czech president calls for economic migrants to be deported

The maverick Czech leader suggested migrants could be relocated to “empty places” in north Africa or on “uninhabited Greek islands” — with GREECE'S ...


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Home Greek news Politics Breaches in the Treaty of Lausanne are Sanctioned, President ...

Prokopis Pavlopoulos “The Treaty of Lausanne is an integral part of international law, its compliance is mandatory and any breach results in the ...


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German Min De Maiziere Wants Athens to Implement Dublin Regulations

German Interior minister Thomas de Maiziere Once again the German Interior Minister, Thomas de Maiziere is insisting that it is time for GREECE to ...


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“SEND THEM BACK!” Fuming Czech leader orders Brussels to DEPORT economic migrants

Furious Czech leader Milos Zeman ordered Brussels to send all failed asylum seekers to “empty places” in North Africa or “uninhabited Greek islands” to deter further mass migration to Europe. The outspoken president said EU nations should provide ...


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What to eat to ease arthritis

Arthritis affects about 1 in 5 American adults, but while this condition is common, it’s also complex. Arthritis, which comes from the Greek words for “joint” and “inflammation,” refers to more than 100 types of joint disease, the most common of ...


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Bulgaria joins France and Belgium and bans the burqa and niqab

He has said Islam ‘has no place in Austria’. Austria was located on the so-called Balkan migrant route, which saw hundreds of thousands of people, many fleeing the Syrian war, trek up from Greece towards northern Europe last year. SLOVAKIA: In March ...


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Greek Foreign Ministry and New Democracy Respond to Turkey’s Statements about the Lausanne Treaty

Following statements made last week by Turkey’s President Erdogan regarding the Lausanne Treaty, New Democracy (ND) spokesman Giorgos Koumoutsakos and the Greek Foreign Ministry have given official statements.. “The fact that the issue of the Aegean is in public consultation in Turkey must be evaluated carefully and seriously,” main opposition ND spokesman Giorgos Koumoutsakos said. […]


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Turkish Military Jet and Choppers Enter Greek Air Space Committing Int’l Aviation Violations

On Friday a Turkish military jet and two choppers entered Greek airspace over the southeastern Aegean region on Friday, the Greek military has reported. The violators were reported to have been intercepted and chased out of the Athens Flight Information region (FIR) without any incident. There have been other international aviation violations by Turkey in Greek […]


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Border Dispute Between Turkey, Greece Remains Unresolved

… through dialogue between Turkey and Greece. Currently there are no changes … that Turkey ceded islands to Greece, where there were Turkish sanctuaries … , by Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Greece, Romania, the Kingdom of Serbs …


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A Cyprus solution should provide withdrawal of Turkish troops and abolishing guarantees, says Greek Defence Ministe

Greece will stand by Cyprus until a solution to the Cyprus problem is found that will provide for the withdrawal of the Turkish troops and abolishing guarantees, Greek National Defence Minister Panos Kammenos reassured on Saturday. Speaking after the ...


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Female Bukowski

Cypriot Australian author Koraly Dimitriades is due to give readings from her new Greek and English book, Love and F**k poems, in Limassol and Nicosia next week, as part of her European book tour. Ahead of the readings, she opened up to the Weekly about ...


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The Errors of Inerrancy: #2 Inerrant Original Autographs are a Tautology of Biblical Inerrancy

Modern Greek Bibles have essentially reconstructed the original sources of the New Testament The Bible has far greater historical attestation than any other ancient work of literature. Archeologists have discovered over a hundred papyri manuscripts of the ...


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Diaspora: The Dispersion of People from Their Homeland

The word diaspora comes from the Greek word "διασπορά", meaning "scattering, dispersion". Diaspora describes people who have left their home country, usually involuntarily to foreign countries around the world. Examples of these communities include ...


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Seventy two crew listed for Cyprus Rally 2016

Among the entrants are big names such as ERC No.2 Alexey Lukyanuk with his Ford Fiesta R5 and ERC No.3 Ralf Sirmacis in a Skoda Fabia R5 but also the driver of Team Greece Lambros Athanasoullas in a Fiesta R5. Hungarian driver David Bodka will drive a ...


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Germany says wants refugees back in Greece

Germany’s highest official responsible for refugees has again called for the return of asylum seekers to Greece as the first EU country they normally reach, saying the European Union’s Dublin Regulation should be implemented regardless of objections by ...


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Five (mostly free!) fall activities you can do in Middle Georgia

Mina Steward performs a traditional GREEK dance called a hasapiko to traditional GREEK music at the 2015 Central Georgia GREEK Festival. Woody ...


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Pols & Politics: City of Angels awash in cash for 2024 Olympics

Pollster to PAC leader David Paleologos — best known in Boston and nationally as a major pollster for presidential, gubernatorial and other races — is jumping into a different side of politics with the Greek PAC, a political action committee he’s ...


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Commissioner Avramopoulos Stresses that EU Member States Must Work Together to Resolve Refugee Crisis

Referring to EU funds for the management of the refugee issue, Avramopoulos stressed the need for Greece to speed up procedures for the absorption of programs and added: “The European Commission is in constant communication with the Greek authorities to ...


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New Democracy Vows to Overturn Greece Private TV License Sales

The major opposition New Democracy party plans to reverse the sale of private TV licenses if it comes to power, spokesman Nikos Dendias said. The post New Democracy Vows to Overturn Greece Private TV License Sales appeared first on The National Herald.


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Meet Sisyphus, The Kinetic Sand Art Table That Heals Your Soul

As a musical instrument plays songs, Sisyphus plays paths.” [Image source: Sisyphus] The system’s name comes from the Greek mythological king called Sisyphus, who was punished to roll a giant rock up to the hill and down for eternity. Likewise ...


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A distinguished academic rightly honoured

The young and lively Malta Classics Association used the launch of its publication, Greek Civilisation (and the same publication in a Maltese text) to pay tribute to the author of this small but beautifully written book, Fr Nicholas Debono Montebello ...


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Britain has turned the tide in Europe

The crisis of the euro has made many European peoples angry at being bullied, and it has weakened the bullies too. In Greece, German Chancellor Angela Merkel made the people queue at their ATMs to ration their money. Nobody expects her to do the same to ...


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Syrian refugee children 'arrested and beaten' for carrying toy guns in GREECE

Five Syrian refugee children have been arrested and detained in GREECE after they were found carrying plastic toy guns on their way to perform in a ...


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Happy 55th Anniversary!: Sam and Elsie Chelemes

For many years she was involved with the food preparation at the Salt Lake GREEK Festival. Elsie served as a Sunday School teacher and has enjoyed ...


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