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Tuesday, January 17, 2017

There's a lot going on in markets over the next few days

As the Wall Street Journal reported last week that in Greece, “The government, knowing voters’ exhaustion, is adamant that it won’t legislate a multiyear package of pension cuts and income-tax increases, which the International Monetary Fund says is ...


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Veria

GREEK Super League – Follow the Football match between Veria and Larissa live with Eurosport. The match starts at 23:15 on 18 January 2017.


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Greek Neo-Nazis Attack Primary School for Enrolling Refugees

17 de enero de 2017, 16:32Athens, Jan 17 (Prensa Latina) Members of the Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn (AD) attacked today the Neo Ikonio primary school in the PĂ©rama neighborhood, southwest of this capital, for admitting refugee children in their ...


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Chick-fil-A focus of Tuesday meeting at Greece Town Hall

Greece, N.Y. – Taxpayers in Greece will have the chance Tuesday night to voice their thoughts on a proposed Chick-fil-A. If approved, it would be the first Chick-fil-A in upstate New York. Developers want to put it on West Ridge Road, across from The ...


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Underwood Radio Show Going Greek Starting Thursday

STILLWATER – The Brad Underwood Radio Show is going Greek. Each Thursday night for the next seven weeks a different Oklahoma State Greek house will welcome Underwood and Cowboy Radio Network host Dave Hunziker from 6-7 p.m. The Underwood Radio Show is ...


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Electricity cut, water pipes frozen – harsh realities of camp life during winter in Greece

People living in camps across Greece are continuing to battle extreme temperatures this winter, with some as low as -15 degrees Celsius. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies’ Jamie Sport is working with camp communities in ...


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Meet the Nine-Year-Old Greek Boy Who Is Attending College

William Maillis is the nine-year-old son of Greek Orthodox Priest Peter Maillis and little William has a knack for learning things fast. Father Maillis realized his son was special when he was only five-years-old as he could recite the English, Greek ...


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Italian, Greek leaders urge for stronger European cooperation

ATHENS, Jan. 17 (Xinhua)-- Italian President Sergio Mattarella and Greek leaders on Tuesday called from Athens for stronger cooperation among European countries to collectively and effectively face the common challenges of the economic and refugee crises.


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New! Catch The Syriza Wave: Surging and Crashing with the GREEK Left

Utterly corrupt corporate and government elites bankrupted Greece twice over by profligate deficit spending and by agreeing to an IMF “bailout” of the ...


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Former PM Samaras: ‘Greek People Are Paying for Tsipras’ Mistakes’

Greek people are paying for the mistakes and political obsessions of the Alexis Tsipras administration, said former prime minister Antonis Samaras in an interview. The former New Democracy chief and PM spoke to Newpost.gr website and made clear, inter alia, that he is fully supporting the current president of the conservative party, Kyriakos Mitsotakis. “We […]


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Greece Willing to Agree on Contingency Fiscal Measures to Complete Bailout Program Review

Government Spokesperson Dimitris Tzanakopoulos on Tuesday said that Greece is willing to agree on contingency fiscal measures beyond 2018 in order to close the second review of the bailout program. Tzanakopoulos called the measures “enhanced guarantee mechanism,” which is similar to the “cutter,” the contingency measures already in place for cuts in state spending in […]


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Police Investigating Botched Robbery of Olympus Dairy Plant

Police have announced that they are investigating a robbery attempt of a dairy plant in northern Greece which took place early Tuesday morning. Sources have reported that there were seven robbers who tied up a security guard and threatened three employees with physical harm during their robbery attempt of the Olympus dairy factory in Kapandriti. […]


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‘Fresh, fast and delicious’: That’s the idea driving Tega Cay’s new Greek restaurant

Greek food: fast, fresh, delicious. That’s the concept behind Tega Cay’s newest restaurant, GrĂ©co Fresh Grille. The Fort Mill area was apparently ready for the unique flavors of Greek cuisine. Owner Nick Pahountis said he had a soft opening at the ...


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Greek in a Great Pyramid

Let’s get one thing straight: if you’re going to have a large meal of Greek food and cocktails on the very far West Side in a 467-foot-tall Danish-designed pyramid, you ought to do it at Ousia. See, Ousia is a large Greek restaurant for oddly located ...


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Greek and UK FMs discuss guarantees and troop withdrawal from Cyprus

The abolition of guarantees as well as the procedure and the method of the withdrawal of foreign troops from Cyprus were at the center of a meeting between Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson in Brussels on Monday.


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The Latest: Greek Lawmaker Protests Classes for Refugee Kids

ROME — The Latest on Europe's response to the inflow of asylum-seekers and migrants to the continent (all times local): 8:55 p.m. Greece's Education Ministry says a lawmaker from the far-right Golden Dawn party and a group of supporters entered an ...


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Greek power utility shareholders approve grid spin-off -ministry

ATHENS Jan 17 Shareholders of Greece's power utility Public Power Corp. (PPC) approved on Tuesday the transfer of a 51-percent stake in the power grid operator ADMIE, part of a spin-off scheme, which is a major term in Greece's bailout programme.


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Greek-American Betty White Celebrates 95th Birthday

LOS ANGELES, CA – Greek-American actress Betty White celebrated her 95th birthday on January 17. The only child of Christine Tess Cachikis and Horace Logan White, she was born in... The post Greek-American Betty White Celebrates 95th Birthday appeared first on The National Herald.


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Kyriakos Papadopoulos joins Hamburg on loan

Bundesliga side Hamburger SV have completed the signing of Greek defender Kyriakos Papadopoulos on a six-month loan from Bayer Leverkusen. Papadopoulos originally joined newly-promoted RB Leipzig during the summer but struggled with fitness and managed ...


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Town of Greece to hold public hearing on proposed Chick-Fil-A

It's your chance to weigh in on a proposed Chick-Fil-A restaurant in Greece. The town of Greece is holding a public hearing on January 17 on the development, set for West Ridge Road. The hearing begins at 6 p.m. on Tuesday at the Greece Town Hall.


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LIVE Asteras Tripolis

GREEK Super League – Follow the Football match between Asteras Tripolis and Olympiacos live with Eurosport. The match starts at 18:30 on 18 ...


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Shortage of oncology drugs and IC units in Greece’s public hospitals

Shortcomings in public hospitals postpone scheduled treatments that are life saving for several groups of patients like those suffering from cancer. According to a statement issued by the Athens Medical Association (ISA),  medical staff and patients at Laiko Hospital in Athens informed the ISA of the frequent  shortage of oncology […]


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Your Navy Operating Forward – Cambodia, Spain, Guam, Greece

Right now your Navy is 100 percent on watch around the globe helping to preserve the American way of life. Whether it be operating and training off the coast of Spain or forward deployed to the Arabian Gulf, the flexibility and presence provided by our U.S ...


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Greek Kale Salad with Creamy Tahini Dressing

Have you ever ordered a kale salad on a date and tried to gracefully consume a meal of giant, wayward kale leaves? Awkward. I’m not going to quit sharing kale salad recipes until we can all walk into a restaurant and order a great kale salad. Based on ...


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National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens

As far as I can make out, there are no permanent exhibitions yet. (Keep in mind information is both contradictory and hard to find in Greece!). Instead, a series of temporary exhibitions are being hosted. When I visited, the exhibition was called ‘Urgent ...


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Two weeks into 2017, Mediterranean migrant deaths rise on last year

15, 2,876 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea, arriving mostly in GREECE and Italy, against 23,664 through the first 14 days of Jan 2016, ...


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Photos: Cold, filth leave migrant moms in terror

Squalid conditions and subfreezing temperatures in GREECE'S migrant camps are taking their toll on expectant mothers and babies, with problematic ...


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Greece Ridge Lions Club to hold annual Snow Ball Golf

Greece Ridge Lions Club will hold its 15th annual Snow Ball Golf from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Feb. 4 at Greece Canal Park, 241 Elmgrove Road, Rochester. The game will be played with a nine-iron and a tennis ball on a 12-hole course with lengths varying from 25 ...


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Nearly 700 Refugees-Migrants Arrive in Greece 2017; Deaths Rise at Sea

A total of 691 refugees and migrants have arrived in Greece by sea during the first 15 days of 2017, according to figures released by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) on Tuesday. Those arriving in Europe by sea during the same period reached 2,876 individuals, of which 2,185 arrived in Italy and the rest […]


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Greece charter school leader under fire

The founding leader of Renaissance Academy Charter School for the Arts in Greece is under fire from some parents who have asked her to resign over what they see as a pattern of turnover among employees of color. Donna Marie Cozine co-founded the school ...


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Crete waitress 'could have been fatally injured by fall'

… 20-year-old old working abroad in Crete could have been fatally injured … health.  Walker was alleged by Greek prosecutors to have beaten Miss … Heraklion Mixed Criminal Court in Greece accepted a motion from the …


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One Pot Baked Greek Chicken Risotto

Easy, creamy BAKED Greek Chicken Risotto made in ONE POT! This simple to prepare risotto is unbelievably flavorful, fool proof and requires no stove stirring babysitting! Your entire family will love this dinner and you will love how easy it is!


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More Snow Hits Central and Northern Greece, Closing Schools and Roads

Central and northern Greece have seen more snowfall on Tuesday. Authorities have reported that the specific areas of Ioannina and Volos experienced heavy snow which accumulated and left many roads closed to traffic. Schools were closed throughout the ...


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Delegations prepare for Swiss talks

The GREEK Cypriot delegation that will take part in talks on security and guarantees that are scheduled to start on Wednesday met with President Nicos ...


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GREEK Yogurt Market to Grow at a CAGR of 10.54% during the period 2016-2020

Global GREEK Yogurt Market 2016-2020, has been prepared based on an in-depth market analysis with inputs from industry experts. The report covers ...


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Radiohead sets two GREEK Theatre dates

Radiohead lead singer Thom Yorke performs at Outside Lands in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, Calif., Friday, August 22, 2008. (Alison Yin/Bay ...


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GREEK life at UIC

About 700 students each semester are involved in Fraternity & Sorority Life at UIC. The campus has 30 active GREEK chapters. (Photo: Geraldine ...


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Greece favors IMF withdrawal from bailout, Govt spokesman says

Greece’s left-led government says it would welcome a decision by the International Monetary Fund to pull out of the country’s bailout program, which is bogged down in disagreements on further spending cuts. Government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos is blaming the Washington-based fund for “pointless delays” in the negotiations. Athens hopes a […]


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Foreign Minister N. Kotzias' interview with Euronews TV (16 January 2017)

JOURNALIST: Mr. Minister, let me start with all of the latest developments following the Geneva Conference, with everything we've heard about you from your Turkish counterpart Mr. Cavusoglu, who said that you left the negotiating table, and then regarding the latest report from an international news network, which got a lot of play, about your role in the negotiations from here on.N. KOTZIAS: It is well known that the Greek government and I, as Foreign Minister, are striving persistently for a solution to the Cyprus problem. What we are also doing persistently is defining what the solution to the Cyprus...


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Top Spots in Greece for Gay Travelers in 2017

Greece is growing into a favourite destination for gay travelers with all the more regions offering everything from top-notch accommodation and great beaches to slick cruising and happening bars. The top gay trends in Greece for 2017 were recently featured ...


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New Magnet for Greek Food Fans in Paris

Oregano from Mt Taygetus, Kalamata olives and caper leaves from the Cyclades – all in the 3rd arrondissement or district of Paris, a stone’s throw from the Louvre and the Georges Pompidou Center? You might be surprised to learn that Parisians know more ...


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Mattis is right, here's why NATO is not obsolete

[Donald Trump]Whatever President-elect Donald Trump may say, NATO is not obsolete. For the thousand or so years before the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Europe was the most violent killing ground the world had ever seen. From the fall of the Roman Empire, to the continuous conflicts between small city states and formative nation-states, through the Hundred Years War, the Napoleonic Wars, the First World War, and World War II, a hundred million or more Europeans were killed, and perhaps a billion wounded, injured or displaced — not to mention a million plus American dead, missing and wounded in the most recent conflicts. And then, with the formation of NATO in 1949, it all stopped. Nearly three-quarters of a century have passed with almost no bloodshed at all — and the violence that did occur was at a scale much smaller than Europe had routinely seen in the past. Only two significant exceptions have occurred since 1949, both of which demonstrate the capacity of NATO rather than its limits. The first was the 1974 Turkish occupation of northern Cyprus, and the continued presence of Turkish troops on an ethnically Greek but sovereign state — precisely the kind of conflict that in other centuries might have led to much larger war. (Consider the Crimean War, for instance, best known to many through the poem “The Charge of the Light Brigade.”) In the second case, the breakup of the former Yugoslavia in the late 1990s saw NATO step in to Kosovo, to prevent a local civil war from spilling over into a larger regional conflict, and, not coincidentally, greatly reduced (though by no means completely prevented) the kind of civilian slaughter that was the hallmark of European conflict for so long. [bosnia-war-genocide-serbia-croatia-yugoslavia-un-peacekeeper]Drew Angerer/Getty Images Before World War II, when Europe faced an existential crisis of collective security, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signaled his own unwillingness to commit to defend friendly nations on the continent. “How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing,” Chamberlain famously said. Winston Churchill later excoriated Chamberlain’s attitude toward Nazi Germany by saying that an appeaser “hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last.” The president-elect is quite right to point out that NATO has yet to develop a coherent, continent-wide or indeed North Atlantic-wide strategy to combat terrorism as a threat to all its members. And he is also accurate when he notes that many members fail to meet their obligations regarding defense spending. Poland, Turkey, France, Germany and Italy all contribute less than the 2% of GDP that is expected. But these flaws do not make NATO obsolete. On the contrary, they show that NATO needs strengthening and renewal, not disparagement. The fact that genocide was again attempted in Europe less than 20 years ago during the breakup of Yugoslavia, and that the genocide was curtailed and eventually halted by NATO, shows that the organization is far from obsolete. Collective security requires that potential adversaries believe that those who have promised support to one another mean it. [mattis]Drew Angerer/Getty Images When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, many former Soviet republics found themselves with various Soviet military assets on their territory. While some were returned to Russia immediately, others, such as nuclear weapons in Ukraine, had a more ambiguous status. Ukraine took advantage of the presence of these weapons to seek and receive security assurances from the West. Unfortunately, in a legal sense, a security “assurance” is a much weaker obligation than a “guarantee.” When Russia effectively annexed portions of Ukraine in 2014, it did so correctly assessing that the United States and Europe would have little stomach to fight for Crimea, and that the “assurances” offered by the West would amount to little. It was a catastrophe for Ukraine and a black eye for the West. The North Atlantic Treaty depends upon prospective enemies perceiving that all member states will honor their obligations under Article 5, which says that “ an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all.” A perception now that the North Atlantic Treaty might have little more weight than the security assurances to Ukraine, a perfect example of Chamberlain’s “people about whom we know nothing,” could lead to a serious miscalculation if Trump is merely being bombastic, never mind if he is being serious. Trump’s use of the word “obsolete” is not the first time he has given European allies indigestion about NATO. In an interview with the New York Times in July, he couched his desire for other members to pay more for defense in language that reportedly stunned world leaders. When the Times’ David Sanger asked if “the members of NATO, including the new members in the Baltics,” could count on the United States to support them if attacked by Russia — in other words, would the U.S. fulfill its obligations? — then-candidate Trump equivocated. “Have they fulfilled their obligations to us?” he asked. “If they fulfill their obligations to us, the answer is yes.” [NATO US baltic russia]Drew Angerer/Getty Images When the president of the United States casually suggests a conditional level of support for allies, he calls into serious question the likelihood that the United States will honor its obligations. Even as Trump backpedals from the particular word obsolete, and restricts its usage to collective security against terrorism, he undermines the most important thing about NATO, its hitherto unambiguous commitment to each of its members. Equivocation, even accidental, unintentional equivocation, can have deadly consequences. The House and Senate can quickly shore up some of the damage and send its own statement of unambiguous commitment to NATO by approving a change to the National Security Act of 1947 that would make retired Marine Gen. James Mattis eligible to serve as Secretary of Defense. Mattis knows NATO well. “NATO, from my perspective, and I served once as the NATO alliance supreme allied commander, is the most successful military alliance in modern world history, maybe ever,” Mattis said in a hearing before the Senate Armed Services committee last week. The presence of Mattis in Trump’s cabinet should reassure allies and enemies alike that the United States will not merely honor its treaty obligations, but will bear the burdens necessary to maintain peace in what had until recently been a horrific battlefield for all of recorded history. Trump, for his part, is not wrong to observe that NATO has work to do. Perhaps he believes his remarks are just a tactic to get Europe to take notice. But calling the commitment of the U.S. to NATO into question is exactly the wrong way to make NATO a stronger force against either terrorists or Russia. Preparing for defense takes time, while taking advantage of weakness can be quick work. Trump said in London today that NATO is still “very important.” It would be nice if he could keep saying it, and with the same kind of conviction he brings to his criticisms of the alliance. NOW WATCH: 6 'healthy' eating habits you are better off giving up


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Harbor Bistro Chef To Cook At James Beard House; Greek Restaurant Coming To Bridgehampton; Buoy One Closed For Renovations; And More Small Bites

Local chef Damien O’Donnell of Harbor Bistro in East Hampton has been invited to cook at the prestigious James Beard House in Manhattan on Saturday, January 28. In the industry, it’s recognized as one of the highest honors attainable for a chef.


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All About Greek Wine & Spirits

For over 4000 years, wine has been a significant element of Greek culture, something few other wine regions can say. The Greek word for wine, which can be traced back over 3000 years, is oenos. The ancient Greeks loved wine and it figured into much of ...


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GM to add or keep 7,000 jobs, make $1B factory investment

Greece favors IMF withdrawal from rescue loan program Greece favors IMF withdrawal from rescue loan program Greece's left-led government says it would welcome a decision by the International Monetary Fund to pull out of the country's bailout program ...


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Greece Town Board To Hold Hearing Tonight Regarding Plans For Chick-fil-A

The Greece Town Board will hold a hearing at 6:15 this evening on the plan to build a Chick-fil-A restaurant on West Ridge Road. The site is currently vacant and is near Standish Road, just east of the Mall at Greece Ridge. If approved, it would be the ...


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Experience is best way to learn about world's different cultures

How much of the GREEK language do I need to learn to survive for six days? ... the yellow paint was a tag, possibly someone's name or a GREEK word.


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Greek Terrorist Couple – Caught Fugitives – Appeal 50-Year Sentence

Convicted terrorists Nikos Maziotis and Pola Roupa, caught after being fugitives, asked an Athens court to overturn their 50-year sentences. The post Greek Terrorist Couple – Caught Fugitives – Appeal 50-Year Sentence appeared first on The National Herald.


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Some Unsolicited Advice for Greece’s Next Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Unless Alexis Tsipras snookers Greeks again, the next Prime Minister, New Democracy's Kyriakos Mitsotakis, will take over the crisis. The post Some Unsolicited Advice for Greece’s Next Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis appeared first on The National Herald.


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Children fleeing war-torn countries shiver in the cold on Europe's doorstep

Countries like Serbia, Greece, Lebanon or Turkey, among so many others, are now trying to respond to unprecedented needs as winter hits. “EU leaders need, now more than ever, to work together on a European response to protect children on the move.


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