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Friday, May 19, 2017

Lady Lara spotted in Rhodes, GREECE

91m megayacht Lady Lara, owned by Kazakh billionaire Alexander Machkevitch, has been spotted in Rhodes, GREECE. Launched in April and ...


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Exxon confirms interest in GREECE

ExxonMobil's interest in Greek hydrocarbons was confirmed in meetings on Friday that representatives of the oil multinational had in Athens with ...


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Bloomberg: Jim Chanos Says Markets Hope Pence Replaces Trump as President

NEW YORK – Greek-American short seller Jim Chanos lambasted a “dysfunctional” Trump administration, saying the markets hope that Vice President Michael Pence becomes president, Bloomberg […] The post Bloomberg: Jim Chanos Says Markets Hope Pence Replaces Trump as President appeared first on The National Herald.


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Breaking: Large Fire at the Transfiguration of Christ Greek Orthodox Church of Corona New York

NEW YORK – A large fire broke out at the Transfiguration of Christ Greek Orthodox Church of Corona, Queens in New York. His Grace Bishop […] The post Breaking: Large Fire at the Transfiguration of Christ Greek Orthodox Church of Corona New York appeared first on The National Herald.


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18 Days Greece Itinerary

1) If you go through list of visa approval rate of schengen countries Greece is at 4th position with 98% approval rate. First 3 being Estonia with a 99% rate, Slovakia 98.4%, Poland 98.3%. Among these Greece felt like most exciting country for first visit.


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Nottingham Forest sold to GREEK consortium

He attended high school and university in England and started his successful career in international shipping in London before he bought the GREEK ...


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2017 Marietta Greek Festival: 16 things to do in Atlanta this weekend

2017 Marietta Greek Festival. 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, May 19 through 21. $5 for adults, free for children ages 12 and under. Holy Transfiguration Greek Orthodox Church. 3431 Trickum Road, Marietta.


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State of emergency is declared on Greek island battling a plague of LOCUSTS

Villagers are battling a plague of locusts on a tiny Greek island, prompting a state of emergency to be declared. The sleepy port of Agios Efstratios has been overrun with millions of the insects, which are devouring so much vegetation that the sheep are ...


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UNHCR Northern and Western GREECE Factsheet: February 2017

UNHCR is active, through a variety of interventions, in all 15 sites in northern and western GREECE (Macedonia, Thrace and Epirus regions) hosting ...


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Brexit & Beyond: Greece Approves Fresh Cuts, Avoiding a Hard Irish Border, Sweden Ends Assange Probe

Brexit & Beyond: Europe in Flux is The Wall Street Journal’s round-up of news and analysis of how Brexit will affect global business, economies and finance. You can sign up here. MUST READS A view of the Ecuadorian embassy in London where Wikileaks ...


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Greek Orthodox church burns in Corona

A fire did significant damage to the interior of the Greek Orthodox Community of Transfiguration Church in Corona on Friday, injuring three people. The FDNY posted two photos to its Twitter account around 2:30 p.m., showing firefighters dousing the ceiling ...


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Moscovici Urges Lenders to Agree on Comprehensive Deal for Greece

European commissioner in charge of Economic and Financial Affairs Pierre Moscovici called on Greece’s lenders to agree on a comprehensive deal for the country, in a statement to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency on Friday. “I am aware how difficult it has been for the Greek government and the parliament to take these decisions that bring […]


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EU welcomes latest austerity-reform package passed by Greek government

The European Commission on Friday welcomed the latest round of austerity and reforms passed by the Greek Parliament on Thursday evening to unblock the current (third) bailout. The spokeswoman for the EU Financial Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici ...


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Second Victim of Blue Whale Internet Game in Greece has Parents Alarmed

A 14-year-old girl was the second recorded victim in Greece of the dangerous Blue Whale game played in the social media. The new victim is a teenage girl who inflicted serious wounds on herself with her parents believing that she plays the Blue Whale game ...


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Latest austerity package in GREECE passed by 153 MPs

A total of 281 deputies out of the 300 in GREECE'S Parliament attended the debate and voted in the process, with all 19 absent MPs belonging to the ...


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The Economist: Conference on Greece’s return to capital markets

Economist, in cooperation with the Greek-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry, are organizing a conference in Frankfurt, May 31, on “A Glimpse into Europe’s Financial Landscape – Greece: A Comeback to the Financial Markets?”. The conference will ...


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European Markets Recover After Greek Reform Package Approved

… end of the trading week. Greece's lawmakers approved a … the start of the month, Greece had reached a deal with …


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Violence Erupts as Greece Passes More Austerity Measures to Appease EU Creditors

… up the Greek state since the Greek debt crisis first engulfed Greece in … will enable Greece from summer 2018 to re-stabilize the Greek economy, and …  review Greece's progress on austerity reforms. The Greek government will …


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Creditor-demanded cuts approved by Greek...

… to parliament to express anger Greece's government secured parliamentary … also accelerate negotiations on easing Greece's debt repayment terms … the Greek public debt in a way that matches the Greek people …


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EU Strangling Of Greece & The Greek People Must End

Greece's government accepted another round of creditor-demanded austerity today. Suffering pensioners are being asked to bear yet more cuts to the little income they receive. Starving low-income earners are now going to have to pay taxes they cannot afford.


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IMF head Lagarde optimistic over Greek debt

IMF director says matter on right track


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ND chief commemorates Pontic GREEK genocide

Opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday commemorated the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Black Sea, or Pontic, GREEKS by Turks ...


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Sommelier Evan Turner Is Back in at Helen After Quitting For a Week

On May 11, sommelier and GREEK wine expert Evan Turner announced his departure from Helen GREEK Food and Wine, the acclaimed Rice Village ...


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Greek VP: Stability-Security-Adaptability the basis for Greece’s touristic development

The Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE) has elected Yiannis Retsos as its new president to succeed Andreas Andreadis. Retsos is the current president of the Hellenic Hotel Federation and managing director and one of the five main shareholders of Electra ...


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Belarus' trade, economic, investment potential presented in GREECE

Oleg Kravchenko meets with First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of GREECE George Katrougkalos. Photo courtesy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.


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More Greeks Should Become Organ Donors, President Pavlopoulos Says

ATHENS (ANA) – President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos on Friday inaugurated the recently refurbished kidney transplant and kidney surgery wing in Athens ‘Laiko’ […] The post More Greeks Should Become Organ Donors, President Pavlopoulos Says appeared first on The National Herald.


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Greece’s Registered Unemployment Down 5.77 Pct in April

ATHENS – Registered unemployment fell by 5.77 pct in April, or by 52,972, compared with March, official figures said on Friday. A report by the […] The post Greece’s Registered Unemployment Down 5.77 Pct in April appeared first on The National Herald.


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Vicky (Karayiannis), Chris Cornell’s Greek Wife, Disputes He Killed Himself

DETROIT (AP) — Rock musician Chris Cornell’s wife, Vicky (Karayiannis) Cornell on Friday disputed “inferences” that the rocker killed himself in a Detroit hotel room, […] The post Vicky (Karayiannis), Chris Cornell’s Greek Wife, Disputes He Killed Himself appeared first on The National Herald.


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Erdogan criticizes EU for supporting indebted Greece but has Turkey waiting

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has a major problem. He cannot understand how the European Union supports indebted countries like Greece, while it has a strong and flourishing country like Turkey waiting at the entrance door for 54 years. Speaking ...


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As Global Policy Moves To Expand Digital Rights, U.S Faces Crucial Fight Over Equal Access To The Internet

_By: Karin Deutsch Karlekar and Christopher Hamlin_ In 2013, inventor of the internet Tim Berners Lee reflected, “When you make something universal … it can be used for good things or nasty things … we just have to make sure it's not undercut by any large companies or governments trying to use it and get total control.” In what seemed like a momentary delay of his prediction—and a win for internet freedom advocates—in late April, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit denied the telecommunications industry’s request for an appeal of a 2016 decision that upheld the net neutrality regulatory framework. In 2015, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had reclassified the internet as a utility much like regular phone service (where, for instance, the phone company can’t block a call because they don’t like the caller). This allowed for stronger enforcement of existing net neutrality rules that prevent internet service providers (ISPs) such as Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T from arbitrarily price-gouging or discriminating against legal content, users, or platforms by slowing or preventing access to them. The landmark ruling is now under threat as the FCC—under its newly appointed chair, former Verizon lawyer Ajit Pai—took an important vote on May 18 to weaken federal oversight of ISPs by no longer applying the Title II “common carrier” classification of the Communications Act to ISPs. This proposed fast-track roll-back of the 2015 protections represents the latest move by the new administration to strip consumer internet access and privacy protections adopted in the Obama years, which included preventing ISPs from selling your browsing history without permission and expanding broadband subsidies for the poor. Pai’s adamant predisposition against a more enforceable framework for net neutrality is concerning, and he may have violated a legal statute by taking an FCC policy position before allowing a public comment period. Despite the traditional U.S. role as an advocate for individual freedoms around the world, the FCC’s reversal on this issue is also at odds with modern global attitudes and governance on the right to unrestricted, affordable digital access. A 2014 CIGI-Ipsos survey of 23,376 internet users from 24 countries found that 83 percent of them believe that affordable access to the internet should be a basic human right. In 2016, this evolving consensus was enshrined by the United Nations Human Rights Council as a non-binding resolution, which denounced “measures to intentionally prevent or disrupt access to or dissemination of information online” as a human rights violation, given that “the same rights people have offline must also be protected online.” This includes the right to freedom of expression under Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Governments across the developing and developed world have already begun to codify this concept domestically or to invest in projects that operationalize it. Germany, Costa Rica, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, and Spain have all had some form of legal right to broadband access for years. That says nothing of the multitude of nations with laws to protect net neutrality, including the European Union. Most recently, in March, the Indian state of Kerala declared that access to the internet is a basic human right, promising to provide free access to all its citizens. This promise is increasingly easier to make as privately funded projects such as Google’s Project Loon partner with governments to provide affordable, universal internet access to its citizens through the use of high altitude balloons. At the same time, Facebook’s _Free Basics_ application has brought free internet to 25 million people across the world. However, last February, India’s telecom regulator banned the free Facebook application over concerns that it undermined net neutrality by favoring certain services over others. Along this vein, it is interesting to consider that China consistently outpaces democratic India in providing its citizens internet access, yet it also consistently ranks as one of the most oppressive on internet freedom indexes. This begs the questions: Can internet access truly be considered a fundamental right—affording the respective essential benefits to be labeled as such—if it means sacrificing uncensored access to all legal content? And what constitutes a healthy regulatory relationship between the governments and ISPs that determine that balance? Chairman Pai contends, alongside ISP giants, that regulating the telecommunications industry like a utility makes it less attractive to investment, resulting in telecom cutbacks on the capital expenditure that bridges the digital divide by allowing them to build out infrastructure to low income and rural neighborhoods. Addressing this reasoning, industry leaders of the Internet Association, including Facebook, Google, and Amazon, have instead underscored net neutrality’s importance to the competition and innovation of their industry. They have also pointed to evidence that shows many ISPs have actually expanded their investment in network infrastructure build-out and innovative technologies like fiber optics, while those that decreased investment had been undergoing major restructuring deals. Perhaps it should also come as no surprise then that last month more than 800 tech start-ups made the case to Chairman Pai that gutting the legal framework preventing service discrimination impedes not only consumer choice, but also their ability to “start a business, immediately reach a worldwide customer base, and disrupt an entire industry” through the unfettered marketplace of ideas. This echoes arguments of free expression advocates, including PEN America, who believe Americans stand to lose essential capabilities for free expression and critical information sharing. Having taken part in the large-scale 2014 advocacy campaigns that persuaded the FCC to reclassify net neutrality protections in the first place, PEN America is concerned that telecom giants may once again receive the discretionary legal power to scrutinize information in their networks and discriminate against the delivery of certain content or its creators. Equally concerning is the potential creation of “pay-to-play” slow and fast lanes, in which only those willing to pay a premium to have their content reach its audience will enjoy that unrestricted right. The right to know, to free expression, and to association are core freedoms that are put in jeopardy through the creation of this power dynamic. It has the potential to establish a system of privatized censorship that restricts the flow of free thought necessary to the work of the writers and readers that PEN represents. Over the past half decade, the internet has become such an internationally recognized foundation for expression, as well as political and commercial interaction, that it has broached the realm of essential “public commodities” such as water, electricity, or telephone service. Allowing private industry to selectively inhibit citizens’ ability to use that commodity is detrimental to standards of living in many modern societies, and moderate government regulation may therefore be inherently necessary to protect its citizens’ democratized access to it. The current administration can stay on the path of newly established international norms—and even rise to lead their continued modernization—or inch closer to the trend of authoritarian governments of crafting policy frameworks that serve to limit access. As the FCC vote represents the first step in this anti-democratic process, we reiterate the call not to reverse the gains made in ensuring equal access to this essential means of communication and interaction. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.


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The Road To The Great Regression

César Renduels Menendez de Llano, _Universidad Complutense de Madrid_ and Donatella Della Porta, _Institute of Human and Social sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence _ _THIS ARTICLE EXAMINING THE BACKLASH AGAINST NEOLIBERALISM IS THE FIFTH INSTALMENT IN OUR GLOBALISATION UNDER PRESSURE SERIES._ [The Conversation] In 1980, the novelist Martin Amis attended a meeting in Texas with Ronald Reagan, then in the midst of the campaign that would put him in the White House. Reagan liked to end his electoral activities with some audience Q+A. The more personal the question, Amis explained, the more Reagan enjoyed answering. Question: “Of all the people in America, sir, why you for President?” Reagan grins. Answer: “Well, I’m not smart enough to tell a lie.” Laughter, applause. Amis relays the exchange: ‘But why do you want it, sir?’ Reagan flexes his worn, snipped, tucked, mottled face. ‘This country needs a good Republican and I feel I can do the job. Why? I’m happy. I’m feeling good.’ Here he turns. ‘And I have Nancy to tuck me up at night.’ Laughter, applause, hats in the air. ANGER, DISCONTENT AND RESENTMENT Imagine this anecdote today. Were Donald Trump had asked the same question in 2016, it seems like he may have responded: “Because I’m unhappy. I’m feeling bad. And my relationship with my wife is catastrophic.” And surely his Republican audience would also have clapped, identifying now not with Reagan’s optimism but with Trump’s self-portrait of anger, discontent and resentment. Ronald Reagan, that carefree actor-president, may have been the last US leader to channel Americans’ good feelings about the free market. As Robert Putnam outlines in his famous investigation, Bowling Alone, civil society and social bonds in the US strengthened from the early 20th century until the 1970s, when the era of neoliberal reforms began. At that point, things quickly began to unravel. Historically speaking, the growth of mercantilism, en economic nationalism that seeks to enrich the state through trade and wealth accumulation, has always deteriorated social bonds, though that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The market also weakens relationships that are clientelistic, toxic or patriarchal. Problems arise when mercantilism becomes an expansive, generalised social dynamic, which is precisely what globalisation unleashed starting in the 1970s. After global economic crisis exposed the limits of the Fordist assembly line-style mass production model, the world veered sharply back toward the liberal, unregulated Manchester capitalism that had predominated before the second world war. The rest of the story, which is the subject of our new book The Great Regression, you know well. ‘A CATASTROPHIC LEVEL OF SOCIAL CORROSION’ We often make the mistake of thinking that globalisation is a radical new phenomenon, both postmodern and futuristic. In fact, in his 1944 book The Great Transformation, historian Karl Polanyi was already explaining the political and social crises of the inter-war period as a reaction to the failures of the free market.   Amazon From his perspective, the whole utopian idea of a self-regulating market was nihilistic and self-destructive, materially incompatible with the variety of human social life of humans. For the pragmatist Polanyi, the “free market” never existed and could never exist. To begin with, mercantilism as a financial system has always required aggressive state intervention, both to ease the pains of its flaws and to break people’s natural resistance to being dragged along by the coattails of their economy. Practically every government in the world has undertaken this process since the 1980s. In privatising public services, for example, they have created enormous business opportunities for local elites (Argentina being a prime example), stimulated rampant real estate speculation (just look at the UK) and used public resources to rescue the banking system from its own mistakes (remember Spain?). When mercantilistm reaches the catastrophic point at which it begins to corrupt all society, Polanyi says, then collective counter-movements emerge. These efforts to reestablish communal living can have radically different political orientations. The 20th century had the fascists, waging what Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci dubbed “passive revolutions” that aspired to alter the economic and social machinery to preserve elite privileges. It also saw Roosevelt’s New Deal, Europe’s 1940s democratic socialist movements and Clement Attlee’s reformist Labour government in the UK (1945-1951). All these were anti-mercantlist projects inspired by democratisation, learning and egalitarianism. ANTI-NEOLIBERAL COUNTER REACTIONS This history is a reminder that there is an old pattern to these shaky modern times. In the 21st century, counter reactions to globalisation have also been taking radically different forms. Early in the century, Latin America’s leftist governments challenged the neoliberal order, rejecting the Washington Consensus and building regional solidarity. Then, there were the Arab Spring uprisings of 2010 to 2013, which sought to deepen democracy in a region long dominated by dictators. The former was crushed and the latter has largely waned. But the innovative ideas developed in the anti-austerity protests of Iceland Greece, Spain and Portugal following the start of the European debt crisis in 2009 are still very much alive. What has everyone talking are developments on the opposite end of the ideological spectrum: Brexit, Trump, the extreme right, Islamic fundamentalism – neoliberal backlashes offering new solutions for global elites hoping to preserve their privileges in a turbulent international economy. It is early yet for an in-depth analysis of the current regressive phenomenon. But we can at least start asking the right questions. First, did economic discontent really fuel the rise of the modern right, as many claim? Data from the UK and the US indicate exactly the opposite. Not only – not even mainly – blue collar workers supported Brexit and Donald Trump; the rich and the educated did too. But it is misleading to blame the resentment of the declining middle class for the state of Western politics today. Money played a crucial role in right-wing victories in the US. Big business and well-funded think tanks, including the tobacco lobby and the billionaire Koch brothers, have funded the US Tea Party for years, and starting in 2015, they richly backed Trump. To mobilise the traditional conservative base of the Republican Party, cash was injected into media blitzes that spread simple messages, often lies, appealing to American fear. > The great regression! Wages growth has stagnated since the 80s while > productivity has skyrocketed. #auspol pic.twitter.com/tWdp035cVS > — Volt-aire's: bastard (@MickKime) March 5, 2017 Money is not the whole story, but it is an important part of it and it has historic resonance. During Europe’s fascist and Nazi movements, regressive counter movements feigned solidarity with the 99% while clearly enjoying the support of the 1%. The market’s positive response to Trump’s victory may be a clear indication that this is happening again. So far, the new regressive movements are adopting very different forms to their left-wing recent predecessors in Latin America and Europe. They diverge not only ideologically – with cosmopolitanism on the one side and xenophobia on the other – but also in their organisational models. On the right, politics today is characterised by strong, personalised leadership: Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan, Narendra Modi, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump being prime examples. Recent progressive anti-neoliberal movements, on the other hand, have been mostly been defined by citizen participation. There’s no evidence (yet) that regressive movements are necessarily more successful than their progressive counterparts. Rather, in times of economic crisis, left-wing advances such as workers’ rights have been met with a powerful, well-funded resistance. The near-constant protest of Trump, ErdoÄŸan or Orban confirm progressive counter-reactions are very much alive indeed. But they seem unlikely to put regressive movements out of business any time soon. ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO STEPS BACK The mainstream progressive response to this reactionary challenge has been, primarily, nostalgia for Keynesian economics: increase public spending to stimulate the economy, boost demand and create employment, redistribute wealth to grow the economy, among other things. That’s a bad alternative. Keynes is dead and he’s not coming back. Everything about his era – from the post-second world war international relations system of Bretton Woods and the Soviet threat to the fast clip of economic expansion back then – is unthinkable today. Only in a few places has the popular response to the failure of the self-regulating free-market been to push for greater freedom and deeper democracy, rather than to retrench or reminisce. In addition to a timid normalisation of such activism around basic rights such as housing, a universal basic income, cooperativism and feminism, we have Portugal’s left-wing ruling coalition, Podemos in Spain and the Syriza government in Greece. Today, it is evident that Greece is not the European Union’s burden to bear but rather part of its salvation. Syriza has proposed an alternative to European financial metastasis by reclaiming fiscal sovereignty, battening down the markets, focusing on democratisation, and seeking continent-wide social solidarity. It’s noteworthy that virtually all rights-based anti-neoliberalism has come from peripheral or semi-peripheral nations: first Latin America a decade ago, and now southern Europe. All of them have faced fierce opposition from the rich West. It may be time to start thinking about the Global South not as a problem but as a solution to the great regression. _The Great Regression, available in 13 languages, can be found online._ César Renduels Menendez de Llano, Professor of Sociological Theory, School of Social Work, _Universidad Complutense de Madrid_ and Donatella Della Porta, Dean, _Institute of Human and Social sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence _ This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. -- 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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New Greek austerity measures passed, but public doubts remain

In Greece, lawmakers have voted for another round of austerity and cuts, which they hope will encourage Eurozone leaders to release a further bailout funds But the decision is an unpopular…


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ExxonMobil, Total discuss offshore drilling opportunities in Greece -ministry

ATHENS May 19 Greece's energy minister held talks on Friday with representatives of U.S. oil major ExxonMobil and France's Total about gas exploration opportunities off Greek shores, the energy ministry said. A government official, speaking on condition of ...


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Greek-American and Canadian dental tourists to GREECE

The aim of the presentation was to inform them that they can combine their regular trips to GREECE to visit friends and family with expert dental care for ...


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Extra security on hand at GREECE Arcadia

Extra security is on hand at GREECE Arcadia High School today after police investigated a photo that appeared to show a former student holding a gun.


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German researchers warn big earthquake could hit Istanbul

The city of Istanbul is focus of great concern for earthquake scientists. The epicenter of the next big earthquake lies in the eastern Marmara Sea, in the south of the Turkish metropolitan area of Istanbul German German scientists warn. The researchers have evaluated earthquake data from two big earthquakes in the area. They have found … The post German researchers warn big earthquake could hit Istanbul appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.


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He's back! Popular sommelier returns to acclaimed Greek restaurants

Of all the recent staff changes at Houston restaurants, none proved more surprising than sommelier Evan Turner's sudden departure from Helen Greek Food & Wine. Ten days later, Turner has returned to the company. “After expressing my sincere remorse to ...


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US Bravo Company, Greek Army Conduct a Situational Training Exercise (Photos)

… the 1st Paratrooper Commando Brigade, Greek Army conduct a situational training … , May 12, 2017 in Thessaloniki, Greece as a part of Exercise … 173rd Airborne Brigade and the Greek Armed Forces, focused on enhancing …


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Armenia pays tribute to the memory of Pontian Greek Genocide victims

… of the Greek Embassy in Armenia and the Greek community visited the … more than 600 thousand Pontian Greeks. Many of those who fled … genocide of Pontian Greeks has been recognized by Armenia, Greece, Cyprus, Sweden …


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Greek island declares emergency over locust swarms

May 19 (UPI) --The Greek island of Agios Efstratios declared a state of emergency on Friday due to an ongoing seasonal locust plague, officials said. Much of the plant life in the Aegean Sea island, which is home to about 200 residents, has been devoured ...


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GREECE'S Eurobank Q1 profit eases, loan-loss provisions flat

GREECE'S Eurobank Q1 profit eases, loan-loss provisions flat ... quarter with provisions for impaired loans remaining broadly flat, GREECE'S third-largest ...


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Turkey blocks off Rhodes airport for military exercise!

Greek Ambassador urges observers to abstain from final stage of exercise


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PM Tsipras: May 19 a day of remembrance for Genocide of Greeks in Pontos

Greek PM tweets on occasion of May 19 commemoration


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Greece passes unpopular austerity law to woo foreign investment

Greece has been in economic turmoil for almost a decade. After the global economic crisis in 2008–2009, Greece was forced to seek bailout money or go bankrupt. The EU and International Monetary Fund demanded tax hikes and service cuts in return for ...


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Lt. Col. Michael Fowler, Greece resident and Iraq War vet, takes command of National Guard unit Sunday, May 21

BUFFALO, NY (05/19/2017) (readMedia)-- New York Army National Guard Lt. Col. Michael Fowler, a town of Greece resident and commander in the Monroe County Sheriff's Department and Iraq War veteran, will take command of the 153rd Troop Command on Sunday, May ...


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Olympiacos Fans Attacked in Constantinople; Two Hospitalised

CONSTANTINOPLE (ANA)- Two Greeks, supporters of Olympiacos basketball team, were hospitalised following clashes between Greek and Turkish supporters that broke out on Friday near Taxim […] The post Olympiacos Fans Attacked in Constantinople; Two Hospitalised appeared first on The National Herald.


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Remains of Missing Greek Soldiers Slain in Cyprus to Return After 43 Years

(ANA) A painful chapter in the lives of two Greek families, one from the northwestern Greek town of Parga and one on the island of […] The post Remains of Missing Greek Soldiers Slain in Cyprus to Return After 43 Years appeared first on The National Herald.


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Still Stuck in Greece and Italy: EU Members Not Meeting Migrant Relocation Quotas

The EU Parliament said that EU countries must fulfill their obligations to accept asylum seekers from Italy and Greece, giving priority to unaccompanied minors. The Parliament further said that Malta and Finland were the only member states on track to ...


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Today at Commission, Trump, ErdoÄŸan and Macron visits

Brexit and the Greek bailout are on the menu for next week.


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Week in pictures: From Nakba Day to Iran elections

A photo round-up of some of last week's key events, including elections in Iran and protests in Greece and Palestine.


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