How the world sees Greece
ATHENS, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Over a century since it was first played at cafes and tavernas of the poor on the Greek mainland and the Greek-speaking parts of the Ottoman Empire, rebetiko, dubbed the Greek blues, has now been inscribed on UNESCO's 2017 list ...
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Chef Basil Hadjis, well known in Cedar Rapids for his GREEK food and friendly persona, first at his Vernon Inn restaurant and more recently at the Mount Vernon Road Hy-Vee, died Tuesday at age 62. His father Stavros, who immigrated to Iowa from Greece, first opened the Vernon Inn in 1976.
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GREEK government has developed an ambitious privatization program for 2018, which is in line with the creditors requirements. The institutions have been notified that the relief of the GREEK debt depends on the implementation of this program, since the privatization proceeds should go to service its debt.
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Iuliana Tudos, 22 went missing on Christmas Eve
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Greek team falls to 11-4
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Strong south winds measuring 8 or 9 on the Beaufort scale have interrupted several sailings in GREECE as of Thursday, according to ANA. Hydrofoils were tied at central Piraeus port all day, while the Agia Marina-Nea Styra (Attica-Evia island) line was also cancelled. "Marmari Express", running between ...
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Lindsay Lohan attends the opening of her new nightclub in Athens, GREECE called 'Lohan'. A Lindsay Lohan spokesperson reportedly told TMZ that Lohan will stop by the club, co-owned by her friend Dennis Papageorgiou, a few times a month. They also said it has an "abandoned factory" look, a VIP ...
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Abbas' deal with the agent was for $6,000 till GREECE, but he only paid $3,500 because he was arrested and deported from Iran. His elder brother is already in Athens for the last 7 years and earning well there. So, they are well off and did not sell anything. "It was just lure of Europe that pushed him to ...
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Investing.com – GREECE stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Healthcare, Banking and Retail sectors led shares lower. At the close in Athens, the Athens General Composite lost 1.30%. The best performers of the session on the Athens General Composite were Crete Plastics ...
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[sunny]The Algarve region has been awarded the title of ‘European Champion of the Sun - 2017’ along with the Greek island of Rhodes, for providing an average of 8.6 hours of sunshine a day. This distinction resulted from the results of a 27 year study recently published by the German magazine, Algarve für Entdecker.
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Shares of Baozun Inc Ads (BZUN) are moving on volatility today -0.64% or $-0.21 from the open. The NASDAQ listed company saw a recent bid of $32.62 and 639013 shares have traded hands in the session. Investors studying the fundamentals might be conducting in-depth company research before ...
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Although the Deep Sea Metro 2 and the Turkish corvette Bafra escorting it were traveling in international waters, their journey from an area southeast of the Peloponnese through the Aegean heading for Istanbul was viewed in GREECE as a display of Ankara's determination not to be left out of the region's ...
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… . Hello, ignominy. Pick: Steelers The Greek says: The Browns’ 0-16 campaign … QBR performance. Pick: Redskins The Greek says: Kirk Cousins and the … earth, Tabbies. Pick: Ravens The Greek says: The Bengals are sporting …
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… the Ecumenical Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Archbishop Athenagoras … , with the presence of numerous Greek businessmen and political figures, and … mission. The Cuba ambassador in Greece thanked those present, and referred …
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Police found the body of a female victim in her 20s next to a pavilion in the heart of Finsbury Park, North London, yesterday - three days after she was last seen. Officers have said they will not name the woman, who is foreign-born, until they have traced her relatives abroad and told them the bad news.
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During the academic unit, the class read the novel “The Lightning Thief” and compared the characters to those from ancient GREEK Mythology. Under the guidance of teacher Robyn Yorker, the students expanded their experience by selecting their own GREEK characters to include in their play, which ...
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The FYROM name dispute, namely the use of the term “Macedonia” in its name, by the former Yugoslav republic, is the longest standing issue of GREEK foreign policy after the Cyprus reunification process. With representatives of the GREEK government, the FYROM government and the UN appearing ...
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Greek tobacco giant SEKAP held an extraordinary board council meeting on Thursday to discuss the company’s financial problems due to an outstanding state debt issued 8 years ago for a series of violations. The board council decided to launch procedures ...
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A small far-left group in Greece has claimed responsibility for a Dec. 22 bombing at an Athens courthouse that caused extensive damage but no injuries. The Popular Fighters Group said in a post on a far-left website Wednesday that it attacked the Athens Court of Appeal to protest what it said was bias by Greek … The post Far-Left “Popular Fighters” claims responsibility for court bombing in Athens appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
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As efforts intensify to resolve the decades-long name dispute between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), Tsipras coalition partner and Defense Minister Panos Kammenos, dampened expectations. He said that he would never back a solution including the word “Macedonia” thus revealing cracks in the coalition government. The leader of right-wing Independent Greeks … The post PM Tsipras determined to solve name dispute with FYROM, but partner Kammenos has reservations appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
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A weather system dubbed Electra by GREECE'S National Observatory brought gale-force winds and downpours to many parts of the country on Thursday, preventing several ferries from leaving the port of Piraeus, as well as islands in the Ionian Sea, where winds reached 9 Beaufort. The system swept in ...
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The classicist Mary Beard opens her book “Women & Power” with a scene out of the Odyssey. Penelope leaves her room to approach the assorted suitors who more or less occupy her mansion, waiting for her to give up on long-lost Odysseus and marry one of them. When she requests they stop singing ...
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Data also shows that small catering companies are predominant in GREECE – 95% of total food production and 87% of beverages. In most cases, data pinpoints micro-enterprises, with up to ten employees. Naturally, large companies with over 250 employees dominate the market. They earn 36% of the ...
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TUPELO, MS – Greek immigrant businessman Jimmy Pappas used to give away extra virgin olive oil from the olive trees in his hometown of Metamorfosi, Laconia […] The post Greek-American Olive Oil Importer Jimmy Pappas Talks to TNH appeared first on The National Herald.
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A: The first GREEK-letter fraternity was the Phi Beta Kappa Society, which was founded at the College of William & Mary in 1776, according to the society's website and sources such as the New World Encyclopedia. The organization was essentially established as a secret literary society, providing a place ...
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Work on the St. Nicholas GREEK Orthodox Church at the eastern tip of Liberty Park has halted because the GREEK Orthodox Archdiocese of America ... Skanska USA, which managed construction of the St. Nicholas GREEK Orthodox Church at 130 Liberty St., told its sub-contractors to immediately stow their ...
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She did not show up to Christmas party
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Greek team aims to reach 12 wins
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I’ve written that it’s theoretically possible for Greece to pay its debts and restore prosperity. After all, it’s simply a matter of obeying fiscal policy’s Golden Rule and reforming a suffocating tax system. But I’ve always figured none of that ...
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Greek eco-terrorists claim to have started injecting hydrochloric acid, a highly corrosive substance, into supermarket foods and drinks. The anarchist group even posted photos of themselves injecting soda, milk, and meat with acid, on social media.
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A decision on Wednesday by Greek Infrastructure and Transport Minister Christos Spirtzis opened the process of tendering for an electronic toll-calculation system on all highways in the country, ANA reports. The dates will be announced after the call for tenders date is published in the formal EU ...
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The Tenth of Tevet, a fast day that began Thursday morning, commemorates the beginning of the GREEK siege of Jerusalem, an event one rabbi sees mirrored in the hateful United Nations vote last week that attempted to isolate Jerusalem from the world. In the spirit of one of the most venerated sages in ...
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... said: "I remember when a ship sank in Albania, near Maligrad, a lot of children drowned in Prespa Lake. "Then I found out that the divers who searched for them saw great catfish. "They were so scared that they stopped the search. I think that it was one of those catfish that the GREEK fishermen saw.".
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As 2018 draws nearer, the government has repeated one of its main election promises that brought leftist SYRIZA to power in 2015, as Labor Minister Effie Achtsioglou left open the possibility of an increase in the minimum wage as soon as GREECE emerges from its bailout program in August. Speaking to ...
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Internationally acclaimed director Yorgos Lanthimos has admitted he had to leave GREECE in order to make progress as a filmmaker. “I moved to England because the way we worked in GREECE no longer fulfilled my needs,” the 43-year-old filmmaker said in an interview with Germany's Die Welt ...
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The stock of GREEK ORG FOOTBALL (OTCMKTS:GOFPY) registered an increase of 51.45% in short interest. GOFPY's total short interest was 26,200 shares in December as published by FINRA. Its up 51.45% from 17,300 shares, reported previously. With 18,800 shares average volume, it will take short ...
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Nikos Kotzias, the GREEK Minister of Foreign Affairs, notorious for his nationalist background, tried to capitalise on Erdogan's statement to further the GREEK nationalist, Turkish-phobic rhetoric. Meanwhile, a few days after Erdoğan's comments about the rights of people in Western Thrace, a boat arrived on ...
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Yet another success ofGreece in the field of investments In particular total funding from the European Strategic Investment Fund ESIF in Greece amounts to 17 billion accord
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The President of Cyprus, Nikos Anastasiadis discussed regional developments in a telephone conversation with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri. The two leaders discussed the prospect of a Cyprus-Greece-Lebanon summit, which would take place after the two ...
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Indian consortium and the GREECE firm were the only bidders in the 1st Israeli Offshore Licensing Round that closed last month. The auction, launched in November 2016, was extended twice to attract more bidders. It offered 24 blocks with an estimated in-place reserve of 6.6 billion barrels of oil and ...
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Three months earlier, this Knight's Cross recipient and veteran of the campaigns for France, Yugoslavia and GREECE was sitting in a jail cell facing five years in prison, Hitler having relieved him of command and ordering his court martial after an incident on the Eastern Front. A court martial ordered by the ...
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This week’s review is for Greek Gyros, 267 N. Main St., Herkimer. Times Telegram Staff Writer Stephanie Sorrell-White ate there recently and had this to say about it: About the restaurant: Greek Gyros is a small restaurant located on North Main Street in ...
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… released by the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises (SETE). The figures …
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… on Corfu island,Greece. On Griekenland.net, a popular website about Greece in … the Dutch prefer Crete (15%) and Corfu 12%) for holidays Greece in 2018 … demand to combine destinations and Greek islands. For example Kefalonia and …
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The cultural synthesis, particularly, in the sphere of philosophy had been more marked during this period. For example, the Indian concepts of 'Karma' and 'Rebirth' are said to have influenced the world outlooks of Plato and Pythagoras and the practice of monasticism had influenced the philosophy and ...
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The Serbian international striker is reportedly on Leeds' radar, with Goal Cyprus reporting Thomas Christiansen is keen on the 28-year-old. Prijovic has struck 10 goals this season, and has a 10 million Euros (£8.8m) release clause in his contract. This would require Leeds spending more money on a ...
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A guardian angel or the fallen angel? Or just an artist expression without secret metaphysical meaning and hidden metaphorical messages? The sculpture PHYLAX installed in Palaio Faliro divides the Greek society and stirs the “Greeks’ moral principles” as usual. Opponents see in the provocative red naked man with wings, the Heosphoros, the Dawn-Bringer, the satanic Morning … The post Phylax: A Guardian or the Fallen Angel? Sculpture in Palaio Faliro divides the society appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
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A top-to-bottom overhaul was needed to restore a sense of history and place to an altered 1860s Greek Revival. First, the Boerum Hill brick row house received an extensive, top-of-the-line renovation, spearheaded by Brendan Coburn of Dumbo-based CWB ...
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ATHENS – Essentially giving up trying to get money from people buried by big pay cuts, tax hikes, slashed pensions and worker firings, Greek banks […] The post Beleaguered Greek Banks Offer 90% Bad Loans Write-offs appeared first on The National Herald.
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