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Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Humanitarians Released on Bail in Greece

Four humanitarian activists who had been imprisoned on baseless charges in Greece were released on bail today by an investigative judge. The authorities should now drop the ridiculous charges against ...


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Eleni Daferera’s In More Ways Than One Opens at Greek Consulate in NY

NEW YORK –The art exhibition In More Ways Than One by Eleni Daferera opened at the Consulate General of Greece in New York on December […] The post Eleni Daferera’s In More Ways Than One Opens at Greek Consulate in NY appeared first on The National Herald.


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Danone North America Issues Allergy Alert and Recall for Light & Fit Greek Crunch S'mores Flavor

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Dec. 5, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Danone North America is voluntarily recalling 3,521 cases of Light & Fit® Greek Crunch Nonfat Yogurt & Toppings S'Mores Flavor sold in the United State...


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Tsipras shifts the "political weight" to Thessaloniki

The government is shifting the political weight to Northern Greece and especially in Thessaloniki with the aim to reproach voters who are keeping their distance from SYRIZA due


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Greece School District voters approve 'Reimagine Greece' capital projects

Voters in the Greece Central School District overwhelmingly approved a package of capital projects on Tuesday. By a vote of 2,836 in favor to 653 against, voters today approved the” Reimagine Greece” ...


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Greece frees 4 migrant charity workers pending trial

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities have released from pre-trial detention four members of a charity working with migrants who had been arrested in August for allegedly helping migrant smuggling. ...


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Sister of Olympic swimmer and Syrian refugee facing 25 years in Greek prison for volunteering to help migrants

After more than three months in a Greek prison, 23-year-old Berlin-based Syrian refugee Sara Mardini was released on bail on Wednesday. Her case, however, is far from closed and raises questions ...


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Syrian aid worker who swam refugees to safety freed from Greek jail

Yusra and Sarah Mardini, right, collect their Bambi awards at the Stage theatre in Berlin, Germany, in 2016. Photograph: Alexander Koerner/Getty Images After 107 days of incarceration, Sarah Mardini – ...


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The cooperation between the Israeli and Hellenic Air Forces continues to grow (photos)

"The Greeks helped us with everything we needed, from sharing combat doctrines & flight tactics"


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U.S. looking to increase use of Greek military bases, ports

US official: "Greece has been looking around this neighborhood and recognizes the same instability that we have"


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American museum must return 2,000-year-old statue to Italy, court rules

[Preview] Italy’s highest court has ordered the Getty Museum in Los Angeles to return an ancient Greek bronze statue which is believed to have been created by Alexander the Great’s personal sculptor. Read Full Article at RT.com


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Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs Giorgos Katrougalos to visit Moscow heading the Greek delegation for the 11th Greek-Russian Joint Interministerial Committee (Moscow, 5-6 December 2018)

Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs Giorgos Katrougalos will be travelling to Moscow on 5 and 6 December to co-preside, jointly with Russia’s Minister of Transport Yevgeny Dietrich, over the 11th Greek-Russian Joint Interministerial Committee (JIC) for Economic, Industrial, Technological, and Scientific Cooperation between Greece and Russia. The 11th JIC aims towards the promotion of bilateral cooperation in the aforementioned fields, as well as in the planning and promotion of related future actions. In this context, the two sides will also focus on preparing for the conclusion of a number of agreements, on 7 December, in the presence of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and President Vladimir Putin.


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Greek Life becomes a part of the Gannon University culture

Walking around campus, it’s not uncommon to see students wearing Greek letter shirts. Gannon University is home to seven fraternities — Alpha Phi Delta, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Delta Sigma Phi, Delta Chi ...


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Medvedev, Tsipras to discuss Russian-Greek trade, economic cooperation Dec 7

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will discuss with his Greek counterpart Alexis Tsipras on December 7 bilateral trade and economic cooperation, as well as projects in the energy sector and ...


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Greece raises 1.88 bln USD in treasury bills auction

ATHENS, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- Greece has raised 1.66 billion euros (1.88 billion U.S. dollars) in a 26-week treasury bills auction, the country's Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA) announced on Wednesd...


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Albania condemns extremism in 4 Albanians' deaths in Greece

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania's Foreign Ministry has condemned the murder of four ethnic Albanians in neighboring Greece and denounced the hate speech propagated by the extremist Golden Dawn party. A ...


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Meet UC’s first transgender Greek life president

The University of Cincinnati’s chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Pi (SAEPi), a Jewish-interest sorority, recently named its newest president, inaugurating the first transgender non-binary Greek Life pres...


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Italy’s High Court Says Getty Must Return Greek Statue

Italy’s supreme court has ruled that the Getty museum in Los Angeles must return a 2,000-year-old bronze statue it bought for almost $4 million in 1977. But the Getty has vowed to defend its ...


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Greece is Current World Champion in Tax Increases

Greece became the world champion of tax hikes in the decade between 2007-2017, with taxes going up a total of 8.2 percent. In the same period, tax revenue increased from 32 percent to 39.4 percent ...


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Mitsotakis calls on Greek parties to reject Macedonia name change deal

The leader of the main Greek opposition party, New Democracy (EPP), called on Wednesday (5 December) on Greek political parties to block the name change deal recently reached between Athens and Skopje ...


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U.S. Big Guns Lure Tsipras, But Russia’s Watching Too

Once vowing to rid Greece of an American military presence and distance himself from NATO – and forbid Greek troops from being on foreign soil […] The post U.S. Big Guns Lure Tsipras, But Russia’s Watching Too appeared first on The National Herald.


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Kokkari Estiatorio is Kevin Durant’s Favorite Restaurant

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The Golden State Warriors’ star Kevin Durant named Kokkari Estiatorio his favorite Greek restaurant in a recent interview in The Undefeated, the San […] The post Kokkari Estiatorio is Kevin Durant’s Favorite Restaurant appeared first on The National Herald.


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Getty museum ordered to return 2000-year-old ancient Greek statue by Italy Supreme Court

The J. Paul Getty Museum has been ordered to return a 2000-year-old Greek statue to Italy, in the latest development in a long legal fight over the artwork. Victorious Youth, a nearly life-sized bronz...


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Feature: Greek museum builds new bridges of intercultural dialogue with China

ATHENS, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- Greece's National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) in Athens has been building new bridges of intercultural dialogue with China as part of a wider Sino-Greek effort to brin...


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Greek life reminds campus ‘It’s on Ducks’

As hundreds of people traveled to Eugene for what would be the final home football game of the season, fraternity and sorority members strung up teal banners on their houses, displaying a message inte...


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Italian supreme court orders Getty Museum to hand over famed ancient Greek statue

Italy’s highest court has ordered the Getty Museum in Los Angeles to return an ancient Greek bronze statue that was found off the Adriatic coast of Italy by fishermen in 1964. The ruling by the Court ...


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After False Statements, Greek Shipowner Restis Avoids Jail

ATHENS – Despite a shadowy past that saw him charged with embezzlement and money laundering, Greek shipowner Victor Restis’ 10-year jail sentence for making a […] The post After False Statements, Greek Shipowner Restis Avoids Jail appeared first on The National Herald.


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Mitsotakis Says Structural Reforms Key to Greek Rebound

ATHENS – With three international bailouts of 326 billion euros ($370.17 billion) having ended after 8 ½ years, Greece needs substantial structural reforms to recover […] The post Mitsotakis Says Structural Reforms Key to Greek Rebound appeared first on The National Herald.


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Greece Says East Med Pipeline Deal Through Cyprus Coming

Speaking in Cyprus’ capital Nicosia, Greek Energy Minister Giorgos Stathakis said the East Med pipeline deal won’t be scuttled but an agreement would be signed […] The post Greece Says East Med Pipeline Deal Through Cyprus Coming appeared first on The National Herald.


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Taxation in Greece was “hard” during the years of the memorandums

Greek governments have made a steep increase in taxation in the years of the crisis as illustrated by the OECD report Data included in the Revenue Statistics report 19652017 sho


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Driving Fatalities in Greece Halved Since 2007

The number of road traffic deaths in Greece has plummeted during the years of the economic crisis, according to figures presented on Tuesday at the Institute of Public Health of the American ...


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Vestas plots 106MW Greek Odyssey

Vestas has won a turbine order totalling 106MW for an unnamed client and undisclosed wind farms in Greece. The deal covers supply and installation of 14 V136-4.2MW, five V136-3.6MW and eight V117-3.6M...


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Tsipras Says ”Greece is a New Economy”

Tsipras addresses the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce in Athens. The Greek economy is growing at a rate of more than 2 percent and the rate continues to accelerate, Prime Minister Alexis ...


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Best Bites: Greek omelette in a croissant

Welcome to Best Bites, a twice-weekly video series that aims to satisfy your never-ending craving for food content through quick, beautiful videos for the at-home foodie! Can breakfast get any better ...


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Voters Overwhelmingly Approve “Reimagine Greece” Project

Voters have approved the Greece Central School District's "Reimagine Greece" project. Nearly 2,900 people voted yes and about 650 voted no. The new project will build a transportation facility, renova...


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Greek Opposition Leader Promises Market Reforms

Greece’s main opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis vowed to pursue growth-oriented reforms if elected to office. He made his remarks in an interview with the Financial Times published on Wednesday.


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Can Italy force a US museum to return this long-lost Ancient Greek sculpture?

Italy's highest court has rejected an appeal by the Getty Museum to hold on to a contested bronze sculpture of a young man, attributed to famed Greek artist Lysippos and lost for millennia before bein...


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Getty museum says it has right to keep prized Greek statue

The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has vowed to assert its right to keep an important Greek statue after Italy's highest court rejected its appeal of a ruling that ordered the artwork to be retur...


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Hotspots on Greek Islands Better Prepared

The European Commissioner for Migration, Dimitris Avramopoulos, said on Tuesday that the Greek islands are better prepared to host migrants this winter in comparison to previous years. However ...


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First time in English: Translating the Torah into Greek

Rav Avraham Elkana Cahana Shapira (20.5 1914, – 27.9.2007) was the head of the Rabbinical court of Jerusalem, and both member and head of the Supreme Rabbinic Court. He served as the Ashkenazi Chief R...


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OECD: Greece has highest tax increases in the world (table)

The report over a 10-year period revealed Greece is the champion in tax hikes


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Greece to hold the annual presidency of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) for the year 2021

The Plenary of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, conducted in the city of Ferrara on 29 November 2018 under Italian presidency, unanimously decided that Greece is to take over the Presidency of the Alliance for the year 2021. The Greek presidency will follow the presidencies of Luxembourg (2019) and Germany (2020)During the meeting, the head of the Greek Delegation, Dr. Efstathios Lianos Liantis, presented the proposal and the draft of Greece’s goals for the presidency, which include two summits in Athens and Thessaloniki, collaboration with regional organisations of important historical centres of Greek Jewry in order to conduct academic and cultural events/actions, for the purpose of preserving and safeguarding the memory of the Holocaust and the fight against anti-Semitism, the effort for expanding the Alliance with the incorporation of new member countries, and opening the doors of the organisation to civil society with a goal of garnering more support for its objectives.Greece, a full member of IHRA since 2005, is taking over the presidency for the first time in the history of the Alliance. The presiding country hosts the meetings of the IHRA’s Plenary two times per year. The Plenary, which is the formal decision-making instrument of the IHRA, consists of the heads of the delegations of the IHRA member states and is in charge of adopting the recommendations and decisions of the Alliance for the inclusion of new countries, as well as for the structure of the permanent secretariat. Europe’s oldest Jewish centres are found within Greece’s national space. Thessaloniki was the most important city of the Jewish diaspora for five centuries, as well as a city which bore witness to the Holocaust. The historic past, the dynamic presence of the Greek Jewish community as well as the academic, cultural, and political decisions and actions of recent years in Greece related to the memory of the Holocaust and tackling anti-Semitism, such as the establishment of the Holocaust Museum of Greece, were important parameters that contributed to the unanimous awarding of the presidency to Greece.


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Archdiocese Announces Significant Steps for St. Nicholas

NEW YORK – The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America declared in a news releasef that significant steps have been taken towards the completion of the […] The post Archdiocese Announces Significant Steps for St. Nicholas appeared first on The National Herald.


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Pittsburgh Celebrating 125th Anniversary of Greek Immigrants’ Arrival

PITTSBURGH, PA – This December marks 125 years since the arrival and settlement of the first fifty Greek immigrants to the City of Pittsburgh in […] The post Pittsburgh Celebrating 125th Anniversary of Greek Immigrants’ Arrival appeared first on The National Herald.


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The Priest of Anchorage Alaska’s Transfiguration Parish Speaks to TNH about the Earthquake

BOSTON.- The Transfiguration Greek Orthodox parish in Anchorage, AK survived the recent strong earthquake with minimal consequences and damage according to its presiding priest of […] The post The Priest of Anchorage Alaska’s Transfiguration Parish Speaks to TNH about the Earthquake appeared first on The National Herald.


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After “Macedonian” Flap, FYROM Behind Rename Deal

Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) Premier Zoran Zaev was trying to preserve a deal with Greece to rename his country after it was reported […] The post After “Macedonian” Flap, FYROM Behind Rename Deal appeared first on The National Herald.


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Greek President Sees International Push to Return Parthenon Marbles

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos said there’s increasing support internationally for the British Museum to return the stolen Parthenon Marbles despite years of refusal and with […] The post Greek President Sees International Push to Return Parthenon Marbles appeared first on The National Herald.


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Corfu Wins Top European Film Location Award 2018 for “The Durrells”

The Greek island of Corfu has been voted among 12 contenders as the best European film location in the awards organised European Film Commissions Network […] The post Corfu Wins Top European Film Location Award 2018 for “The Durrells” appeared first on The National Herald.


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Italy rules Getty museum must return 2,000-year-old statue

Institution vows to defend ‘legal right’ to Victorious Youth statue discovered off Pesaro in 1964 Italy’s supreme court has ruled that the Getty museum in Los Angeles must return a 2,000-year-old bronze statue it bought for almost $4m in 1977. The museum has vowed to defend its “legal right” to the ancient Greek statue of Victorious Youth, also known as Athlete from Fano or simply the Getty Bronze, which was made by Greek sculptor Lysippos between 300 and 100 BC, after the court said it must be returned to Italy. Continue reading...


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Greece sells six-month T-bills at higher 0.90% yield

ATHENS- Greece sold 1.625 billion euros ($1.84 billion) of six-month T-bills on Wednesday to refinance a maturing issue, the country's debt agency PDMA said. The agency rolled over the T-bills at a yi...


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