How did I learn the GREEK alphabet? As an alum of the Zeta Kappa Chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, I learned ...
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How the world sees Greece
Saturday, August 7, 2021
Happy 39th Birthday Vassilis Spanoulis
The GREEK legend is the only player in the 33-year history of the Final Four to win the Euro League title three times and voted Final Four MVP each ...
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It Takes a GREEK Village to Make a GREEK Festival a Mile-High
It Takes a GREEK Village to Make a GREEK Festival a Mile-High. The National Herald Archive. Young dancers in traditional GREEK garb adorn the annual ...
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'Everything is ashes': How this week's devastating GREEK wildfires could become the norm
'Everything is ashes': How this week's devastating GREEK wildfires could become the norm. Southern Europe is one of the areas most vulnerable to ...
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Archaeologists Find Rare 6th Century Coins in Ancient GREEK City of Phanagoria
The discovery included “80 copper staters, a type of GREEK coin… found in an amphora buried for centuries in the ashes of a calamitous fire,” Artnet ...
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Travel counsellor Emma Savage discusses the perfect GREEK island escape
Being further north than some other GREEK islands, you'll find the landscape green and the hills pine scented. During the summer they are wonderfully ...
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Egypt sends 2 Chinook helicopters to help in extinguishing GREEK forest fire
The General Command of the Armed Forces sent two Chinook helicopters to Greece to take part in efforts of extinguishing fire in GREEK forests, which ...
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Bible in GREEK and Hebrew published
Hebrew is the original language of the Old Testament and GREEK of the New Testament. Referred to as 'textual apparatus' in theological parlance, these ...
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I'm Gonna Ask You GREEK Mythology Questions And You Better Get 'Em Right
Persephone is married to which GREEK god? · Hades. Hades · Zeus. Zeus · Hephaestus. Hephaestus · Poseidon. Poseidon ...
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Variants could be named after star constellations when GREEK alphabet runs out, says WHO Covid ...
UN health agency fears variants of concern could outnumber the 24 letters of the GREEK alphabet, Maria Van Kerkhove tells the Telegraph. By Sarah ...
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GREEK freak sets up assist
GREEK forward Giannis Antetokounmpo, who last month led US basketball team the Milwaukee Bucks to their first NBA championship in half a century, ...
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‘Apocalyptic’ scenes hit Greece as Athens besieged by fire
Athens is a city under siege. On the ground there are tales of heroism and fear for the future ...
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Kuwait Amir sends condolences to Greek Pres. over forest fire victims
… cable of condolences Saturday to Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou over forest …
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Quake with a magnitude of 5.1 hits Greece coast
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Thousands evacuated as Greece burns
… continue to rampaged through Greek forests, threatening homes … , Hardalias said, with Greek forces reinforced by French, … necessary, Hardalias said. Greece requested help through the European … on their way. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited …
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Recent unrest in Uptown Minneapolis scares away Greek festival
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An annual Greek festival in the Uptown neighborhood … . Mary’s Greek Orthodox Church sponsors the Taste of Greece festival, which … showcases food, music, dancing and other celebrations of Greek …
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Uncontrollable wildfires continue for fourth day in Greece
Greek emergency crews struggled on Friday ( … fuelled blazes across Greece for the fourth day. Greece, like much of … no major outages in mainland Greece.
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Hundreds of firefighters battle infernos in Greece as rains aid effort in Turkey
Hundreds of firefighters fought fires that have devoured record numbers of woodlands in Greece Saturday and left hundreds of families homeless, but heavy rains brought some respite to hard-hit Turkey.
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Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Brazil win men’s football final, GB reach 20 golds – live!
* Games schedule | Results | Medal table | Full coverage * Choong wins modern pentathlon | Yafai earns boxing gold * Modern pentathlon coach thrown out for punching horse * Email Simon, tweet @Simon_Burnton or post below the line 6.37pm BST FOOTBALL: As the final whistle blew at the end of 120 airless minutes, after six games in 17 days, and at the end of an 11-month season with barely a caesura of rest, the players of Brazil and Spain collapsed in contrasting states of delirium. For Brazil’s men’s Olympic football team this was a night that ended in career-high joy for many of those present. The gold medal was secured via an extra-time goal from the vibrant, game-changing Malcom, who plays his football in the Russian Olympic Committee Premier League with Zenit Saint Petersburg. Related: Brazil edge Spain in men’s Olympic football final thanks to Malcom’s magic 6.31pm BST WATER POLO: I’m wagering that there hasn’t been a great deal of water polo coverage in today’s blog, and that is a situation that needs to be remedied. Because history will be made in the pool tomorrow, when unfancied outsiders Greece win their first ever water polo medal. But what colour will it be? They face defending champions Serbia in the men’s final and will be underdogs once again, though it doesn’t seem to bother them. The Greeks are undefeated in Tokyo, though the only match they drew, in the preliminary round, was against the Italy side that Serbia comfortably beat in the quarter-finals. Since then they have routed South Africa 28-5, thrashed the USA 14-5, trounced Montenegro 10-4 and, in the semi-finals, beat nine-time champions and 12-time finalists Hungary 10-6, leading at the end of every quarter. The Greek coach, Theodoros Vlachos, has promised that his team will “fight like crazy” in the gold medal match, which is due to start at 8.30am local time. Continue reading...
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British firefighters to battle Greece wildfires
British firefighters are being deployed to tackle the raging wildfires in Greece - as new footage shows people escaping by boat as flames fill the sky.
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Greece wildfires: Germany to send firefighters to help battle blazes
While progress was made in batting blazes near Athens, other areas of Greece have put out desperate appeals for assistance. One official described the situation as a "biblical catastrophe."
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UK sends firefighters to Greece to help the battle against wildfires
At least 400 wildfires are raging across the country, which have killed one and injured 20 so far British firefighters are to be sent to Greece this weekend to lend their support in the battle against wildfires that have spiralled out of control over the past few days. Teams from Merseyside, Lancashire, south Wales, London and the West Midlands fire services are due to fly out to Athens this weekend, while France said it would provide a further three aircraft and 80 firefighters to join the hundreds that had already been sent. We are sending a team of experienced firefighters to support Greek firefighters currently battling the huge blazes. When I visited my Greek counterparts earlier this week I saw the devastating effect the fires are having. The UK stands with you. Continue reading...
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'Apocalyptic' wildfires ravage Greece as terrifying footage shows entire island in flames
TERRIFYING wildfires have wreaked devastation across Greece, as footage showed residents and tourists evacuated overnight from a popular island destination.
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Watercolour glimpses of a Greek summer – in pictures
British painter Alison Jones creates summery images of bronzed gods and goddesses on Ithaca’s beaches ...
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As people flee fires in Greece, those trapped plead for help
Firefighters are still battling a large blaze on the island of Evia in Greece, where fires closed in on the beaches, forcing residents to flee via boats and ferries. More than 1,100 were ...
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Greece continues to fight fires amid rising public discontent
… 7 (EFE).- Fires across Greece were burning for the fifth … overnight. The governor of Central Greece, Fanis Spanos, has criticized the …
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Hundreds of families homeless as Greek fires rage, Turkey saved by the rain
… record numbers of woodlands in Greece Saturday and left hundreds of …
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Thousands of tourists and locals are evacuated as Greece continues to be ravaged by wildfires
… rage across Greece. At least 1,450 Greek firefighters were … extremely critical situation,' Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis … home. In southern Greece, nearly 60 villages and … A heatwave described as Greece's worst since 1987 …
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Wildfire Towers Over Limni, Greece, Ahead of Mass Evacuation
A wildfire burned on a hill overlooking Limni, a village on the Greek island of Evia, on Friday, August 6, as residents and vacationers prepared to evacuate through the harbor.All other escape routes ...
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Greece fires: British firefighters deployed as ‘very big battle’ continues for fifth day
British firefighters are to be deployed to Greece to join the ongoing battle against the devastating wildfires ripping through the country for the fifth day. Teams from Merseyside, Lancashire, south ...
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Greek Fires Force Thousands More to Evacuate
Firefighters continued to battle blazes across Greece on Saturday after another difficult night that saw thousands more people fleeing their homes and hundreds being evacuated by sea, as southern ...
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Greece and Turkey wildfires force thousands of tourists and locals to flee as heatwave turns forests into tinderboxes
WILDFIRES spreading rapidly through Greece and Turkey are forcing thousands to flee, as a heatwave transforms forests into tinderboxes. The worst of the blazes, of which 150 have been reported, have sent huge plumes of smoke billowing over the northern outskirts of Greece’s capital, Athens. The fires have claimed two lives. A volunteer firefighter was […]
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The long reach of Belarus’s repression
Belarusian Olympic athlete Krystsina Tsimanouskaya poses with T-shirt with the lettering reading “I just want to run” during a press conference on August 5, 2021, in Warsaw, one day after her arrival in Poland. | Wojtek Radwanski/AFP via Getty Images Why an Olympic athlete’s complaint became an act of protest. Belarusian Olympic hopeful Krystsina Tsimanouskaya just wanted to run her race, the 200-meter sprint, in the Tokyo Games. But when she found out that she’d been added to the registration to run the 4x400 relay, a race she hadn’t trained for, the 24-year-old took to Instagram to vent her frustration with her coaches and at her country’s Olympic committee. That was enough to turn her into a dissident — because in Belarus, run by the authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko for 27 years, even a tiny act of resistance can be a challenge to the state. Her coaches informed her that she’d been ordered by government officials to return back home immediately. When she balked, they warned her, “If you stay here against [their] will, understand that it will lead to nothing good,” and, “that’s how suicide cases end up, unfortunately.” At the airport, Tsimanouskaya refused to get on the plane and instead used a translation app on her phone to tell a Japanese police officer she needed help, fearing she would be sent to jail if she returned to Belarus. Tsimanouskaya eventually took refuge in the Polish embassy, and this week, she flew to Poland, which granted her and her husband humanitarian protections. The saga was a startling reminder of how far Lukashenko’s repression now reaches. “Because Lukashenko feels threatened from so many angles, from so many sides, he sees treason in every criticism,” said Hanna Liubakova, a Belarusian journalist and nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council think tank. Lukashenko is conducting a sweeping human rights crackdown after massive protests last year challenged his decades-long hold on power. The regime is targeting journalists, activists, dissidents, even other athletes. Ahead of the anniversary of the protests, he is acting so “there would be basically no structures left among those that dared to criticize him or report properly,” said Maryia Sadouskaya-Komlach, a Belarusian journalist and team lead for Europe and Central Asia at Free Press Unlimited. Experts and journalists say the escalating crackdown is unprecedented, even for the strongman. That threat has prompted some Belarusians to flee elsewhere to escape the clampdown. And in some instances, Lukashenko has responded by extending the government’s crackdown across its borders. “Nobody who’s active — an activist politician, journalist, blogger — can feel safe,” Liubakova said. “Not inside the country nor outside the country.” LUKASHENKO IS A LONGTIME DICTATOR. HIS LATEST PURGE IS STILL UNPRECEDENTED. Lukashenko is Europe’s longest-serving leader, in power since 1994 after winning a democratic election in the post-Soviet state. Throughout his time in power, he’s rigged elections and stifled dissent to maintain control. This was largely his plan last August, during the country’s most recent presidential election. But it was derailed by a political novice named Svetlana Tikhanovskaya. Tikhanovskaya’s husband is an activist who wanted to challenge Lukashenko in the presidential race; when he was disqualified and jailed by the regime, Tikhanovskaya, who had no political experience whatsoever, took his place as a candidate. To the surprise of many, she rallied millions of Belarusians in opposition to Lukashenko. She didn’t win, because that’s not a thing that happens under Lukashenko. But she managed to harness the discontent around Lukashenko’s leadership, fueled by anger about the economy and the coronavirus pandemic. That led to massive and historic protests against the regime. Lukashenko doubled down, as authoritarians tend to do, with even more repression and brutality. “This has been an autocratic, repressive country for many, many years,” Rachel Denber, deputy director of the Europe and Central Asia division at Human Rights Watch, said. “But what’s happened in the past year is just off the charts. It’s not more of the same — it’s so widespread and broad-scale.” Lukashenko has referred to it as a “mopping-up operation,” with opposition figures, civil society groups, dissidents, and journalists all swept up in an unrelenting dragnet. “There are repressions going on hourly, hourly, repeatedly, full scale,” Tatyana Margolin, regional director for the Eurasia program with Open Society Foundations, said. “And it’s because these are the final, desperate gasps of a despot who knows the end is near.” The regime has recently targeted civil society organizations, shutting down more than 50 groups. In July, Belarusian authorities raided the headquarters of the Viasna Human Rights Center, one of the country’s top independent human rights organizations. The organization has been documenting cases of political repression and torture, especially since August 2020. They detained seven people, including Viasna’s leaders, and accused them of tax evasion and “organizing and financing group actions that grossly violate public order.” Natallia Satsunkevich, who works for Viasna (which means “spring” in Belarusian), fled the country in January; some of her colleagues have also fled in recent months. “It was very dangerous, and I wanted to continue my work, and that was the only possibility,” she told me. Also in July, police conducted about 70 raids on media outlets and journalists’ homes, which led to 15 arrests, according to a report from Reporters Without Borders. Since last year, journalists have been subject to about 500 arrests or detentions in the country. The most egregious case happened in May, when Belarusian fighter jets diverted a Ryanair plane that was flying over Belarus en route to Lithuania from Greece and forced it to land in Minsk. Officials claimed (with laughably flimsy evidence) they had received a credible bomb threat against the plane. It was merely a pretext to arrest a prominent Belarusian opposition journalist, Roman Protasevich, and his girlfriend, who were aboard the flight (along with 170 other passengers). The diversion of the Ryanair plane to detain Protasevich violated international norms and prompted global condemnation and punishment, including from the US and EU. But Lukashenko took the risk because he sees Protasevich — and other journalists and dissidents — as even more of a risk to his political fortunes. “It’s an absolute existential determination to stay in power at all costs,” Denber said. “I think the degree of this crackdown only reflects the degree that he feels threatened.” And that desperation means Lukashenko sees enemies everywhere, not just in Belarus. LUKASHENKO’S TRANSNATIONAL REPRESSION IS A TROUBLING EXAMPLE OF GLOBAL AUTHORITARIANISM The Ryanair incident exists on a scale far above what happened to the Olympian, Tsimanouskaya, and the efforts to wrangle her home after she spoke out against her coaches. But it represented, as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said this week, “another act of transnational repression.” > The Lukashenka regime sought to commit another act of transnational > repression: attempting to force Olympian Krystsyna Tsimanouskaya to > leave simply for exercising free speech. Such actions violate the > Olympic spirit, are an affront to basic rights, and cannot be > tolerated. > — Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) August 3, 2021 Transnational repression — an authoritarian campaign against dissent that is essentially borderless — is a consequence of our more globalized world. Dissidents can more easily cross borders, but so too can the powers and abuses of the state. Technology, of course, facilitates this, both in how activists communicate abroad and the tools authoritarians can use to surveil or intimidate those they perceive as threats outside a country. “It’s very difficult for [exiles] to disappear or become invisible to the regime because of that technology,” said Nate Schenkkan, director of research strategy at Freedom House. Authoritarians use tools of digital repression, like online harassment or spyware, something Iran has reportedly done. They can threaten families at home — and make those threats publicly known. They can manipulate legal structure, like the use of Interpol red notices, a tactic that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has used. Or they can engage in illegal renditions and kidnapping, assassination, murder. The Saudi murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul remains perhaps the most chilling example of what this kind of transnational repression can look like. In lots of ways, transnational repression is kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy. A leader like Lukashenko faces massive popular resistance at home, which he sees as a threat to his rule. He cracks down. People flee. Those people continue to speak out. The threat, in a leader desperate to hold power, amplifies. Some experts and journalists told me that while Lukashenko fits this mold, his ambitions and audacity may be a tad greater than his actual powers. The Ryanair incident, as astonishing as it was, did happen over Belarusian airspace He isn’t Putin, allegedly ordering the poisoning of ex-spies on a London bench. “Your Belarus KGB is not the same as the [Russian] FSB. The resources are not parallel,” Margolin, of Open Society, said. “But,” she added, “I think he’s definitely trying to send a message that you’re not safe anymore.” This is especially true in the countries closer to Belarus, particularly in Ukraine, Lithuania, and Poland, where many exiles have fled and which have significant Belarusian expat communities. Recently, 26-year-old Belarusian dissident Vitaly Shishov, who ran an opposition organization from Ukraine, was found hanged in a Ukrainian park after going missing after a run. His supporters have blamed Lukashenko for staging his suicide, and though there’s no evidence yet on the actual cause of death or whether the regime is involved. Still, it speaks to the very palpable fears within the Belarusian community. The mysterious death compounds what observers do know: that Lukashenko will divert a plane, will threaten an Olympian, will jail hundreds of people. “The regime is, at this point, just really dead set on crossing every red line that exists and really trying the Western world with its actions,” Margolin said. Belarusian journalists and activists feel it, too. I asked Satsunkevich if she felt safe doing her human rights work abroad. “It’s an interesting question because we see the arrest of Roman Protasevich, and this death of Vitaly Shishov in Ukraine, and nobody knows what it really was,” Satsunkevich said. She and her colleagues have certain protocols they follow, just in case, to help protect themselves. “I feel safe,” she said, “but I try to be attentive and not to forget the danger.” Liubakova, the journalist, is no longer in Belarus, but she said she knows that her work is always risky. There are threats on social media. There is fear of possible surveillance. “You kind of always keep in mind that somebody might be watching you, somebody might be observing you,” she said. “This is not paranoid. This is not about paranoia. Myself and my friends are being vigilant, understanding that everything is possible at any moment.”
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Greece battles wildfires for fifth day in 'nightmarish summer'
ATHENS (Reuters) -Flames swept through a town near Athens overnight and hundreds of people were evacuated by ferry from the island of Evia east of the capital as wildfires burned across Greece for a ...
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Apocalyptic Scene Captured as Residents Evacuate Flaming Greek Island
Over a thousand people were evacuated from the Greek island of Evia on August 6 as flames towered over the water.Greek media, citing the coast guard, reported that the people were “safely evacuated” ...
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Greek Inferno: 154 Fires Currently Raging in Greece
Saturday found Greece fighting for the fifth consecutive day with tens of fires across the nation. Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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Guide to Greek wine: What it is and why you should be drinking it
Greek wine is having a moment. The diversity of the indigenous grapes, mountainous terroir and largely organic or natural winemaking techniques create bold tannins in reds and crisp, floral white ...
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Greece wildfires: Volunteer firefighter among two dead as blazes rip across country
… wildfires continue to rip across Greece. Residents living on the northern … . The devastation comes as Greece grapples with a summer of … country, the alarm across Greece is reported to be palpable … lives, together with volunteers.” Greece is not alone in the …
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Greece: Blaze sweeps through Athens suburbs as wildfires spread
… overnight as wildfires burned across Greece for a fifth day … and killing animals. Temperatures across Greece have been over 40C (104F … more than 400 wildfires across Greece in the last 24 … in Varibobi area, northern Athens, Greece [Michael Varaklas/AP …
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Greece wildfires: Residents flee as flames reach Athens suburbs
… 100 people were killed in Greece's deadliest fires. But … out across the country as Greece swelters in its worst heatwave … linking the capital to northern Greece and by early on Friday …
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Hardalias: Some 98 new fires break out in Greece in a day; 3 arson arrests on Friday
Greece faced a total 154 fires … in Central Greece), as well as the island of Crete, and Grevena … , in Fokida prefecture of Central Greece, Attica and Kalamata. The Attica …
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Painting the heroes and villains of Greek myth
… creating outdoor murals inspired by Greek mythology… “These myths are … civilization’s cultural dominance, Greek myths have become international, … he notes, “that this Greek-Byzantine art has outlasted any … a 30-metre commission in Crete, before jetting off to …
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Thousands flee wildfires in Greece and Turkey, firefighter killed
… blaze that threatened the Greek capital’s most … the southern Peloponnese region. Greek and European officials have … battling major fires across Greece, while extra firefighters, planes … reconnaissance aircraft to support Greece’s firefighting efforts. …
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'A catastrophe': Two killed as Greek wildfires threaten Athens, while blazes ravage parts of Turkey and Italy
… ; the head of Greece's firefighters federation, … , which includes the Greek capital. Athens suburbs evacuated … Nikos Hardalias said. Greece's Prime Minister blamed … animals caught in Greece's wildfires.(Reuters: Giorgos Moutafis)Greece's week …
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Fires in Greece, Turkey send people fleeing
… , Greece, Friday, Aug. 6, 2021. Thousands of residents of the Greek capital … , Greece, Friday, Aug. 6, 2021. Thousands of residents of the Greek capital … , Greece, Friday, Aug. 6, 2021. Thousands of residents of the Greek capital …
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Wildfire rages north of Athens on fifth day of Greece blazes
1 hour 13 min agoATHENS -Flames swept through a town near Athens overnight as wildfires burned across
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Organized”mob” attacks Open TV crew covering devastating fires in NW Athens
A “mob” of some 15 men attacked a crew of private Open TV The post Organized”mob” attacks Open TV crew covering devastating fires in NW Athens appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
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Mass evacuations as Greek fires rage, but Turkey saved by the rain
Thousands of tourists and residents were evacuated and a thick cloud of smoke and ash hung over Athens as "nightmarish" forest fires raged in Greece Saturday, while heavy rains brought some relief to ...
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Dramatic evacuation of fire-hit Greek island
HBOOn Friday night, two of the country’s foremost Islamophobes sat across from one another on HBO to debate the issues of the day. In one corner was Bill Maher, a self-professed liberal who spends 90 ...
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Pat Barker on The Silence of the Girls: ‘The Iliad is myth – the rules for writing historical fiction don’t apply’
The Booker-winning novelist knew when she read the Iliad that she would write about Briseis one day In _The Human Stain_ Philip Roth describes the _Iliad_ as the source of European literature. All European literature starts, he says, with a fight. It’s a fight between two great and powerful men: Agamemnon, commander in chief of the Greek army which is laying siege to Troy, and Achilles, the greatest of the Greek fighters. What are they quarrelling about, these “violent, mighty souls?” It’s as basic as a barroom brawl. They’re fighting over a woman. A girl, really. A girl stolen from her father. A girl abducted in a war. I think this passage was the one that finally persuaded me to read the _Iliad_. I’d always put it off because I thought I’d be bored by the endless lists of shipping and repelled by Homer’s graphic descriptions of wounds and killing; and I was right on both counts, but the poetry, the characters and the conflict more than made up for that. Continue reading...
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