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Welcome, 77 artists, 40 different points of Attica welcomes you by singing Erotokritos an epic romance written at 1713 by Vitsentzos Kornaros
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Greek island gives migrant life jackets for Ai Weiwei artwork: mayor
[Chinese activist and artist Ai Weiwei walks on a beach near the town of Mytilene, on the Greek island of Lesbos on January 1, 2016]Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei will create an artwork in Germany from 14,000 life jackets discarded by migrants arriving on Greece's Lesbos island, local authorities said on Tuesday.
Nigerian separatists hijack ship, demand release of leader
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian separatists have hijacked a merchant ship and threatened to blow it up with its foreign crew if authorities do not release a detained leader agitating for a breakaway state of Biafra, military officers said Tuesday. The hijacking — the first such act claimed by the separatists — indicates they could be working with some Niger Delta oil militants blamed for recent bombings of pipelines in the oil-rich south, escalating conflict in a country already burdened by Boko Haram's deadly Islamic uprising in the northeast and violent ethno-religious confrontations between farmers and herders in central Nigeria. Secret police on Oct. 17 detained Nnamdi Kanu, director of banned Radio Biafra, and since have accused him of terrorism, sparking protests in which police are accused of killing several demonstrators. In an apparently unrelated development, pirates seized the Greek-owned chemical tanker MV Leon Dias off Nigeria's coast, according to an official of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency who insisted on anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to reporters.
Stranded migrants block main Greece-Macedonia artery demanding passage
Hundreds of migrants stranded in northern Greece blocked the main road to Macedonia on Tuesday, angry at delays to their journey north caused by protesting taxi drivers and farmers on the border, a Reuters cameraman said. The migrants, many of them refugees from the Syrian war, chanted "Macedonia, Macedonia" and sat down in the road. Around 80 buses packed with migrants were backed up short of the border on Tuesday, their journey halted by Macedonian taxi drivers who have blocked the railway line and Greek farmers staging a tractor protest over planned pension reforms.
Old-style GREEK sheftalia sausage is perfect for the grill
Sheftalia is an old-style GREEK sausage that is cooked on a charcoal grill. Trevor Bolerjack used a mixture of pork butt and lamb shoulder to create it.
Did Germany offer Greece a trade “Bailout program review for Migration Control”?
Did they? Will they? Is there a trade between “Greece’s Adjustment program progress review” and “keeping migrants and refugees out of Europe?”. I f I am not wrong – and I am not! – we had this issue some months ago. As usual, I ‘m just too lazy – ‘busy’ […]
Another night in the cold for refugees en route to FYROM
Large crowds of migrants in Greece join thousands already waiting to cross the border into the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) on…
