Greece was at the epicentre of both the Eurozone and migration crises, but as Gemma Bird and Amanda Russell Beattie write, each crisis has left a notably different mark on the country. Nowhere is this ...
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How the world sees Greece
Monday, January 7, 2019
Stavros Niarchos Foundation grants 20 million euro to GREEK National Opera
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation has granted 20 million euros to the GREEK National Opera (GNO), which has moved into its new opera house at the ...
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Christians across Europe celebrated Epiphany
Similar ceremonies marking Epiphany were held across GREECE on river banks, seafronts and lakes, where Orthodox priests throw a cross into the ...
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Severe weather conditions in Greece expected to worsen
After two severe weather fronts, which saw temperatures in parts of the country fall to below -18 degrees Celsius, conditions in Greece are expected to worsen as of Monday. Temperatures are ...
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Greek Orthodox community gathers at Vancouver's English Bay for Epiphany cross drive
Members of Vancouver's Greek Orthodox community gathered at English Bay on Sunday to participate in the Epiphany cross dive. The tradition involves a priest tossing a cross into the water, which symbo...
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Three people drown after heavy rainfall in Attica
Greece's fire service said a woman and two men have been found dead in a creek southeast of Athens, after a heavy downpour on Thursday. The two ...
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Australia v India: fourth Test, day five – live!
* Updates from the final day of play at the SCG * Any thoughts? Email or tweet @GeoffLemonSport 12.51am GMT I can’t even tell if it’s raining any more. The covers are still down. I’m enjoying this non-session, though, with all your correspondence. Speaking of speaking to you all: if you’re an OBO reader in Melbourne, Adam Collins and I are doing a live version of our cricket podcast The Final Word next week. Thursday Jan 17th at the Commercial Club pub in Fitzroy. 12.48am GMT Here’s Olly. “Although I imagine the average age of us OBOers is probably above 40, such is the immediacy of modern times with access to online services and instant knowledge gratification I think we only remember the good times. In the history of Test cricket all countries have had their ups and downs and the beauty of it is, is that they don’t coincide. So right now India are brilliant and the Aussies are struggling. Roll on ten years and the picture may well be different. Or, as Plato put it better than me when he and his fellow philosophers were constructing the cradle of civilisation that was Ancient Greece: ‘Some days you’re the statue, and some days you’re the pigeon.’” Or as I similarly wrote in a poem not quite so long ago, “Some days you’re bowling, and some days you’re batting / and some days you’re Warnie, and some days you’re Gatting.” Continue reading...
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