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Sunday, February 28, 2016

The best dishes I ate in February

Hot feta and GREEK salads, Angelo's GREEK Taverna, Maywood. Briny imported GREEK feta is at the center of both of these dishes: one a warm appetizer ...


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Pope urges united response to refugee 'drama', hopeful for Syria

[Pope Francis waves as he leads his Sunday Angelus prayer in Saint Peter's square at the Vatican]Pope Francis called on Sunday for a united response to help flows of people into Europe fleeing war and suffering, as the region argues over sharing the burden of looking after them. Addressing crowds in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Francis, who decried the suffering of migrants at the border between Mexico and the United States this month, said the "refugee drama" was always in his prayers. Greece has been inundated with refugees and migrants after Balkan countries shut their borders and Austria restricted entry for the hundreds of thousands aiming for Europe, which is in the second year of its biggest migration crisis since World War Two.


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Local languages are GREEK to the youth

Many speak Kiswahili and sheng fluently and only a handful speaks English quite well, and very few can comfortably hold conversations in their native ...


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More than 5,000 refugees trapped at Macedonian-Greek border

Kosovo's parliament on Friday elected Hashim Thaci as the country's new president, in a session interrupted by opposition tear gas attacks and as anti-government protests in the streets turned violent. Tear-gas attack pauses presidential election in Kosovo ...


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Some 6,500 people were stuck at the Idomeni camp on Greece's northern border with Macedonia on Saturday after four Balkan countries announced a daily cap on migrant arrivals.

… between Athens and Vienna, with Greece fearful it would trigger a … Turkey. Austria has repeatedly accused Greece of failing to police its … regulate the flow of refugees, Greek authorities are trying to house …


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Former GREEK finance minister Yanis Varoufakis speaks at Clapton economic debate

The former GREEK finance minister was one of the guest speakers at the People's PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) event at the Round ...


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GREECE: 70000 migrants could be stranded next month due to border closures

GREECE'S Migration Minister warned on Sunday that the numbers of refugees and migrants on Greek soil could triple by next month, meaning up to ...


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