How the world sees Greece
An opulent underground monument in northern Greece that caused a stir when excavated last year may have been a symbolic grave — but not the final resting place of — the closest friend and general of ancient warrior-king Alexander the Great, the excavator says.
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THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — An opulent underground monument in northern Greece that caused a stir when excavated last year may have been a symbolic grave — but ...
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GREECE ranks 81st among 140 states in the global competitiveness chart drafted annually by the World Economic Forum, remaining in the same spot ...
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Perry Rizopoulos and his grandfather, Pericles Rizopoulos, who escaped Nazi occupation in GREECE during World War II to eventually settle in the ...
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The GREEK Orthodox Shrine Church of St. Nicholas, 196-10 Northern Blvd., Flushing, will hold its annual GREEK Festival on Friday, October 9, through ...
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There are so many answers, but I know only 11 of them will satisfy their query. Basically, what letters do you flaunt? GREEK life is only approximately 38 ...
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More than 40,000 folks are expected to attend this four-day Montrose festival that kicks off Thursday at the Annunciation GREEK Orthodox Cathedral ...
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More than 40,000 folks are expected to attend this four-day Montrose festival that kicks off Thursday at the Annunciation GREEK Orthodox Cathedral ...
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Four former heads of the Council of State, Greece's highest administrative court, met Justice Minister Nikos Paraskevopoulos on Wednesday to ...
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Duran Duran's relentless desire to stay contemporary pays off on “Paper Gods,” the British pop group's highest charting album in more than two ...
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Hundreds of migrants and refugees have arrived in the Greek port of Piraeus. A Greek government-chartered ship carried almost 2,000 people, mainly ...
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This year, a Taste of GREECE will celebrate culture and heritage with food and dance for the 30th time in Chandler. “People get a chance to experience ...
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Tracey Marx, longtime adjunct faculty member at Marian. will lead a group tour of alumni and students through Athens and the Peloponnese of GREECE ...
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PORTSMOUTH, Ohio – Shawnee State University's Professor Stylianos Hadjiyannis will give a public lecture on GREECE and its fate titled, “Being in ...
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The leadership of the government’s economic affairs team, including Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos, government Vice-President Yiannis Dragasakis and Alternate Finance Minister George Chouliarakis, on Wednesday met with the new head of the European Commission’s Structural Reform Support Service (SRSS) Maarten Verwey at the finance ministry. The meeting was also attended by the general secretary
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What ails our depressed, strife-torn world: not enough dictators. That's what Vladimir Putin (oh, I mean DOCTOR) Putin prescribed to the UN...just take an Assad and a Rouhani and call him in the morning. This week's UN General Assembly cavalcade of superstar dictators was a depressing juxtaposition coming on the heels of a remarkably inspirational U.S. papal visit. Just picture the Turtle Bay turnstile...Pope Francis' inspiring address urging world leaders to set aside their differences to heal the world's poverty and oppression. Flash forward to Russia's Putin grasping the UNGA lectern after a decade's absence asserting more dictators will create a new "stable" world order - by bombing Syria and Ukraine. The Amen Choir of UNGA autocrats were on their feet ready to dance the Barynya. For good measure, Iran's Supreme Leader stand-in Hassan Rouhani could not resist the temptation to pile on the U.S. "we must not forget the roots of today's wars...can be found in the occupation, invasion and military intervention..." by the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, and the U.S.'s unwarranted support for the inhumane actions of the "Zionist regime" (aka Israel). That's the guy we just signed a nuclear agreement with whose nation is the world's number one state sponsor of terror, and which is Putin's closest Assad ally in Syria. Putin seized upon the catastrophic rise of ISIS as an alibi to triple down on Russia's support for Syria's Assad regime -- asserting that the road to defeating ISIS lies through Damascus. Typical feint by Putin. It seems that the only person surprised with Putin's air strikes in Syria is President Obama - and that alone says all that needs to be said about this White House's abject naiveté why it's Syria "policy" is an unmitigated disaster on every count. Putin also would have none of Obama's clarion call to statesmanship. He defiantly asserted that "...we can no longer tolerate the current state of affairs in the world." The real bogeyman of global disorder, Putin asserted, is NATO and the United States. In a vain attempt to curry favor with his new-found bully buddies Putin exclaimed that the United Nations is the only institution that stands in the way of American domination of the world. What is most diabolical about Putin's orchestrated defense of Assad wrapped in an anti-ISIS appeal is how much his brazen assessment is gaining traction in the least likely of places -- western Europe. Europe's leaders, overrun by a torrent of Syrian refugees with no end in sight, are throwing their lot in with Putin on Assad - bowing to the cruel reality on the ground that Assad won't be leaving anytime soon for fear that the torrent of refugees would turn into a tsunami of boat people. And any rush to force Assad and his family to the exit could make matters worse by enabling ISIS to establish its caliphate capital in Damascus. Obama had once infamously declared "Assad must go." Now, the U.S. is talking about Assad's "managed transition." That is code for we are in no hurry to get rid of Assad, either. So much for Secretary Kerry's empty admonitions. That is the sad reality of the ground game in Syria today - coupled with a free-fire zone free-for-all of Russian, American, French, Syrian, Turkish and "coalition" warplanes (add Israeli drones) buzzing overhead without an order of battle bombing targets with abandon in an almost cartoonish display of indiscriminate air might -- all without a strategy. Let's take a step back. Despite all the kabuki drama in New York nothing that the U.S. says or does is going to change the Syrian equation -- nada. Obama forfeited having much of a say about Assad's coming or going when he took his red-line ante off the table and failed when confronted at every Syrian policy turn of opportunity in the road thereafter. Too late arming moderate rebels. Too late providing urgent humanitarian relief. Too late comprehending the threat that a disintegrating Syria poses to U.S. homeland security. Too late coordinating a policy with Turkey. Too late recognizing ISIS' threat. Too late demanding Sunni states stop supporting extremist anti-Assad forces. Too late to put any political pressure on Assad. The list of "too lates" is bottomless. And yet, even today before Congress, Kerry enjoys boasting about HIS 43 nation anti-ISIS coalition - quantity over quality - a paper tiger coalition that has hardly affected hardly anything on the ground because Obama won't permit U.S. special forces target spotters to make that air coalition effective. Kerry is flailing as is his want. He demands a political solution in Syria that would lead to a "transition government" but there is no one to hand power off to. If Kerry had the presence of thought to stay off his plane for a while and get back to basics perhaps the U.S. could come up with a plan which would: a) refocus Arab and European efforts against ISIS by organizing the boots on the ground needed to carve up ISIS; b) put some time in Baghdad to shore up its internal efforts against ISIS; 3) cajole Syria's other patron states (China and Iran) to create an anti-ISIS coalition that has some teeth to it. Alternatively, everything that Russia does, will impact Assad. So why is anyone surprised Russia is pouring more arms into its client state...Russia has been doing that for decades and has a convenient naval base at Tartus to unload all that equipment. Neither Iran, China, or Hezbollah (and Israel...yes ISRAEL) want to part with the devil they know, and each in their own way are determined to keep Assad's regime from collapsing. They know ISIS and Al Nusra Front will pillage and murder any Shiite left standing. Mind you, Putin is no hero here. While Russia's escalation may keep the Caliph out of Damascus, it will certainly fuel the refugee exodus, produce even more vicious fighting and civilian carnage, and serve as Hollywood blockbuster advertisement for Sunni recruits to join ISIS' forces. Afghanistan redux?? But Obama's Middle East foreign policy team put his leaky ship of state on this course - get out of the Middle East, turn the keys over to the Iranians; pivot to Asia, and exit stage left declaring victory with honor. Anyone warning them of Syria's consequences was shown the door including Robert Ford -- our best mind on Syria who was the courageous envoy there. Regrettably, the unmitigated stubbornness of his National Security Council team to grasp the strategic essentials of the Middle East is the root cause of this Greek tragedy. Now, it is too late to throw our weight around without a plan that focuses on what really is essential to U.S. interests in Syria. And so far the Administration hasn't a clue what an effective plan may look like. It talks as if it has a plan, but that, too, is fantasy. So play this out. 1. The U.S. never had a geo-political stake in Syria. Syria has been Russia's #1 client state for 50 years. Syria is Russia's #1 purchaser of arms. China, too, is Assad's major big-power benefactor. Assad's fall would convert Syria into a partitioned Sunni extremist-dominated state pouring Jihadis into Chechnya and Dagestan. Putin has a geo-strategic imperative to prevent that from happening and to expand Russia's influence with the new Middle East world order that Obama and Co. have bequeathed him. The emerging Russian-Iranian Shiite alliance had the vote in the Middle East and has even snared Iraq into it - again much to the surprise of the Obama team. The U.S. must refocus to ensure that Lebanon and Jordan remain able to withstand the consequences of the Syrian extremist and refugee crisis now within their borders. That requires more strategic planning with Israel, Egypt and Turkey...I don't see any of that happening. 2. The U.S. and its European allies have few anti-Assad cards left. The two cards that Obama and his team have failed to play so are 1) robbing ISIS of its territorial bases in Raqqa, Syria and Mosul, Iraq; and 2) containing the flow of ISIS fighters to and from those areas. If Putin is going to join in and help - all the better. Cutting the Caliphate down the middle (i.e., severing its lines of communications between Syria and Iraq is essential to robbing ISIS of its attraction to Jihadis and to its own legitimacy. Putin and Iran will never be brow-beaded into changing their conduct in Syria - so Kerry should quit bellyaching about it and focus instead on protecting U.S. interests where they matter, i.e., numbers 1 & 2, above. That means organizing an ARAB expeditionary force to chop up ISIS's territory. I don't see Kerry doing anything of the sort, yet. By the way, the Europeans have yet to be brought into a planning enterprise to get this organized. 3. A bi-partisan Congressional Committee issued a damning report yesterday on the Obama Administration's "two hands tied behind its back" military and intelligence failures against ISIS asserting that the U.S. is losing the battle to stop Americans from traveling abroad to enlist in ISIS. More than 25,000 foreigners have flocked to war-torn Syria and Iraq since 2011 to fight with Islamist terrorist groups including ISIS, according to U.S. government estimates noted in the report. The Obama Administration has a bipartisan "F" grade on the one danger that matters most to Americans in this conflict. We have no military, political, or strategic policy in place to deal with this. All the more reason why we need to refocus our energies and stop our Syrian flailing. 4. I have repeatedly called for the U.S. to unshackle itself by permitting forward spotting teams to support air strikes against ISIS - without which 75% of coalition airstrikes fail to occur or miss their targets. Obama has consistently overruled his military and intelligence advisers -- as if these boots on the ground would short-sheet his pledge not to have boots on the ground in Syria. Penny wise-pound foolish, to say the least. 5. The U.S. and Turkey have been haggling over whether there should be safe-havens for Syrians defended by U.S. and Turkish forces. The U.S. can do so much more to provide the urgent humanitarian relief Syrians desperately need while leveraging strategic safe-havens to place more military pressure on the Assad regime by training Syrians to defend these safe-havens that would also be no-fly zones against Assad's dreaded barrel bombing. Syria is so broken it is inevitable that it is going to be partitioned - the only question is when and whether the extremists will hold just a sliver of what is left. Our goal must be principally to expedite the demise of ISIS and its threat to us, and push Sunni Arab states to end their clandestine support for ISIS and Al Nusra in Syria and Iraq. Russia, Iran and China are all in for Assad until someone finally takes him down, which is surely to happen given the hundreds of thousands seeking retribution against him. What remains of America's Middle East policy is now in the hands of our adversaries. It will take a new, bold, creative foreign policy team to pick up the pieces of this broken china - and that is 15 months away. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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A Greece woman was sentenced Wednesday to 1-1/3 to 4 years in prison for a fatal hit-an-run accident that happened in August 2014. Mariah A. Eccleston ...
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A woman and a two year-old child died overnight Wednesday off the coast of the island of Lesbos, in eastern GREECE, after the boat they were traveling ...
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A woman and a two year-old child died overnight Wednesday off the coast of the island of Lesbos, in eastern GREECE, after the boat they were traveling ...
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The re-elected Syriza-led government in GREECE faces some unenviable choices about the balance between principle and pragmatism. The scale of ...
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Debt sustainability has become a crucial concern for GREECE and its government. International creditors have consistently stressed the importance of ...
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It's been a tough few years for GREECE, what with the Eurozone debt crisis, political instability and the influx of migrants on its shores. Not to be too flip, ...
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GREECE wants to lure funds from private investors for its lenders to minimize the burden repairing the financial industry will put on the public debt load, ...
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Cyprus, GREECE and Egypt have reaffirmed their mutual commitment to constantly work towards enhancing their tripartite cooperation at all levels, ...
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How long does it take to swim from Turkey to GREECE? Hussam Jaban, a 21-year-old English literature student from Syria, said it took about four hours ...
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A ground-level view of solidarity initiatives in GREECE during the recent political and economic turmoil will be presented by anthropology professor ...
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Woman, child drown as refugee boat sinks off GREECE'S Lesbos A refugee woman hugs a baby wrapped with a thermal blanket as she arrives on an ...
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Bernd Schuster will not be taking over as GREECE coach after a verbally agreed deal fell through, the Hellenic Soccer Federation (EPO) announced on ...
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… box during the 2014 Greek elections in Thessaloniki, Greece, on May 25 … Greece's east. They were traveling north, away from their Greek … product Greece needs to import, and a central one for the Greek …
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Greece sees migrants literally emerging from the sea: "We had a small inflatable boat for a three-year-old child and we pushed it along"
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BERKASOVO, Serbia (AP) — Afghan asylum-seeker Asina Ansari stood ankle-deep in mud on the border between Serbia and Croatia, clutching her feverish and shivering 2-year-old son Mohtar in a blanket. Their dream is to reach Sweden, where she has an uncle. But as the teacher from Kabul stood in a cornfield with hundreds of other asylum- seekers waiting for hot soup, that dream seemed far away. "I just want to get somewhere dry and warm," she said feebly. "My boy is sick." The journey for Ansari and thousands of asylum-seekers hoping to find sanctuary in rich European Union nations took a turn for the worse this week. The onset of fall weather in the Balkans sent temperatures plummeting and brought relentless rain and biting winds. The weather spread despair among people on long and perilous journeys from war and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Aid workers help the exhausted and the frightened, many with small children, like Ansari's boy. The situation will get worse. Temperatures can drop below freezing as soon as November. "The refugees are not used to this," said Davor Rako of the U.N. refugee agency. "They arrive here wearing shorts and no socks, shaking with cold." Refugees from countries such as Syria, Iraq and Eritrea are used to warmth without sudden weather shifts. The majority passing through the Balkans started their months-long journeys in the summer, unaware it would take so long to reach Western Europe. Many have traveled from Turkey to Greece, and then set off on foot, walking north to Macedonia and Serbia. Those with children, in particular, have needed extra time. Several aid and medical groups were helping this week at Serbia's border with Croatia, offering hot soup and tea, food and water. Volunteers handed out rain ponchos and blankets. More than 87,000 people have entered Croatia from Serbia in the past two weeks, and the flow is not expected to wane, part of a human wave of more than 500,000 so far this year. There are volunteers and aid groups, but they can only do so much. Just a few hours spent near the border where migrants were crossing offered a searing snapshot of misery. As they lined up for warm drinks and food, the asylum-seekers blinked in the rain or kept their heads low. Some carried infants on one arm and plastic bags of belongings on the other. Syed Ghadeer, a 16-year-old who traveled from Afghanistan, rolled up his trousers to the knees to avoid the mud, treading carefully on his tiptoes. "There is not so much rain in Afghanistan," he said. A pregnant woman shivered with fever, covering her round belly with her hands and pushing through the crowd to reach a tent with doctors offering help. Children were crying, the tears on their faces mixing with raindrops on their cheeks. Those that cried the hardest had accidentally dropped their stuffed animals in the mud. They had to leave them behind, now too dirty to be carried on. Join the conversation about this story »
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British actor Orlando Bloom, a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador visited a refugee reception center in Gevgelija on the border between FYROM and Greece, on Tuesday, September 29. Bloom listened to the refugees’ stories about their journeys, concerns and hopes for the future. “These children have travelled through one of the deadliest refugee and migrant routes in
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Greece named Fraport and its GREEK partner, energy firm Copelouzos, as the preferred bidder to operate 14 airports in tourist destinations, including ...
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GREEK retail sales by volume fell 7.3 percent in July compared to the same month last year. The data published by the official statistics agency ELSTAT ...
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So the villa's outdoor theater is a fitting match for Luis Alfaro's "Mojada: A Medea In Los Angeles," a drama transposing Euripedes' tragedy from ...
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More than a century after its discovery off the GREEK island Antikythera, the famous shipwreck still holds treasures that once belonged to the 1st ...
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GREEK Police discovered a weapon stash in a warehouse on Marathonos Avenue, Attica close to Athens. Police found rocket launchers, kalasnikov ...
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A fall tradition in Tallahassee is back. The GREEK Food Festival is as anxiously anticipated in the Big Bend as football weekends and cool mornings ...
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First question: "If everyone in this room was a potential investor in Greece, would you be able to assure them that, for the next four years, their investments would be safe, and that the country would be stable?" Second question: "If I were having dinner with people who love Greece and who were looking to invest there, where would you want me to ask them to invest? Do you have a wish list?" Third question: "If I am able to convince some people to invest in the energy sector, so that you are able to have greater energy independence, and so that jobs can be created, can I assure them that they are welcome and that they would get their money back? Can I tell them that you have the situation under control, and that the government will remain in power for the next four years?" The man asking the questions was Bill Clinton. The man who had to answer them was Alexis Tsipras. The place: The Sheraton Hotel, New York, Sunday afternoon, at the Clinton Global Initiative's 10th annual meeting. As if anyone needed confirmation that, almost 20 years after he last ran for office, Clinton remains the most charismatic figure in American politics, able to gather together Hollywood stars (I saw Charlize Theron in person, and she is even more beautiful than on screen), a Nobel Laureate in economics, world leaders, and human rights and environmental activists at the snap of his fingers. In this year's meeting, one session was specifically devoted to Greece. Gianna Angelopoulos, a member of the Foundation, arranged it. Angelopoulos introduced Tsipras, with the warmest of words: "Alexis Tsipras," she said, "has come, bringing with him the heart and hopes of the Greek people." In general, the atmosphere couldn't have been more amicable for the Greek prime minister. A few minutes earlier, Joe Stiglitz had criticized Germany's obsession with austerity, accusing it of destroying Europe at large as well as Greece. George Soros, who was in the audience, took the floor immediately afterwards, and had an interesting dialogue with Italian Prime Minister Renzi, hammering a few more nails into the coffin of the "theology of austerity" destroying the European vision. And Clinton himself made it clear that he considers austerity to be a mistake, and that he believes Greece is entitled to an opportunity to grow. The atmosphere was decidedly pro-Greek and unequivocally anti-German. It started off with a debate between Louka Katseli and Joe Stiglitz, where the Nobel Laureate predicted the failure of the new memorandum, and the head of the National Bank of Greece defended the agreement as "difficult but manageable." Katseli said that the dramatic "regime change" that had occurred in Greece was grounds for optimism. "Most of the parties in Parliament support the agreement, and the government has enough of a majority to implement it and make the long overdue changes," he said. The evening ended with an even more interesting debate between Matteo Renzi and George Soros, with the mega investor maintaining that Europe is falling apart, and the charming and charismatic Italian prime minister defending the miracle of Europe, despite its difficulties. Both men ended up agreeing that Europe needs a vision, and not just rules, growth and not just austerity, and that loan spreads cannot reign supreme. In between these two debates, Alexis Tsipras, with a friendly and protective Bill Clinton at his side, appeared on stage. Alexis Tsipras delivered the following message: we will continue the struggle to correct Europe's path, to put forth an agenda for growth instead of austerity. We will implement the agreement, and we will fight to change the country, through tax reform, a change in public administration, meritocracy, attracting foreign investment, and fighting political clientelism. It was as if George Papandreou, who was in the audience as well, was listening words he had said five years earlier. And everyone was pleased. Things started to get difficult when Clinton asked some questions: Will you make it through the end of your four-year term? Can you guarantee political stability? Where exactly do you need investment? How quickly will you implement reforms? Will you guarantee that investors won't lose their money? It was clear that Tsipras did not have answers prepared, and he was not willing to improvise, especially not in English. But he had a message that he wanted to convey: "Foreign investors are welcome, and they will find a government with a clear mandate to bring about change to the country." He also said: "In a few years, Greece will become a prime destination for foreign investment, this is my opinion and my desire." It was clear that Alexis is trying to learn the language they speak in the "Big Apple." _This post first appeared on HuffPost Greece and was translated into English._ -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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With red carpet to the beach? Yes. With red carpet to the beach. Sorry, but this is one of the most kitsch enstantane I have seen in my life. Defense Minister Panos Kammenos was set to commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of Salamina that took place in September 480 […]
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ATHENS, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Bernd Schuster will not be taking over as Greece coach after a verbally agreed deal fell through, the Hellenic Football Federation (EPO ...
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Four men are found guilty of attacking a former footballer and leaving him brain damaged on the Greek island of Crete seven years ago.
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Holders of senior bonds in Greek banks will not be bailed-in if private investors cover the lenders’ basic capital shortfalls, according to the chief executive of ...
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IMF chief warns emerging markets will be hit by extended period of low commodity prices * 1.1m UK cars caught up in Volkswagen scandal * Eurozone back in deflation due to cheaper oil * Markets suffer $11tn selloff in worst quarter since 2011 * Analyst: Emerging market gloom is deepening 4.57pm BST Markets have shrugged off warnings from IMF chief Christine Lagarde about the slowing world economy and rallied on the last day of a dismal quarter. Worries over Greece’s debt crisis gave way to new fears over China’s economic slowdown and market turmoil. Most European indices rose more than 2% today, while stocks on Wall Street leapt over 1%. 4.22pm BST “There was no sign of slowdown this afternoon, with a 200 point jump for the Dow Jones continuing the Western indices’ attempts to end this most awful of awful quarters with a bang instead of a more apt whimper,” says Connor Campbell, financial analyst at Spreadeax. Perhaps this evening’s comments from Janet Yellen will provide more insight into what the US markets want at the moment; when the Fed chair suggested last week that a rate-hike will most likely occur in 2015 the American indices surged on the signs of some much-needed clarity. It will be interesting, then, to see if the markets have a similar reaction if Yellen drops any newsworthy nuggets of information into her speech in St Louis. With the Dow continuing the end of quarter party, the European indices could maintain the muscular, if meaningless, growth that began this morning. The UK’s supermarket sector, buoyed by better-than-expected profit-promising comments from Sainsbury’s, only widened its gains as the day went on, whilst the commodity stocks continued to rebound from Monday’s mayhem. Continue reading...
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Former Greece captain Kostas Katsouranis, the last professionally playing member of the winning European Championship squad in 2004 ...
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One mom has found a way to help Syrian refugee parents from thousands of miles away. Cristal Logothetis, a woman who lives in Glendale, California, told The Huffington Post that she was horrified after seeing the photograph of the body of Alan Kurdi, a 3-year-old Syrian boy who drowned while attempting to reach the Greek island of Kos with his family. The photo compelled Logothetis, who was at one point an undocumented immigrant in the U.S., to help others who are being affected by the crisis. After doing more research into the issue and seeing photos of refugee parents who were trekking with their children, she decided to create an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to raise money to purchase and deliver baby carriers, slings and wraps for Syrian moms and dads on the Greek island of Kos. The campaign, which has a goal of $2,500, had raised more than $1,200 as of Wednesday morning. And so far, the mom has collected around 150 baby carriers with about 100 more on the way. "Moms specifically -- this [mission] really hit a nerve with them," Logothetis told HuffPost of the outpouring of support she's received from strangers who want to help. "I've been getting packages literally from everywhere." Logothetis said that the photos of parents carrying their children in search of safety -- often making the journey on foot -- got her thinking. "I kept seeing pictures of moms holding babies in their arms. Babies are so heavy. I can't even shop [holding my child] ... for 15 minutes," she said. "The idea they're walking [with their children] to get to safety is amazing." The mom thought that getting baby carriers to these parents would make their journeys further into Europe a little bit easier. She decided to deliver the items to Kos, since many refugees have been traveling to the island before making their way to other European countries. "This is basically a way to make a meaningful and direct impact on their lives," Logothetis told HuffPost. "The minute they get that carrier, it's going to help them." Logothetis said that a volunteer will take the collected carriers and fly with them to Kos in October. While on the island, the volunteer, along with some of Logothetis' family members who live there, will pass out supplies to parents in need. The carriers may end up helping refugees and migrants from other nations who have also arrived to Kos. _To learn more about Logothetis' initiative or to donate, visit her crowdfunding campaign here. _ _ALSO ON HUFFPOST: _ -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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