ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Lowly Panthrakikos beat Panathinaikos 1-0 in the Greek league Sunday. Rogerio Martins scored the winner in the 26th minute when he blasted a ...
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How the world sees Greece
Sunday, December 20, 2015
A risky trip to Greece and 'God's will'
Despite the winter chill, asylum-seekers are still trying to make it to Greece - only to be refused passage into Europe.
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Tsipras urges IMF to quit Greek bailout
Prime minister criticises fund’s ‘unconstructive attitude’ and says eurozone should be left alone
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Capital controls save the day for certain types of businesses
The vast majority of GREEK households and corporations may be struggling with the capital controls introduced on June 28, but there are some who are ...
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Alexis Tsipras pushes for IMF to stay out of next GREEK bailout
GREEK prime minister Alexis Tsipras is pushing for the International Monetary Fund to stay out of the country's €86bn third bailout, leaving the eurozone ...
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Debt and migrant crises mark 2015
Anyone hoping that GREECE might finally have a quiet year was quickly disappointed in 2015. Brinkmanship with European bailout lenders brought the ...
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GREECE Eurovision 2010
Children of divorced parents, he returned to GREECE with his father John Doe. His childhood he lived in Halandri and the woman who was raised by ...
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West Bank clashes as GREECE votes to recognise Palestine
Abbas is expected in Athens on Sunday ahead of the vote and will meet President Prokopis Pavlopoulos and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Last week ...
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Hedge Funds vs. Greece: Lobbyists Want "Cheap Ticket" to Speculation
… future. (Image: Greek flag via Shutterstock) This summer, Greece's financial … sold Greek bank shares short, spreading doubt about the resilience of Greece … for speculators. If countries like Greece, whose population are already suffering …
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Palestinian President in Greece for Official Visit
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has arrived in Athens on a two-day official visit. Abbas, who arrived in the Greek capital on Sunday, will meet with ...
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Greek WWII Navy Hero Passes Away
Nikolaos Tasiakos, the last surviving member of a historic Greek navy submarine, passed away on Saturday at the age of 101. Tasiakos was a member of the Papanikolis submarine that cemented its place in history in December 1940 by taking down three Italian ships in the days leading up to Christmas, thus stopping the supply
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Greek Public Power Corporation is Owed 2 Billion Euros ...
Greek citizens, private businesses as well as municipalities owe the Public Power Company (DEH), Greece'e state owned electricity provider, two billion euros.
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Susan Sarandon Joins Sea Rescue Team On Search For Refugees Headed To Greece
We are again blessed with a sunny day and calm sea. Refugees begin arriving in the south. The landings are without incident. Babies are passed into volunteers arms, wet shoes and socks removed, blankets distributed. There are tears of relief. These boats arrived safely. With inexperienced drivers, chosen randomly at the helm, this is not always the case. The sea rescue teams now have sophisticated systems in place to locate and guide boats to preferred spots on the beach, free of cliffs, with easy access to help. Team Humanity is one group that, with a borrowed boat and cell phones using WhatsApp, locate, guide and rescue human cargo. Salam heard about the crisis in Denmark and showed up intending to stay a few weeks -- but he says he’s "stuck" now and can’t leave. Too much has happened, good and bad. He and the other members of Team Humanity partner with Proem-Aid, a Spanish group. Proem-Aid come and go in two-week shifts. All work for free, pay their own way and are on call 24/7, for there is no predicting when and where the boats will land. I accept an invitation to join them on their next search. We head out based on a group text, a couple of phone calls and a hunch. I can’t see anything. But 15 minutes later, there it is. A rubber boat. Stable, but of course, overcrowded -- 60 people are very happy to see us. We wave. They wave. We draw close to the side of their boat and I see why Salam is "stuck." It’s a great feeling to be an instrument of deliverance. Luckily, Salam speaks Arabic and shouts that they are headed to a bad landing spot. We will guide them in. As we approach the shore, Salam literally flies off our boat to help the novice driver turn off the motor so the other wet-suited members of the team can pull the boat into shore. It doesn’t always go this smoothly. Recently, a boat went into shore sideways and flipped, trapping all underneath as the wind pulled them out to sea. Our heroes ran and together managed to lift the dinghy. The many trapped women and children were lifted to safety. Amazingly, Salam proudly says, not one person drowned. Salam says he never saw a dead child before he started this work. He was asked to find out the fate of a family who crossed in October on a boat where 40 people drowned. He was sent photos. First, he went through the list of survivors. When he didn’t find their names, he went to the morgue. He said the bodies were stacked in piles. Women in one corner. Children in another. Men scattered. He recognized the jacket on a small boy in the photo as the one on a dead child. He then found his older brother. The parents also perished. Two older siblings lived and were later claimed by relatives. There’s a field just outside Mytilene, Greece, where Muslims -- whose dream of a new life is cut short -- are washed and buried. He and another man dug the children’s graves. It took seven hours. _RYOT and The Huffington Post are teaming up to present "The Crossing," an immersive reporting series hosted by Susan Sarandon chronicling the refugee crisis as it unfolds in Greece._ Watch our Snapchat (@HuffPost) and The WorldPost's Instagram feed (@TheWorldPost) for coverage this week, and check back for upcoming virtual reality and 360 films about the people making the perilous journey from the Middle East toward safety. READ MORE STORIES IN THE SERIES -- Susan Sarandon Is Welcoming Refugees To Greece -- At Lesbos, Children's Pool Toys Are Evidence Of Dangerous Journey -- Lesbos' Lifejacket Graveyard: Susan Sarandon Visits The Frontlines Of The Refugee Crisis _Team Humanity is an entirely volunteer-run organization and relies on donations to fund their sea rescue operation. To learn more, visit www.GoFundMe.com/TeamHumanity. _ -- 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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Greek Minister Wants Changes in History Class Approach in ...
Greek history class could soon be taking a different approach. During an interview with Kathimerini newspaper, Deputy Education Minister Sia ...
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Divided Cyprus' rival leaders determined to overcome difficulties in reunification talks
NICOSIA, Cyprus - The GREEK Cypriot president of ethnically divided Cyprus says he and the leader of the breakaway Turkish Cypriots share a ...
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Ellsworth Elementary Students Study GREEK & Latin Root Words
It is their job to use a dictionary as a resource to find words that have these roots and to classify them on the tree map. Students then infer what the root ...
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Syrian refugee who swam from Turkey to GREECE'S incredible story
A Syrian refugee has told how he swam for seven hours from Turkey to GREECE because he couldn't afford to pay smugglers to take him by boat.
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GREECE set to recognise Palestine
GREECE'S Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras leaves a European Union leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium, December 18, 2015. – Reuters pic, December ...
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'Homeland' Star Mandy Patinkin Talks Syrian Refugee Crisis, America's War on Terror
One family he met saw all of their money fall into the ocean on the rough passage from Syria to GREECE. Patinkin gave them enough money to continue ...
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GREECE to recognize Palestinian state
GREECE is set to recognize the state of Palestine in a parliamentary vote to be attended by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, ...
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Barriers Coming for Athens Metro
Giving up on an honor system, Greek public transport officials will erect barriers to to the metro and replace paper tickets with smart cards. The post Barriers Coming for Athens Metro appeared first on The National Herald.
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Cyprus leaders determined to solve peace talks difficulties
... Turkey's invasion in 1974 that was triggered by a coup aiming to unite Cyprus with GREECE. The Committee on Missing Persons has so far unearthed ...
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GREEK main opposition conservative party holds elections for new leader
by Maria Spiliopoulou. ATHENS, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- Greece's main opposition conservative New Democracy (ND) party held a first round of elections ...
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“Flexible work conditions” with “peanuts for payment” rule Greece’s Labor Market
Gone are the times when labor craft would get a full time job with a wage that would allow a descent living. The data published by the Greek Labor Ministry are grim. Not only 24,674 jobs were lost in the private sector in November. The data reflect also the absolute […]
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Europe just had a year from hell - and next year could be worse
REUTERS/Dominic Ebenbichler BRUSSELS (Reuters) - By any measure, it has been a year from hell for the European Union. And if Britons vote to leave the bloc, next year could be worse. Not since 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell and communism crumbled across eastern Europe, has the continent's geopolitical kaleidoscope been shaken up so vigorously. But unlike that year of joyous turmoil, which paved the way for a leap forward in European integration, the crises of 2015 have threatened to tear the Union apart and left it battered, bruised, despondent and littered with new barriers. The collapse of the Iron Curtain led within two years to the agreement to create a single European currency and, over the following 15 years, to the eastward enlargement of the EU and NATO up to the borders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. That appeared to confirm founding father Jean Monnet's prediction that a united Europe would be built out of crises. In contrast, this year's political and economic shocks over an influx of migrants, Greek debt, Islamist violence and Russian military action have led to the return of border controls in many places, the rise of populist anti-EU political forces and recrimination among EU governments. Jean-Claude Juncker, who describes his EU executive as the "last chance Commission", warned that the EU's open-border Schengen area of passport-free travel was in danger and the euro itself would be unlikely to survive if internal borders were shut. Juncker resorted to gallows humor after the last of 12 EU summits this year, most devoted to last-gasp crisis management: "The crises that are with us will remain and others will come." His gloomy tone was a reality check on the "we can do it" spirit that German Chancellor Angela Merkel - Europe's pre-eminent leader - has sought to apply to the absorption of hundreds of thousands of mostly Syrian refugees. REUTERS/Dominic Ebenbichler Merkel has received little support from her EU partners in sharing the migrant burden. Most have insisted the priority is sealing Europe's external borders rather than welcoming more than a token number of refugees in their own countries. This is partly due to latent resentment of German dominance of the EU and payback for its reluctance to share more financial risks in the euro zone. Some partners also accuse Berlin of hypocrisy over its energy ties with Russia, while friends such as France, the Netherlands and Denmark are simply petrified by the rise of right-wing anti-immigration populists at home. One of the sharpest rebuffs to sharing more of the refugee burden came from close ally Paris. Prime Minister Manuel Valls said of Merkel's open door policy toward Syrian refugees: "It was not France that said 'Come!'." Merkel's critics rounded on her at an end-of-year EU summit. Italy's Matteo Renzi, backed by Portugal and Greece, attacked her refusal to accept a euro zone bank deposit guarantee scheme. The Baltic states, Bulgaria and Italy denounced her support for a direct gas pipeline from Russia to Germany at a time when the EU is sanctioning Moscow over its military action in Ukraine and has forced the cancellation of a pipeline to southern Europe. "It was pretty much everyone against Merkel in the room," a diplomat who heard the exchanges said. REUTERS/Dominic Ebenbichler One problem likely to worsen in 2016 is that Europe's main leaders are politically weak and so preoccupied by domestic challenges that they are unable to take the necessary collective action. The conservative Merkel's survival in the chancellery hinges on her ability to bring down the number of refugees flooding into Germany next year and show she has migration under control. Without "Mutti" (Mummy), as she is affectionately known back home, the EU would be in even more dire straits. French President Francois Hollande's year has been bracketed by militant attacks on the streets of Paris in January and November that caused Europe-wide shock over the Islamist threat from within and over failures in European police and intelligence cooperation. France's influence in Europe is diminished by its economic weakness as Hollande struggles for re-election in 2017 against rising far-right populist Marine Le Pen and conservative predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy. British Prime Minister David Cameron cares only about finding a face-saving deal on changes in Britain's EU membership terms in February to win a knife-edge referendum which he has hinted he hopes to hold sometime next year. Cameron has effectively mortgaged Britain's future to an attempt to deprive immigrants from eastern EU countries of the same in-work benefits that low-paid British workers get, which many EU partners say would be illegal. Given British public alarm over immigration, an anti-elite mood and age-old suspicion of Europe fanned by skeptical media, the referendum is an accident waiting to happen. REUTERS/Dominic Ebenbichler If Europe's second-biggest economy and one of its two main military powers became the first member state ever to vote to leave the EU, it would be a shattering blow to the bloc's confidence and international standing. Die-hard European federalists like to believe a "Brexit" would unshackle the remaining members to move ahead in a much closer union built on the euro zone. But that is to ignore the myriad east versus west, north versus south, free-market versus protectionist, socialist versus conservative and sovereignist versus integrationist divisions among the other 27 member states. More likely, a Brexit vote would prompt demands for referendums elsewhere, from Poland to Denmark, amid acrimonious negotiations between London and Brussels over the terms of Britain's departure and future relationship with the bloc. Denmark has just shown the political risk when governments anywhere in Europe ask voters whether they want even a tiny bit closer EU cooperation. The answer was "Nej tak" - no thanks. If Cameron wins and Britain stays in on improved terms, some fear political contagion, with other national leaders tempted to emulate his tactic of taking Brussels hostage for domestic ends. "Unfortunately, we need a victory for Cameron," one senior EU official said. "But it is full of risk for Europe as a whole." (Writing by Paul Taylor; Editing by Susan Fenton)
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Tourists in GREECE left disappointed as famous sites shut down to strike action
Striking museum workers shut down archaeological sites and monuments across GREECE over the weekend, dealing a blow to its tourism industry.
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Why 2016 could bring a new Greek crisis
Don't look now, but 2016 may bring a host of new troubles for GREECE, which just last week barely overcame a dispute with its international creditors.
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Let’s Change the Greek-American Community Now
The National Herald has established a non-profit foundation to ensure the improvement and promotion of our language, culture, civilization, and its traditions. The post Let’s Change the Greek-American Community Now appeared first on The National Herald.
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Daily Telegraph December 20 1915
Allied reporters expect Bulgaria to attack GREECE – page 9. GREECE meanwhile refutes newspaper reports suggesting any lack of faith with the Allies ...
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Watertown Daily Times
POTSDAM — Village police are trying to solve the mystery behind an overnight stunt in which Greek letters were dangled like Christmas ornaments from the roof of ...
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Greek Farmers Plan Protests
Angered they will be hit with tax hikes, Greek farmers from Thessaly said they will again protest and warned lawmakers not to proceed. The post Greek Farmers Plan Protests appeared first on The National Herald.
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Fraudsters targeting Saudis globally, says security expert
Criminals in GREECE have been fleecing Saudis by offering luxury cars for sale at low prices on the phone or through the Internet. Once citizens pay the ...
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Saturday's high school basketball results
GREECE Odyssey: Treanna Delman 4, Nicole Desimone 32, Kristen Gielenfeldt 4, Hannah Mezzoprete 1, Najur Miller 3, Alayna Riefer 17, Gina Schmidt ...
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Xmas celebrations away from home
Meanwhile, Kiki Petriti, 34, of Greece is planning a GREEK Indian Christmas with her husband. "It is my first Christmas in my new home and I am so ...
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4 nuns keep Greek Orthodox convent going with help of beeswax, baking and beauty products
… community decided to expand. The Greek Orthodox Church has only one … , much of it imported from Greece and Russia. The chapel has … Eastern Orthodox priests and sell Greek wedding, baptismal and religious books …
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Christmas date unimportant to biblical scholar
Murray Harris helped translate the ancient GREEK books of Colossians and Ephesians into English for the New International version of the Bible and ...
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US should stand against Christian genocide
The GREEK Orthodox Metropolis of Chicago, representing all GREEK Orthodox parishioners within Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota as well as ...
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Bears Den Cafe infuses history, charm
She explained that one woman from Boyertown said she always drove to a restaurant in Royersford, Montgomery County, to enjoy a GREEK salad.
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Greece’s Year of Crises: More Debt and Refugees
Brinkmanship with European bailout lenders brought the country a half-step from financial collapse and a Eurozone exit in the first half of 2015 — then Greece was at the center of Europe's worst refugee crisis since World War II in the next six months. The post Greece’s Year of Crises: More Debt and Refugees appeared first on The National Herald.
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Couple delighted to be reunited with dog they rescued in Greece
… travelled nearly 2500 miles from Greek island, Zante to join his …
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GREEK restaurant Elia welcomes new head chef
Chef Kourkoutaki previously worked under Yiannis Baxevanis (Elia's celebrity chef consultant) at the five star property Elounda Beach in Greece.
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NYC set to ramp up outreach, services to street homeless
... GREECE stuck in debt and migrant crises; AP PHOTOS: In 2015, GREECE stuck in debt and migrant crises; AP PHOTOS: In 2015, GREECE stuck in debt ...
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Review: New translation of 'The Iliad” by local
Blakely differs from most translators in being an avowed amateur, rather than an academic who specializes in ancient GREEK. His “Iliad” is, accordingly, ...
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Local woman volunteers with refugees in GREECE
A refugee family sleeps at the Moira refugee camp in GREECE. There is very little space indoors at the camp and many family must sleep outside until ...
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The devices of GREEK tragedies will not help us
In classical GREEK tragedies, deus ex machina was a divinity appearing on the scene at the end of the play (descending from a wooden crane – the ...
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ESM Chief Confident of IMF Participation in Greek Bailout
European Stability Mechanism Chief Klaus Regling appears optimistic that the International Monetary Fund will jump on board the Greek bailout program. During an interview with German newspaper Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung, Regling noted that the IMF should join in the program and it would be useful because of its technical and economic knowledge. Regling also noted
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Creditors Reportedly Find 2-3 Billion Euro Gap in 2016 Greek Budget
The Greek parliament voted the 2016 Greek budget less than two weeks ago. However, this might not be the country’s final budget with the new year less than two weeks away. Greek TV channel Mega reports that Greece’s creditors foresee that the budget will fall short by two to three billion euros. This amounts to around a 1.1%-1.7% of
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Tsipras Admits He Should Have Negotiated Differently in New Documentary
Almost 11 months with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras at the helm of Greece and the bailout is still here. In the fourth episode of Paul Mason’s documentary “This is a Coup” Tsipras opened up about the Greek referendum and the bailout deal that he agreed to, which many have felt to be a reversal of the
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New Poll: Faith in Greek Government Diminishes
A poll conducted by the University of Macedonia presented discouraging results for the Greek coalition government. Even though the newly re-elected SYRIZA-ANEL government has been in power for less than four months, 77.5% of the poll’s respondents claimed it is already heading in the wrong direction and only 11.5% believe it is taking the right path. At
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1 Billion Euro Greek Bailout Installment Faces New Problem
The final disbursement of the first part of the three year 86 billion euro Greek bailout could be undermined by an ongoing disagreement between the Greek government and its creditors. While the Euro Working Group, the preparatory body of the Eurogroup, approved the one billion euro installment on Thursday, one issue still remains unresolved. The
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