How the world sees Greece
By the hundreds they come, trudging along highways and across fields, dragging tired toddlers and pushing the elderly and injured in wheelchairs _ a seemingly endless stream of humanity heading north for a better life
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THIS season’s Greek Cup has been cancelled altogether after crowd violence marred Wednesday’s semi-final, first leg between PAOK and Olympiakos, Greece’s Deputy Sports Minister Stavros Kontonis announced on Thursday. In a statement, Kontonis ...
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The European Commission approved the agreement between Greece and the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (Tap), a project that - explained Margarethe Vestager, EU Antitrust Commissioner "improves the safety of energy provision in the south and east of Europe, in ...
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WASHINGTON: The IMF called on the European Union on Thursday to be more "realistic" about what Greece must due to obtain further aid under an EU bailout program agreed in July. For several months, EU officials and the IMF have held difficult discussions on ...
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MSU's Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life dedicated a Habitat for Humanity home at 107 Owens Lane in Starkville to Annie Hopkins (center) on ...
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Giant refugee camps have sprung up along the GREEK border with Macedonia and up to 11,000 migrants have become stuck at the Idomeni border ...
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Athens said Thursday it now had nearly 32,000 migrants on its territory, after Austria and Balkan states began restricting entries, creating a bottleneck in Greece. "There are currently 6,857 refugees in the Aegean islands," who arrived from Turkey, and ...
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A United Nations migration official has warned 70,000 people are set to be "trapped" in GREECE in coming weeks because countries including ...
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This is a 1952 photo of “Sam the Greek” in his restaurant. "No, that was Tony's - the Olympian - ice cream parlor, candy store Sam's place was on North Portage, in the Theater Block. Here, let me show you a photo" The historian shows the resident a ...
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The Greek Cup semi-final between PAOK and Olympiakos was suspended after supporters clashed with riot police. Violence broke out after the home side were denied a late penalty when Robert Mak, who had opened the scoring, appeared to be brought down by ...
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Olympia Restaurant owner Gerasimos “Jerry” Limperatos’s goal is for his customers to enjoy the richness and splendor of Greek food, but it is also important for him to offer a full Greek dining experience. So diners who visit can enjoy the ...
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There is no more GREEK Cup this year. The club competition was called off on Thursday a day after a semifinal match was stopped due to fan violence, ...
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Turkey is under growing pressure to consider a major escalation in migrant deportations from Greece, a top European Union official said Thursday, amid preparations for a highly anticipated summit of EU and Turkish leaders next week. European Council President Donald Tusk ended a six-nation tour of migration crisis countries in Turkey, where 850,000 migrants and refugees left last year for Greek islands. Tusk was careful to single out illegal economic migrants for possible deportation, not asylum-seekers. [...] he wasn't clear who would actually carry out the expulsions: Hungary has already called a referendum on EU plans for a mandatory quota system for settling migrants, and says it's was considering action to bolster its border fences with additional police and military personnel, and extending the fence to the Romanian frontier. Earlier Thursday, Tusk told officials in Athens that Europe had little chance of resolving the crisis without full respect of controls on the external borders of Europe's passport-free Schengen area — signaling pressure on Athens to do more to separate economic migrants from those fleeing war in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere.
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European Council President Donald Tusk has issued a warning to economic migrants not to come to Europe. Mr Tusk is visiting Greece and Turkey to try to secure agreement on reducing the flow of migrants travelling west. The BBC's Danny Savage reports from ...
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… the “terribly difficult” refugee crisis. “Greece is suffering a terrible lack … reduce the migrant influx. A Greek exit from the euro “is … forward, given Greece’s financing needs. “Until now, Greece has not achieved …
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Tsiknopempti – the Orthodox equivalent of “Fat Thursday”– is being celebrated on Thursday, March 3, throughout Greece and Cyprus, and by expatriate Greeks around the world who commemorate the mid-point of the three-week carnival season before Lent. The “Thursday of the smoke from grilled (or roasted) meats”, the exact meaning of the term in Greek, […]
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Greek Interior Minister Panagiotis Kouroumblis engaged in “damage control” on Thursday after his incendiary remark about Greece’s protesting lawyers, the so-called “necktie movement”, for whom he was quoted as saying that “it’s good that they’re taking to the streets. It will do them good because they’ll lose a few kilos”. Kouroumblis, a lawyer by training […]
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As the number of migrants and refugees trapped in Greece because of stringent new border regulations continues to swell, the United Nations warns that Europe is "on the cusp of a largely self-induced humanitarian crisis." Thousands of refugees and migrants ...
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[Roads and a small dam can be seen next to dried-up lakes located in outback Australia in this aerial picture taken on December 13, 2015. REUTERS/David Gray]Thomson Reuters LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — Climate change could cause significant changes to global diets, leading to more than half a million extra deaths in 2050 from illnesses such as stroke, cancer, and heart disease, experts said on Wednesday. As extreme weather such as floods and heat waves wreaks havoc with harvests and crop yields, estimated increases in food availability could be cut by a third by 2050, according to the experts' study published in The Lancet medical journal. This would lead to a reduction of 99 calories available per person per day, the assessment of the impact of climate change on diet composition and bodyweight found. Climate change could also lead to a 4% reduction in the consumption of fruit and vegetables, along with a 0.7% drop in the amount of red meat consumed, the study said. Reduced consumption of fruit and vegetables could cause twice as many deaths as undernutrition by 2050, it said. "Even modest reductions in the availability of food per person could lead to changes in the energy content and composition of diets, and these changes will have major consequences for health," study lead author Marco Springmann from the University of Oxford said in a statement. These changes could be responsible for about 529,000 extra deaths in 2050, compared with a future without climate change in which increases in food availability and consumption could have prevented 1.9 million deaths. Even though some climate-related deaths will be offset by reductions in obesity, the projected 260,000 fewer deaths will be balanced by lower calorie availability, the study said. Low- and middle-income countries in the Western Pacific region and Southeast Asia are likely to be worst affected, and almost three quarters of all climate-related deaths are expected to occur in China and India. [china drought]Thomson Reuters "There should be enough food to produce a better diet in 2050 than we currently have globally, but if you add in climate change, then you loose some of those improvements," study coauthor Peter Scarborough from the University of Oxford told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. In Europe, Greece and Italy are likely to be significantly affected, with 124 and 89 deaths per a million people respectively. Cutting emissions could have substantial health benefits and reduce the number of climate-related deaths by 29% to 71%, the study said. "We need to be mitigating greenhouse gasses. If we do, it will bring down the health impact of climate change," Scarborough said. _(Reporting by Magdalena Mis. Editing by Astrid Zweynert.; Please credit Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women’s rights, corruption and climate change. Visit news.trust.org)_ NOW WATCH: Bill Nye has a great response to Trump's outrageous statements about climate change
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"The (bailout) review has not been completed... because until now Greece has not achieved what has been agreed," Wolfgang Schaeuble said at an event in London. "I know how fragile the situation of Greece is by the additional refugee crisis which is a major ...
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“The GREEK diasporic communities around the world have always been and remain one of Greece's most important assets. The GREEK Diaspora ...
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The Alternate Minister of Sports, Stavros Kontonis has decided to cancel the GREEK cup, after postponing today's match between AEK and Atromitos.
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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras continues to express on every occasion possible his frustration over the fact that several EU member states refused to abide by the agreement made over the migration crisis at the recent Brussels meeting and collaborated ...
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Nicosia, March 3, 2016/Independent Balkan News Agency By Kyriacos Kyriacou Cyprus House hosts Thursday the first trilateral meeting of Parliamentary Committees on Foreign Affairs of Cyprus – Greece – Israel, that will discuss the substantive and practical aspects of cooperation between the three countries. According to a press release, the meeting is taking place on […]
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Athens, March 3, 2016/Independent Balkan News Agency By Zacharias Petrou Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras chaired a marathon cabinet meeting on Thursday to discuss all the details of the ongoing refugee crisis and determine Greece’s strategy and stance in an EU – Turkey Summit on March 7 on the issue. Alexis Tsipras told the cabinet meeting […]
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Athens, March 3, 2016/Independent Balkan News Agency By Marina Spyropoulou The European Commission gave the “green light” on Thursday to Greece’s agreement with the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) consortium for the construction of the pipeline that will bring natural gas from Azerbaijan to Europe, finding the project to be “in line with the EU state aid […]
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Athens, March 3, 2016/Independent Balkan News Agency By Marina Spyropoulou Greece’s professional football Cup was indefinitely suspended on Thursday in response to the latest hooligan violence incidents that have cast a dark shadow on the Greek stadiums. Following a cabinet meeting Deputy Sport Minister Stavros Kontonis issued an announcement warning with further measures should the […]
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Alpha Omicron Pi is holding its “Strike Out Arthritis” dodgeball tournament on Saturday, March 5 in the Johnson Fitness Center. The event, which is being co-chaired by heads of philanthropy Gabby Edwards and Breanna Carcuso, will have teams ...
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SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — Macedonia's foreign minister is calling on neighboring Greece to move thousands of migrants stuck on its side of the border away to more suitable reception centers. Nikola Poposki told The Associated Press in an interview ...
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2016-03-03T11:37:16Z 2016-03-03T18:49:33Z IDOMENI, Greece (AP) - The Latest on the flow of migrants into Europe (all times local): 8:40 p.m. Macedonia's foreign minister is calling on neighboring Greece to move thousands of migrants stuck on its side of ...
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This season's Greek Cup has been cancelled by the government after the semi-final first leg between PAOK Salonika and Olympiakos was abandoned because of crowd violence. PAOK fans threw flares and clashed with riot police after their team was denied a ...
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Athens (AFP) - This season's Greek Cup has been cancelled altogether after crowd violence marred Wednesday's semi-final, first leg between PAOK and Olympiakos, Greece's Deputy Sports Minister Stavros Kontonis announced on Thursday. In a statement, Kontonis ...
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WASHINGTON--GREECE'S creditors and International Monetary Fund officials made "good progress" in talks Wednesday night about how to solve the ...
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Turkey and Greece cannot shoulder the burden of the refugee crisis alone, Turkish PM Ahmet Davutoglu has said. Meanwhile, EU Council President Tusk said migrant numbers from Turkey to EU were "far too high."
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Breakthrough would see non-Syrians sent back from Greece
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IDOMENI, Greece (AP) — The Latest on the flow of migrants into Europe (all times local): 8:15 p.m. Greek authorities say freight train services have resumed between Greece and Macedonia after a group of refugees protesting at the nearby border crossing ...
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CHICOPEE, Mass. (Mass Appeal) Get spring started with a tasty trip to the Mediterranean! Claudine Gaj, Owner of the Magic Spoon Catering showed ...
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WASHINGTON: Difficult discussions between the International Monetary Fund and the European Union on Greece's aid plan made headway at an informal meeting in Brussels, representatives of the two institutions said on Thursday. "Good progress has been made in ...
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ATHENS, March 3 (Reuters) - This season's Greek Cup was cancelled by the government on Thursday after the semi-final first leg between PAOK Salonika and Olympiakos Piraeus was abandoned due to crowd violence. Violence erupted during Wednesday's game after ...
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By Jan Lopatka and Robert Muller PRAGUE (Reuters) - The European Union must provide support to western Balkan countries outside the bloc to help them halt the flow of migrants north from Greece towards the heart of the EU, Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said on Thursday. In an interview with Reuters, Sobotka hailed steps by western Balkan nations to stop an uncontrolled influx into the EU via their territory of people fleeing from war or failed states across the Middle East and Africa. "Today the situation is that countries in the western Balkans are willing to regulate migration and Europe must unequivocally support them in that," he said in an interview.
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By Dasha Afanasieva and Lefteris Karagiannopoulos ANKARA/ATHENS (Reuters) - EU Council President Donald Tusk told illegal economic migrants on Thursday not to risk their lives or money to make a perilous trip to Europe "for nothing" but said unilateral actions by European Union states to deal with the crisis must stop. The ultimate aim was to eliminate the illegal sea transit of migrants from Turkey to Greece, Tusk said after meeting Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in Ankara and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in Athens, although he said no specific numbers had been agreed with the Turks.
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Reports on Thursday morning that the Greek government’s relevant ministry would cancel this year’s football cup tournament were partially confirmed hours later with a decision to postpone Thursday’s game between AEK Athens and Atromitos Peristeri (Athens). The unprecedented decision came less than 24 hours after widespread hooligan violence stopped the first leg of the semi-final […]
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GREECE’S migrant crisis is getting worse. Macedonia has closed its border to all but a trickle of migrants, following the example of Austria and other countries along the so-called West Balkans route to Germany. Yet desperate Syrians and Iraqis continue to arrive at the Idomeni crossing point. On February 29th Macedonian police used tear gas against scores of migrants trying to break down the border fence. As _The Economist_ went to press, more than 12,000 people were crammed into a tent camp with facilities for only 1,500. Food is in short supply. “It’s a tense situation,” says Panagiota Siafaka, a social worker with the UN High Commission for Refugees. So long as the border remained open, Greece could manage the flow of arrivals from Turkey. Now almost 30,000 migrants are bottled up in Greece. Nikos Kotzias, the foreign minister, expects the number to reach 150,000; local aid agencies worry that 200,000 people may arrive in March alone. Reception centres around Athens for migrants are hopelessly overcrowded. Half a dozen new ones, mostly refurbished former military camps, are quickly filling up. Local and international...
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In line with its ‘opt in’ under the Lisbon Treaty, Ireland notified the Commission on 6 October of its wish to participate in both Council Decisions on relocation and to relocate applicants for international protection from Italy and Greece. In accordance with the Treaty provisions, the Commission on 16 December 2015 confirmed Ireland’s participation in [...]
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On 13 February, Belarus's main state television channel aired a 25-minute broadcast praising the GREEK Catholic Church. The positive coverage ...
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The Greek island of Lesbos is one of the first landing points in Europe for refugees and migrants fleeing conflicts. Many of them rely on smugglers to brave the treacherous Mediterranean in search of a better life. Members of non-governmental organizations ...
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey and Greece cannot be expected to shoulder the burden of the migration crisis alone, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Thursday after meeting in Ankara with EU Council President Donald Tusk. (Reporting by Ercan Gurses ...
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[The United Nations has warned of a looming humanitarian crisis as thousands of people remain stuck in miserable winter conditions on the Greece-Macedonia border]The European Union will unveil on Friday a "roadmap" to restore by November the Schengen passport-free travel area, which is nearing collapse because of the migration crisis, sources said.
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Thousands of refugees have been waiting at a holding area close to the city of Idomeni at the border between Greece and Macedonia in the hope of reaching Europe. Waking up to a sunny but cold day in the Balkans, the refugees do not leave from under their ...
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Greece requests 279 billion euros compensation... Greece's Government on Thursday postponed indefinitely upcoming Greek Cup matches after crowd trouble forced Wednesday's semi-final first-leg between PAOK and holder Olympiacos to be abandoned. Government ...
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