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Sunday, April 24, 2016

The Greek debt crisis was announced to the world 6 years ago….are we any nearer to ending it?

I am no fan of the EU, but it is all we have now. A ‘Grexit’ would have been suicidal. Greece simply has to adhere to the terms of the latest bailout – however difficult or unfair they may seem. This country has had it too good for too long – that ...


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Czech Republic to Send 30 Police Officers to Greece to Halt Migrant Influx

… Czech Republic will send to Greece 30 police officers, who are … . "Escorting the refugees from Greece to Turkey will be the …


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Rumen Draganov: About 100000 Romanian tourists to visit Bulgaria during forthcoming holidays

Bulgarian road carriers announced that they were going to block the Bulgarian-GREEK border during the forthcoming Easter and May 6 holidays, ...


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Archaeologists discover ancient mosaic with message: 'Be cheerful, enjoy your life'

Archaeologists in Turkey have received wizened advice from beyond the grave after uncovering a unique 2,400 year-old ancient GREEK mosaic.


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Turkey hails ‘effective’ refugee deal

GAZIANTEP, Turkey — Turkey’s prime minister said Saturday the number of migrants crossing into Greece illegally has dropped considerably, as proof that a much criticized migration deal between Turkey and the European Union is working. Ahmet Davutolgu was speaking at a joint news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and top European Union officials who traveled near Turkey’s border with Syria in a bid to promote the troubled deal with Turkey as they face increasing pressure to reassess the agreement. The group toured a refugee camp and inaugurated a child support center funded by the EU. European Union Council President Donald Tusk said the EU plans to spend 1 billion euros ($1.1...


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Germany Pushes For 'Safe Zones' In Syria To Stem Flow Of Refugees To Turkey

Refugees queue for food at the makeshift camp along the GREEK-Macedonian border on April 20, 2016. Photo: Getty Images/AFP/Daniel Mihailescu ...


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Athens works on contingent fiscal plan to satisfy lenders and complete review

Government officials spent the weekend trying to decide how to identify another 3.6 billion euros in fiscal measures demanded by GREECE'S lenders in ...


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Anthony Bourdain discusses the new season of 'Parts Unknown,' his favorite restaurants, and how he went from outsider chef to the top of the food world

_MN_ [Anthony Bourdain BI Interview]Mike Nudelman/Business Insider _Anthony Bourdain is a master storyteller._ _In 2000, at 44, he was propelled into stardom by his bestselling memoir, "Kitchen Confidential." It's the tell-all of a Manhattan chef unafraid to talk about the grittier side of the restaurant industry, as well as his own past struggles with drug addiction._ _Its success led to another book deal, with an accompanying Food Network show, both called "A Cook's Tour." He left his role as executive chef of the Manhattan French restaurant Les Halles and became a television personality who traveled the world, next with the Travel Channel shows "No Reservations" and "The Layover," and then the CNN series "Parts Unknown."_ _Over the past 16 years, Bourdain, now 59, has explored the cultures and cuisines in locales across 80 countries, and he's won three Emmys and a Peabody award._ _Bourdain has intentionally avoided leading any food projects since leaving the restaurant industry, but next year his name will be attached to a 155,000-square-foot (think three football fields), $60 million international market in New York City's Pier 57._ _We recently spoke to Bourdain about the seventh season of "Parts Unknown," premiering on April 24, Bourdain Market, his favorite place in the world to eat, and his extraordinary career._ _The following interview has been edited for length and clarity._ RICHARD FELONI: What about your experiences from your travels in this upcoming season surprised you? ANTHONY BOURDAIN: I knew a little of the Philippines already, but this was a chance to learn about the Filipino character, and why so many of them end up as caregivers, essentially, looking after kids, looking after sick people — that instinct to give. There's also a musical aspect that seems ubiquitous. We're trying to tell a very personal Philippines story, and that was a highlight. Senegal was a surprise. It's unlike any country I've been [to] before. It's a slice of Islam that I think most people haven't seen, with a very different colonial history than a lot of people have seen. I think that's going to be a real eye-opener. The situation in the Greek isles, where we shot, is very different from the mainland. They're doing fairly well in Naxos, mostly off predatory tourism, people looking for cheap prices in a buyer's market. They're doing pretty well compared to the mainland. So it's sort of an off-center perspective. And there is a shadow looming, however paradoxical it might seem, from the refugee crisis that has become an increasingly big factor in the country. [anthony bourdain bi interview bio]Mike Nudelman/Business Insider FELONI: You're now shooting an episode in Rome based on its dark fascist past. BOURDAIN: It's not so much that it's a historical show. I think primarily I'm always looking to look at a place from a different perspective, and everybody's seen classic Rome, and the Coliseum, and the buildings of antiquity. So I said let's look at a completely different side of Rome, the EUR [_Esposizione universale Roma_, the district Mussolini intended to be Rome's new center], fascist-era architecture, early [film director] Pier Paolo Pasolini, Brutalist architecture — I deliberately tried to stay away from antiquity and monuments. But from that, I certainly think it is obvious that — once I made that stylistic decision, I started to read a lot of history of when these structures were built and why. I've been boning up on Mussolini-era Italy and there are a shocking number of similarities to current-day America, unfortunately. I think it's worth remembering that Mussolini was elected. He was very, very popular, and basically could say anything he wanted on any given day of the week, completely reverse himself from his opinion yesterday and yet no one minded. I think that apparent need for a man on a horse, we might be in a similar time. I mean, I hope not. FELONI: Are you getting at Trump specifically? BOURDAIN: It won't appear in the show at all, but I hope it hangs in the air. I mean, Mussolini served his country in combat and did a credible job, and I don't think you could say that about, you know ... this guy. FELONI: Moving to some brighter news. When did the idea for this Pier 57 market first start? When did it move forward in a real way? BOURDAIN: We've been working on it for about four, five years. I've always loved those Southeast Asian hawker centers and the big wet market of Hong Kong and São Paulo and Barcelona, and I was sort of bitterly resentful as a New Yorker that we didn't have that. We should. We're a big international city, our diversity is our strength, we have millions of people from all over the world, why don't we have a big market with democratically available, diversely priced food? It's something we're missing, and given the opportunity to be part of a project that brings that to New York — I led that, and I don't know when it started to become something serious that looked like it was going to happen, I really couldn't speak to that. This was an opportunity that arose in New York, and I'm a New Yorker. If I was thinking if this is an extension of me, I would have had little eateries in airports years ago. This is not a supermarket or a food center, a food hall, or any of that. This is a market that will sell produce and fish, and there will be butchers and bakers. But it will also have one-chef, one-dish specialized, independently owned and operated stalls. And we're doing absolutely zero Italian, no Italian anything. I mean, Mario Batali does that very well with Eataly, and I don't see any need to duplicate efforts. So we'll assiduously stay away from that. It's not of any interest or expertise in any case. FELONI: How much time will you spend working on it once it's launched? BOURDAIN: There will certainly be no business within the market that I didn't say yes or no to. Will I be driving a forklift? Probably not. FELONI: What does it mean to you to have this giant project with your name attached to it? BOURDAIN: I wish my name wasn't on it! [laughs] I think this is a great idea whether my name's on it or not. Personally, I would have been happy to live without my name on it. But wiser minds than me apparently thought it was a really important thing. I could live without that. I don't know. I've never done anything like this. Instagram Embed: http://instagram.com/p/BBWDIgIE5MI/embed/ Width: 658px _Artist's rendering of a portion of Bourdain Market, from Roman and Williams._ FELONI: Speaking of New York, I saw that you shared your favorite restaurants with The Daily Beast ... BOURDAIN: Well, somehow it morphed from "What New York restaurants do you eat at when you come home from a long trip abroad" to "What are your favorite New York restaurants of all time"? In any case, look, it's a respectable list and it accurately represents some aspects of my favorite places. Anyways, date night is Korean barbecue. Also I love Tori Shin, I love to go for yakitori. That's sort of a go-to for me. FELONI: What do you think of the New York restaurant scene right now? BOURDAIN: I think it's good. I mean, it's come so, so, so, so far in just my lifetime. I mean, it would have been unthinkable, so much of what we have now would have been unthinkable 20 years ago, 25 years ago when I was still in the business. You've got, like, tattooed young people all over the city and all over the country making their own sausages and curing their own meat and rotting things in their cellars and acutely aware of the seasons and aping obscure subgenres of Basque-specific restaurants. It is a wonderful thing. And chefs are themselves empowered by this admittedly bizarre and frequently hilarious celebrity-chef phenomenon. But what it's done is it's allowed them to cook as well as they know how, because people are interested in their best game now, they're not showing up at their restaurant saying I'd like the chicken. They come in wanting to try Eric Ripert's food or Daniel Boulud's food, they don't go in there with a specific menu item in mind, and I think that's a really important change in the landscape over the last 20 years. [anthony bourdain BI Interview top countries]Mike Nudelman/Business Insider FELONI: Why do you think that's happened? BOURDAIN: I think the celebrity chef thing. People started to put a face to the person in the kitchen, and they started to care about their opinion. And there are a lot of other factors as well, but I think that's an important one. FELONI: How do you consider your influence? Xi'an Famous Foods, for example, blew up after you featured it on your show. BOURDAIN: Look, I try not to f--- places up. You know what I mean? I'm aware of the fact that sometimes if we put this wonderful little neighborhood bar that's beloved by locals and no one else knows about it, if we put that on TV, that we could change its character forever, or that the owner might be happy for the additional money, but the other customers will be miserable and angry and I've basically ruined an important part of their lives. I think about that a lot, and there have been occasions where we won't even give the name of the establishment that we put on camera. And there have been times where we deliberately shoot in such a way that you'll never find it. I don't want to hurt people. I don't want to change the world in a bad way, if I can avoid it. FELONI: In your book "Medium Raw," you start off by saying how your perspective has changed since writing "Kitchen Confidential." That was six years ago. When you look back at each of those versions of yourself, what do you see? BOURDAIN: I know the guy who wrote "Kitchen Confidential" very well. He's not me anymore. I'm not boiling with rage. I don't live in this tiny tunnel-vision world. I had such a limited view of what reality was like outside of the kitchen doors, I had no clue! I never lived with normal people. I lived in the restaurant universe for my entire adult life. I'm no longer the star of the movie. At all. That's it! It's a huge relief in a lot of ways. And it's such an understatement to say that having a kid changes your life. You're just no longer the first person you think about or care about. You're not the most important person in the room. It's not your film. The music doesn't play for you — it's all about the girl. And that changes everything. FELONI: And in those past six years, do you see a change in your relationship to celebrity food culture, or cooking competitions, or branding? BOURDAIN: I work really hard to not ever think about my place in the world. I'm aware of my good fortune. I'm very aware of it, and I'm very aware that, because of it, people offer me things. Opportunities to do extraordinary things. The ones that are interesting to me are collaborations. I get to work with people who 10 years [ago] I wouldn't have dreamed to have been able to work with. And that's a big change professionally, and it's something that I think about a lot. How can I creatively have fun, do some interesting stuff, not repeat myself? Have fun. Play in a creative way. I like making things. FELONI: Are there any aspects of food culture, on the Food Network or elsewhere, that still bother you? Everyone likes to talk about the tension between you and Guy Fieri, for example. BOURDAIN: No. I keep saying it's fodder for comedy, but I basically do a stand-up act in 10 or 12 cities a year. I stand up in front of an audience at a theater and I'm expected to talk for an hour. If you're sitting there in front of a couple thousand people who paid a lot of money to see you, they don't really want to talk about sustainable agriculture for an hour and a half. They would like the occasional dick joke. And the dick jokes better be funny! So if you're a middle-aged dude walking around in a flame jacket, there will be the occasional joke about you. FELONI: Was it about the personality, or the level of food, as well? In your own show, you visited Waffle House with chef Sean Brock. [anthony bourdain]Mike Nudelman/Business Insider BOURDAIN: I think Waffle House is such an important part of Sean Brock's career and life. And he just was so overwhelmingly enthusiastic about it in an earnest way. And I appreciate the mechanics of what they do. By the way, the way Waffle House works, the whole system is really interesting, and the fact that they're so completely forgiving of outrageously disgusting drunken behavior. Which is, of course, the only way to really appreciate the Waffle House. [laughs] I gather the food tastes really good because you're drunk. But if you're drunk and at the Waffle House, it's pretty awesome. I could think of a couple of times I ended up in the Fieri Zone. Sean Brock took me to a place that he loved and that was important in his life. And David Choe took me to Sizzler, which was genuinely important to his life. Ordinarily, these are not establishments I would have thought of going to. I'd never been to a Waffle House, I felt kind of stupid. I wish I had known more. FELONI: What do you think the worst thing in food culture right now is? BOURDAIN: I mean, there's always snobbery, of course. A couple years ago, I'm holding my daughter's hand and I walk into the supermarket in my neighborhood — I live in the Upper East Side. We're there to buy oranges and lemons, right? And there's the organic produce and the nonorganic sections. And I automatically head over to the nonorganic and I look around and there are all these Upper East Side housewives looking at me like I'm a f---ing war criminal and they're about to call child-protective services. It was so bad that I slump over to the organic section just so these ladies wouldn't hate me. FELONI: So it's just snobbery over nonsense? BOURDAIN: I don't need a 10-minute description of my food. Look, it's annoying but not the worst thing in the world. At least people are interested enough to want to know the details. You'll hear the name of the farm, the name of the farmer, what my cattle was fed — I don't need to know all of that. But I'm glad that people are aware and think about these things, and I'm glad when waiters and servers know. And I'm glad that chefs are making the real effort to get the best quality ingredients and that the public is more and more likely to appreciate it and even understand it. So I mean, it's good. I just think that the great food writers, the great enthusiasts — like A.J. Liebling — is that they're not snobs. You can't be a great food writer and a snob about food and just want fancy, expensive ingredients. You have to appreciate the qualities of a properly greasy fast-food burger. Or a short-order burger, at least. [anthony bourdain world tour bi interview]Mike Nudelman/Business Insider FELONI: How do you determine how your trips will unfold? Are there ever times on a shoot when you just get vicious food poisoning — do you still abide by that early philosophy that if you eat something and get sick, it might be worth it just for the experience? BOURDAIN: I've found that you're not going to have the really great travel experiences if you're not willing to experience the bad ones. If you don't leave yourself open for things to happen to you, nothing really is going to happen to you, good or bad. The great travel epiphanies seem to sneak up on you because you kind of f---ed up, you took a wrong turn, and you ended up in a place where you permitted events to unfold. That means you're going to eat some bad meals in your life. Because I'm with a camera crew, people are being nice to us, they're giving us their hospitality, and often a lot of their self-image or their image in the neighborhood counts on that. I try very hard to be polite — meaning, I may end up at grandma's house and I may not like grandma's turkey, but I'm sure as hell going to clean my plate and compliment her on it because it's her house. And that's a really important part of being a guest. You eat what's offered wherever you are. That's ... [why] the show works the way it does, because not just me but my whole crew take that attitude, that we're happy and grateful to be there and we're willing to try anything that's offered in good faith. I get ill very infrequently. [anthony bourdain]Mike Nudelman/Business Insider FELONI: So you just have to be up for things you normally wouldn't be? BOURDAIN: It depends what you're looking for. I had a very good idea when I went to Libya and eastern Congo, I had a pretty good idea what the risks were, and what it was going to be like, and I made a calculated decision. In some cases, it was worse than we anticipated, or more difficult. In others, it ended up working out pretty well. I try not to travel stupidly. I'm not looking to go full Geraldo [Rivera] out there in my flack jacket and sticking my head out of the foxhole just for a good shot. I have the responsibility to try to stay alive for my daughter, and to not get my camera people killed on some narcissistic television show. FELONI: And when you are back home in New York and aren't going out, do you still cook? BOURDAIN: Yes. Oh, I cook a lot. I cook for my daughter every day. I prepare my daughter's school lunch every day and I'll cook dinner every night I'm home. I have some go-to dishes. But if my daughter doesn't like the idea of something, we're sure as hell not having it. I do Christmas and Thanksgiving and often New Year's at home and invite friends and family. Then all summer long I take an inordinate amount of pleasure in being a super-normal dad, like standing in the backyard with an apron and grilling cheeseburgers and hot dogs. Though I'm a little more organized than the average dad! I do clambakes, steamer clams and lobster. Basically the greatest hits from my summer vacations as a kid. I try to inflict them on my family. Pasta, spaghetti and meatballs, I make a decent meatball. I love making meatloaf. I cook home food. I'm not doing anything too fancy. Even when I have friends over it's pretty straight-ahead. My daughter's birthday's coming up, I'm doing roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, gravy, succotash — and, oh yeah, my daughter asked for foie gras! This is a bad sign! FELONI: After traveling the world several times over, is there a cuisine or part of the world that continually draws you in and surprises you? BOURDAIN: Japan is endlessly, endlessly interesting to me. I just returned from shooting yet another episode there with Masa Takayama and, oh, it was just amazing. I've made more shows there than any other country and I don't think I've even scratched the surface and I don't think I ever will. FELONI: Do you have a particular favorite Japanese dish? BOURDAIN: Oh, God. Give me some good uni, a really good soba with duck dipping sauce — duck dipping dressing is really amazing — and I adore good yakitori. NOW WATCH: This 27-year-old quit her corporate finance job to travel the world


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8 real-life 'Game of Thrones' destinations you can actually visit

[Dubrovnik, Croatia]Shutterstock.com / Simone Simone With one nail-biting day until Game of Thrones returns with its sixth season, we needed something to tide us over. Here, eight real-life Game of Thrones locations you can visit around the globe. Iceland, Morocco, Ireland, Croatia, Greece… we’d venture to say that the GOT cast must rack up some pretty hefty frequent flier miles if it weren't for the fact that most characters get the axe (sometimes literally) before they make it to the next location. Lucky for us, these spots — many of them ancient heritage sites — aren't going anywhere. So if you're a diehard GOT fan, add these to your travel bucket list. 1. KHALEESI'S WEDDING: THE AZURE WINDOW, MALTA Shutterstock Malta, the archipelago between Sicily and the North African coast, is known for its historic sites. And by "historical," we mean Season 1. Gozo's limestone archway, "The Azure Window," served as the backdrop for Daenerys' and Khal Drogo's nuptials. Mdina, Malta's former medieval capital, is a 1000-year-old walled city that served as "King’s Landing" in Season 1. The real-life town gate is recognizable in the scene when our beloved Ned Stark first arrives at King’s Landing (if only we could stop him from entering!). 2. KING'S LANDING: DUBROVNIK, CROATIA Shutterstock.com / Simone Simone From season two onward, most of "King’s Landing" was filmed in the ancient city of Dubrovnik, Croatia. Feel free to explore "Westeros" on your own, or opt for a GOT-themed tour, which are available throughout the city. The House of The Undying was shot at the real-life Minceta Tower, a UNESCO World Heritage Site on the Dalmatian Coast. Make your way across the country and you may recognize other GOT locales, such as "Meereen" (shot at the real life Klis Fortress), The Red Keep (shot at Lovrijenac Fortress) and Quarth (shot on the nearby island of Lokrum). 3. WINTERFELL: CASTLE WARD IN STRANGFORD, IRELAND Andrew Wilkinson/Flickr With its abundance of ancient castles, there's a reason Northern Ireland is one of the series's go-to shooting locations. If you visit the Stangford Castle Ward Estate, you may recognize it as the real "Winterfell." (In later seasons, Winterfell shooting moved to Scotland’s Doune Castle, famously used in the filming of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.) Also in Northern Ireland is the beautiful real-life location of "King's Road," shot in a tree-lined back road in County Antrim that is known locally as the Dark Hedges. Talk about life imitating art. SEE THE REST OF THE STORY AT BUSINESS INSIDER


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A German newspaper says a GREEK photographer who was working for it has been turned back by ...

He had to take the next plane back to the GREEK capital, Athens, on Sunday morning. It quoted the photographer as saying he had been told at ...


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The Greek Bailout And The "Economic Consequences of the Eurozone"

… of 2% when (not if) Greece misses its fiscal targets, do … to soften the blow, since Greece is excluded from the ECB … restoring Greece. What they disagree over is how much sustenance Greece needs …


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Local road carriers do not support Bulgaria-GREECE border blockade: road carrier

Blagoevgrad. “None of the local road carriers supports the closure of the Bulgarian-Greek border during the forthcoming holidays,” said Vangel Tsilev, ...


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German paper: Photographer turned back at Istanbul airport

BERLIN (AP) — A German newspaper says a Greek photographer who was working for it has been turned back by Turkish authorities at Istanbul's main airport.


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Greek ‘Haircut’ is a Matter of Time, Says Head of German Institute

A “haircut” to Greece’s debt is unavoidable because it is not sustainable, Dr. Marcel Fratzscher, the President of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) and unofficial advisor to Chancellor Angela Markel said in comments in newspapers of ...


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GREECE'S negotiations with institutions resume in Athens on Sunday

It remains to be seen whether the contingency measures required by GREECE'S creditors will be adopted in the form of a list of measures or a stability ...


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Refugees Detained After Failed Attempt to Cross Greek-Macedonian Border

He added that the Macedonian police had launched a search operation for the violators, after which they were detained and returned to GREECE.


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Turkey's Erdogan needs thicker skin, EU's Tusk says

[European Council President Tusk addresses the European Parliament in Strasbourg]By Ercan Gurses and Alastair Macdonald GAZIANTEP, Turkey/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Turkey's president needs a thicker skin against criticism, a senior EU official suggested as European leaders try to shore up support at home for their deal with Ankara to hold back migrants. Former Polish prime minister Donald Tusk, who chairs EU summits, was visiting a refugee camp at Gaziantep near the Syrian border on Saturday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and was asked about Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's legal moves against critical media, including a German comedian. Tusk said press freedom was a "permanent topic" of his talks with Turkish leaders which have produced the deal under which Turkey is taking back all refugees and migrants who reach Greek islands in return for concessions from the European Union.


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Another Round of Media Strikes in Protest Over Pension Reforms

Journalists across Greece have called a further strike today over pension reforms. This latest strike follows the recent 48 hour print and media strike by the Panhellenic Federation of Journalists’ Union earlier this week. The federation’s main protests are aimed at cuts towards social welfare, pension rights and the defense of insurance funds. The Greek


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Trapped in Greece: “Syria’s war has walked with us”

“We don’t know our destiny,” said Um Safwan, trying to speak to me through the barbed wire fence of Moria detention center. Photograph by Hiba Dlewati The 48-year-old mother is one of thousands trapped in the detention center – formerly used as a ...


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Traveling while gluten free: a survival guide

Awareness of celiac disease is on the rise, but many places have never heard of it, so patience is required – both in explaining the issue and handling mistakes While eating dessert in Finikas, a tiny town on Syros in Greece, I realized that I might have made a terrible mistake. I didn’t speak Greek but I had presented the restaurant’s owner with a celiac translation card in his native tongue. Through limited English, he assured me that his dessert was safe for my stomach. As I got to the bottom of the rich custard treat, I realized that it sat on a base of what seemed to be honey-soaked bread. That evening, I communed at length with my apartment’s toilet. The next morning, I couldn’t bend the fingers on my inflamed hands. Though the owner had assured me his dessert contained no wheat or flour, my stomach disagreed. Continue reading...


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Bulgaria PM to meet with road carriers, tour operators

Earlier this week Bulgarian road carriers announced that they would block all checkpoints on the Bulgarian-GREEK border for the forthcoming May ...


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Life In Limbo For Afghan Migrants In Turkey

… a group attempting to reach Greece by boat and were stopped … of the migrants arriving in Greece in 2016 were Afghan, according …


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Gul joined the government’s harsh criticism against Greek Orthodox Patriarch

… government’s harsh criticism against Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew, whose remarks … he would consider going to Greece, he said he would stay … from Athens on Sunday when Greek Foreign Ministry spokesperson Gregory Delavekouras …


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His Majesty Sultan Qaboos receives thanks from Greek president

… from President Prokopios Pavlopoulos of Greece in reply to His Majesty … thanks and that of the Greek people along with his best …


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Jermaine Marshall inexplicably scores in the WRONG hoop during BIZARRE Greek match

Basketball player in Greece scores buzzerbeater to tie the … Nea Kifisa against Aris in Greece, the shooting guard inexplicably put … the USA before moving to Greece. This is because his error …


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Bulgarian PM to Meet Truck Drivers over Planned Blockade of GREEK Border

At the same, he said that he understands the discontent of truck drivers as they are in their full right to respond to the humiliating actions of GREEK ...


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Jermaine Marshall: Shooter scores in wrong basket during GREEK basketball game

Jermaine Marshall inexplicably scores in the WRONG hoop during GREEK basketball to lose the match. Lewis Rudd for Metro.co.ukSunday 24 Apr ...


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Migrants seek new routes into Balkans after formal borders sealed

After weeks stranded at a closed border in northern GREECE, migrants and refugees are seeking out new, irregular routes to get into Macedonia, ...


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Rick Riordan: 'I'm hardly the first to modernise GREEK myths'

Riordan's subsequent books, which retell GREEK and Norse myths with a sharply irreverent twist, have now been translated into 37 languages, and ...


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Granted a new life by the pope, refugees speak of horrors that drove them from Syria

… a squalid refugee camp in Greece and flew him to a … , beyond which new arrivals in Greece were to be sent back … unless they claimed asylum in Greece. Crucially, when selecting families to …


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Greek mayor takes charge of ‘lucky’ refugees

… ex-migrant elected to office in Greece. The LM Village resort, partly … ago. / AFP / ARIS MESSINIS Myrsini, Greece: On a long beach framed … camp’s only Greek speaker having lived in Greece for four years …


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'I saw my wife and baby die at sea': Survivors of refugee boat sinking that killed up to 500 describe ...

boat-disaster-survivors.jpg Survivors of the disaster disembark from a rescue ship in Kalmata in South Peloponnese, GREECE, 17 April 2016. EPA.


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Greek media extend Strike over Pensions Reform for another 3 days, until April 27/2016

Greek Federation of Journalists’ Unions POESY decided to extend τhe strike until Wednesday morning, April 27th 2016, where it will decide whether it will give the strike another extension. The strike aims to protest the changes in the pensions and social insurance funds reforms that will merge the professional pension […]


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Merkel arrives in Turkey amid criticism over migrants deal

Rights groups, EU legislators and the U.N. refugee agency have questioned the moral and legal implications of expelling people from GREECE back to ...


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Cyprus solution hangs in the balance

GREEK-Cypriot public opinion could back a solution if financial incentives regarding property and assets were put on the table. Every now and then ...


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Mitsotakis says ND able to unite Greeks, end crisis

“We represent the large social and political majority that can pull GREECE out of the vicious circle of the current decay,” Mitsotakis told the audience at ...


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Documentary tells harrowing story of Syrian teens accused of migrant smuggling

They are children and teenagers used by real migrant smugglers in Turkey to steer boats to GREECE, in exchange for a free ride. When they arrive, they ...


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Migrant crisis: EU-Turkey deal is 'working'

The goal of the March deal is to deter migrants, mainly Syrians and Iraqis, from making illegal crossings - mainly by sea - between Turkey and GREECE, ...


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Sicily: Culture and Conquest review – the original treasure island

BRITISH MUSEUM, LONDON Raging bulls, Medusas, Madonnas… there are riches and mysteries galore in this enthralling survey of Sicilian history from the ancient Greeks to the Normans Archimedes had his eureka moment in a bath in Syracuse in Sicily. Antipholus, protagonist of Shakespeare’s _The Comedy of Errors_, comes from the very same place. Cicero described Syracuse as the greatest and most beautiful of all Greek cities, when it was not so much an outpost as a grand imperial metropolis. Consider this when you’re passing through this dusty city on the glittering Sicilian shores: it was once as large and powerful as ancient Athens. The truth of this becomes apparent in an enthralling new show at the British Museum. Sicily: Culture and Conquest sweeps aside all the tourist cliches of beaches, lemons, the Mafia and Montalbano to reveal an island occupied by so many different cultures – Greeks and Romans, Muslim Arabs and Africans, the Normans, the Spanish and eventually the mainland Italians – that it is well described as a kind of Mediterranean America. Continue reading...


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5 Best Traditional Coffee Houses in Greece

There are still several coffee houses in Greece, hidden in picturesque squares and narrow streets, that have remained intact in time, generously offering locals and foreign visitors all those cultural and social elements necessary in order to get familiar with the genuine Greek hospitality and the majestic experience of the real Greek coffee on the pot.  


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Chris Stapleton performs at the GREEK Theatre in Berkeley

Chris Stapleton performs on stage at the GREEK Theatre in Berkeley, Calif., on Saturday, April 23, 2016. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group).


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GREECE Bailout Talks: GREECE Does Not Need Debt Relief, German Finance Minister Says

GREECE Pro-European Union protesters take part in a rally in front of the parliament in Athens, June 18, 2015. Photo: Milos Bicanski/Getty Images.


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#julien mercille in GREECE

Over 50,000 people are stranded in GREECE after EU states shut their borders to refugees. Julien Mercille meets some of those looking for a way out.


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Greek Gods and the Modern Quest for Immortality

My son has given me a copy of the Iliad as an early birthday present. He'd like me to read three hundred pages before we discuss it. It’s been a very long time since I read even excerpts from Homer’s work, and quite a while since I’ve read Greek ...


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Path of 2 ISIS fighters who took part in Paris attacks traced to Greece

… risks of unknown dimensions. “The Greeks failed in protecting the borders … and merely told to leave Greece within six months. Classified records … became a customary practice in Greece, Usman and Haddadi received suspended …


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Syrian-born GREEK mayor transforms former resort into refugee home

The latest residents of a previously abandoned summer resort — extensively looted as a result of the GREEK economic crisis — these Syrians consider ...


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Low prices of imported potatoes haunt GREEK potato producers

GREEK potato producers, who can grow potatoes almost year round thanks to the country's favourable climatic conditions, are suffering the impact of ...


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Watch This GREEK League Player Score In His Own Team's Hoop To Force Overtime, Then Lose

If you've ever watched a flub where a basketball player scores a basket in their own hoop, it's more often than not that the inadvertent play is due to ...


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WATCH: Guy scores buzzer beater on wrong basket in Greek League playoffs

Former Sun Devils star Jermaine Marshall didn't have a shining moment as a pro Saturday after this blunder Jonathan Martin/Getty Images Simply put, there really might not be a worse way to lose a basketball game than putting the ball in your own basket.


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Former college star sinks Greek team by scoring in wrong basket

… down what happened Saturday in Greece. Marshall had a very good …


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