How the world sees Greece
RICHMOND, Va., April 26, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A Greek traditional meal is not only about eating food, it's about taking the time to talk and enjoy the company of family and friends. This tradition continued when a group of wounded veterans and ...
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In Greece, Saint George Day, or Agios Georgios Day, is celebrated on April 23. However, if Easter is after April 23, then it is celebrated on Easter Monday. Why is that, though? When celebrations coincide within Great Lent or Holy Week, for example, the ...
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GREEK banks could get access to cheap European Central Bank funding again soon after Athens clinches a deal with creditors, sources have told ...
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The son of Jonny Serpieri and Didi Vlastou, he came from a prominent GREEK family with significant mining interests. He studied economics in Geneva ...
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GREECE has suggested to cut spending in order to secure further financial aid, ... Talks between GREECE and its international lenders did not flourish, ...
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NICOSIA—Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot Trade Unions called on Tuesday on everyone to take part in this year’s joint celebration of Labour Day, which will take place on Sunday evening, opposite Ledra Palace hotel in the UN-controlled buffer zone in Nicosia. In a joint declaration, read by Pancyprian Federation of Labour (PEO) Secretary General Pambis […]
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Chobani says it is giving its employees an ownership stake in the Chenango County-based company. The Greek yogurt maker says the shares being distributed would amount to 10 percent of the company's future value in the event of a sale or ...
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It looks like Greece and its international creditors remain at loggerheads over the economic overhauls Athens must implement before the country can receive fresh loans. The latest problem in a saga of troubled talks: Greece’s government and the ...
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The GREEK yogurt maker says the shares being distributed would amount to 10 percent of the company's future value in the event of a sale or initial ...
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Syrian Refugee Carries Olympic Torch A 27-year-old disabled Syrian refugee received the Olympic flame on Tuesday at the Elaionas refugee camp in ...
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[A Greek national flag flutters atop the parliament building in Athens]Euro zone finance ministers will not meet on Thursday and need more time to discuss two sets of Greek reforms that would unlock new loans, the office of the Eurogroup said on Twitter. The meeting was a possibility because Greece and its lenders aim to reach an agreement on a package of special measures that would be implemented only if needed, to make sure the country reaches agreed fiscal targets in 2018. "No additional Eurogroup on Greece this Thursday, more time needed," said the spokesman for the chairman of euro zone finance ministers, Jeroen Dijsselbloem.
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Discussions between Greek government officials and negotiators continued in Athens on Tuesday as negotiators sought a breakthrough in the bailout talks ahead of a possible eurogroup meeting in Brussels on Thursday. Euro zone finance ministers remained on ...
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The government continued its negotiations with the country’s lenders on Tuesday, with the Greek side noting that the government has secured all its red lines for this phase of the talks concerning protecting pensions, primary residences, the tax-free threshold, and the lower income earners in social security reforms, government sources said. According to the sources,
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The 5,500-ton Panagia Tinou was today sinking in the GREEK port of Pireaus near the capital Athens but she has had her fair share of run ins closer to ...
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The government was disgracefully fighting to stop unaccompanied child refugees from being allowed into Britain on Monday of this week. MPs voted ...
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The historicity behind the NPHC is important: Black college students united in brotherhood and sisterhood when their white-GREEK-organization ...
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The Capital Region GREEK Festival will take place May 13-15 at the Holy Trinity GREEK Orthodox Cathedral at 1000 Yverdon Drive in Wormleysburg.
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Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot Trade Unions called on Tuesday on everyone to take part in this year`s joint celebration of Labour Day, which will take place on Sunday evening, opposite Ledra Palace hotel in the UN-controlled buffer zone in Nicosia.
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GREECE has sent additional information to the European Commission on Tuesday (26 April) on how it plans to protect the EU's external borders.
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ATHENS—Negotiations between GREECE and its international creditors stalled on Tuesday, as a dispute over extra austerity measures dented hopes ...
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Greek police fired teargas against refugees and migrants in Moria camp on the island of Lesvos on Tuesday. According to local media, tension started when Migration Minister Yannis Mouzalas visited the camp and the refugees and migrants protested the living conditions by throwing plastic water bottles at the minister. the […]
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The Archangels Greek Orthodox Church in Stamford has … Egg Hunt for Children Archangels Greek Orthodox Church is located at …
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… Greek island of Lesbos on Tuesday shortly after the Dutch and Greek … visit by the Dutch and Greek migration ministers, Klaas Dijkhoff and …
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The Work and Pensions committee is calling BHS’s former owner for questioning over Britain’s biggest retail failure in eight years * Latest: MPs to summon Green * Labour MP: Green must return dividends or lose knighthood * Pressure building on Sir Philip * Michael White: Politicians in thrall to business chiefs * BHS crisis dominates front pages 6.39pm BST As the US Federal Reserve holds its latest two day meeting there have been more signs the the world’s largest economy is not exactly firing on all cylinders: U.S. service sector growth remains subdued in April, despite headline index rising to 52.1 (51.3 in March) https://t.co/gwTwhDcXeC #PMI Markit Flash U.S. Composite #PMI up slightly to 51.7 in Apr (Mar: 51.3), signals subdued #GDP growth at start of Q2 pic.twitter.com/2r0hOwVMim 5.26pm BST For those wondering what was happening with the Greek bailout talks and whether there would be a new Eurogroup meeting this week as promised (threatened?), there’s this from a correspondent for Greece’s Kathimerini: A teleconference is expected tonight with @J_Dijsselbloem participating +deciding if there is going to be extraordinary #Eurogroup on Thurs. Continue reading...
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CEO of Greek yogurt giant, which sold more than $1.6bn worth of products last year, says 2,000 employees will receive shares in the company “It’s exactly the time to do this,” said Hamdi Ulukaya, CEO of Greek yogurt giant Chobani, as he informed his 2,000 employees that they will each receive shares in the billion-dollar-plus yogurt company if it goes public or is sold. The stake to be divided among the employees amounts to 10% of the company, which sold more than $1.6bn worth of yogurt last year and has been valued between $3bn and $5bn. Some longtime employees are likely to receive seven-figure stakes, making them yogurt millionaires. Continue reading...
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ATHENS— In continuing developments in the migrant crisis, a protest broke out in the Moria migrant detention center on the Greek island of Lesbos Tuesday during a visit by the Greek migration affairs minister and a Dutch official. A Greek official said Ioannis Mouzalas was at the camp with Dutch Junior Justice Minister Klaas Dijkhoff […]
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ATHENS – A major distinction for Greece was announced on Tuesday at New York’s Columbia University, as the members of Reuters photography staff Yannis Behrakis, Alkis Konstantinidis, and Alexandros Avramidis were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the unique way their photographs captured the country’s refugee crisis. Behrakis, a multiaward-winning photojournalist and chief photographer of the […]
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[Syrian refugee Ibrahim Al-Hussein, 27, center, freestyle swimmer, basketball player and former judo wrestler receives the Olympic flame from the head of Greece's Olympic Committee, Spyros Capralos, at the Elaionas camp that is home to about 1,500 refugees and other migrants, in Athens on Tuesday, April 26, 2016. The flame arrives in Brazil on May 3, and will be relayed across the vast country by about 12,000 torchbearers before the Aug. 5 opening ceremony in Rio de Janeiro's Maracana Stadium. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)]ISTANBUL (AP) — The Latest on the influx of migrants into Europe (all times local):
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[Syrian refugee Ibrahim Al-Hussein, 27, center, freestyle swimmer, basketball player and former judo wrestler receives the Olympic flame from the head of Greece's Olympic Committee, Spyros Capralos, at the Elaionas camp that is home to about 1,500 refugees and other migrants, in Athens on Tuesday, April 26, 2016. The flame arrives in Brazil on May 3, and will be relayed across the vast country by about 12,000 torchbearers before the Aug. 5 opening ceremony in Rio de Janeiro's Maracana Stadium. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)]ATHENS, Greece (AP) — If they had a home, refugees would belong to the world's 24th most populous nation, just behind Italy. On Tuesday, there were honored as members of the Olympic family.
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A riot broke out at a refugee camp on the GREEK island of Lesbos on Tuesday, with police firing tear gas and reports that several refugees and migrants ...
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Ohio Wesleyan University honored outstanding members of its Greek community at the 2016 Greek Awards. The event recognized significant achievements, accomplishments, and leadership among OWU's fraternity and sorority members.
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April 1 saw GREECE, Cyprus and Turkey forming an alliance to return illegal border-crossers to 'safe-zones' on Turkish territory. Restriction or housing ...
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On Denmark's Aero Island, a row of tiny huts — each different, but all stained with merry memories of locals enjoying themselves Danish-style– faces ...
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The Dutch finance minister, who leads the eurogroup, had already said he hoped to have another meeting on Thursday to review GREECE'S massive ...
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The Bar Association of Greece (DSA) has decided to extend their abstention from duty until May 7, when the plenary session of the directors of the Bar Αssociations around Greece will meet again. The Plenary Session estimates that the new bill, despite the minor modifications, has not changed in essence and the recommended layout still leads
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Clashes have broken out between migrants and riot police at a detention centre on the Greek island of Lesbos, police said. Migrants at the Moria camp threw stones and sprayed water during a visit by the Greek migration minister, officials told the BBC.
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The end of the dispute between the International Monetary Fund and the EU on the third Greek bailout programme is now near. This became evident during the informal meeting of the Eurogroup in Amsterdam last Friday. A compromise solution was reached then ...
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A protest broke out in the Moria migrant detention center on the Greek island of Lesbos Tuesday during a visit by the Greek migration affairs minister and a Dutch official.
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April 26 -- Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis talks with David Gura about the need for restructuring of the European Union before the Greek economy can recover, his view of the upcoming U.K. Brexit vote, and the idea of an apolitical central bank.
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A ranking member of the Finance Committee in Parliament, Dr. Anthony Akoto Osei, has likened Ghana's economic situation to that of Greece but says Ghana has no bail out route from the European Union. Ghana's economy has slumped in the past years due to ...
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… migrants and refugees at the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of … AFP Athens: Two ferries left Greece for Turkey on Tuesday with … . None had requested asylum in Greece, a government official said. The …
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… use Greeks for the purpose." Conflicts between the Armenian and Greek … element in Jerusalem and use Greeks for the purpose. "The …
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… . None had requested asylum in Greece, a government official said. The … the deal, those arriving in Greece from Turkey after March 20 … and migrants are currently on Greek islands, having arrived after the …
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… . None had requested asylum in Greece, a government official said. The … the deal, those arriving in Greece from Turkey after March 20 … and migrants are currently on Greek islands, having arrived after the …
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… 'confidence-building' talks with Greece Tuesday, 26 April 2016 A … talks on confidence-building measures between Greece and Macedonia was held on … countries’ Ministers of Foreign Affairs. Greek Foreign Ministry informs that the …
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Nike is weighing in on the GREEK economic crisis with a haunting new ad featuring four competitive athletes from the debt-stricken country.
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Police have deployed tear gas on protesting refugees on the GREEK island of Lesbos, according to reports on social media. Injuries have been ...
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Cinema has long mined from the wealth of classic stories to present them in a new light. When it comes to David Fincher's Gone Girl — or, more ...
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ATHENS, April 26 (Reuters) - Clashes broke out between police and migrants held at a detention centre on the GREEK island of Lesbos on Tuesday, ...
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I uploaded several of the Greek organizations’ “Roll Call” on Facebook from the annual Step Show competition. I knew the videos would get some attention, a few likes and maybe a couple comments; however, I didn’t think one would reach over 99,000 ...
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