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Friday, July 8, 2016

State Scholarships No Longer to Be Based on Excellence

Scholarships by the Greek Ministry of Education utilize funds from the National Strategic Reference Framework. The scholarship funds for 2016-2017 are valued at 2 million euros and will need to be shared out among the top-ranking tertiary students. Until now, excellence has been valued as the main criteria, however the Greek government has decided to […]


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7 Best Historic Theatres In The United States

… paintings of the Muses from Greek mythology. There were a total … four of the Muses from Greek mythology. The lobby is supported …


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GREECE'S Council of State approves construction of first ever mosque in Athens

GREECE'S Council of State yesterday approved the construction of the first mosque in Athens. The ongoing discussions on building a mosque in Athens, ...


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No Greek Delays in Implementing Prior Actions, Only ‘Challenges’

There is “no significant delay” so far in the implementation of the prior actions that will unlock the sub-tranche of the 2.8 billion euros for Greece, a senior Eurozone official said on Friday. He added, however, that Greek authorities must push ...


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IMF Urges Greece to Open ‘Closed Professions’

The International Monetary Fund proposed extensive interventions in the labor market to make it more “flexible” and limit youth unemployment according to its annual policy review of the Eurozone on Friday. The IMF warns that reforms achieved in the ...


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Greek, cooperative communities exceed student body graduation rates

Purdue Greek and cooperative members have a significantly higher graduation rates compared to other students, according to statistics released on July 8. According to the spring Fraternity, Sorority and Cooperative Life Office report, 60 percent of their ...


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Greek TV License Review Tosses Out First Contender, Leaves Ten

The government-run competition for four private TV licenses received a total of eleven bids. So far, George Karatzaferis private TV station, ART (City), has been excluded from joining in the tender according to a decision by the General Secretariat of News ...


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Migration to Greece by the Aegean Sea Has Plummeted, U.N. Says

The number of migrants risking the perilous voyage from Turkey to Greece via the Aegean Sea has plummeted, according to new figures released by the United Nations, a sign that a deal brokered by the European Union in March to ease the migration crisis has ...


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Agiorgitiko Punch

Agiorgitiko is best known as the grape used for the dry and sweet red wines of Nemea in Peloponnesos. It is one of the most widely planted red grape varieties in Greece. The...


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Giannis Antetokounmpo And Greece Come Up Short Against Croatia

Giannis Antetokounmpo and Greece had a strong run going in Olympic qualifying games, but Croatia was too much for Greece to overcome on Friday. Friday was a sad day for both Greece and Milwaukee. The Greek team looked good in previous Olympic qualifying ...


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£2m office revamp for Leeds's GREEK Street completed

The comprehensive refurbishment of 12 GREEK Street, formerly Aquis House, has seen a raft of top-class office space and a new restaurant from the ...


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Vape store photo gallery: GREECE

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Man's nightmare of sex abuse, kidnapping ends with his escape in Oswego Wal-Mart

The incident started in the GREECE area when Hodge and Barber sexually abused and assaulted the victim, Misztal said. After the assault, the man was ...


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Top model Ana Beatriz Barros weds in GREECE

Brazilian supermodel Ana Beatriz Barros is a married woman after exchanging vows with Karim El Chiaty. 2013 amfAR Inspiration Gala Los Angeles ...


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Chicken Little economists are wrong about Brexit

A few years ago when Grexit was the E.U. crisis du jour, I explained why GREECE just didn't matter to the world's economies or the U.S. stock markets in ...


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Bikini bride! Emilia Bechrakis shares bathing suit snaps from Greece during wedding getaway with Million Dollar Listing's Ryan Serhant

Emilia Bechrakis tied the knot with Million Dollar Listing New York's Ryan Serhant on Thursday. And the next day the beauty looked relaxed as she posed in a white bathing suit while still on the Greek island of Corfu. In her caption she wrote: 'Finally.


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Police: 3 Accused of Kidnapping and Assaulting Greece Man, Then Driving Him to Oswego

Three people are under arrest, charged with kidnapping a Greece man, assaulting him and then driving him to Oswego County. Shelby Hodge, 22, and Carl Jones Jr., 23, both of Ontario, Wayne County, and 34-year-old Ronald Barber of Rochester are all charged ...


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Police: 3 people charged, including Wayne County couple with multiple counts of kidnapping, robbery and sexual assault

Three people are facing charges after deputies say they kidnapped a person in the town of Greece, assaulted him, robbed him, then forced him to transport them to Oswego at gunpoint. Greece police say they were notified by the Oswego Police Department on ...


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Euro fever grips France, Portugal as final looms

… on home ground to unheralded Greece. National celebrations broke out across … 2004 final in Lisbon to Greece in one of the biggest …


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Non-resident arrivals from abroad, 1st Quarter 2016

… of arrivals of non-residents to Greece (82.9%), recorded a decrease … .gr Arrivals of non-residents to Greece: January-March 2015-2016 1600000 1400000 1200000 … OCEANIA Arrivals of non-residents to Greece by means of transport: January-March …


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Federal Minister Gabriel visiting Athens

… (right) with the President of Greece Prokopis Pavlopoulos (left) © BMWi/Maurice … in Europe. Export promotion in Greece will be another priority. Talks … machinery (8.5%). As regards Greek exports, Germany ranked second in …


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Croatia, Puerto Rico win in Olympic basketball qualifiers

Bojan Bogdanovic of the Brooklyn Nets scored 20 points, and Croatia beat Greece 66-61 on Friday in the semifinals of the Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Turin, Italy.


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Croatia edge out GREECE to reach Final

However, they could not sustain that high level of play and GREECE erased the deficit gradually during the rest of the first half and well into the third ...


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IMF report calls for more tough labor reforms, action on closed professions

GREECE got a taste of the tough stance the International Monetary Fund is expected to take during talks on a second round of reforms this fall in a report ...


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Gates man abducted from GREECE, sexually assaulted

Following a joint investigating by GREECE and Oswego police, officers determined that the man, who was not identified, was tied up in an apartment in ...


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Why Greece is still the word

Athens - Looming large above Greece’s chains of idyllic islands, and loaded with history, Greece’s mainland is a craggy terrain of raw natural beauty, ancient ruins and buzzing contemporary life. Often forgotten as tourists stream out to the ...


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GREEK gov't accused of trying to control the media

Greece's advertising and broadcasting industries accused the government on Friday of trying to control the country's media by seeking to create a ...


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GREEK-owned tanker seized off Libya

The GREEK-owned tanker Panomaris was reportedly seized on Thursday by local authorities off the coast of Libya, according to Russia's Zvezda ...


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WCT to Present GREECE LIGHTNING, 7/15-17

The Waukesha Civic Theatre presents Greece Lightning, running July 15-17, 2016. Zeus and company have their status quo existence disrupted by the somewhat unruly mortals at the foot of the Mountain. Will the Greecers stand their ground before the mighty ...


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Police: 3 people charged after man was assaulted in Greece, kidnapped and taken to Oswego

Three people are facing charges after deputies say they kidnapped a person in the Town of Greece. Greece police say they were notified by the Oswego Police Department on July 4 that a male in Oswego had reported to them that he had been kidnapped in Greece.


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Arrest warrant issued for benefit fraud man living in GREECE

The defendant's solicitor told the court that his client had been residing in GREECE since 2013 and he had been instructed to ask for an adjournment of ...


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3 charged with kidnapping, sexual assault in GREECE, Oswego

GREECE, N.Y. (WHAM) - Three people were arrested after police said the suspects kidnapped a man from GREECE, then physically and sexually ...


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Steve Smith: Ringo Starr at the Greek, Carol King does ‘Tapestry’ in full and is Paul Simon retiring?

Are you aware that 76 is the new 46? Perhaps not, but it is to Ringo Starr. The Beatles drummer, who turned 76 on Thursday, concluded his latest U.S. jaunt, a 21-date with his All-Starr Band, with a rocking two-hour gig Saturday night at the 6,000-seat ...


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Giannis' Olympic dream ends in Greece's 66-61 loss to Croatia

Bucks guard-forward Giannis Antetokounmpo struggled in Greece's 66-61 defeat to Croatia on Friday, a result that ended the Greeks' hopes for a berth in the Rio Olympic Games. Croatia won the semifinal matchup in Turin, Italy and will face the Italy-Mexico ...


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These NATO countries are not spending their fair share on defense

The U.S. also spends the highest proportion of its GDP on defense: 3.61%. The second biggest NATO spender in proportional terms is Greece, at 2.38%, according to NATO. U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called on other NATO members to spend more ...


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‘Loan Sharks!’: Athens Archbishop Ieronymos Criticizes Greece’s Creditors

Athens Archbishop Ieronymos told the Pan-Thracian Committee that Greece is being “blackmailed by its creditors.” He described Greece as being water boarded. “They are drowning us, they are leading us to asphyxiation, until they achieve full surrender ...


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Fast-Casual GREEK Food Heads to Back Bay

Boston's capacity for GREEK food seemingly has no end. The Trade team of Jody Adams, Eric Papachristos, and Sean Griffing are about to open a ...


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Greek ND Leader Rules Out Coalition Government With Greece’s Left

Greece’s main opposition leader, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, ruled out all prospects of cooperation with the left-wing SYRIZA government and current Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. In an interview published in German daily newspaper Deutsche Welle on Friday, he made it clear that there was “an abyss” separating Tsipras and himself politically. Mitsotakis, on a visit to Frankfurt, demanded that early elections […]


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Gallery: Healthcare for refugees at the Elliniko camp in Athens, GREECE

About 3,500 people, mostly Afghan, have been living for months in the Elliniko camp in Athens, GREECE, sheltering at an old airport terminal and two ...


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Non-residents arrivals to GREECE from abroad -6,2% during January

According to the Frontier Statistical Survey conducted by the Bank of GREECE, in the period January-March of 2016, arrivals of non-residents from ...


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Greek dried fruit recalled from market

… . Weight: 500g. Country of Origin: Greece Following quality control tests conducted …


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World Population Day: More People in the EU, But Less in Greece

On January 1, 2016, Eurostat recorded the population of the European Union at 510.1 million people, compared with 508.3 million on January 1, 2015. During the year, there were 5.1 million babies born in the European Union, though more than 5.2 million ...


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‘They’re Just People Like You And Me’: ‘Game Of Thrones’ Actors Condemn Treatment Of Syrian Refugees

On June 30, Lena Headey, Maisie Williams and Liam Cunningham visited camps in Greece operated by the International Rescue Committee to raise awareness about the plight of refugees. “There are people in these camps who are oncologists, judges, successful ...


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Greece EU Human Rights

Nils Muiznieks, the Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights, speaks to reporters in Athens, Friday, July 8, 2016. Muiznieks said he was concerned that anti-migration rhetoric used by politicians during campaigning ahead of the June 23 referendum ...


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Greek State to Tax Voluntarily Disclosed Hidden Income Higher than 50%

The Greek economic team is close to a plan that would tax voluntarily disclosed hidden income more than 50%, without the accord of creditors so far. According to a Kathimerini newspaper report, in Thursday’s cabinet meeting on economic policy the ...


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Titan Quest is an RPG of massive scale that fans of GREEK mythology will love, out on Android for ...

As the hero GREEK gods need, you are to perfect the arts of archery, swordsmanship, and magic as you upgrade your character and unlock his ...


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The Last Dance of Ramadan at a GREEK Refugee Camp

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Greek Jobless Rate Slows, But Still Stuck at 23.3%

Greece's staggering unemployment rate, the highest in Europe, has fallen but to 23.3%, down from 23.7% in March.


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Greek Railway Workers Extend Strike to July 12

Paid for not working, Greek railway employees will continue daily work stoppages until July 12 to protest privatization plans.


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Migrants On Leros Clash With Greek Riot Cops

More migrant and refugee protests have erupted in Greece, this time on the island of Leros right off the Turkish coast.


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