How the world sees Greece
Egypt's foreign minister Sameh Shoukry and his Cypriot counterpart Ioannis Kasoulides discussed in a meeting on Tuesday the launching of the Egypt-Greece-Cyprus Trilateral Summit to boost cooperation, which will take place in Cairo next October, Al-Ahram ...
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The theme for the summer at our house is self reliance. I am desperately trying to teach our nine year old how to do things for himself around the house. If we are honest, some of the older people in our house could use refresher training too. We have ...
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These are things that, it's the Olympic Games, you can't have that." Hungarian water polo player Gergo Zalanki got some drops for his eyes after an 8-8 draw against Greece. But he wasn't sure chlorine was the problem. "Yes, it feels like that, but I don't ...
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Stranded holidaymakers say they don’t know when they will be able to get back to Manchester after being caught up in the Small Planet Airlines delays. The M.E.N reaveled this morning how hundreds of passengers heading to Cyprus and Rhodes from Manchester ...
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… the way back to Homeric Greece (900 B.C.) and originated … during the time of Ancient Greece, Xenophon (4th century B.C …
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… a helicopter to the northern Greek border town of Alexandroupolis where … the Dedeagac [Alexandroupoli] region [in Greece], according to information obtained from … the eight Turkish servicemen in Greece were postponed until August 19 …
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Archaeologists have made … a millennium from sacrificed animals. Greece's Culture Ministry said … anywhere in the Greek world and never on mainland Greece. According to …
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ATHENS, Greece — Archaeologists in Greece have made a sinister discovery on a southern mountain top dedicated to the ancient god Zeus, which might corroborate one of the darkest Greek legends. The Culture Ministry said Wednesday that an excavation of a ...
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COSCO SHIPPING PANAMA docks at Piraeus port, Greece, June 11, 2016. (Xinhua/Marios Lolos) ATHENS, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- Marking a milestone agreement for Sino-Greek collaboration, China Cosco Shipping on Wednesday acquired a majority stake in Piraeus Port ...
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Verdict Retail's, "Automotive Aftermarket Retail Sales in Greece to 2019: Sales by Channel (Value and Volume Analytics)" makes available overall Retail Sales value and volume for 10+ Aftermarket Automotive Channels with historical data for 2011 to 2014 and ...
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Alabama Shakes setlist, Aug. 9 at the Greek Theatre: Future People/ Dunes/ Hang Loose/ Rise to the Sun/ Guess Who/ Heartbreaker/ Boys & Girls/ Miss You/ The Greatest/ Ain't the Same/ Always Alright/ Hold On/ Joe/ The Feeling/ Sound & Color/ Don't Wanna ...
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Staten Island's Greek Festival returns to Bulls Head for two weekends this September. Visitors can come down for all the Greek food, pastries and coffee they want, along with wine tastings, dance lessons and Greek boutiques.
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If Suicide Squad, Star Trek and Bourne suggest big-budget filmmaking needs a shot in the arm – the ancient-Greek philosopher offers the perfect fix What has gone wrong with summer this year? Depending on your interests (political immolation, untrammelled doping in sport, insect-borne viruses), you may feel the answer is obvious. For those of us who prefer films to real life, it’s more opaque. Related: Why has this summer blockbuster season been so bad? Continue reading...
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Sifnos: This island is more about food than it is about its wonderful sandy beaches and picturesque villages. Add to the food the smiling locals and you’ve got a great September hotspot. Sifnos was the birthplace of Greece’s top chef, the man who made ...
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Georgia Penna and her husband and kids are continuing to make all here in rain-soaked Ireland EXTREMELY jealous with their latest holiday snaps. The Irish model has been snapped frolicking in the sea with her husband as the family enjoy their extended ...
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GREEK pensioners who receive more than one pension are expected to face a 6% cut from their main pensions, which will go towards healthcare.
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TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) – GREEK Taratsa International Film Festival will display Iran's short 'Hasti', directed by Kamal Parnak. Produced by Tabriz ...
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The sisters of Sigma Delta Tau hosted their annual Panhellenic Sorority dance competition, SDT GREEK Grind, at the Classic Center, on Wednesday, ...
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Greece's Aikaterini-Maria Kontochristopoulou (left) takes a lunge Wednesday against Do Thi Anh (right) of Vietnam during the women's foil individual ...
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A holidaymaker from South Yorkshire is fighting for her life in a GREEK ... gone to a nightclub here on the LAG-anas strip on the GREEK island of Zante.
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Two wildfires that broke out early Tuesday near the town of Karystos and Kymi on Evia are under control. 57 wildfires in forest areas throughout Greece were reported in the last 48 hours that were all contained. The strong winds blowing throughout the ...
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A last minute rush of bookings to Greece in July may help achieve the goal of a six percent increase in arrivals to the country this year but is not expected to translate into more revenue, the Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE) said on Wednesday.
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… series on the business of Greek life. Sorority girls love Lilly … dresses and accessories are a Greek life staple. At sororities, which … maintains an explicit relationship to Greek life. (Lilly Pulitzer declined repeated …
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… Patras Basketball Club in the Greek A1 League. The 6-foot-8 forward … Hungary. Promitheas competed in the Greek A2 league season reaching the … has been promoted to the Greek A1 League for the upcoming …
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Retired Greek civil servants have appealed to the Council of State against brutial pension cuts imposed by successive governments.
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ATHENS – Stepping up a crackdown on tax cheats, Greek tax inspectors have been told to especially target doctors, auto mechanics and cramming schools. It’s common in Greece for doctors...
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The 23rd annual Taste of the Danforth Festival Aug. 5-7 exceed attendance expectations, drawing more than 1.6 million people.
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Greece's National Health Service (ESY) is reportedly on the brink of collapse after six years of underfunding and a freeze on hirings.
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Greek woman added to list of Interpol’s most-wanted criminals as she faces charges of uploading Hollywood films to NinjaVideo, a relatively small site The US government has asked Interpol to help coordinate a fresh crackdown on foreign nationals engaged in movie piracy, adding their names to the list of the world’s most wanted criminals. A 41-year-old Greek woman, Zoi Mertzanis, has been added to the international crime fighting organisation’s list of most wanted criminals. She is charged in the US with uploading several Hollywood blockbusters to the now-defunct streaming site NinjaVideo. Continue reading...
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As of this writing, Nadine Lustre and James Reid are on their way to Greece to shoot scenes for their upcoming teleserye Till I Met You. With Greece being one of Nadine’s dream destinations, the location is also fitting for JaDine, as they will be ...
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Much like their modern counterpart, the Olympic Games in ancient Greece wasn't exactly a level playing field for women. It's true that women of all ages were allowed to enjoy the festivities and exhilarating athletic events in cities throughout the ...
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Greece boasts thousands of islands, spread across an enormous geographical area stretching from the Aegean to the Ionian sea. Four of Greece’s five island groups are prime charter areas: the Cyclades, the Saronic Islands, the Ionian Islands and the ...
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[A woman sits and looks on outside a building covered up with sheets to protect the dwellers from the strong summer sun outside of the disused Hellenikon airport, where stranded refugees and migrants are temporarily accommodated in Athens, Greece, August 10, 2016. REUTERS/Michalis Karagiannis]Thomson Reuters ATHENS/ZAGREB (Reuters) - A year after hundreds of thousands of refugees snaked their way across southeastern Europe and onto global television screens, the roads through the Balkans are now clear, depriving an arguably worsening tragedy of poignant visibility. Europe's migrant crisis is at the very least numerically worse than it was last year. More people are arriving and more are dying. But the twist is that, compared with last year, a lot of it is out of sight. Take the border between Greece and Macedonia. Summer crops have replaced the city of tents at the border outpost of Idomeni, even if some locals are convinced there is an unseen population hiding in the surrounding forests, waiting for smugglers to assist them on their onward journey. The tiny Greek village was a focal point of the migrant flow north toward Germany and other wealthy countries, with thousands of refugees squatting for months waiting for sealed borders with Macedonia to open Elsewhere in the Balkans, a Reuters photographer, revisiting the people-packed locations where he and his colleagues captured last year's diaspora, found empty roads, unencumbered railway tracks and bucolic countryside. The comparison is stark. More than one million people fleeing conflict in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan made their way to Europe last year, with the majority of them crossing the precarious sea corridor separating Greece and Turkey, the temporary home for more than 2 million refugees displaced from Syria. They came carrying their worldly belongings in plastic bags and hauling babies on weary shoulders, a visual exodus of the kind not seen in Europe since the end of World War Two. Many have since reached their destination in northern Europe, but with the borders closed and the European Union now attempting to contain the numbers, thousands are stuck at holding centers in Greece and Italy. They are not so nearly visible there - nor are the ones still coming. [GREECE MIGRANT CRISIS]THOMSON REUTERS VISIBILITY DOWN, ARRIVALS UP According to data from the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), arrivals are up 17 percent on last year, stoked mainly by a spike at the start of the year through Greece. Deaths among those trying to get to Europe, mainly due to drowning, are up more than 15 percent. "This is not a blip," said David Miliband, a former British foreign minister who now heads the International Rescue Committee, an aid group set up by Albert Einstein - himself a refugee - to rescue Europeans before the outbreak of World War Two. "The forces that are driving more and more people from their homes - weak states, big tumults within the Islamic world, a divided international system .. None of these things are likely to abate soon." Some of the mantle of accepting huge migrant flows that was carried by Greece last year and the beginning of this one has been taken up by Italy. This follows a resurgence of migrant flows from northern Africa. More than 140,000 asylum seekers are now housed in Italian shelters, a seven-fold increase on 2013, with the migrant crisis in its third year. In Greece, where arrivals plunged in the wake of an accord between Turkey and the EU to stem the flow in March, an estimated 57,000 migrants were still stuck in the country by Aug.8. Campaigners say the accord has lulled policymakers into a false sense of accomplishment by allowing them to believe that Europe's migration problem has been solved. "By outsourcing the responsibility to Turkey and to Greece, European governments are basically saying 'we have solved the crisis because we don’t see it, and we can't smell it and we can't hear it," said Gauri van Gulik, deputy Europe director at Amnesty International. "The crisis is as big as ever, and as yet unsolved by governments," she told Reuters. IOM data says that 258,186 people arrived in Europe by the end of July, compared with 219,854 over the same period in 2015. There were 3,176 fatalities by Aug. 7, outpacing the 2,754 who died in the first eight months of last year, a slightly longer period. "Its absolutely incredible because if you think about the panic this caused last year and the incentive there was to really get some policy changes in place, nothing has happened," Van Gulik said. (Additional reporting by Steve Scherer in Rome, Lefteris Papadimas in Athens Editing by Jeremy Gaunt)
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[serbia magic amulets]Djordje Kojadinovic/Reuters Archaeologists are trying to decipher magic spells etched onto tiny rolls of gold and silver that they found alongside skeletons of humans buried almost 2,000 years ago. "The alphabet is Greek, that much we know. The language is Aramaic — it's a Middle Eastern mystery to us," Miomir Korac, chief archaeologist at the site in eastern Serbia, told Reuters. The skeletons were found at the foot of a massive coal-fired power station where searches are being carried out before another unit of the electricity plant is built on the site of an ancient Roman city. Last week, after carefully brushing away soil from the bones, Korac's team found two amulets made of lead that, when opened, were each found to rolls of precious metal — silver and gold — covered in symbols and writing. They believe the inscriptions are magic spells, taken to the grave to invoke divine powers to perform good or evil. "We read the names of a few demons, that are connected to the territory of modern-day Syria," archaeologist Ilija Dankovic said at the dig, as more skeletons from the 4th century A.D. were being uncovered. The fragile, golden and silver scrolls — which once unrolled look like rectangles of foil similar in size to a sweet wrapper — may never be fully understood. [serbia amulets skeleton archaeology]Djordje Kojadinovic/Reuters They are the first such items discovered in Serbia but resemble amulets of "binding magic" found in other countries, Dankovic said. "They were often love charms, ordering someone to fall in love, but there were also dark, malignant curses, to the tune of: 'may your body turn dead, as cold and heavy as this lead,'" he said. Magic charms tended to be buried with dead children or adults who had suffered a violent death, Dankovic said, because of a belief that "souls of such people took longer to find rest and had a better chance of finding demons and deities and pass the wishes to them so they could do their magic." NOW WATCH: Archaeologists just discovered sacred text in mysterious language on a 2,500-year-old stone
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The recent reductions in the EKAS pension benefit in Greece, which is gradually being phased out, caused major reactions and frustration among pensioners. According to a report in the Ethnos newspaper, the government is considering readjusting the benefit ...
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The island of Skiathos has the classic hallmarks of any Grecian vacation. Gorgeous beaches, a picturesque waterfront, and plenty of sunshine -- with the added bonus of being able to feel what it’s like to have an airplane zoom directly over their heads.
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Are you soaking up what’s left of summer before the crazy days of Fall come sneaking up on you? Whether your kids are young and are spending their days running through the sprinklers or they’re grown and doing their own thing, there’s still something ...
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My Healthy Greek Salad Dressing went over so well, I decided to share a few more of my favorite dressing creations. Homemade salad dressings are really very simple and something you can make ahead and use all week. My Ranch Dressing with Greek Yogurt ...
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Greece has been producing wine for 6,500 years, with at least 200 varietals coming out of the country today. And yet most wine drinkers don't know the Roditis grape from the Moschofilero. But Greek wines are increasingly moving into the mainstream here and ...
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The Latest on the flow of migrants into Europe (all times local):
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Slow Cooker Greek Chicken Taquitos this twist on your classic chicken taquitos is so easy & delicious. Made with fresh tomatoes, feta and Greek dressing your family will flip over this slow cooker recipe. I love easy slow cooker meals near the end of the ...
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Greek Alternate Minister of Sport Stavros Kontonis has threatened to suspend the upcoming football season unless FIFA appoints an interim administration at the Hellenic Football Federation (EPO). According to the letter sent to FIFA, the Alt. Sports ...
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There are probably more private equity executives on vacation in Greece at the moment than looking to do deals in the country. 4 week free trial - SIGN UP NOW Are you a registered Financial News Online user? Simply login with your Financial News Online ...
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The history of doping goes all the way back to the ancient Olympics of Greece
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The year, 1999; the place, Hoxton Square – though you wouldn't know it, were you to take a time capsule back from today's East End. Instead of Smokey Tails, imagine a pie and mash shop; instead of Happiness Forgets, a small, shady nightclub. Imagine ...
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’70s Southern Rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd are teaming up with legendary, innovative guitarist Peter Frampton for a badass night of classic rock n’ roll under the stars at The Greek Theatre on Thursday, August 18th. Sing along to all the hits from Skynyrd ...
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Archaeologists in Greece have made a sinister discovery on a southern mountain top dedicated to the ancient god Zeus, which might corroborate one of the darkest Greek legends. The Culture Ministry said Wednesday that an excavation of a mound on Mount ...
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The Greek government will not compromise or back down from addressing tax evasion and corruption, underlined the Alternate Minister of Finance Tryfon Alexiadis in an interview for the Praktorio 104.9 FM radio station. “We are in a constant battle ...
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A year ago, as hundreds of thousands of refugees fled war-torn conditions in their home countries and headed for southeastern Europe, the region’s borders were flooded, drawing global attention. In Idomeni, Greece, on the country’s border with Macedonia, areas once filled with tents of refugees hoping for news from home have been replaced by summer crops, Reuters reports. “By outsourcing the responsibility to Turkey and to Greece, European governments are basically saying 'we have solved the crisis because we don’t see it, and we can't smell it and we can't hear it,” Gauri van Gulik, deputy Europe director at Amnesty International, told Reuters.
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