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Monday, March 6, 2017

Legislature 2017: It's all Greek to me

The Florida Legislature begins its 60-day session Tuesday faced with important matters including the future of health care in the post-Obama era, gambling, implementation of medical marijuana and the possible purchase of land south of Lake Okeechobee.


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Greek statistical service: Q4 2016 recession greater than initial forecasts

Greek GDP posted a significant deterioration over the fourth trimester of 2016, according to the Greek statistical service (EL.STAT) on Monday, a development that couldn't come at a worse time, given resumed talks in Athens this week between the embattled ...


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Greek inscriptions at Qasr Al Hallabat third most important monument of Jordan’s literary heritage - scholar

The Anastasios Edict offers knowledge about the military law issued by Emperor Anastasios I (491-518 AD) which was valid for the Byzantine armies and their Arab allies in the provinces of Arabia, Palestine, Mesopotamia and Clysma (Photo courtesy of Thomas ...


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Greece in the red in 2016

ATHENS — Debt-laden Greece›s economy suffered a new blow, contracting by 1.2 percent at the end of 2016, according to revised figures released Monday, meaning it remained in recession for the eighth straight year. The figure by the national statistics ...


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Turkish Provocation in Rhodes During Greek President’s Visit

Another dogfight between Turkish and Greek fighter aircraft took place on Monday morning southeast of Rhodes. In the confrontation were four Turkish fighter jets accompanied by two F-16’s. The latest of Turkish provocations occurred despite the scheduled ...


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Eurostat: Social protection spending in Greece at 20.5% of GDP in 2015

Social protection spending in Greece represented 20.5 pct of the country’s GDP in 2015, according to figures released by Eurostat on Monday. This was slightly higher than both the Eurozone average ratio (20.1 pct of GDP) and the EU28 average ratio (19.2 ...


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Greece remains No.1 in unemploymemnt rate, says Eurostat

Data released shows Spain and Cyprus follow Greece in jobless rate


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United States and Greek navy in joint exercise between Crete and Peloponnese

Greek frigate “Kountouriotis” took part in a passing navy exercise (PASSEX) with US navy force Carrier Strike Group 2 in the region between Crete and the Peloponnese. The Greek frigate operated with the USS GEORGE H. W. BUSH Nimitz class super-carrier ...


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Chance to get a GREEK metal fix

The five-member GREEK metal band is currently on its 2017 world tour to promote their last album Immortals and Larnaca is the latest stop on their tour ...


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GREEK Parliament ratifies agreement with Kuwait for cooperation in tourism

GREEK Parliament plenum on Monday passed a draft tourism ministry bill for the ratification of an agreement between Greece and Kuwait for ...


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Fellowship awarded to UMSL’s Nikolaos Poulopoulos extends his research on Greek migration

Twenty-one scholars are part of a new effort this year to avert Greece’s brain drain and develop strong collaborations between its universities and those in North America – and a University of Missouri–St. Louis faculty member is among them.


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Cyprus – Greece – Israel coordinating meeting on Diaspora issues

  The Presidential Commissioner, Mr Fotis Fotiou, the Greek Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Terence Nikolaos Quick and the Chairman of the Jewish Agency, Mr Natan Sharansky held today in Jerusalem their first trilateral coordinating meeting on Diaspora issues between Israel, Cyprus and Greece respectively. The meeting was held according to the relevant provisions […]


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Soccer-Greek championship results and standings

March 6 (Gracenote) - Results and standings from the Greek championship matches on Monday Monday, March 6 Panionios 1 AEK 1 Sunday, March 5 Asteras Tripolis 1 Kerkyra 2 Atromitos 1 Iraklis 0 PAOK Salonika 2 Olympiakos Piraeus 0 Xanthi 1 Platanias 0 ...


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Greece Revising Austerity Counter-Measures to Appease Troika

ATHENS – With austerity talks over a third bailout stalled again, Greece and its creditors are dueling over targets needed to release more money. Prime […] The post Greece Revising Austerity Counter-Measures to Appease Troika appeared first on The National Herald.


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US Tells Turkey to Back Off Aegean Tough Talk

WASHINGTON – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reportedly been told by US officials to stop provoking Greece in the Aegean to reduce the chance […] The post US Tells Turkey to Back Off Aegean Tough Talk appeared first on The National Herald.


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Greek Moussaka is the One-Dish Meal With a Little Bit of Everything

There’s a reason this dish is listed under “Classics” on the menu of Molyvos, the Greek restaurant in New York founded by chef Jim Botsacos. It has all the components of traditional Greek cuisine: lamb, potatoes, eggplant, yogurt, and a dash of cinnamon.


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Hefazat claims arrest warrant issued to deflect GREEK idol issue

The Shariah law-pursuing group has been actively campaigning to remove the sculpture representing justice, claiming it is a GREEK idol. They have ...


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Olympiakos fires coach Bento after 3rd straight loss

Source: www.washingtontimes.com - Monday, March 06, 2017 ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Greek league leader Olympiakos has fired former Portugal coach Paulo Bento as manager after a third straight league defeat. The club said Monday that youth coach Vassilis Vouzas has been appointed caretaker coach. Olympiakos has only lost two league titles since 2000 and currently leads with ... All Related


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Get a grip, doc! Argyris Papadimitropoulos' Greek island movie, SUNTAN, hits theaters

Obsession in movies reaches a new high (maybe low) in the very poorly titled SUNTAN, a new film from Greek moviemaker, Argyris Papadimitropoulos, shown below. For a film that starts out as well as does this one, it's surprising that, by its finale, it has ...


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Meal-Prep Greek Chicken and Veggies with Tzatziki

Your favorite Greek flavors to go. Healthy meal-prep bowls packed with brown rice, roasted chicken and veggies, pita and tzatziki sauce. If your following my meal-prep series than this is another great meal-prep recipe for you. These healthy Greek ...


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GREEK leader Tsipras upbeat despite major downward growth revision

The International Monetary Fund recently said the frequent and large revisions of GREEK GDP data have made it more complicated to analyse the state ...


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GREEK life organizations decorate cupcakes to raise money for Jewish cancer patients

Alpha Epsilon Phi hosted “Cupcake Wars,” a philanthropic event to raise money for breast cancer on Sunday. This university's GREEK life gathered at ...


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We Continue to Expect Economic Growth in Greece in 2017, EC Commission’s Breidthardt Says

We continue to expect economic growth in Greece in 2017, European Commission spokeswoman responsible for Economic Affairs Annika Breidthardt on said on Monday, regarding the latest GDP figures. Greek statistics agency revised its estimates on the course of ...


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US and Greek navy in joint exercise (photos)

Hellenic Navy releases photos


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Paulo Bento: Olympiakos sack manager despite leading Greek Superleague

Is this the harshest sacking in football this season? Greek side Olympiakos have dismissed former Portugal coach Paulo Bento, despite leading the Superleague by seven points. Bento's sacking after seven months in the job, came after Olympiakos' third ...


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Authorities raid Captagon lab, seize 635K pills worth €10million

In a joint operation of police and the Navy, Greek authorities arrested four men and seized 635,000 drug pills worth ten million euros. The drug pills known under the brand name Captagon are said to be popular in the Arab world. Furthermore, Captagon is known to be used by the fighters of the Islamic State. …


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Four in Ten Young Greeks would accept Greece’s exit from the EU

92% of young people in Greece do not trust politics. the same attitude is common to 66% of young people in Germany. Almost four in 10 young Greeks do not negatively approach Grexit, that is the possibility of the Greece to leave the European Union. While in Germany only 9% of young people do not …


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The Greek Economic Tragedy, That They're Still Trying To Avoid The Cure, Default And Devaluation

The Greek economic tragedy is still rumbling along. Most of us aren’t taking much notice because not much seems to be changing. The country is still in comparative penury, the unemployment rate is 25%, the youth one 50%. There’s been the odd glimmer of ...


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Travelife Appoints Greek Destination Representative in Response to 20% YoY Growth

Travelife, one of the world’s leading sustainability certification schemes for tourism companies, has appointed Sotiris Milonas as Destination Representative for Greece, as Travelife Membership in the country has seen a 20 percent year-on-year increase.


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A journey interrupted: the changing health needs of refugees and migrants stranded in Greece

Since 2012 Greece has been on the front line of a large influx of refugees and migrants to the WHO European Region. In the past the country was primarily a transit point for people arriving in the Region, with most continuing on to other countries.


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Tzatziki, Skordalia and Other GREEK Dips Bring the Taverna Home

This new line from Maria Loi, the chef and restaurateur, takes GREEK dips beyond the everyday. Her smoked eggplant has a garlicky kick and is lighter ...


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As Politicians Target Sanctuary Cities, Faith Communities and Campuses Seek to Become Refuges

Dating back thousands of years, the concept of sanctuary stems from the custom of offering hospitality to the stranger. In ancient Greek cities, slaves and thieves took sanctuary at the shrines of the gods. During biblical times, those who had killed someone accidentally could take asylum in cities designated for refuge. In recent years, dozens of US cities and counties became part of this tradition by adopting so-called "sanctuary policies" that bar local law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration authorities. The policies aim to build safer communities by strengthening undocumented immigrants' trust in local police. Though the South has disproportionately fewer sanctuary communities compared to other regions, they include major cities like New Orleans and Austin, Texas. But these sanctuary policies are now under attack at the federal and state levels. President Donald Trump (R) signed an executive order on Jan. 25 titled "Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States" that makes all undocumented immigrants targets of deportation, citing them as "a threat to national security and public safety." The order specifically targets sanctuary cities, claiming that they cause "immeasurable harm to the American people," and threatens to deprive them of federal grants "except as deemed necessary for law enforcement purposes." After the signing of this executive order, Florida's Miami-Dade County became the first major metro area to rescind its sanctuary city policy, with Mayor Carlos Giménez (R) instructing the county jail to honor all immigration detainer requests from the US Department of Homeland Security. The mayor's actions are now being fought over in the courts. In Texas, after Travis County Sheriff Sally Hernandez announced that her department would not comply with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer requests unless federal officials had a warrant, Gov. Gregg Abbott (R) cancelled $1.5 million in criminal justice grants to the county, which includes the state capital of Austin. Meanwhile, the Texas legislature is again considering legislation banning sanctuary cities, which is drawing protests. Other Southern legislatures are also considering bills targeting sanctuary cities: * After defeating a ban on them last year, Florida lawmakers are again considering outlawing sanctuary city policies and imposing penalties and fines on local governments that adopt them. * North Carolina lawmakers banned local measures that limited cooperation with federal immigration officials in 2015, but there are now separate bills being considered in the state House and Senate that would raise the stakes by withholding funds from local governments with sanctuary policies. * There's also a sanctuary city ban on the books in Tennessee, but this year legislators there introduced a bill to impose penalties on sanctuary cities. Though there are no sanctuary cities in the state, the sponsors call their measure "proactive." * Virginia lawmakers are currently considering SB 1262, which would make any sanctuary city liable for injuries and damages caused by an "illegal alien." And Georgia, which has had a ban on sanctuary cities since 2009, last year began requiring local governments to certify that they cooperate with federal immigration officials in order to receive state funding. SCHOOLS, CHURCHES ORGANIZE TO HELP THE UNDOCUMENTED Despite these attempts to stifle sanctuaries, some local governments are refusing to cave into the political pressure. Days after Trump signed his executive order targeting sanctuary cities, Mayor William Bell (D) of Birmingham, Alabama, declared his a "welcoming city" and said the police would not be "an enforcement arm of the federal government" with respect to immigration law. Though Birmingham's policy does not allow the city to implement ordinances that oppose federal laws, the city council unanimously passed a resolution on Jan. 31 symbolically supporting Birmingham being a sanctuary. "Birmingham stands with immigrants," City Council President Johnathan Austin said. "Birmingham stands with our residents." Campuses and faith communities are also standing up to protect people at risk of deportation. Following the election of Donald Trump, student activists at dozens of universities nationwide rallied to make their campuses sanctuaries that would protect undocumented students by banning ICE agents unless they have a warrant, forbidding campus police from enforcing immigration policies, barring the gathering or disclosing of information about a student's immigration status, and offering legal support to students with immigration questions. The presidents of Connecticut College, Portland State University and the University of Pennsylvania among others have released statements declaring their campuses to be sanctuaries. Though no Southern university has officially declared itself a sanctuary, student activists at Duke University in North Carolina, Florida State University, Texas State University, the University of Mississippi and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are among those pressing their administrations to declare the schools sanctuaries. Faith communities are also stepping up to offer sanctuary to undocumented immigrants. Drawing on the tradition of the sanctuary movement of the 1980s in which thousands of people fleeing US-funded civil wars in Central America were given refuge in churches, faith-based immigrant advocates are organizing a new sanctuary movement, with participants pledging to resist the Trump administration's proposals to target and deport millions of undocumented immigrants and to open up congregations and communities as sanctuary spaces. It now involves as many as 800 faith congregations including Christians, Jews and Muslims. While the organizers hope it is unlikely that ICE agents will enter churches, which are classified as "sensitive locations" under department policy, they say they are prepared to implement a modern Underground Railroad if necessary to transport undocumented immigrants to Canada, which has more protective refugee policies. "If the law is unjust, you have to disobey it," said Jim Rigby, pastor of Saint Andrew's Presbyterian Church, a sanctuary congregation in Austin, Texas. "To me you're not a church if you say no. I mean, what does it mean to say that I'm Christian only up to my nation's boundary?" _Allie Yee assisted with research for this story._


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Greece: National selection details revealed ahead of Demy’s “Vote for the song”

Hellas calling! Kyiv was the city of glory where Greece won its first and so far only Eurovision back in 2005. And as tonight’s song final unfolds, Greeks will no doubt be hoping they can repeat their feat by winning it all again this time around.


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Mondo TV executes license agreement with Vodafone Greece

… SpA : It executes with Vodafone Greece a license agreement for 14 … licensee to broadcast programs in Greece via internet channel Vodafone TV …


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Crete attractions

… the biggest domed structure in Greece, the 1647-built Ibrahim Han mosque … 1,000ft. Waterparks For kids, Crete has three waterparks: Limnoupolis (4 … discount, under-5s free). For kids, Crete has three waterparks.   Day trips …


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Crete nightlife

… bars and dance clubs on Crete often take full advantage of … dance club with ellinádiko (insipid Greek pop music) soundtrack. If you … near Váï, with name quality Greek performers every Saturday from mid-June …


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Crete travel guide

… “Great Island”, is the Greek moniker for Crete and indeed it is … the longest growing season in Greece. And one of the longest … but more secluded. AP Greek Islands guides Corfu travel guide Skiathos travel …


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Crete restaurants

Crete has figured prominently in the revival in Greek cuisine, drawing on … list consists of mostly premium Greek labels. Buzzy seating is outdoors … , in a quiet lane; both Greeks and foreigners attend, not something …


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Julia Kokkosi was Announced Miss Greek Independence 2017

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Greek restaurant opens at Broad and High Downtown

There are gyros and then there’s the fare at Elia Athenian Grill. The new Greek spot, at the corner of High and Broad streets Downtown, features fresh spit-roasted pork and chicken shaved to order. Owner Ilias Zervas said he prepares 40 pounds of each ...


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GREEK Market Remains Rough

ATHENS – Greece – Greece is still in a very difficult economic situation, some say the worst ever. This is reflected in the state of the bicycle market.


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Greece stocks lower at close of trade; Athens General-Composite down 0.93%

Investing.com – Greece stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Media, Banking and Industrials sectors led shares lower. At the close in Athens, the Athens General-Composite lost 0.93%. Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on ...


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Greek GDP craters at end of 2016, putting bail-out at risk

(ShareCast News) - A revised estimate for Greek growth at the tail-end of 2016 blew a gaping hole in rosy forecasts for the Mediterranean country's economy and, according to some economists, might jeopardise an agreement to disburse further urgently needed ...


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Greek Economy Declines 1.1% in Fourth Quarter

The Greek economy showed a significant drop of 1.1% compared to the same quarter in 2015, according to the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT). Although preliminary estimates for the last three months of 2016 spoke for 0.3% growth, the ELSTAT figures ...


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Cyprus, Greece, Israel joint action on Diaspora

Cyprus, Greece and Israel on Monday held in Jerusalem their first trilateral coordinating meeting on Diaspora issues, according to an official announcement in Nicosia. “Today’s meeting established a formal dialogue and marked the ongoing cooperation ...


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Greek and Belgian rape laws fail women

Global epidemic, says report


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ELSTAT data shatters Greek PM’s GDP growth narrative

Greek Statistical Services came less than an hour after Mr. Tsipras's statements to party members


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Greek Economy Contracts, Complicating Bailout Talks

Greece’s economy contracted at a much faster pace in the fourth quarter than previously estimated, adding another hurdle to talks with international creditors.


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Deputy FM, T. Quick, on visit to Israel (6-8 March 2017)

Deputy Foreign Minister, Terens Quick, is paying a visit to Israel to strengthen Greece-Cyprus-Israel cooperation on diaspora issues, in a follow-up to the relevant agreement reached at the recent Trilateral Summit Meeting between Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Nicos Anastasiades, and the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu. Mr. Quick will have a trilateral meeting with the Cypriot Presidential Commissioner for Humanitarian Issues and Overseas Cypriots, Fotis Fotiou, and Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely, and will also meet with the head of the Jewish Agency for Israel, Natan Sharansky. Mr. Quick...


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