How the world sees Greece
Those words penned over 25 centuries ago in ancient Greece still ring true today. Catch a Bonita Vista High School softball game and you’ll discover Mia Marinakis — an intense, hard-throwing pitcher, whose heart pumps with Greek blood. A junior with a ...
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Dreaming of a Mediterranean getaway this summer? You can't go wrong with Greece, with its eye-popping blue water and gleaming whitewashed ...
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In comments at the European Parliament yesterday, Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem said the measures must be passed through GREECE'S ...
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Greek Week is in full gear at Western Kentucky University. The 52 year long event celebrates establishment of the Greek community and unites it together. This year's theme is "On The Big Red Carpet". Traditionally, Spring Sing, the song and dance ...
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PAOK will face AEK in final
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The seven or eight major issues that were pending are resolved in the negotiations between Greece and creditors and only minor issues remain, a government source told the Athens News Agency on Thursday. Talks to complete the second review of the bailout ...
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For whatever reason, salads are something I don’t share that often on the site. Yet in all honestly, they usually go down at least a couple of times a week in our home along with typical Buddha bowls, burrito feasts and dahl nights. With the weather ...
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Mount Olympus, the tallest mountain Greece – home to the twelve Greek Gods. It straddles the provinces of Thessaly and Macedonia situated on the Thermaic Gulf. The beauty of this area allows one to enjoy land and sea and the cuisine has Macedonia, Vlach ...
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The General Confederation of Employees of Greece (GSEE) and the civil servants’ union federation ADEDY — between them representing the majority of Greece’s unionized workers — on Thursday reached a joint decision to hold a 24-hour general strike on May 17. The decision was made at a meeting held at GSEE’s headquarters, with ADEDY and […]
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Greek Lentil Soup? What’s that? Confession: I’ve never had greek soup. Mind you, I don’t get out to restaurants often, and haven’t ever had vegan greek food. So, I guess it stands to reason that I wouldn’t have had a vegan greek soup. But I love ...
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece and its bailout creditors are closing in on a deal to restart rescue loan payouts, senior officials from the two sides said Thursday, a compromise that is likely to prolong years of hardship for many Greeks. A spokesman for ...
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The GREEK organization wanted to, “try something a bit different this year,” according to sorority president Jane Gudall, and opted to turn to Pinterest in ...
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The European Central Bank on Thursday approved a request by the Bank of Greece to lower the ELA-ceiling for GREEK banks by 100 million euros to ...
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GREECE also comes first in the percentage of people experiencing serious deprivation, as more than one in five (22.2%) are deprived of goods and ...
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Six-year-old Styliani Eikosipentaraki or Ecosipentaraki went missing from her parents’ home in Agia Varvara suburb of Piraeus in West Attica on Thursday morning, April 27th 2017. According to an Amber Alert announcement, the girl has a walking disability. She is 118 cm tall and weights 20 kg. she has brown eyes and hair. At the … The post Amber Alert: Missing 6-year-old girl with walking disability appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
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European Investment Fund on Thursday signed four funding contracts with Alpha Bank and Piraeus Bank to chanel 420 million euros to more than 2,000 small- and medium-sized enterprises in Greece. The signing of these contracts was made with the support of ...
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N. KOTZIAS: Algeria is one of the most important countries on the Mediterranean. It is the largest country in area, with a growing population and dynamic economy. It is a major exporter, with good exports of natural gas and oil to Greece. It is a country with which we have traditionally friendly relations. We came to intensify these relations and to prepare a visit of the Prime Minister, as well as the Algerian Foreign Minister's upcoming visit to Greece. We talked about the region's problems, and don't forget that the two countries, in different ways, are neighbours with Libya and have a direct interest in the developments in Syria. We discussed the regional problems and ascertained a considerable coincidence of views on a number of these. We agreed to develop our relationship both with regard to the Foreign Ministries, through our specialized Directorates and the Diplomatic Academy, and with regard to the sectors of other Ministries as well as enterprises. Moreover, we will prepare to hold a business forum, as well as a Joint Interministerial Committee for the discussion of further development of our economic relations. I think it was a successful trip and promotes our relations with this important Mediterranean country. Greece imports 20% of the natural gas it consumes from Algeria, and as a result we have a very positive experience from our cooperation in the energy sector. Greece can develop into an energy hub. The Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), which comes from Azerbaijan, will pass through Greece, while we also have two natural gas liquefaction terminals – one close to Athens, and the other in northern Greece. We are also planning, together with the other countries of the eastern Mediterranean, to exploit the natural gas that was discovered in the region last year. The Minister and I also talked about our cooperation on other types of energy, such as photovoltaics and other forms of solar energy. As you know – and you know this better than I – Algeria is a country where the sun shines all through the year, and we should use the potential offered by constant sunlight, so we also talked about cooperation between Algeria and companies specializing in this sector.
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Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met on Thursday with Liu Qibao, member of the Politburo of the Communist Party, responsible for issues of culture as part of the events to mark the start of the Greece-China Year 2017. Issues related to cultural cooperation in ...
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… 27 (Reuters) - Iktinos Hellas Greek Marble Industry SA ::Fy 2016 …
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… also target innovative companies in Greece under the European Commission’s … SMEs in Greece, organised by the European Commission and the Greek Ministry … jobs and growth in Greece and across Europe. Greek small and medium-sized …
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NEW YORK – When stocks rose after last year’s presidential election, DryShips Inc. DRYS +10.47% left the market far behind. The little-known Greek dry bulk […] The post WSJ: How a Greek CEO Made Millions From a Sinking Ship appeared first on The National Herald.
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OTE Group completed works of a new Data Center for the National Research & Technology Network GRNET, offering solution to the problem of back ...
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On Wednesday, Turkish European Union Affairs Minister Omer Celik claimed the GREEK island of Agathonisi “belongs to Turkey,” prompting a rebuke ...
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Workers at Egnatia motorway (Egnatia Odos) have declared a 24-hour strike on Tuesday 2 May protesting against the concession plans, the use of ...
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GREECE and China are strengthening their cultural ties by officially inaugurating the "China-GREECE Year of Cultural Exchanges" in a ceremony on April ...
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Joseph Robach, R-56th Dist., and candidate for GREECE Town Board in Ward 3, will present “Democracy: The Delegate System Versus the Popular ...
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GREECE'S capital, Athens, is a city known for its ancient Acropolis and Parthenon. But there are several other places in the country that will entice ...
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Drove off in a brand new BMW
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Diversifying the tourism product, promoting alternative forms of tourism, innovative services, fresh destinations and new routes through strong synergies is the priority for Greece, Tourism Minister Elena Kountoura said during the opening on Thursday, of ...
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The Red Arrows have been spotted leaving the UK today for their pre-season training in Greece. They were pictured performing spectacular stunts as they zipped through the sky over RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire. The Hawk planes of the Royal Air Force ...
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NEW YORK – Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, represents parts of Staten Island and Brooklyn and has filed paperwork with the state and the city to run in the mayoral election. “My intention is to run, unless my good friend John Catsimatidis jumps into ...
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The 2nd GREEK Tourism Workshop in Lebanon will take place in May 10 with the participation of 132 Lebanese tourist agencies. The event is held ...
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Three GREEK owners are thinking the time is ripe to take home profits from some exquisitely timed purchases they made at the trough of the dry bulk ...
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The General Confederation of Employees of Greece (GSEE) and the civil servants' union federation ADEDY - between them representing the majority of Greece's unionised workers - on Thursday reached a joint decision to hold a 24-hour general strike on May 17 ...
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Turkish Minister of European Affairs, Omer Celik, claimed on Wednesday that the Greek island of Agathonisi in the Aegean Sea was …”Turkish”. Speaking to a Turkish television channel, Celik said that Agathonisi “belongs to Turkey. It’s ...
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RENO, Nevada – Shaji Mathew is a Reno doctor, a pediatrician, but his approach to wine doesn’t reflect the old saying, the stereotypical pairing of doctor and grape. One of his passions is the wine of Greece, Reno Gazette-Journal reports. In fact ...
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Public transport employees in Greece will participate in strike mobilizations and work stoppages on Monday to mark May Day. Workers of ILPAP trolley-buses have announced a 24-hour strike on May 1 in protest “against the austerity, the memorandums of ...
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Beckwith Theatre Company’s first play of the 2017 season does exactly what it says on the tin, as performers rush to cram both of Homer’s epics and other classic tales from Greek mythology on stage in 99 minutes or less. The Dowagiac community theater ...
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[World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim (left) with Ministry of Economy and Finance of Peru, Segura Vasi (center) and International Monetary Fund Managing Director, Christine Lagarde (right) at the 2015 Spring Meetings in Washington DC on April 16, 2015. (Photo: Dominic Chavez / World Bank)]World Bank President Jim Yong Kim (left) with Ministry of Economy and Finance of Peru Segura Vasi (center) and International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde (right) at the 2015 Spring Meetings in Washington, DC, on April 16, 2015. (Photo: Dominic Chavez / World Bank) _Disaster, poverty and misfortune have become great ways to make a fortune. From Afghanistan to Haiti, Pakistan to Papua New Guinea, the United States to the UK, and from Greece to Australia, journalist Antony Lowenstein uncovers how companies cash in on organized misery in_ Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe. _Order your copy by making a donation to Truthout today!_ IN THE FOLLOWING EXCERPT FROM _DISASTER CAPITALISM_, ANTONY LOWENSTEIN EXAMINES HOW THE SUCCESS OF MODERN DAY CAPITALISM "GUARANTEES UNFAIRNESS AND REWARDS GREED," THREATENING SOCIETY AND THE PLANET. _"Sometimes we win the skirmishes, but the war continues." -- Rebecca Solnit, 2011_ Back in 1972 Jørgen Randers, today the professor of climate strategy at the Norwegian Business School, published a book called _The Limits to Growth_. He warned of the devastating impact of population and economic growth on a world of limited resources. Revisiting that prognosis in a 2004 essay, he found that his predictions were correct and that global leaders had been much remiss in ignoring the urgent need to battle unsustainable development. Randers' key argument was a challenge to the inherent rules of capitalism. By 2015, he was pessimistic that the current financial order was capable of -- or even had any interest in -- reducing the devastating effects of climate change. "It is cost-effective to postpone global climate action," he wrote. > It is profitable to let the world go to hell. I believe that the > tyranny of the short term will prevail over the decades to come. As > a result, a number of long-term problems will not be solved, even if > they could have been, and even as they cause gradually increasing > difficulties for all voters. To encourage a country such as Norway to tax every citizen, his suggested solution was for people to pay an extra 250 euros every year for a generation, thereby drastically cutting greenhouse gases and providing an example to other industrialized nations. The idea never got off the ground. "The capitalist system does not help," Randers explained. > Capitalism is carefully designed to allocate capital to the most > profitable projects. And this is exactly what we don't need today. > We need investments into more expensive wind and solar power, not > into cheap coal and gas. The capitalistic market won't do this on > its own. It needs different frame conditions -- alternative prices > or new regulation. Although Randers pushed the worrying idea of "enlightened dictatorship" -- "for a limited time period in critical policy areas" -- his thesis strikes at the heart of why wealth is concentrated in so few hands in today's world: there is little incentive to advocate for a more equitable planet. The market system guarantees unfairness and rewards greed. Such debates are starting to emerge even among the class who most benefits from such inequality. During the annual conference in Davos, Switzerland, in 2015, where the world's business and political leaders gather to congratulate themselves, some sessions concluded that inequality was a serious problem facing the globe, and participants were pessimistic about solving it. Such talk was a start, but hardly enough when the dictator Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the Egyptian president -- a man responsible for the death of thousands of his own people -- was warmly welcomed in Davos and allowed to pontificate about his vision for "sustainable development." Human rights and economic freedom must not be mutually exclusive concepts. The figures speak for themselves. The share of wealth in the US owned by its richest 0.01 percent has quadrupled since the eve of the Reagan Revolution. The top 1 percent of the world's population owns 46 percent of all global assets. US cuts in food stamps have left the nation's largest food bank, in New York, struggling to cope with demand. Around 16.5 percent of the state's population requires emergency food assistance. In 2013, roughly 14 percent of the country's population "lacked access to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members," according to the US Department of Agriculture -- a 30 percent increase since 2007. The US middle class, long viewed as the globe's most successful, now suffers growing income inequality. A crucial factor in this decline has been the failure of educational attainment to progress as successfully as in other industrialized states. The system is rigged. During the global financial crisis, Bank of America nearly crashed. One of the largest financial institutions in the nation, it was nevertheless granted £45 billion by President Barack Obama to prevent its collapse. Since then, Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi explains, > the Obama administration has looked the other way as the bank > committed an astonishing variety of crimes … ripp[ing] off almost > everyone with whom it has a significant business relationship, > cheating investors, insurers, depositors, homeowners, shareholders, > pensioners and taxpayers. It brought tens of thousands of Americans > to foreclosure court using bogus, 'robosigned' evidence -- a type of > mass perjury that it helped pioneer. It hawked worthless mortgages > to dozens of unions and state pension funds, draining them of > hundreds of millions in value. This is the modern definition of capitalism. As Taibbi told those attending an Occupy Wall Street day of action in 2012, "this gigantic financial institution is the ultimate symbol of a new kind of corruption at the highest levels of American society: a tendency to marry the near-limitless power of the federal government with increasingly concentrated, increasingly unaccountable private financial interests." Wall Street bankers were happy. The sum of all executive bonuses in 2014, averaging roughly $173,000 each, came to around double the earnings of all Americans working full-time on the minimum wage. It is an ideology that thrives despite guaranteeing social disharmony. The US model of reducing the role of government while increasing the influence of largely private power has never been so rapacious, though the problem is global. For-profit colleges burden students with huge debts and worthless credentials while receiving federal student aid. Goldman Sachs, a firm with a large measure of responsibility for the economic meltdown in 2008, now invests in social-impact bonds -- a system that enriches the company if former prisoners stay out of jail but reduces the accountability of governments and prioritizes private profit. The corporation also makes money from higher education, pressuring underprivileged students to take on debt while giving scant attention to the standard of teaching. Republicans in Michigan have pushed for the privatization of public school teachers, using a skewed logic that advocates cutting public schools and selling off facilities at the lowest price. Many tolls operating on public roads and highways in the US service the bottom lines of local and multinational companies. Public libraries have been outsourced, reducing employee salaries or eliminating jobs. In Europe, many corporations and lawyers shamelessly exploit international investment deals to derive profits from suing crisis-ridden nations. Market speculators pressurize fragile nations such as Greece, whose citizens are forced to survive with fewer public services. British citizens living on the margins face eviction or spiraling rent increases because global fund managers, such as Westbrook -- based in the United States -- purchase homes as assets to be milked for profit. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) traverses the world with the backing of Western elites, strong-arming nations into privatizing their resources and opening up their markets to multi- nationals. Resistance to this bitter medicine is only one reason that large swathes of Latin America have become more independent since the 2000s. The mass privatization that results -- a central plank of US foreign policy -- guarantees corruption in autocracies. Wikileaks' State Department cables offer countless examples of this, including in Egypt under former president Hosni Mubarak. The World Bank is equally complicit and equally unaccountable. In 2015 it admitted that it had no idea how many people had been forced off their lands around the world due to its resettlement policies. The story barely made the news and no heads rolled. TRUTHOUT PROGRESSIVE PICK ------------------------- [Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe] "A potent weapon for shock resistors around the world." -- Naomi Klein CLICK HERE NOW TO GET THE BOOK! ------------------------- One Californian town, Maywood, took the privatization memo a bit too seriously. It literally outsourced everything in 2010, sacking all municipal workers, including the police department, due to budgetary pressure. "We will become 100 percent a contracted city," said Angela Spaccia, Maywood's interim city manager. Decades of anti-government rhetoric claiming that taxpayer money is always wasted have convinced many voters that the corporation knows best, which is why a sustained campaign against predatory capitalism is so hard to keep up -- not helped by the fact that 90 percent of Americans rely on information from media outlets owned by only six multinationals, including News Corporation, Comcast, and Viacom. Rupert Murdoch tried to acquire Time Warner in 2014; had he succeeded, the market would have shrunk even further. In this environment, the fact that movements such as Occupy are born and thrive, albeit briefly, is a remarkable achievement. Indian writer Arundhati Roy saluted the power of this movement in a speech at the People 's University in New York's Washington Square Park in November 2011: "What you have achieved … is to introduce a new imagination, a new political language into the heart of empire. You have reintroduced the right to dream into a system that tried to turn everybody into zombies mesmerized into equating mindless consumerism with happiness and fulfillment." Although Occupy was dismissed as an irritant and irrelevant by many on Wall Street and in the corporate media, police unleashed a sophisticated surveillance operation to disrupt the protestors. They recognized the danger represented by the threat of a good idea. The challenge faced by opponents of rampant capitalism was how to focus their rage coherently against increasingly pervasive forces. The study of capitalism is soaring at universities across America, indicating the desire on the part of tomorrow's graduates to understand the tenuous connection between democracy and the capitalist economy. The phenomenal success of French economist Thomas Piketty's book _Capital in the Twenty-First Century_ -- a work arguing that social discord is the likely outcome of surging financial inequality -- indicates that the public knows there is a problem and is in search of clear accounts of it. Piketty advocates a global system of taxation on private property. "This is the only civilized solution," he told the Observer newspaper. In 2014, even the world's leading economic think-tank, the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, urged higher taxes for the rich to help the bottom 40 percent of the population. When establishment magazine Foreign Policy publishes an article by the US managing editor of the Financial Times, Gillian Tett, which closes expressing a wish for an "honest debate" about "wealth redistribution," it is clear that the world has gone a little mad. _Copyright (2017) by Antony Lowenstein. Not to be reprinted without permission of the publisher, Verso._
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European Central Bank president Mario Draghi keeps interest rates at historic low.The low interest rate cause a blow to million of deposits of ordinary people who trust their live savings to the banks. In a statement issued on Thursday, the ECB said: At today’s meeting the Governing Council of the ECB decided that the interest … The post ECB Draghi keeps key interest rates at historic ultra-low level appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
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After the Greek seamen, workers on other transport means have declared strike and work stoppages on the 1st of May 2017. The day is normally celebrated with workers’ strike. So far the schedule for the strikes is: Buses will operate between 9 am and 9 pm Trolley buses on 24-hour strike Trains and Proastiakos on … The post Public transport means, trains, ferries on strike and work stoppages May 1/2017 appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
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There will be no trains running on the Labour Day holiday on May 1, including on the Proastiakos suburban railway line, following a decision by the Greek railway workers' union to participate in a 24-hour general strike called by the General Confederations ...
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Earlier this month, GREECE agreed in principle to reduce the threshold at which individuals begin paying income tax as part of the latest review of the ...
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The chairman of the eurozone finance ministers group is promising a deal by the end of May to break the deadlock preventing GREECE from getting ...
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… officials hope the deadlock preventing Greece from getting much-needed bailout cash … the end of next month.” Greece has to meet a series … to participate “financially” in the Greek bailout program. via Mainichi This …
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Greek and Turkish politicians have been … the Mediterranean island stumble along. Greek and Turkish Cypriot officials on … by supporters of union with Greece.
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Chicken, peppers, onions and little baby potatoes all roasted up in a yummy quick marinade! Topped with feta and kalmatas. Such big flavor for a healthy and quick meal! This last 6 months has been a blur of Seattle rain and clouds. So what’s a ...
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(ANA) – The 2nd Greek Tourism Workshop in Lebanon will take place in May 10 with the participation of 132 Lebanese tourist agencies. The event […] The post 2nd Greek Tourism Workshop in Lebanon to be Held on May 10 appeared first on The National Herald.
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Stefan Aristidou, a Greek-British national who vanished after landing at Larnaca Airport in Cyprus in 2015, has been found in a Turkish town near the […] The post Greek-Briton Who Vanished in 2015 Found in Turkey, Lived in ISIS Stronghold appeared first on The National Herald.
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DERYNEIA, Cyprus — Greek and Turkish politicians have been taken on a tour of work being done on a new crossing point linking the ethnically divided Cyprus' breakaway north with the internationally recognized south. The Deryneia crossing point was ...
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