The Greek government has decided to shut some refugee camps to move people to houses in Athens and other better facilities
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How the world sees Greece
Friday, November 3, 2017
High VAT harms competitiveness of GREEK coastal shipping firms
The reduction of value-added tax on ferry tickets would give the GREEK islands an economic boost without provoking a negative fiscal impact, the ...
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GREEK Deputy PM meets with visiting Turkish Deputy PM
GREEK Deputy Prime Minister Yannis Dragasakis met in Athens on Thursday with Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Hakan Cavusoglu, to discuss ...
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Japan's Nomura to seek out investors for GREECE'S Forthnet
GREECE'S four systemic banks on Thursday authorized Japanese company Nomura International to seek a strategic investor for telecom provider ...
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Bjelica's Hot Start, Some Surprises & The Greek Freak's Big Step
The stretch-four has two chances to prove himself in front of the home crowd this weekend, Saturday against the Mavericks and Sunday against the Hornets. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. both nights. We are less than a month into the season, but we all love to ...
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Kafe Neo Closes Doors After a Decade Serving Up GREEK American Deliciousness
In a letter to their loyal customers posted to Facebook Thursday, owners and brothers Gus and Pete Sverkos of the locally lauded Kafe Neo ...
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On the Road in GREECE: Museum of Asian Art of Corfu
Understanding and cooperation between Asia and Europe in 2017 is furthered by an unlikely country. GREECE has the finest Asian museum in Europe ...
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GREECE-China Action plan meetings conclude with four cooperation deals
Greek and Chinese companies signed four collaboration deals in Athens on Thursday, before the completion of the second GREECE-China Action Plan ...
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In Puerto Rico's Highlands, Hurricane Maria Has Exploded Fault Lines of Poverty and Austerity
Six weeks after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, millions of residents are still living without safe drinking water and electricity. Health experts say the storm's massive damage to Puerto Rico's water system is threatening to cause a public health crisis, as more and more people are exposed to contaminated water. Over the weekend, Democracy Now! was in Puerto Rico, and we traveled about three hours into Puerto Rico's mountainous highland region in the interior of the island in order to look at the ways austerity has exacerbated the crisis caused by Hurricane Maria. TRANSCRIPT AMY GOODMAN: We begin today's show in Puerto Rico, where, six weeks after Hurricane Maria devastated the island, millions of residents are still living without safe drinking water and electricity. Health experts say the storm's massive damage to Puerto Rico's water system is threatening to cause a public health crisis, as more and more people are exposed to contaminated water. On Thursday, the White House finally agreed to release FEMA disaster aid with more flexibility to try to help rebuild Puerto Rico's devastated power grid and other infrastructure. The shift in aid disbursement was necessary because of Puerto Rico's massive debt crisis, which both severely limits the island's ability to prepare for the storm ahead of time and to respond fully in the days afterward. According to an investigation by Puerto Rico's Center for Investigative Journalism, quote, "The permanent disaster [of Maria] has been largely due to the slow and inefficient deployment of the emergency response due to a fatal combination between the lack of liquidity of the government of Puerto Rico and its municipalities and the federal government's inaction," unquote. For the last year, Puerto Rico has been controlled by an unelected fiscal control board, imposed by the US Congress, whose role is to enact austerity measures to ensure the bondholders of Puerto Rico's debt are repaid. Well, over the weekend, Democracy Now! was in Puerto Rico. We traveled around three hours into Puerto Rico's mountainous highland region in the interior of the island in order to look at the ways austerity has exacerbated the crisis caused by Hurricane Maria. We begin our journey in a town called Lares, about two hours west of the capital San Juan. I began there by asking Democracy Now!'s Juan Carlos Dávila, who grew up in Puerto Rico, to tell us about the history of this town called Lares. > JUAN CARLOS DÁVILA: So, the motto of this town is "Lares, Ciudad > del Grito," which translates to "Lares, City of the Scream." That is > in reference to the revolution of 1868 here in the town of Lares, > where Puerto Rican revolutionaries gathered to overthrow the Spanish > forces from here and declare the Puerto Rican independence. The > colonial administration, that continues to administer the colony, > are saying that the motto is too subversive, that "Ciudad del Grito" > is too subversive, so they have tried things like "Lares, City of > the Beautiful Women" or "Lares, City of the Open Skies," so that to, > in a way, try to erase the history of Lares. > AMY GOODMAN: Let's go over to the street of Pedro Albizu Campos. > JUAN CARLOS DÁVILA: Pedro Albizu Campos is a revolutionary > leader of Puerto Rico, who was president of the Nationalist Party, a > Harvard graduate. And he -- > AMY GOODMAN: I think he was the first graduate -- Puerto Rican > graduate of Harvard Law School. > JUAN CARLOS DÁVILA: So, yeah, Pedro Albizu Campos is a very > important figure in Puerto Rico. He stood for the independence of > Puerto Rico. He fought valiantly against United States imperialism. > So, here, the important thing about Pedro Albizu Campos being here > in Lares, and his street here in Lares, is that he represents the > continuation of that struggle of the revolutionaries fighting > against the Spanish forces. And for that, he was in jail, and he was > tortured. And many believe he -- > AMY GOODMAN: He was in prison for decades. > JUAN CARLOS DÁVILA: Yeah, he was in prison for many years. And > he was -- and it is believed that he was tortured, and they > experimented with radiation on him. > AMY GOODMAN: In Lares, we meet up with Martin Cobian, a professor > at the University of Puerto Rico and a member of the Center for > Transdisciplinary Studies in Agroecology. We head about an hour > further into the mountains, to a region called Las Marías. > MARTIN COBIAN: Hurricane Maria, you know, devastated, very much > so, the highlands. But in a very -- from another perspective, it > also uncovered what was already a national crisis. Remember that > we've been under austerity measures for -- I don't know how long. I > mean, it's, you know, as far as I can remember. It feels like we've > been under austerity forever. > And one of the areas most, you know, hardest hit has been -- have > been the highlands, not only in the terms of, you know, the type of > economies that municipal money used to bring, in terms of employment > and so on and services that people used to have access to, and > they've lost them, but also in terms of just people leaving, > migrating, because, you know, it's just untenable to sustain a > livelihood. > So that is, for example, in Las Marías, where is the place that > we're going now, are two of the most -- I think they're one and two > or within the five poorest municipalities in Puerto Rico and also > the ones that have lost most population over the last five to 10 > years. > AMY GOODMAN: So, in a sense, Maria not only exposed the fault > lines and the weakness of the situation here, but it exploded those > fault lines. > MARTIN COBIAN: Yes, that's exactly it. > AMY GOODMAN: As we're driving through the mountains, we reach a > part of the road where the hurricane has swept away the earth below > the pavement, which is something we had to be very careful about > everywhere we drove. We talked to a man whose house itself was > precariously balanced between the road and what is now a cliff, the > earth swept away below. > RESIDENT: [translated] Yeah, it's the main road. If you want to go > to Marical, you can take it. You can cross it now, but it's > dangerous. And if it stays like this, the road will fall off the > precipice. > AMY GOODMAN: We keep driving with Martin. > MARTIN COBIAN: One of the main, if not the sole, income for most > of this area is agriculture. And most of the agriculture in Puerto > Rico has been, you know, destroyed or has been -- you know, > sustained heavy damage. So this is a big concern, because the type > of agriculture that you find here is a lot of -- a lot of it is > coffee production. And, you know, for coffee to grow, you you need > -- it needs at least three to four years before you start producing. > So you had a lot of trees that were adults and that were producing, > and they were sustaining, you know, a small -- from large to small > peasant economies. And that has been destroyed. > The devastation is immense. It's immense. I have a lot of friends, > small peasant farmers, that -- you know, they lost everything. And > many of them are actually thinking of quitting and moving to the > city or actually migrating. > AMY GOODMAN: We've just arrived in Las Marías, and we are coming > to a place where doctors are coming to meet with people, bringing > water. We passed an oasis, an oasis, where people gathered to get > fresh water. And now we're going down to the field, where the > doctors are. > What kind of doctor are you? > DR. JOSE RAMIREZ: A general practitioner. > AMY GOODMAN: Uh-huh. And your full name? > DR. JOSE RAMIREZ: Jose A. Ramirez. > AMY GOODMAN: And your name? > DR. STEVEN ROMAN: Steven Roman, and I am internal medicine. > AMY GOODMAN: Can you tell us what you were doing today? > DR. JOSE RAMIREZ: Well, today, we came here. We've been doing > clinics since the hurricane. Every Saturday, we've been doing > clinics. > AMY GOODMAN: What are people's major complaints? > DR. JOSE RAMIREZ: Their medicine. They are unable to get their > insulins, are unable to see their doctors, and pains and so and so, > you know. > DR. STEVEN ROMAN: Hypertension. > DR. JOSE RAMIREZ: Hypertension, diabetes and stuff like that. > Right now we're doing the statistics on how many deaths we had, > during and after Hurricane Maria. We had -- I know we had one > gentleman who died of a heart attack in his car, and another one > after the hurricane with a landslide. Mudslide came and took his > machine -- he was working on trying to clear roads -- and it buried > him. Other than that, we got a problem with oxygen, problem with > home care and stuff like that, and the oxygen and all the stuff. > DR. STEVEN ROMAN: And I went to that -- the people need to know > that in Puerto Rico, there are more than 50 cases of leptospirosis, > that are death patient, that no survive. > AMY GOODMAN: People die as a result of leptospirosis. > DR. STEVEN ROMAN: Yes, die. > DR. JOSE RAMIREZ: And it arose from bacteria from the urine, mice > urine. People eat the food without cleaning and washing it or > anything. And they'll eat that, and they'll get sick from it. And > usually the outcome is really bad. > AMY GOODMAN: How would you say the state, FEMA -- how would you > rate how they responded? > DR. JOSE RAMIREZ: Compared to George a couple years back, they've > been a lot -- they've been slow. It's been slow. Politics in the > States, you know, have been affecting us here in Puerto Rico. You > know, there's a lot of -- a lot of misgivings and stuff like that. > We haven't been receiving the help as soon as we needed it. > AMY GOODMAN: What did you make of President Trump saying that the > people of Puerto Rico want everything done for them? > DR. JOSE RAMIREZ: Well, the first thing, it's not people of > Puerto Rico, it's US citizens. We are US citizens. That's the first > thing. It's not people of Puerto Rico. It's US citizens of Puerto > Rico. They want help. > AMY GOODMAN: Would you say their treatment of you during Hurricane > Maria and after was the treatment of a colony? > DR. JOSE RAMIREZ: Yes. Yes, it was. We are not -- Florida, look > at Florida. Look at -- > DR. STEVEN ROMAN: Texas. > DR. JOSE RAMIREZ: Look at Texas. You know, they got treated > really quick. They took him to -- in the states, and to throw paper > towels out. They should have flown him in a helicopter to see how it > was around here. > AMY GOODMAN: You're saying that President Trump threw rolls of > paper towels. > DR. JOSE RAMIREZ: Yes, yes, yeah. > AMY GOODMAN: Do you think if you voted for president of the United > States, the president of the United States would treat you > differently? > DR. JOSE RAMIREZ: Yes, because it's 3.5 million people, and we > all have at least two in the Senate, and we have at least five > representatives. Five. And that's a big vote, you know. And the > thing is, the parties don't see us -- you know, they don't see. And > we could affect the parties in the states, too. Right now, you have > 70,000 people who left to Florida. Most of them do vote. Most of > them do like politics. Most of them will vote. And that will change > the politics of Florida in a couple years to come. > AMY GOODMAN: Did you hear about bodies being incinerated in the > morgues and those bodies not being counted? And did that happen > around here? > DR. JOSE RAMIREZ: Well, the thing is, I certified around eight > here in town. Eight. So it was 50, 40-something deaths. I certified > eight after Hurricane Maria. Two of them were during the hurricane > or after, the day after the hurricane. And the other ones were > after, a couple days after, a week or so after the hurricane. I > heard that -- that's why they ask for statistics. I'm writing the > statistics down in case when they come back to ask for it, so I can > give it to them. > AMY GOODMAN: So eight people have died since the hurricane. > DR. JOSE RAMIREZ: That I certified. That I certified. > AMY GOODMAN: Can there be others? Are there other doctors? > DR. JOSE RAMIREZ: Yes, there's probably a lot more. > AMY GOODMAN: Did the Jones Act being enforced, in the time the > waiver wasn't in place, prevent, for example, medicines from getting > in? > DR. JOSE RAMIREZ: Right now, insulin is -- you know, my patients > tell me it's really difficult for them to get insulin. See, the > thing is, if the United States doesn't help us stimulate our economy > right now, you know -- I mean, we're afraid. They might sell us, you > know, like -- there was a joke a couple years back that they wanted > to give Greece to the United States, and give us to the European > Union. You know, and this is kind of a -- you know, it makes you > think what the United States thinks about us, you know? You know, > are we just a colony, what we are? Do they want to help us or what? > You know. > AMY GOODMAN: After we leave Dr. Jose Ramirez at the pop-up health > clinic in Las Marías, we head to another neighborhood nearby, where > residents are gathering to wait for a delivery of aid. Along the > way, we come across a caravan of more than a hundred volunteers, all > church members, who are traveling across the island distributing > food and water. > PEBBLES MORALES: My name is Pebbles Morales. > MARCO RIVERA: Marco Rivera. > PEBBLES MORALES: He's the pastor, Marco Rivera. Well, we come > directly from the food bank. We're going all around different cities > from the country, where we see that there's like special needs and > stuff. And we're distributing food. That's what we're doing. > AMY GOODMAN: What place was in the most need that you have been > in? > PEBBLES MORALES: Right now, like I think it's pretty equal, like > in every part we've been through. > MARCO RIVERA: Fajardo, Luquillo, Ceiba > PEBBLES MORALES: Fajardo, Luquillo, Ceiba. > MARCO RIVERA: San Juan. > PEBBLES MORALES: San Juan. > MARCO RIVERA: Manatí, Vega Baja, Vega Alta, Morovis, Ciales, > Adjuntas, toda la isla. > PEBBLES MORALES: All those cities, yeah. > AMY GOODMAN: The whole island. > PEBBLES MORALES: All around. > AMY GOODMAN: We continue driving with University of Puerto Rico > professor Martin Cobian. > MARTIN COBIAN: Something that we have seen in Puerto Rico is that > the communities have had to organize to survive, you know, in the > middle of Maria and all the havoc that has been created. > COMMUNITY ORGANIZER: [translated] We're asking for calm this > afternoon, knowing that they're coming from really far away and > don't really know the route, but they are going to arrive. They are > going to arrive. > AMY GOODMAN: We arrive at the community gathering where hundreds > of people, mainly women and children, are waiting for supplies to > arrive. > ROSA ROSADO: [translated] My name is Rosa Rosado. We're here in > the neighborhood of Bucarabones in Las Marías, in a small community > called La Josefa. We're gathered together in a group of families, > and we're waiting, because we still don't have any electricity. We > have to take advantage of these moments. Whenever they're going to > bring us things, whatever they are, we have to take advantage of it. > We've seen that when we want our leaders to pay attention to us -- > because we feel a little isolated -- sometimes we have to demand > their attention. > My daughter's school, La Hosto, is a shelter now, and I don't think > that the school will reopen soon. For a school bus, the streets and > highways are terrible. They're horrible. So, as a parent, I wouldn't > dare send her. No, no. That said, I understand that the children > need psychological support. It's true. They need something to orient > them, because young people have never experienced anything like this > before. There are many children in this community. My daughter is 13 > years old, and she needs help, because she's in special education. > CARMEN VEGA: [translated] My name is Carmen Vega. Everything here > was destroyed. It's not easy to be struggling like this, washing > everything and doing everything by hand. There are sick children, > sick elders. That's how it is here. In terms of health, the worst > was that my father vanished. He died. So that hasn't been easy for > us. But we're alive. We have to thank God that we are alive. > ROSITA RUIZ: [translated] My name is Rosita Ruiz. I want to say > hello to my son, who lives in Philadelphia. I don't know if this > will reach there. My son, Eliomar Justiniano, I've only been able to > communicate with him twice since the hurricane, but I send him > greetings from here. I want to tell him that I love him. He knows > the situation that's happening here, and he's worried. But thank > God, we've been blessed throughout all of this, because he saved our > lives, and my home wasn't damaged. But emotionally, although we > haven't suffered physically, this affects us emotionally and > mentally. > Because my husband now is taking care of me and he's disabled also, > in my condition and with my husband being disabled, because he has a > disability, he understands that he has to take care of all the work > at home. It hasn't been easy. Understand this: It affects us > emotionally, because we're alone. Our children are not with us. I > have one son in Philadelphia and another in Mayagüez. We're > depending only on this neighborhood where we live. We don't have any > other family. The only support is from the church and our neighbors, > our friends. We are all extending our hands to each other. In other > words, we're all helping each other, because we are all suffering > the same. And honestly, we're thankful to God that we can help each > other. > ANTHONY JUSTINIANO: [translated] My name is Anthony Justiniano, > and I'm Rosita Ruiz's husband. A lot of people have been affected by > the storm, and they've had to leave for many different reasons. One > is that they've lost their jobs. Another is that, although there's > some aid -- it does arrive -- when it arrives, people sometimes need > things urgently to survive. Education is on hold. The children have > not been able to return to their schools because of the > transportation issues. It's not as easy to travel as it was before > the hurricane came. But we're still fighting. > If they could bring some form of psychological help, so people could > strengthen themselves during all this -- even though we're serving > God, we have internal emotions that affect us as human beings, > because we're all human beings, and we need psychological support to > help us and strengthen us to face all this. It's really important. > ANTONIA FELICIANO: [translated] My name is Antonia Feliciano. I > live in 44-09 in a section called Pariachi. Since I moved there, > there's been no electricity. I've been living there for 28 years. My > husband died recently, waiting for the light, waiting for the light, > and it never arrived. The thing is, I live far from the community, > because the section in which I live, Pariachi, is two kilometers > away from Bucarabones, where we are now. This stretch has never had > electricity. It was in the mayor's hands, and he kept telling us > that they were going to put in electricity, but it never arrived. I > am an elderly person. I'm 75 years old. And I use insulin and > medicine that needs to be refrigerated. So, whenever my neighbor has > electricity, I put my medicines in his home. > ELBA IRIS DUMONT: [translated] We've been waiting here since 1 > p.m., waiting, and now it's 4:25 in the afternoon. We're waiting for > them to bring us food, water, everything, because in this moment, > anything that they bring us would be good. The hurricane was > horrible. My house is on the side of the road, and the part of the > road that leads to my house collapsed. When I go home, I feel so > depressed, and I cry, because the road has collapsed. > COMMUNITY ORGANIZER: [translated] And we will be grateful that > when they arrive, for all of us to please get in order, as you know > how to do. We're asking for calm, OK? They need the cooperation of > each and every one of us. So, then -- not now, but then -- we will > form a line. AMY GOODMAN: It's now been six weeks since Hurricane Maria, the worst storm to hit Puerto Rico in 90 years. Millions still lack clean water and electricity. Special thanks to Sam Alcoff, Laura Gottesdiener, Juan Carlos Dávila and Denis Moynihan. When we come back, we look at the president's tax plan. He says it's a Christmas gift for the American people. Others say it's a gift for America's elite. We'll look at how the world's elite benefits from global capitalism, with former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, joining us in our studio. His new book, _Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment_. Stay with us.
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Afghan refugee family's home attacked over GREEK flag dispute
Mother of 11-years-old Afghan boy Amir stands inside her children's bedroom after an attack by unknown individuals in Athens, Greece, 03 November ...
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Tsipras-Mitsotakis Clash in GREEK Parliament over Lawlessness
Tsipras also said that the streets of Athens and other GREEK cities are safe and argued that tourists in Athens walk around safe, and can go wherever ...
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Parents of tourist beaten to death in Greece looking for answers
The parents of an American tourist beaten to death in Greece four months ago say they are still waiting for answers and the "true story" of the brutal attack. Bakari Henderson, who was just 22, was conducting a photoshoot for a clothing line in July on the ...
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ECB's Nowotny: Turn ESM into European Monetary Fund for GREECE'S Bailout
“We don't have specific knowledge of the pension system in GREECE. If we have the ESM as a specialized institution and we concentrate all these kind ...
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Parents of 22-year-old American tourist beaten to death in GREECE still waiting for 'true story' behind ...
The parents of an American tourist beaten to death in GREECE four months ago say they are still waiting for answers and the "true story" of the brutal ...
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Captain of Greek Frigate Discharged over Saronic Gulf Fiasco
The Greek Navy has announced that both the governor and the shipping manager of the frigate “Kanaris” which ran aground, would be replaced. The High Naval Command is in session and will be announcing the name of the frigate’s new governor later today.
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Greek life's CARE Sisters seek to raise awareness of rape culture at KU
In light of an increase of news and discussion surrounding sexual assault, a group is looking to continue to promote educating students on gender-based violence and reduce rape culture on campus. Based out of the KU Panhellenic Association, the Campus ...
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The Rule of Law Lobby: Grassroots Mobilization and the U.S. Arms Embargo on Turkey – 1974-1978
by Van Coufoudakis, Ph.D. and Serge Hadji, Esq. WASHINGTON, DC. — The American Hellenic Institute (AHI) is pleased to announce its newest publication, The Rule of Law Lobby: Grassroots Mobilization and the U.S. Arms Embargo on Turkey – 1974-1978 by Van Coufoudakis, Ph. D. and Serge Hadji, Esq. The volume focuses on the grassroots mobilization in the Greek American […] The post The Rule of Law Lobby: Grassroots Mobilization and the U.S. Arms Embargo on Turkey – 1974-1978 appeared first on Hellenic News of America.
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs announcement regarding claims made by the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
It would be good if Turkey would finally decide –and we hope it will do so– to conduct itself on the basis of international legality and the principles of good neighbourly relations. Like every other sovereign state, Greece considers self-evident the right to take the necessary measures for the effective defence of its sovereignty and territorial integrity, based on the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations. Finally, we remind our neighbouring country that it is not a signatory to, and thus derives no right from, the 1947 Paris Peace Treaty.
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Your Bearcat wants peace for media, GREEKS
One will tell me not to mention I'm in GREEK Life, while the other wants me to write about what the GREEK Community is up to. At some points, I feel like I ...
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Why Nicole Kidman deserves a special round of applause
Female actors are still not taken as seriously as their male co-stars. The Australian star of The Killing of a Sacred Deer shows just how wrong that is The new film The Killing of a Sacred Deer is not for the faint-hearted or indeed the faint-prone. Its title refers to the Greek mythical animal owned by Artemis and killed in error by Agamemnon, who then has to sacrifice a member of his own family to appease the goddess. In the film, cardiac surgeon Steven Murphy is our contemporary Agamemnon, which makes Nicole Kidman’s character, Anna, Clytemnestra. The brutality, however, is ancient – straight out of Aeschylus’s Oresteia. It is an intense and challenging film. I left the cinema slightly numb with shock. Continue reading...
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Greek Islands' sauce not so secret anymore
Q Thank you so much for all of your information and recipes from around town. Really enjoy them. You ran the recipe for lamb chops from Greek Islands Taverna a while ago. Have you ever published the recipe for that amazing sauce with their baked shrimp ...
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Greek officials deplore racist attack on Afghan family home
Greece's government has condemned an attack on the Athens home of an Afghan refugee family whose son made news after being picked to carry the Greek flag at a school parade. The windows of the family's apartment were broken by stones in Friday's pre-dawn ...
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NATO live-fire missile exercise begins in GREECE
A tactical live-fire exercise featuring Patriot and Stinger missiles is underway at a NATO installation in GREECE, according to a statement from the Army.
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Enduring Images of the Greek Experience in San Francisco
… Photo: Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral (San Francisco, California) The Greeks in San Francisco is among the latest Greek-American histories to … photographs concerning the San Francisco Greeks. Even to the casual observer …
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Fitbit : Dean Karnazes Honors His Greek Heritage and Celebrates the Spirit of Global Athletics
… Olympic Torch Relay in Delphi, Greece, to help deliver the flame … times, it brought together disparate Greek city-states, and the modern Olympic … ; carrying the Olympic flame through Greece melted my soul. The long …
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FIFA hand Greece's Kostas Manolas World Cup play-off ban
… November 2017 FIFA has suspended Greece defender Kostas Manolas from a … ban which he served in Greece's final qualifier, cleaning … Gibraltar three days later, which Greece won 4-0. Most watched Sport …
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Prosecutor Orders Investigation into Greek Links to Brazil’s Car Wash Graft Probe
… a preliminary investigation into the Greek link of Brazil’s … said in his testimony that Greece’s honorary consul in Rio … Kotronakis, paid bribes to help Greek shipping companies win more than … to win major contracts. The Greek investigation will be handled …
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Europe’s top human rights job deserves better. We urge Greece to choose again
As Greek migration minister, Ioannis Mouzalas backed a deal that left thousands of refugees trapped. Now he’s a candidate for a key Council of Europe role
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GREEK carrier launches flights from Stansted
Fares begin from £135pp for a return flight to the GREEK capital onboard the airline's Boeing 737 aircraft, including allocated seating, a 23 kg baggage ...
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Kostas Manolas suspended for GREECE playoff after 'intentional' yellow card
FIFA has suspended GREECE defender Kostas Manolas for a World Cup qualifying playoff for "intentionally seeking a yellow card." Manolas was ...
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GREECE'S best player suspended for crucial World Cup play-off due to bizarre reason
When GREECE line up to play Croatia in the first-leg of their World Cup 2018 play-off they'll have one major absentee. Roma defender Kostas Manolas ...
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GREECE defender Manolas handed World Cup playoff ban
FIFA has suspended GREECE defender Kostas Manolas from a World Cup playoff match for trying to manipulate his disciplinary record. FIFA said ...
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On the Road in GREECE: St. Spyridon Church, Corfu City
Seeing St. Spyridon Church was a deeply moving experience. Inspring. A church that is known throughout the world. Russian language signs line the ...
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UN: 16 Refugees a Day Died in 2017
Some 249 Rohingya refugees have died on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border since Aug. 31, a UN body said on Friday, quoted by Anadolu Agency. More than 607,000 Rohingya have fled Rakhine state in Myanmar as security forces and Buddhist mobs have killed men, women and children, looted homes and torched villages. An International Organization for Migration (IOM) briefing from Geneva said, worldwide, 4,866 refugees died in 2017 so far, 16 people a day. "Deaths in the Mediterranean Sea continue to account for a majority of the world’s migrant fatalities -- now up to 2,839 for the year, or nearly 60 percent of the 2017 total. "Last year at this time the region recorded deaths of 4,150 migrants," the IOM said. Cyprus has become a new pathway to continental Europe as the number of refugees entering other parts of Europe by sea in 2017 decreased, the IOM said. Some 105 refugees used this route to reach the island in 2017 and 850 refugees in total arrived in Cyprus by boat, nearly three times 2016’s total of 345 migrants, the IOM said. Some 150,982 refugees entered Europe by the Mediterranean so far in 2017 compared with 335,158 refugee arrivals in Europe through the same period last year, data showed. "This year may shape up as the first year since 2013 that Mediterranean sea crossings by migrants fell short of the 200,000 threshold. “Just counting arrivals in Italy and Greece, totals were around 204,000 in 2014 and doubling to 355,000 in 2016 after cresting past one million (1,007,000) in 2015," the IOM said. Some 19,134 migrants have been rescued or intercepted in Libyan waters so far in 2017.
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Italian Police Intercept €50m Tramadol Haul Potentially Bound For ISIS
Italian police have seized 24m pills of the painkiller Tramadol that they suspect were destined for sale by Islamic State to its fighters in north Africa and the Middle East, reported the Guardian. Batches of the synthetic opiate, used by Isis fighters to suppress pain and boost resilience, were intercepted in the Calabrian port of Gioia Tauro en route to Libyafrom India, with the help of agents from the US Drug Enforcement Administration. Police suspect that the haul was part of a narcotics trafficking ring destined to be sold by Isis to its fighters for about €2 (£1.80) a pill, potentially netting the terror group almost €50m. Gaetano Paci, a prosecutor for the anti-mafia district directorate in Calabria, suggested there could be links between Isis and the powerful mafia organisation ’Ndrangheta, which has its stronghold in the region. Gioia Tauro port is well known for the huge quantities of drugs, particularly cocaine, found there. “Everything passes through Gioia Tauro, so it comes as no surprise to find a trafficked substance of this kind there,” Paci told La Repubblica newspaper. “For a while we have known about ties between ’Ndrangheta and organisations in the Middle East. Even if the port has become a less secure zone for the clan, thanks to the pressure from investigations, we have traced some trafficking links and are trying to put the dots together.” Owing to its cheap price and potency, Tramadol dependency has reached crisis levels in much of Libya and Egypt. Use of the drug, normally only available on prescription, is also rampant among fighters of the Nigerian terror group Boko Haram. Similar shipments of Tramadol were intercepted in the northern port of Genoa in May, and in Greece last year.
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Italy seizes 24 million synthetic-opiate pills ISIS planned to use to finance its operations
[isis flag]AP ROME (Reuters) - Italy seized more than 24 million tablets of a synthetic opiate that Islamic State militants planned to sell to finance attacks around the world, the head of a southern Italian court said on Friday. The pills were seized by finance police and customs officials in the container port of Gioia Tauro, Italy's biggest, according to a statement. The US Drug Enforcement Administration collaborated in the investigation. A video shows police opening a container filled with boxes of Tramadol, a powerful painkiller normally available only on prescription. With an average sale price of about 2 euros ($2.33) per tablet, the haul was worth 50 million euros, the statement said. Foreign investigators told the court in the city of Reggio Calabria that the drugs belonged to Islamic State. The drugs sales were "managed directly by Islamic State to finance the terrorist activities planned and carried out around the world," Reggio Calabria's chief prosecutor Federico Cafiero De Raho said. "Part of the illegal profit from their sale would have been used to finance extremist groups in Libya, Syria and Iraq," he said. The seizure comes three days after an Uzbek immigrant, Sayfullo Saipov, drove a truck on a New York City bike path, killing eight, in the latest attack claimed by Islamic State. No details on how the illegal shipment was discovered or on its final destination were provided by the court. A similar shipment was discovered in Greece last year, and an even larger one was found in Italy's Genoa port in May. (Reporting by Steve Scherer; editing by Ralph Boulton) NOW WATCH: Pakistan's Anti-Narcotics Force burns up 57 tons of drugs and alcohol worth over $152 million
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Greece’s Eurobank to sell debt eligible for purchase by ECB
Greece’s Eurobank is tapping the bond market for the first time in more than three years, becoming the country’s latest lender to sell a type of debt that may ultimately be bought by the European Central Bank. The bank has hired a consortium of ...
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Three killed after irregular migration boat sinks near Kardak islets off Aegean coast
At least three people were killed on Nov. 3 while trying to illegally cross to the GREEK island of Kalymnos from the western Turkish resort district of ...
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GREECE is the word as Stansted opens up Athens route
London Stansted welcomed its latest airline as Greek carrier Air Mediterranean's inaugural flight touched down from Athens yesterday. The service is ...
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Desperate search for migrants after boat capsizes
A woman has died and up to a dozen other migrants, some of them young children, are missing after their boat capsized in choppy waters off GREECE.
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Speech of Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs T. Quick at the 1st Greece-Mozambique Business Forum
The 1st Greece-Mozambique Business Forum was held today in Maputo, with the assistance of the Mozambique Chamber of Commerce and Industry and in cooperation with the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises and the Greek-African Chamber. Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Terens Quick made the following remarks:“The very good diplomatic and political relations with Mozambique are being enhanced as of today, through the two countries’ cooperation in the business sector.It is impressive that some 70 B2B meetings have been scheduled between the representatives of Greek companies who have come to the Forum and local enterprises in important sectors such as solar energy, standardization of agricultural and stock-farming products, water resources, construction, pharmaceuticals, and the transfer of know-how in the very important sector of tourism.For the record, I should say that today’s business mission, which was organized in record time through the tireless efforts of our diplomatic services, began during my first visit here, last March, and following the meeting I had with Mozambique’s Minister of Foreign Affairs (who isn’t here today, unfortunately) and my meeting with the President of the Agency for the Promotion of Investments and Exports (APIEX). We promised them we would carry out a business mission at the soonest possible time, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs kept its word.I would also like to thank our honorary Consul, Gerasimos Marketos, one of the most important Greek entrepreneurs in Mozambique, who, despite the three-hour delay in our arrival from Maputo, managed to rearrange the whole programme, so that all the B2B meetings took place as scheduled.”Following the opening of the Business Forum in Maputo, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs T. Quick met with the President of the Agency for Promotion of Investments and Exports (APIEX), Lourenço Sambo. The high-ranking Mozambican government official asked Mr. Quick to convey to the Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikos Kotzias, Mozambican government’s gratitude for the immediate response to the request to initiate joint business ventures. He also said he believes Greece will play an important role, through these business activities, as Mozambique’s bridge to the European Union, adding that Mozambique’s Economy Minister is scheduling Greece as a stop on his spring-2018 tour of Southern European countries.
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Reading Greece: Yiorgos Chouliaras on Literature, Diplomacy and the Role of the Hellenic Authors’ Society
Diaspora and return: Between nostalgia and ecalgia LECTURES & READINGS BY YIORGOS CHOULIARAS IN CALIFORNIA AND NEW YORK CITY Invited by Columbia and Stanford University, Yiorgos Chouliaras will lecture and read from his work in New York and in California in November. The Hellenic Studies Program of Columbia University, in cooperation with the Consulate General of […] The post Reading Greece: Yiorgos Chouliaras on Literature, Diplomacy and the Role of the Hellenic Authors’ Society appeared first on Hellenic News of America.
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Turkey warns GREECE over military drill at Rhodes island
ANKARA, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- Turkey on Thursday warned GREECE for allegedly conducting an "illegal" joint military drill with Egypt at the Greek island of ...
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GREECE: Public Consultation on Draft Law for the Transposition of PSD2
On November 2, 2017, the Ministry of Finance launched a public consultation on a draft law aiming to harmonise the Greek legislation with the revised ...
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Turkish deputy PM stresses Turks' equality in GREECE
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Hakan Cavusoglu said he expects Turkish community in Western Thrace to continue its existence in GREECE as equal ...
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Letter: Most GREEK chapters do a lot for their community
Most GREEK chapters have anti-hazing programs in place to stop hazing. There are hotlines that students can call if they feel they have been hazed.
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GREEK Economist Yanis Varoufakis on Nazi Resurgence in Europe & Why ”ISIS Loves Donald Trump”
We speak with former GREEK Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis about the rise of the far-right Golden Dawn party in his country and how their policies ...
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Kerzner and Dolphin Capital to Build Hotel Complex in Kea Island
KEA, Greece – Kerzner International Holdings Ltd and Dolphin Capital Group announced the signing of final agreements, worth 150 million euros, in an investment parnership […] The post Kerzner and Dolphin Capital to Build Hotel Complex in Kea Island appeared first on The National Herald.
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Geological Society Announces Plan for National Catalogue of GeoSites
The Greek Geological Society on Friday announced the launch of an initiative to draw up a National Catalogue of GeoSites in Greece. GeoSites are considered […] The post Geological Society Announces Plan for National Catalogue of GeoSites appeared first on The National Herald.
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11/03/2017: Greece's Yanis Varoufakis on the Greek tragedy of the debt crisis
… , we'll chat with Greece's former finance minister … eurozone and his issue with Greek people being viewed as a …
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