How the world sees Greece
Greece, long the problem child of the eurozone, took a major step on Wednesday toward securing financial independence as it prepares to wean itself off the international bailouts that have kept it afloat for the last eight years. The government’s ...
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A freak overnight downpour on the outskirts of Athens has caused flash floods, killing at least 15 people. Torrents of mud and debris engulfed streets in what is being described as the worst flooding in 20 years.
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LSU President F. King Alexander's Task Force on GREEK Life heard a presentation on Tiger BITes this week in its second full committee meeting.
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Flash flooding hit the outskirts of GREECE'S capital on Wednesday after a night of severe rainfall. At least 14 people died, according to media reports, ...
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BERLIN (AP) — The Latest on the flow of migrants into Europe (all times local): 8:50 p.m. Police have blocked some 200 migrants and asylum-seekers from leaving a city in northern Greece for the Macedonian border in hopes of traveling on to other European Union countries. Dozens of officers in riot gear used shields to push back the migrants near the center Thessaloniki and blocked the road with police buses late Wednesday. The migrants — including families with young children — refused to leave and sat down in the street. No one was hurt in the brief confrontation. The migrants, most of them from Syria, Iraq and Somalia, had gathered throughout the day in Thessaloniki.
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At least 15 people have died after torrential rains in Greece, the latest country to be ravaged by lethal weather.
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Police blocked some 200 migrants and asylum-seekers Wednesday from leaving a city in northern Greece for the Macedonian border in hopes of traveling on to other European Union countries. Dozens of officers in riot gear used shields to push back the ...
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... new-member events, chapter meetings, social functions, and philanthropic activities until a thorough review of the GREEK Affairs system is completed ...
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The drama in West Attica floods has no end. The bodies of more and more people who died in the floods have been recovered. The majority of them were elderly trapped in their homes, unable to escape the powerful force of the rushing waters bring mud and rubble from the mountain. By 6 o’ clock … The post Death toll reaches 15, still 3 missing in floods. PM Tsipras declares ‘national mourning’ appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
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Greece’s meteorologists are warning of extreme weather phenomena with powerful rain- and thunderstorms, very strong winds but also a Mediterranean Hurricane (Medicane) in the next days. Weather Forecast Nov 15-19 2017 According to National Meteorology Service EMY, analytically, areas affected will be: Nov 15 the Ionian Sea, Epirus, West Sterea, Peloponnese, Thessaly, Central Macedonia. At … The post Weather Warning: Meteorologists forecast rain- and thunderstorms, winds up to 10B, a Medicane in the Ionian Sea appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
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Cyprus is ready to offer any humanitarian help to GREECE following the deadly floods which hit the country, President Nicos Anastasiades said on ...
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… the western fringes of the Greek capital has increased to 14 … the western outskirts of the Greek capital after a severe overnight …
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… against Israel with 17 against GreeceGreat Britain women lost their second … 30-26 at the interval. Although Greece had their first 10-point lead … minutes of the game. When Greece's last possession came …
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At least 15 people have died in Greece after the central Mediterranean was hit by heavy flooding and violent storms.
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Texas State University has suspended all Greek Life on campus following the death of sophomore Matthew Ellis, 20, NBC News reported. Texas State is now the fourth school to do so, following Florida State University, also due to the death of an ...
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More than 14 people lost their lives, just 35 km west of Athens centre, as flash floods have turned roads into rivers of mud and debris, as GREECE has ...
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Flash floods killed at least 15 people, made scores homeless and destroyed infrastructure in GREECE on Wednesday after a raging torrent inundated ...
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Deadly flash flooding has also occurred in GREECE, as the low pressure area sitting to that country's west vaults moisture northward around its eastern ...
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Johannah Leedham-Warner (left) followed up her 22 points against Israel with 17 against Greece Great Britain women lost their second Eurobasket qualifying tie, 61-59 to group top seeds Greece in Kozani. In a game in which neither side shot well, GB could ...
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Flash floods on outskirts of Athens, Greece, inundate homes, businesses, knock out section of major highway
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MANDRA, Greece (Reuters) - Flash floods killed at least 15 people, made scores homeless and destroyed infrastructure in Greece on Wednesday after a raging torrent inundated two coastal towns west of Athens following a night of heavy rain. In devastation ...
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Athens (AFP) - Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Wednesday declared a state of mourning after a freak overnight downpour with the force of a "waterfall" flooded three towns near Athens, killing at least 15 people. "At this time, declaring a state of ...
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Anarchist protesters are occupying the Polytechnic building in central Athens, and have distributed flyers in GREEK and English in the surrounding ...
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GREECE has fired the starting gun on its latest debt rehabilitation effort, after launching a roughly €30bn exchange offer for 20 bonds it issued as part of ...
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At least 14 people died in flash floods in GREECE on Wednesday in the most deadly such incident in recent years. The overnight deluge turned roads in ...
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... subtropical system known as a “Medicane” has formed in the Mediterranean Sea bringing with it heavy rain and strong winds to parts of GREECE and ...
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GREECE'S Supreme Court adjourned an appeal hearing on 15 November for the extradition to the United States of a Russian suspected of ...
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A slow-moving storm in the Mediterranean Sea will bring additional rounds of rain to GREECE into this weekend. Downpours since Tuesday have ...
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Trouble ahead: Greek and foreign anarchists occupied the Polytechnic University and blocked access to students organizations preparing the 44. anniversary of the bloody 1973 Students’ Uprising against the colonels’ junta. The situation is tense. Authorities are on alert as also anarchists have been ‘imported from abroad’ to assist their Greek counterparts in fight “against the … The post Greek and foreign anarchists occupy Polytechnic University blocking access to students organizations appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
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Men, women and children, some 60 refugees and migrants, have gathered in downtown of Thessaloniki awaiting for more people to join them in their protest march to Greece’s northern border with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). The first tents were set up and the first sleeping bags and blankets were spread on the … The post Refugees to march to Greece-FYROM border, one Iraqi tried to set himself on fire appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
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Greek debt-ridden pay-TV provider Forthnet has … potential buyers, local operators Vodafone Greece and Wind Hellas and two … Alpha Bank, National Bank of Greece, Attica Bank and Piraeus Bank …
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Unbelievable natural destruction for the Greece's standards
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[Texas State]Texas State Facebook * A 20-YEAR-OLD TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY FRATERNITY PLEDGE DIED MONDAY. * TEXAS STATE SUSPENDED ALL GREEK ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES. * IT IS THE FOURTH FRATERNITY PLEDGE TO DIE IN 2017. ------------------------- Texas State University on Tuesday suspended the activities of all Greek organizations following the death of a pledge — the second such death at a college fraternity in a month, and the fourth this year. Matthew Ellis, 20, died on November 13 following an initiation into his fraternity, Phi Kappa Psi, The University Star reported. An investigation is currently underway, but preliminary findings indicated that alcohol may have played a role in his death. Texas State President Denise Trauth emailed the community following Ellis' death, announcing the suspension of all Greek activities pending a review. "As a result of this tragedy, I have suspended activities of all Greek fraternity and sorority chapters at Texas State," Trauth wrote, according to The University Star. "These chapters are prohibited from holding new-member events, chapter meetings, social functions and philanthropic activities until a thorough review of the Greek Affairs system is completed." The scene appears all too familiar. Earlier in November, Florida State University indefinitely suspended the activities of all Greek organizations following the death of a pledge and the arrest of a fraternity member on charges of drug trafficking. In September, a Louisiana State University freshman named Maxwell Gruver, 18, died after participating in a fraternity hazing game where he had to drink alcohol when he answered a question incorrectly, The New York Times reported. And after a Penn State sophomore named Timothy Piazza, 19, died in February after a fraternity hazing event, university officials suspended fraternities and sororities from holding social activities during the spring semester. The Penn State Board of Trustees also passed a package of new rules designed to change Greek life. _If you're part of a Greek organization on a US college campus and have something to share, contact ajackson@businessinsider.com_ NOW WATCH: Dropping out of college is a terrible idea if you want to be a millionaire
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For years, human rights groups and even the State Department documented the detention and abuse of Palestinian children in the Occupied Territories with no effect on military aid to Israel. Now an intense campaign by a coalition of faith-based and other groups has resulted in a bill introduced this week requiring the state secretary to certify that US funds were not used to ill-treat Palestinian children. [People take part in a demonstration of Palestinians living in Greece to mark the Palestinian Prisoners Day, in Thessaloniki, Greece, on April 21, 2017. (Photo: Grigoris Siamidis / NurPhoto via Getty Images)]People take part in a demonstration of Palestinians living in Greece to mark the Palestinian Prisoners Day, in Thessaloniki, Greece, on April 21, 2017. (Photo: Grigoris Siamidis / NurPhoto via Getty Images) Imagine you are a child between the ages of 12 and 17 years old. The army comes to your home in the middle of the night, wakes you from your bed, blindfolds you and ties your hands with plastic cuffs. Your parents' pleas do not stop the soldiers from roughly taking you and throwing you in their Jeep, never telling you or your parents what you are charged with or where you are going. You arrive at a detention cell in an Israeli settlement where you are interrogated without a lawyer or family member present, and you are pressured to confess to throwing stones so you can go back home to your family. Once you sign the confession, written in a language you can't read, you then face a military court hearing where a military judge sentences you to prison for three months, in a detention center in Israel where your family members are likely unable to visit. This week, Congresswoman Betty McCollum and nine other members of Congress introduced a bill to ensure that US taxpayer funds do not go toward these types of abuses, which are commonplace for Palestinian children living under Israeli military occupation. For a decade, US State Department annual country reports on Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory have included documentation of these conditions for Palestinian children, yet no one in Congress or the White House took action to stop these practices or hold Israeli officials accountable. In fact, the US government increased its military aid to Israel to record levels of $3.8 billion a year. Twenty-five years of documentation by Defense for Children International-Palestine (DCIP), UNICEF, the Israeli human rights group B'tselem and Human Rights Watch show that ill treatment is "widespread, systematic, and institutionalized," as UNICEF concluded in a 2013 report. Yet, this child abuse remains invisible to the very US public whose tax dollars are paying for it. So, what finally causes members of Congress to recognize and act on these horrific human rights violations? Three years ago, the small group of faith-based organizers in Chicago I am part of learned of the widespread, systematic nature of the detention and abuse of Palestinian children in Israeli military detention. We decided to do something. Partnering with DCIP, the Quaker group American Friends Service Committee -- where I work -- and other faith-based organizers from Presbyterian, United Church of Christ, Brethren, Mennonite, Episcopal, Methodist, Lutheran, Jewish, Muslim and secular backgrounds launched a campaign, "Israeli Military Detention: No Way to Treat a Child." Our goal was to educate and mobilize people of conscience around the US to advocate for policies that promote equality and human rights for Palestinian children. We asked that our elected officials hold the government of Israel accountable for its mistreatment of Palestinian children. For three years, we built a base of supporters that have organized public lectures, conferences, film events and house parties to educate people about this issue. We've encouraged people to share their knowledge with their elected officials and request that Israeli officials end the routine practice of arresting and detaining children in an unjust, unequal and violent system. Our efforts included petitions and "Dear Colleague" sign-on letters in Washington to raise the profile of this issue to our elected officials. Three years ago, congressional action on these abuses seemed like a distant dream. Now it is reality. The bill introduced in Congress this week requires the secretary of state to certify that no US funds have been used by the government of Israel to support military detention, interrogation, abuse or ill treatment of Palestinian children. The bill further encourages the state of Israel to create a juvenile justice system that does not discriminate between the treatment of Israeli and Palestinian children and adheres to internationally recognized standards of human rights. If the current practices of detaining children continue, the Israeli government undermines any US effort to achieve a just and lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians. No children should be snatched from their beds in the middle of the night and subjected to the abuses of a military court system. Upholding equality, human rights and dignity is the way to treat children and all people. The bill by Congress this week is a significant step forward for all those who want to align our values with the actions -- and aid monies -- of our government. Now we need the rest of Congress to act by swiftly passing this breakthrough legislation. Looking at what has been accomplished since a small group of us sat at my kitchen table three years ago, agonizing over how to end these abuses, I know this vital change is possible.
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Broadcasting from the U.N. climate summit in Bonn, Germany, we look at protests underway against oil, coal, gas and nuclear power. Indian activists are demonstrating against India’s largest nuclear power station, the Kudankulam plant in India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu. Activists also disrupted a presentation by the European Investment Bank at an annual corporate conference held alongside the climate summit here in Bonn, with a protest against the construction of the Trans Adriatic gas pipeline, known as TAP, which is slated to run from the Greek-Turkish border, under the Adriatic Sea and into Italy. Meanwhile, activists had a special welcome ready for German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday before her address to the conference. _Please check back later for full transcript._
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A refugees on the island of Lesbos. EU commissioner Avramopoulos said a repeat of last winter on the GREEK islands must be avoided (Photo: Save ...
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At least 13 people died and several seriously injured on Wednesday in flooding which followed four days of heavy downpours in GREECE.
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The European Union says it could ramp up legal action against the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland if they continue to refuse to accept currently in Greece and Italy
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Nov. 15 (UPI) --Floods and landslides following a week of rain near Athens, Greece, led to the deaths of at least 10 people, the country's health ministry said Wednesday. Severe rainstorms on Tuesday and Wednesday in Greece's Attica region damaged roads ...
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ATHENS, Nov 15 (Reuters) - GREEK pension funds holding bonds worth about 6 billion euros will participate in a debt swap announced by the country ...
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A investigative journalist for Dutch national broadcaster KRO-NCRV was arrested in GREECE on Monday for entering a restricted military area on the ...
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ATHENS, Nov 15 (Reuters) - GREECE plans to return to bond markets again after a review of its bailout progress by the country's international lenders is ...
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GREECE launched a €30bn debt swap on Wednesday in a bid to boost market liquidity ahead of a hoped-for exit from the current bailout programme ...
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At least 13 people died and 13 were seriously injured Wednesday in flooding which followed four days of heavy downpours in GREECE. Eleven of the ...
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ATHENS (Reuters) - GREECE on Wednesday invited holders of about 30 billion euros (£26.9 billion) in its debt to swap 20 outstanding bonds for five ...
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Seven companies represented Greece at the international Tourism Exhibition ITB Asia 2017 that was held in Singapore. The companies in the Greek pavilion were Asit […] The post Greece at International Tourism Exhibition ITB Asia 2017 appeared first on The National Herald.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece and the European Union are expected to wrap up talks on which coal-fired plants the country will put up for sale in line with an EU court ruling this month, Greek energy minister said on Wednesday. Greece and its international ...
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Nazifa leaves her two young children and husband in Greece while she seeks asylum in Germany.
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Australians vote overwhelmingly for same-sex marriage, paving the way for legislation by the end of 2017. 8:15am EST ...
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It will pave the way for a return to normality when Greek bonds emerge from the junk category
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