TORONTO — Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne celebrated Greek Independence Day in Toronto's Greektown on Sunday. The Ontario premier made an appearance at Toronto's Greek independence parade, where Mayor John Tory and Ontario Progressive Conservative leader ...
Welcome, 77 artists, 40 different points of Attica welcomes you by singing Erotokritos an epic romance written at 1713 by Vitsentzos Kornaros
Sunday, March 25, 2018
Orange snow blankets parts of Russia
The sandstorm made its way through GREECE up to Russia and was so big that it could actually be seen via NASA satellite imagery. The Athens Observatory said on Friday that this is one of the largest transfers of desert sand to GREECE from the Sahara ever. The African dust covered the entire country ...
Egypt given double fitness boost ahead of GREECE clash
El-Shahat is expected to feature against GREECE as Héctor Cúper will be looking to assess his options before the World Cup next June. “El-Shahat picked up a knock three days before joining the camp, while Gaber was injured for a while and missed Los Angeles' pre-season due to that injury,” Abo ...
Going on in Our Community
MARCH 24 ASTORIA – The Parade and Cultural Committee of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York presents Greek Opera and the Greek […] The post Going on in Our Community appeared first on The National Herald.
Water polo triumph for GREEK women's team
The GREEK women's national water polo team won the first ever LEN Europa Cup on Saturday to return to the fore of the game after a period of decline. The players of coach Giorgos Morfesis beat the Netherlands in Friday's semifinal 8-6, through a 6-0 partial score that turned their 2-3 deficit to an 8-3 ...
Sports Digest: Kokkinakis stuns Roger Federer
TENNIS: GREEK Australian Thanassis Kokkinakis stunned world n.1 Roger Federer at the second round of the Miami Open in three sets (3-6, 6-3, 7-6) on Sunday. After this result Federer dropped from the summit of the global ranking and announced he will not compete in this year's French Open.
GREEK Independence Day celebrated as part of museum's celebration of immigrant contributions to ...
IPSWICH — Greece's independence was celebrated at the Ipswich Museum with a workshop on GREEK dancing this afternoon. Sharon Grimes and Sandra Titcomb led the class which included a couple of impromptu guests from Lowell who were passing by. Citing the sign outside advertising the ...
Weekly Book List, March 30, 2018
The Chora of Metaponto 7: The GREEK Sanctuary at Pantanello by Joseph Coleman Carter and Keith Swift (University of Texas Press; 1,744 pages; $200). Reports on the full excavation of a GREEK sanctuary in southern Italy whose artifacts and well-preserved botanical and faunal "ecofacts" shed light on ...
Weather warning: Thunderstorms, Snow and the return of Sahara Dust
Greece’s National Meteorological Service has issued a weather warning of strong rainfalls and thunderstorms, hail and snow, gust winds and return of the Sahara dust. Already some local authorities decided to close schools on the island of Crete. The bad weather front first affects the West of Greece as of Sunday, March 25th 2018, the … The post Weather warning: Thunderstorms, Snow and the return of Sahara Dust appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
Watch: Player Gets Headbutted In Greek Basketball Brawl
If there is one place where the NBA has slacked off recently, it's in the fight department. Thankfully, the Greek league is not here to disappoint. If we are lucky, Adam Silver saw video of this brawl that took place in the first quarter of Sunday's game ...
Senior secondary school students take part in Model United Nations General Assembly in ...
The students, in teams of two or three, represented UN members Germany, Vietnam, GREECE, Thailand, Haiti, Seychelles, India, Norway, Japan and Malaysia. They had researched the country they represented and its position on the issues and dressed in costumes reflecting that country's culture.
Freak Weather Phenomenon Covers Eastern Europe In Weird Orange Snow
According to the Athens Observatory, the sandstorm made its way from the Sahara, through GREECE and up to Russia. “The Athens Observatory said on Friday that this is one of the largest transfers of desert sand to GREECE from the Sahara ever,” wrote Amanda Jackson for CNN. “The African dust covered ...
Protothema: Marc poll: ND leads SYRIZA by over 10 points
The newly established centre-left party called “Movement of Change” received 7.2%, followed by extreme-right Golden Dawn with 6.4%, while the communist party (KKE) had 5.6%. Junior coalition partners in the GREEK government ANEL only managed 1.5% with the threshold for elections being 3%, ...
Extra 1 mln people to be taxed
Whether or not the International Monetary Fund participates in the GREEK bailout program will likely determine whether the reduction of the tax-free threshold will be implemented next January, a year earlier than planned, resulting in yet another major tax hike for GREEK taxpayers. The Fund has ...
Multicultural GREEK Council promotes inclusivity, creativity at MGC Stomps
The Multicultural GREEK Council showed off their moves Friday evening at their first event of 2018, MGC Stomps. Colorado State University has the largest MGC in Colorado, made up of six sororities and four fraternities. MGC stomps was to show what multicultural sororities and fraternities. Most groups ...
Social security changes to affect GREEK migrants
The planned amendment to the European Union directive on the coordination of member-states' social security systems is likely to result in reduced access to social handouts such as unemployment and housing benefits for hundreds of thousands of GREEKS as well as millions of EU citizens who seek ...
Commemorations of Greek Independence Day held amid specter of continued incarceration of 2 servicemen
Greece and Greeks around the world on Sunday celebrated the 197th anniversary of the 1821 War of Independence, with customary parades around the country and the ubiquitous high-profile statements by politicians before waiting television cameras, although ...
Milestone marked by blade-shearing ram
The Romney stud he established in 1964 has been taken over by his daughter Janine Smith, who returned to the Maniototo in late 2016 after 26 years living in GREECE. Mr Smith told her he wanted to blade-shear the ram after Wanaka A&P Show because it was going to have a "fairly heavy schedule" at ...
Lamia claims gold in GREECE
The UAE's Lamia Tariq Malallah claimed the gold medal at the 5th Armonia Cup 2018 Rhythmic Gymnastics competition in Thessaloniki, GREECE over the weekend. Lamia scored the highest in her category with a total score of 10.200 with difficulty rating of 3.400 and execution rating of 6.800 with no ...
Wordwise: Surnames with intriguing historical links
For Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, comte de Maurepas, the element “eaux” has a diminutive effect on the aspect “Phélyp” as a version of “Philip:” thus the meaning “Little Philip” – presumably chosen for him by his parents as an inspiring association with the heroic figure of Ancient GREECE'S Philip of ...
Champion of Montreal's Greek community Dimitri Galanis has died
Dimitri Galanis, a champion of Montreal's Greek community, passed away last night at the age of 74. As the owner of Parc Avenue's Mythos Ouzeri Estiatorio restaurant, many considered Galanis to have contributed to the vibrancy of the Greek community in ...
India’s only Greek cemetery lies in utter neglect in Kolkata
KOLKATA: The Greek community has long vanished from Kolkata. Besides the Greek Orthodox Church at 2A Library Road, the Panioty Fountain (named after Demetrius Panioty) at Curzon Park that is featured in Satyajit Ray’s ‘Paras Pathar’ still stands ...
GREECE attacking duo to miss Egypt game – Reports
The Pharaohs are set to face GREECE on Tuesday the 27th of March in the second friendly in preparation for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. On the other hand, GREECE have not qualified for the World Cup for the first time since 2010, but are preparing for the UEFA Nations League and 2020 UEFA Euro ...
GREECE warns Turkey over aggression
Kammenos called the detentions completely illegal and called on GREECE'S European partners to pressure Turkey into freeing the two Greek servicemen, whom most Greeks regard as political hostages. Kammenos concluded his comments by saying that if the Turks continued their aggressive actions, ...
A 'Reagan-Style' Reformer in GREECE'S Future?
“There's great disappointment with Tsipras, who presented himself as an anti-establishment, populist candidate and turned out to be the exact opposite from what he promised,” Mitsotakis told us, “If you compare GREECE to the rest of Europe or the rest of southern Europe, we're actually doing pretty ...
Ancient temple seeks divine intervention
Since her time at university, Arabatzoglou has walked up this difficult road many times, leading GREEK and foreign tourists to the temple. The first thing they see, as we do, is the protective installation that has sheltered the monument since 1987 to halt its deterioration from exposure to the elements.
Young Lamia does it again
Dubai: UAE gymnast Lamia Tariq Al Farsi missed out on her annual examinations but made suitable amends while adding another accolade with a gold medal at the fifth Armonia Cup that concluded in Thessaloniki, GREECE, on Sunday. The seven-year-old student from The International School of ...
Newly Enthroned Metropolitan of Chicago: We Must Join Youth Marching in the Streets
The GREEK-born clergyman who spent many years studying, ministering and researching matters pertaining to young people, addressed the matter of youth involvement in the GREEK Orthodox Church during his enthronement address. Specifically, Nathanael referred to the marches taking place ...
Said & Done: West Ham, Fifa's rebrand, and Owen Oyston giving back
Greece: PAOK owner Ivan Savvidis – censured for pitch invading with a gun this month – marking GREEK Independence Day with a call on citizens to celebrate with “peace and harmony”. Savvidis, who made $1.6bn selling his Russian tobacco firm last week, told GREEKS to cherish the values of “the ...
Kammenos: we will crush whoever questions our national sovereignty
Speaking on the anniversary of Greece's independence from Ottoman rule in 1821, GREEK Defense Minister Panos Kammenos hit out at Ankara after the latest rant by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "We will crush whoever dares to question our national sovereignty," he said. "Whoever has in ...
GREEK Australian Kokkinakis Dethrones Federer at Miami Open
GREEK Australian tennis player Thanasis Kokkinakis on Saturday beat tennis giant Roger Federer at the Miami Open, bringing him down to second place in the world ranking. It was a tremendous success for Kokkinakis who managed to prevail over Federer in the second round of the Miami Open with a ...
Prime Minister Trudeau to celebrate GREEK Independence Day at Montreal parade
The GREEK flags will be waving as the Hellenic Community of Greater Montreal (HCGM) celebrates GREEK Independence Day with its annual parade. The Montreal tradition dates back more than 40 years, and is expected to bring out over 30,000 spectators. The globe-trotting Prime Minister Justin ...
The Olympics, the internet and blockchain technology
The answer to this question starts with ancient GREECE where the Olympic Games were born in the eighth century BC. ... If someone had to ask if GREECE or Baron de Coubertin own or have any exclusive rights over the Olympic Games, the answer would be in the negative as these are deemed to be a ...
Athens Vows 'to Crush' Any Ottoman Era-Like Threats
"GREECE today is a beacon of values, a guarantor of stability and security in our region. And for this reason, it will not allow anyone to play games that threaten the stability and a normal situation. And I want to repeat what the whole of Europe has declared officially and unanimously here, in the historic ...
Diaspora Honors Mitsotakis, and Itself
Ιt was one of those memorable events in the life of our Greek-American community. An event that defines the community and reflects the state of […] The post Diaspora Honors Mitsotakis, and Itself appeared first on The National Herald.
Defence Minister Kammenos to Turkey: We will crush you like we did to the Ottoman Empire in the past
The Greek Defence Minister appealed for help from Greece's allies for the release of two Greek soldiers held in Turkish prisons
Philip Kerr obituary
Writer best known for his crime fiction books featuring the Berlin private detective Bernie Gunther Berlin held a great fascination for the author Philip Kerr, who has died aged 62 of cancer: it was a place where the impact of evil upon essentially decent people was felt especially keenly. His morally ambiguous fictional private detective Bernie Gunther first appeared in March Violets (1989), set in the city in 1936, after the Nazis’ rise to power, and the first of his Berlin Noir trilogy. Each book, he later admitted, was aimed at painting Gunther into a corner “so that he can’t cross the floor without getting paint on his shoes”. A German Requiem (1991) ended the trilogy by taking events to the end of the second world war and Vienna, but the lure of his protagonist and Berlin, which proves as much a character as its citizens, remained strong. The One from the Other (2006) was the first in a run of 10 more Berlin Noir novels. If the Dead Rise Not (2009) won the Ellis Peters Historic Crime award, and Greeks Bearing Gifts, set in 1957, is due to be published next month. Continue reading...
Greeks seek payback for earlier league defeat to Illies
Inishowen Football League Jackie Crossan Premier Division Greencastle FC v Illies Celtic, Chapel Lane, Sunday, 2pm Pat McLaughlin’s Greencastle will look to avenge an earlier three two defeat at the hands of John Doherty’s side when they clash at …
Before Summit Showdown, Turkey Rips Greece, Cyprus, EU
… and aggression against Greece and Cyprus. Pushed by Greek Prime Minister Alexis … solely based on the Greek Cypriot and Greek claims are unacceptable and … have also continued to taunt Greece and criticized Tsipras’ government and …
Our Everyday Greek Review: On March 25th We Speak in Greek about the Parade
… Elinas Greek (singular) Οι Έλληνες EE Elines Greeks (plural) Η Ελλάδα EE eLAda Greece Οελληνικός O eliniKOS Greek (male …
With Turkey Tensions High, Greeks Mark Independence Day (Pics & Vid)
… a Leopard tank adorning the Greek flag. Στρατιωτική παρέλαση στην Αθήνα. Από κάμερα της Skyline …. Posted by Dimitris … 25, 2018. (Photos by Eurokinissi)Greece is celebrating the Independence Day …
Border Police Chief Directorate: On the border with Turkey at BCP Kapitan Andreevo and BCP ...
Sofia. On the border with Turkey at BCP Kapitan Andreevo and BCP Lesovo, the traffic is intensive on exit for trucks, the Border Police Chief Directorate announced. Traffic at the Bulgaria-Macedonia, Bulgaria-Serbia, Bulgaria-Romania and Bulgaria-GREECE checkpoints is normal. On 03/25/2018 at 06.00 ...
EU-Turkey summit... Thorny
Raising the tension further, EU leaders last Thursday released a statement condemning Turkey's "illegal actions in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Aegean Sea" and underlined its "full solidarity with Cyprus and GREECE." The text "urgently called on Turkey" to respect "the sovereign rights of Cyprus to ...
Greece celebrates Independence Day, sending message for dialogue to Turkey
ATHENS, March 25 (Xinhua) -- Greece celebrated on Sunday the 197th anniversary of the start of war of independence from the 400-year rule of the Ottoman Empire on March 25, 1821 with a customary military parade in the center of Athens. Hundreds of citizens ...
Ten of the Best Beaches of Greece (photos)
Sarakiniko, Milos (Courtesy of Beaches gr). The beaches of Greece have won awards and earned Blue Flags for their turquoise waters, paradisiacal sand, impressive volcanic formations or powder smooth pebbles. Choosing the best beaches in a country with one ...
Google Honors Greece and the 1821 War of Independence
Many Google users around the world would probably scratch their heads when they saw two weird-looking shoes under the logo on March 25th. The strange shoes are called tsarouchia (plural for tsarouchi) and they are the shoes worn with the traditional Greek ...
Films & programs for the week of March 25: Mt. Athos, Greece; Route 66 photography
Sandi Wheaton will present her photographic images taken on Route 66 and will introduce her work on the Salton Sea. Experts offer tips on gear, clothing, nutrition and more for winter campers. When, where: 7 p.m. Wednesday 1/21 at REI stores in Arcadia, 214 N.
Greek PM Tsipras: Turkey should stop illegal actions
Greek PM says government is doing everything it needs to to bring back two Greek soldiers imprisoned in Turkey
Greek-Australian Kokkinakis Shocks Federer; The Swiss Loses No. 1 Crown
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (AP) — Roger Federer lost his second consecutive match and the No. 1 ranking Saturday. Greek-Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis, a qualifier ranked 175th, […] The post Greek-Australian Kokkinakis Shocks Federer; The Swiss Loses No. 1 Crown appeared first on The National Herald.