How the world sees Greece
Nearly 103,000 thunderbolts, the highest number in the last 14 years, occurred in Greece in July, the Athens National Observatory’s Meteo Service said on Monday. The high activity of electric phenomen...
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Based in Athens, Greece, JK Property & Yachting has been at the heart of the capital city’s real estate market for 14 years. With Owner/CEO Jeronymo Kontonis at the helm, JK Property & Yachting has co...
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Turkish gendarmes escort two detained Greek soldiers (file photo). Greece’s military has reportedly suspended military cooperation with Turkey over the two Greek soldiers still in confinement in Edirn...
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Fall classes begin Tuesday at Murray State University, and the ban on GREEK life social events -- though not the organizations themselves -- remains in ...
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Wildfires broke out in Greece on July 23. GREEK Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras assumed political responsibility for fires in the south-eastern part of the ...
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Cat ladies and men of the world, listen up. Your dream of soaking up the rays on a GREEK island – rent free – with a bunch of rescued cats can finally ...
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ATHENS, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- GREEK authorities have declared a state of emergency on Evia Island, 80 km north of Athens, after a blaze broke out ...
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Turnage and his collaborator Jonathan Moore (who directs this production) based GREEK on Steven Berkoff's play of the same name, which refashions ...
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A Turkish patrol boat rammed a GREEK coastguard vessel not far from the site of a showdown in 1996 that almost resulted in war. Months later, GREEK ...
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Greece's top military brass has sent a strong message to Ankara over its detention of two GREEK soldiers since March by suspending some ...
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Sources indicate that the continuing statements by the leader of the junior coalition partner Independent GREEKS, Panos Kammenos – according to ...
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And understandably so, Stefanos Tsitsipas, a 19-year-old who grew out of his teen age on Sunday, appeared as a GREEK God in Canada.
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A British woman has been deluged with applicants after posting a job advert which offered people the chance to move to a GREEK island and get paid ...
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God's Little People Cat Rescue on the GREEK island of Syros is currently searching for the right person to look after all 55 of its feline inhabitants.
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A new museum at the border village of Lia near Albania including paintings by Greek painters Theophilos and Dimitris Sorogas was inaugurated by United States […] The post US Ambassador Pyatt Inaugurates Museum in Lia, Epirus appeared first on The National Herald.
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For nearly 44 years, almost all of us Greeks believed that the United States bore huge responsibility for the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. On the […] The post Did U.S. Oppose Cyprus Invasion? appeared first on The National Herald.
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All the day’s economic and financial news, as Turkey’s lira crisis hits shares and currencies around the globe * Latest: President Erdoğan hits out at US * Erdoğan: lira will stabilise soon (after it hits record low) * Turks struggle to cope with lira’s slide * Introduction: Turkish financial crisis is deepening * Turkish central bank is boosting liquidity.... * Q&A: Why is the Turkish lira in freefall and should we worry? 5.53pm BST A bit more from Ed Conway: Then the final straw last wk: Donald Trump intervening with sanctions on Turkish steel/aluminium. Why? Again it comes back to the coup and in this case Erdogan's decision to detain that American pastor. It was that US intervention which caused the VERY sudden fall in the lira 8/ pic.twitter.com/k5TlLdAe6G How does this end? Prob Erdogan will have to endorse higher int rates & lower govt spending or there's a good chance the crisis intensifies, which may mean an IMF bailout. There's talk of capital controls but they're rarely more than a sticking plaster solution in these crises 9/ What abt knock-on consequences? Some EU banks exposed. Esp BBVA & Unicredit. Couple of useful tables on this attached. BUT NB much of their lending is in lira so contagion risk not quite as bad as in Greek crisis 10/ Yes I know I said it was a "short thread". I was wrong. Sorry pic.twitter.com/FD3yQfZ3LL More broadly, we're probably likely to see more of these crisis in emerging economies as the US Federal Reserve raises interest rates, making life for all dollar-exposed economies much more difficult. That was at least part of Turkey's problem... 11/ The most ironic thing abt Turkey's current crisis is that so many of the root causes (not all but many) can be traced back to aftermath of the 2016 coup. Pres Erdogan may have survived that coup but it's by no means guaranteed that he will survive all the aftershocks... 5.35pm BST AFTER A DAY OF HEAVY LOSSES, TURKEY’S STOCK EXCHANGE HAS CLOSED DEEP IN THE RED WITH THE BENCHMARK BIST 100 INDEX LOSING 2.4%. Financial stocks felt the full blast of the currency crisis, with some bank stocks falling by over 10%. Short thread on what's going on in Turkey, and whether it matters for the rest of us. The country looks like it's in the early stages of a currency crisis. Stock market is (in $ terms at least) down to the lowest level in nearly a decade 1/ pic.twitter.com/Al8qFeXJV0 In some senses, Turkey was always a candidate for a crisis like this. It had some (if not all) of the ingredients. The biggest current acc deficit in the developed world. And the highest inflation rate... 2/ pic.twitter.com/9V9ncdElWb Turkey is one of the most exposed countries in the world to fluctuations in the dollar as it has enormous amts of dollar debt. That means any fall in the lira has major knock-on consequences. Useful chart on that here from the IIF: 3/ pic.twitter.com/haOXERvNXc Turkey has rubbed along OK despite some mildly scary economic traits for a while, so why a crisis now? In part the story goes back to the attempted coup of July 2016. Following that, Pres Erdogan doubled down on what some call populist/authoritarian policies 4/ He jailed more political opponents (inc an American pastor he sees as partly culpable for the coup), he started to splurge a lot of public money to create an economic boom. And boy did he succeed. Turkey is now at the very point when boom turns to bust... 5/ The Turkish central bank should have raised interest rates ages ago to bring the boom to an end. But (continuing the populist/authoritarian theme) Erdogan has said explicitly that it should not. Striking example of that in this Bloomberg i/v from May https://t.co/bNkiatSUyU 6/ pic.twitter.com/VEOYjwPIet Continue reading...
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After coordinated actions by the Ministry of Tourism and the Federation of Greek Travel and Tourism Associations FedHATTA Greek capital Athens will bethe Japan Weekinternat
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Last week the UEFA announced that it opened disciplinary proceeding against PAOK FC over fans misbehavior during the club’s home match in Thessaloniki against Russia’s Spartak Moscow FC
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A cat rescue on the Greek island of Syros is offering a home, free utilities, and a salary to care for the 55 felines living there. In other words, you get paid to live in paradise and cuddle cats all ...
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DAN Edgar squeezed Amber Turner's bum while they snogged in the pool during their romantic in holiday in Greece. The Towie pair were seen frolicking in the water as Dan went in for a cheeky grab while ...
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US Ambassador to Athens Geoffrey Pyatt has once again said that “Greece is a pillar of stability” in the broader region. Pyatt was answering journalists’ questions while on a trip to Thesprotia, not f...
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You could live out your wildest cat lady/cat daddy dreams on a small beautiful island in Greece -- and get paid to do it. According to God's Little People Cat Rescue's Facebook post, the organization ...
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ATHENS, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Greece should stay fully committed to the reforms course after the forthcoming exit on Aug. 20 from the bailout era, in order to boost confidence in the prospects of the ec...
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Meteors streaked through the sky above Greece over the weekend, giving star gazers a rare opportunity to see a display of shooting stars with the naked eye. The so-called Perseids meteor shower return...
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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — General Mills-owned Yoplait USA was a once-powerhouse yogurt company, but has spent the past two years trying to recover from the Greek yogurt disruption. “Quite frankly, we misse...
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HANNIBAL, Mo. -- A Hannibal boy is representing the United States in Greece this October after placing in the World Kickboxing and Karate Union U.S. trials. Chase Youngwirth, 10, joins the USA team at ...
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Dream job? Get paid to live on a Greek island 'paradise' and care for 55 cats God's Little People Cat Rescue, based in a “secluded nature preserved area” on the island of Syros, is looking for someone ...
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Robert NesimiPolitical analystThe name agreement with Greece that promises to be Macedonias gateway for EuroAtlantic integrations still has a few hurdles to clear in the
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One of four brothers from a Greek-American Beaumont, Texas family who served in World War II, Brig. Gen. Mike P. Cokinos, a Purple Heart winner […] The post Brig. Gen. Mike Cokinos, Athlete, Patriot, Purple Heart Winner, Passes at 98 appeared first on The National Herald.
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[Uber Lyft Taxi Car]Ints Kalnins/Reuters * AFTER USING TAXIS AND RIDE-HAILING SERVICES LIKE UBER IN DOZENS OF COUNTRIES, I'VE BECOME CONVINCED THAT RIDE-HAILING APPS ARE HERE TO STAY, WITH OR WITHOUT REGULATION, FOR A SIMPLE REASON: THEY SERVE A NEED. * WHILE TAXI SERVICES IN MAJOR US CITIES ARE USUALLY RELIABLE AND EFFICIENT, TAXI SERVICES IN MANY FOREIGN COUNTRIES ARE UNRELIABLE, RIDDLED WITH SCAMS, OR FREQUENTLY PRICE-GOUGE BOTH TOURISTS AND LOCALS. * IN COUNTRIES LIKE MEXICO, ARGENTINA, AND COLOMBIA, USING RIDE-HAILING SERVICES OVER TAXIS CAN BE A MATTER OF SAFETY, WHILE IN CHINA, I FOUND THAT I COULD RARELY GET A TAXI TO STOP FOR ME BECAUSE DRIVERS DIDN'T WANT TO NAVIGATE THE LANGUAGE BARRIER. ------------------------- Last Saturday, I left the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greece about an hour before sunset. A local had recommended that I head to Lycabettus Hill, the highest point in the city and about a 10-minute drive away, to watch the sunset descend on the Acropolis. For a moment, I had the internal debate that many urban millennials have everyday: Do I call an Uber or hail a taxi? I spotted four or five taxis lined up on the curb in front of the museum and thought “Why not?”SEE THE REST OF THE STORY AT BUSINESS INSIDERNOW WATCH: This could be the future of ride-hailing SEE ALSO: * Your opinion matters — Join BI Insiders program * Scientists think they have found the reason some people are left-handed — and it has nothing to do with the brain * A 35-year-old who dropped out of high school had a vision of a utopian future for China, the US, and the world — and it's led her to the forefront of a tech startup worth $3 billion SEE ALSO: 'WHY SHOULD WE MAKE FOREIGNERS RICH?': TAXI DRIVERS ARE TAKING ON UBER AND GRAB IN BALI, AND SOME ARE TURNING TO VIOLENCE
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Slide smoothly! Bring home Surface Mouse for only £44.99 Microsoft Price drop! Ultrathin, fast, and versatile Surface Pro 4, from £636.65 Microsoft ASUS Transformer Sig. Edition! The mighty Mini 2-in- ...
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Love cats, but humans not so much? Comfortable with the idea of living on a secluded Greek island in the company of 55 cats, Grecian sun and sea, and little else? A feline sanctuary on a small Greek i...
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel says talks with Greece on its taking back migrants who previously sought asylum there are well-advanced but similar negotiations with Italy have some way to go. Aug. 13 ...
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Russia is playing an impressions game channeling information to selected Greek and Russian media in an effort to deconstruct Greeces foreign policy which Greek wise from 201
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Greek authorities say a large forest fire that forced the evacuation of two villages overnight on the island of Evia is abating but is not fully controlled yet. Aug. 13, 2018, at 7:54 a.m. ATHENS, Gre...
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Accommodation with view of the Aegean Sea? Check. All expenses paid? Check. 55 cats to keep you company? Check. If this sounds like your dream job opportunity, you're not alone. When God's Little Peop...
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Greece set a negative precedent again this summer, holding the infamous record of the deadliest fire in Europe in the 21st century. This unspeakable tragedy, […] The post The Role of the Post-Modern Erinyes in Greece’s Present Tragedy appeared first on The National Herald.
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A strange paradox exists in the current studies of Modern Greek music: we seem to know more about individual songs recorded or released in the […] The post Tetos Demetriades: The 1924 Victor Artist Tour appeared first on The National Herald.
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More leaders of Greek-American groups are joining the call for the United States to end an arms embargo for Cyprus, where the legitimate government side […] The post Diaspora Leaders Want US to End Cyprus Arms Embargo appeared first on The National Herald.
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ATHENS – Shifting blame from the government for not having a disaster or evacuation plan in place when wildfires hit seaside villages on July 23, […] The post Greek Fire Service, Regional Authorities Face Deadly Wildfires Blame appeared first on The National Herald.
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ATHENS – Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias’ claims he’s a bold and courageous official were laughed off by the major rival New Democracy which mocked […] The post New Democracy Mocks SYRIZA Foreign Minister Kotzias’ Boasts appeared first on The National Herald.
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ATHENS – More than eight years after they began, what turned into three international bailouts of 326 billion euros ($371.02 billion) for Greece will end […] The post As Greek Bailouts End Looms, Skepticism Blooms, Austerity Lingers appeared first on The National Herald.
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BERLIN – It took him almost 20 years to post the biggest success of his career. Greek triple jumper Dimitris Tsiamis won the bronze medal at […] The post Tsiamis Takes Bronze Medal in Berlin appeared first on The National Herald.
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CORFU, Greece – Greeks of the diaspora from the Ionian Islands will meet on Corfu in September, in the first such international conference organized by the […] The post Diaspora Greeks with Ionian Island Descent to Meet on Corfu appeared first on The National Herald.
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Sofia. There is heavy traffic on the Bulgarian borders with Greece and Romania, according to Border Police data as of 2.00 pm. On the border with Greece, there is heavy traffic on all checkpoints. On ...
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Once upon a time in central Greece ... a small town fell in love with famed film composer Ennio Morricone and painted a huge mural in his honour. The residents of Larissa have launched a fan club dedi...
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Turkey seems to seek ways to escalate tensions with Greece...again
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A job advert has gone viral this week after offering would-be employees the chance to live on the idyllic Greek island of Syros and look after stray cats for a salary of just €600 (£536) per month. Al...
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Greek fishermen have reported that they were fired upon by Turkish fishing boats near Kalapodi islet, 300 meters off the coast of Leros island. Two Greek seamen, owners of fishing boats, spoke to Alph...
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