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… Communist Party) virus cases, Greek authorities confirmed that the restrictions … at 6 a.m., Greek Travel Pages reported, citing Health … 19 cases were reported by Greek health officials on Tuesday. … the White Tower in Thessaloniki, Greece, on Oct. 31, 2020. …
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A number of Papoulias' family members and officials were present at the funeral including GREEK President Katerina Sakellaropoulou, Prime Minister ...
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Pushbacks are main cause of recent rise in migrant deaths in Aegean Sea, says Justice and Development (AK) party spokesperson - Anadolu Agency ...
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Maria Spiliopoulou Valentini Anagnostopoulou ATHENS Dec 29 Xinhua -- Greece government implemented further protection measures against COVID-19 on Wedne ...
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Another GREEK, long jumper Miltiadis Tentoglu, was third after winning Greece's first Olympic gold medal in the event in Tokyo. Distria Krasniqi, a ...
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“The gods, ostensibly divine beings were much like us. We can see parallels between the triumphs and disasters of the ancient GREEK gods, and modern ...
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GREECE December 29 2021. Lexology GTDT Market Intelligence provides a unique perspective on evolving legal and regulatory landscapes.
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Greece recorded a staggering total of 28,828 cases of Covid-19 on Wednesday, 7,171 more than the 21,657 recorded on Tuesday. This is the highest number of cases ever recorded in the country in a 24-hour period since the start of the pandemic. The previous record for the highest number of coronavirus cases recorded in one […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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Domestically and internationally franchised fast-casual restaurant the Great Greek Mediterranean Grill is now coming to San Antonio's Westside, with a new location slated to open in the spring of 2022 ...
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On Wednesday, health authorities reported that daily confirmed COVID-19 cases had jumped by more than 7,000 to 28,828, a new all-time record, with 72 deaths ...
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“An integrated national strategy and the development of an action plan for accessible tourism is our top priority,” Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias said on Wednesday in an interview with the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA), stressing that “we care for our fellow citizens and our visitors with disabilities and take measures as an organised state for […] The post GREECE; “Action plan for accessible tourism our top priority” appeared first on Hellenic News of America.
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… , Italy, Britain, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Cyprus and Malta all registered … a vaccine. Britain, Spain, Italy, Greece Britain meanwhile saw another record … down discos until January 31st. Greece is also introducing new restrictions …
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The GREEK islands are a popular choice for travellers at this time of year as they still enjoy sunny relatively high temperatures upwards of 20 ...
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Greek divers have discovered the wreckage of an Italian submarine 80 years after it was sunk by the Allied Forces in the Aegean Sea during the Second World War ...
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Daily Covid-19 infections have hit record highs in the United States, swathes of Europe and Australia as the new Omicron variant of the virus races out of control, keeping workers at home and overwhelming testing centres.Almost 900,000 cases were detected on average each day around the world between December 22-28, with myriad countries posting new all-time highs over the past 24 hours.France, Britain, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Cyprus and Malta all registered a record number of new cases…
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Greece has been forced to implement the measures earlier than expected after the country on Tuesday announced a new record of 21,657 daily Covid-19 infections.
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Hotel heiress and reality television star Paris Hilton launched her own metaverse business on Roblox on Tuesday. Hilton is parlaying her success as a celebrity DJ and party host, a role that regularly fetches her $1 million dollars a night at clubs in China, Dubai, and Ibiza. Now the 40-year-old star is channeling all of […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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“Pro-aging” American beauty brand Flyte.70 co-founded by Greek-American Elena Frankel in 2021 has been creating innovative products targeting women who are 40-plus. Frankel and Carolyn Barber were pioneers of the indie beauty boutique concept in Boston in the 1990s. Thirty years later, they feel proud that their creation, Flyte.70, is being recognized as a leader […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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New coronavirus measures will be in effect in Greece starting at 6 AM Thursday, Greek Minister of Health Thanos Plevris announced on Wednesday. From Thursday, restaurants, bars, and cafes will close at midnight, and music will be banned. All patrons must be seated, not standing, and there will be a limit of six people to […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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A marble statue of a woman which may depict Hygeia, the wife or daughter of the ancient Greek god Asclepius, the god of medicine, was just found at the site of ancient Epidaurus, a center for healing in ancient times. The graceful statue, which is missing its arms and head, is still thought by archaeologists […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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Epiphany Koliva, a version of the food eaten at funerals in Eastern Europe, called Fotokoliva, has been made for many centuries on the Greek island of Crete. This is the twelfth in Giorgio Pintzas Monzani’s series about the foods of ancient Greece and how they have spread to cuisines around the world. The Greek-Italian chef […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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One word has become a symbol of the passing year for the European Union - a PANDEMIC, the fight against which has become the dominant theme. _"The pandemic will last longer than previously thought," _said Germany's new health minister, Karl Lauterbach. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen also said that the fourth wave of coronavirus flooding Europe was severe enough, but in 2022 we are likely to face even more serious challenges. VACCINATION, VACCINATION, VACCINATION _We have faced a new threat - the Omicron variant_, said von der Layen and emphasized that the EU must combat it by speeding up the pace of vaccination. _"Scientists tell us that vaccination and revaccination provide the best protection against COVID-19,"_ she said, adding that the EU has signed contracts with manufacturers and, if necessary, vaccines can be adapted to new mutations. Last year, the European Commission bought around one billion doses of vaccines for EU citizens. Another 350 million has been donated to the UN's international vaccination campaign, Covax. In the new year, the EU will continue to buy vaccines. _"The goal for 2022 is to ensure that 70% of the world's population is fully vaccinated by the middle of the year. We will step up our efforts to support Africa, which has the lowest vaccination rates in the world,"_ said Ursula von der Layen. THE VACCINATION RATE IN MANY EU COUNTRIES IS TOO LOW In 2021, Brussels began buying the vaccine at first slowly and then more systematically. After another wave of coronavirus infection subsided in the spring, a relatively calm summer ensued. Nightlife has resumed across the European Union, schools have reopened and beaches have become accessible to holidaymakers. However, an average of 66% of vaccinated elderly adults out of 66% proved insufficient to prevent a new wave of infection in the autumn, as well as the problem of insufficient hospital beds in some EU Member States. Vaccination rates in the EU vary significantly: from 26% in Bulgaria to 82% in Malta. However, the responsibility for combating the pandemic lies with the EU member states themselves: conducting a vaccination campaign, imposing restrictive measures, organizing tests at work, in shops, restaurants or schools. The EU can only watch from the sidelines this insane puzzle of various measures and rules. But Brussels has at least largely managed to maintain the transparency of the EU's internal borders through a pan-European vaccination passport. MANDATORY VACCINATION IN THE EU? Austria and Germany want to introduce mass compulsory vaccination. Greece, Italy and other countries provide for this to apply only to certain occupational and age categories. In 2022, EU health ministers will have to urgently discuss whether it makes sense to introduce compulsory vaccination throughout the European Union. Because then the question will inevitably arise whether, for example, Germany, with its mandatory vaccination, will allow unvaccinated EU citizens from other countries to enter the country. RESTORING THE ECONOMY AND THE RULE OF LAW The EU's economic recovery, which began in 2021, must continue and be maximized in 2022. At some point, the budgets of the EU Member States will have to be put in order. The € 750 billion EU recovery program, of which the first tranches are already being disbursed, serves as a means of economic recovery. The program, financed for the first time through debt co-financing, will primarily benefit countries in the south and east of the EU and, above all, Italy. Poland and Hungary will not receive any money for now. They presented their investment programs, but the European Commission refused to pay until the conflict with the rule of law in Poland and Hungary was resolved. 2021 will be remembered for the heated debate over the judiciary and the EU's fundamental values, which are publicly questioned or rejected by national conservative governments in Budapest and Warsaw. In 2022, the centrifugal forces within the European Union itself may be strengthened. Now that moderate Chancellor Angela Merkel has left Europe's political scene, a decisive battle could be fought. At least such statements were made by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. _"One thing is for sure: The era of ambiguity, unclarity and silence is over with Merkel. We are now preparing for a battle with a raised helmet, "_Orban said on the occasion of the change of government in Berlin. MACRON PLANS TO CHANGE EUROPE In 2022, all attention will be focused on France. President Emmanuel Macron will run for a second term in April. At the same time, he will hold the post of President of the Council of the European Union. In the election campaign against right-wing politicians, Macron wants to show that he will change Europe, as he promised. First and foremost, the French leader wants to make the EU a strategically independent player in foreign policy. He intends to unite the other EU governments around the foreign policy goals of China, the United States, Russia and the rest of the world during the Strategic Summit in the spring of 2022. To this end, EU foreign and defense policy must be more interlinked. After the rather indecisive Angela Merkel, Macron hopes to find allies for her plans in the face of new German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The first test of a "_sovereign_" Europe may come as early as 2022, when, according to various estimates, the Russian president could invade Ukraine. How will the EU react? How will NATO react? The Baltic States and Poland have long called for stronger protection, including from the European Union. THE SMOLDERING DRAMA: MIGRATION The issue of migration and asylum is a constant subject of controversy within the European Union. This is not just about the situation on the border with Belarus, but also along the English Channel, the Canary Islands, Italy and Greece. In 2021, no decisions were made in this regard. Will they be taken in 2022? Will people be admitted, accepted and assigned? These are still the most important questions. Proponents of a tough approach to migration, such as Balazs Orbán, the Hungarian government's deputy prime minister, can imagine the EU without asylum laws. The current system cannot stop people at the border, Orban said. At the same time, Amnesty International accuses the EU of continuing to disregard human rights and the right to asylum, and of forcing people to take dangerous journeys. /BGNES
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A Greek health minister announced on Wednesday that commercial venues will not be permitted to have music at New Year's celebrations amid a steep spike in COVID-19 infections due to the omicron ...
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… civilization on the island of Crete. Prior research has also shown … eastern Mediterranean, north of Crete, between southern Greece and southern Turkey. And …
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“Courtrooms who were brought to the United States by American missionaries from Greece of the Ottoman Empire were probably the ‘the pioneers of the Greek presence in America.'” Stefanos Zotos.1 The role of the American missionaries who saved and educated orphans from Turkish persecution and massacres has been ignored. They must be credited with bringing […] The post Greek Orphans and American Missionaries of the 1821 Greek Revolution appeared first on Hellenic News of America.
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Greece brought forward a batch of measures designed to slow the spread of coronavirus originally due to enter into force next week as cases surge.
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Greek divers discovered the wreckage of an Italian submarine 80 years after it was sunk during World War Two by Allied Forces in the Aegean Sea. The Jantina sank on July 5, 1941 after being hit by ...
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Greece’s health minister said Wednesday that music will be banned at all commercial venues for New Year’s celebrations as part of new restrictions announced in response to a surge in COVID-19 ...
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GREECE announced Tuesday that it is mandating COVID-19 vaccinations for residents over age 60 — and those who don't comply will face a monthly ...
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Excavations in the city of Veria/Ministry of Culture and Sports of GREECE. After centuries of glory and prosperity for GREECE came ” dark times ...
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Winter destinations in GREECE, including popular places like Arachova, Pelion and Ioannina, are seeing occupancy levels soar to 85-90% for the ...
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So when our Greek friends in the Hellenic Philatelic Society extended an invitation to the Israeli Philatelic Federation to participate in ‘NOTOS 2021,’ the European International Philatelic ...
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Eight Palestinians are missing after a boat carrying migrants sank in the Aegean Sea, off the Greek coast, and efforts are underway to know what happened to them, today said Ahmad al-Deek, from the ...
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GREEK divers have discovered the sunken wreckage of an Italian submarine in the Aegean Sea, 80 years after it was destroyed by Allied Forces ...
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GREEK authorities have charged three people with murder following the death of 16 migrants after a boat overturned in the Aegean Sea last Friday.
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GREECE has decided to reduce the mandatory quarantine of those infected with the Covid-19 virus or those with mild symptoms from ten to five days, ...
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It continues in the Ancient Historical Times with the symbols, seals, inscriptions, seal stones from Archaeological and Historical Museums of GREECE ...
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FRANCE 24 takes looks back at some eminent personalities who died in 2021, from Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, to former US Secretary of State Colin Powell, to literary icon Joan Didion. * PRINCE PHILIP, DUKE OF EDINBURGH Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, died on April 9 at Windsor Castle, aged 99. A charismatic figure renowned for his sense of public duty, Philip was the longest-serving consort of any British monarch – at the queen’s side for more than seven decades, following their marriage in 1947 and her accession to the throne in 1952. Philip was seen as an embodiment of British culture, though his family origins were a mostly continental mix: He was born on the Greek island of Corfu on June 10, 1921, to Andrew, Prince of Greece and Denmark, and Princess Alice of Battenberg. Philip’s marriage to then princess Elizabeth followed his service in the Royal Navy during World War II. As the Queen’s consort, he was well-known for his commitment to public service, completing more than 22,000 solo engagements over 65 years until retiring from public duty in 2017 at the age of 96. At an event to mark their golden wedding anniversary in 1997, the queen paid tribute to Philip: “He is someone who doesn’t take easily to compliments but he has, quite simply, been my strength and stay all these years.” * CHARLIE WATTS, ROLLING STONES DRUMMER The legendary Rolling Stones drummer died on August 24, aged 80, after nearly 60 years as in integral part of the revered British rock ’n’ roll band. Nicknamed the “Wembley Whammer” by frontman Mick Jagger for his high octane, yet jazz-influenced, drumming style, Watts joined the band in 1963, soon after its creation. Watts had started drumming in London clubs in the late 1950s. He spent two years as part of the band Blues Incorporated before he was invited to join the Stones. Watts contributed to all of the Stones’ albums – including virtuoso drumming performances in their 1969 _tour de force_, "Let It Bleed" – a fierce, hallucinatory reflection of the mood as that idolized decade closed, when the bright light of flower power turned into something darker. His devotion to The Rolling Stones was unstinting: He had performed in every one of the band’s concerts since he joined. In September, the Stones resumed their No Filter Tour, interrupted by Covid-19. They were playing live without Watts for the first time in nearly six decades. “We’ll miss Charlie so much, on and off the stage,” Jagger told the crowd at the start of the show. * JEAN-PAUL BELMONDO, NEW WAVE CINEMA ICON Jean-Paul Belmondo, an icon of French New Wave cinema, died on September 6, aged 88. Belmondo launched his acting career in 1953, but his first big break came in 1960, when Jean-Luc Godard cast him in the main role in "Breathless". The film, building on the innovations of François Truffaut’s "The 400 Blows" and Alain Resnais’s "Hirsoshima Mon Amour", both released the year before, was part of a cinematic revolution, showing a different way of making films. Belmodo’s charismatic features and insouciant look made him the perfect choice for another Godard masterpiece five years later: "Pierrot Le Fou". The actor also had an illustrious theatre career, playing a variety of mythical characters from the classical French repertoire, such as Cyrano de Bergerac. In 1988, Belmondo won the César award for best actor for his role in _"Itinéraire d'un enfant gâté"_ (Itinerary of a Spoiled Child), an accolade he turned down. As President Emmanuel Macron said at the ceremony of national homage to the man with the exquisite melancholy, yet amused, face: France loved him because “he is like us”. * BERNARD TAPIE, COLORFUL FRENCH TYCOON A month after Belmondo died, France lost another national treasure: the charismatic Bernard Tapie. The businessman, politician, singer, TV personality and football club chairman died on October 3, aged 78. Tapie came from Le Bourget, a downtrodden Paris suburb. He became rich in his 20s, mainly through buying flagging businesses and turning them around. Charmed by Tapie’s flair, then president François Mitterrand made him urban affairs minister from 1992 to 1993. But perhaps Tapie’s proudest achievement was making Olympique de Marseille into a football powerhouse. He took over his favorite club in 1986 and proceeded to buy an array of outstanding players. In 1993, the rowdy, working-class, provincial club became the first – and so far only – French team to win the most prestigious trophy in club football, the Champions League. Tapie’s empire collapsed spectacularly in the late 1990s, starting with the football match-fixing trial that saw him go to prison. Meanwhile Tapie’s sale of sportswear icon Adidas to a bank mired him in lawsuits for two decades. * HUBERT GERMAIN, FRANCE'S LAST SURVIVING RESISTANCE HERO France marked an end of an era – a symbolic moment in the passing of the wartime generation – when Hubert Germain died on October 12, aged 101. Germain was the last of the 1,038 members of the Compagnons de la Libération, an order founded by General Charles de Gaulle in 1940 to honor people who fought the Nazi occupation of France. Germain joined de Gaulle’s Free French forces soon after the fall of France in 1940. He fought in the North African theatre at the Battle of Bir Hakeim in the summer of 1942, one of the Free French’s biggest moments in World War II. Later the same year, Germain participated in the Battle of El Alamein – a crucial turning point in the war, which saw British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery’s forces smash German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s _Afrika Korp_s. Germain then served in the 1944 Allied invasions of Italy and Provence, the same year de Gaulle made him one of the Compagnons de la Libération. After the war, Germain was active in politics, serving as a local mayor in the 1960s, before entering parliament and serving as telecommunications minister in the 1970s. * COLIN POWELL, AMERICA'S FIRST BLACK SECRETARY OF STATE Colin Powell, a renowned army officer who went on to serve as the first ever Black US secretary of state from 2001 to 2005, died aged 84 on October 18. Born to parents of Jamaican origin, Powell grew up in the working-class South Bronx area of New York City. After signing up in 1958, Powell spent more than three decades as a professional soldier. As a senior officer during the Vietnam War, from 1968 to 1971, Powell took on various military advisor roles in President Ronald Reagan’s White House, eventually entering the cabinet as national security advisor from 1987 to 1989 and helping negotiate Reagan’s landmark arms control agreements with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. In the run-up to the 1991 Gulf War, as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff under President George H.W. Bush, Powell devised a doctrine arguing that the US should only go to war over a matter of national interest, using overwhelming military force and with a clear exit strategy. But he was criticized for abandoning this doctrine in the run-up to the Iraq War, when, as George W. Bush’s secretary of state, he presented evidence – which turned out to be false – of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction to the UN General Assembly. “It’s a blot […] and will always be a part of my record,” he told ABC News in 2005. * F.W. DE KLERK, SOUTH AFRICA'S LAST APARTHEID PRESIDENT South Africa’s last apartheid-era president Frederik Wilhelm de Klerk died on November 11, aged 85. Coming from a prominent Afrikaner family, de Klerk was a cabinet minister in the apartheid government before becoming president in 1989. Soon after taking office, he decided change was necessary and announced, in his famous February 1990 speech, the liberation of Nelson Mandela and an end to the ban on the African National Congress (ANC) and other anti-apartheid movements. “You have shown courage that few have done in similar circumstances,” Mandela told de Klerk at the latter’s 70th birthday party in 2006. Mandela succeeded de Klerk after the ANC won South Africa’s first elections under universal suffrage in 1994. De Klerk served as a deputy president under Mandela until 1996. * STEPHEN SONDHEIM, BROADWAY MUSICAL LEGEND Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim died on November 27, aged 91, after a glittering career in musical theatre – imbuing a light, frothy genre with literary qualities. As a child, Sondheim was inspired by revered lyricist Oscar Hammerstein, who lived nearby in Pennsylvania and became his mentor. Sondheim wrote his most popular work early in his career, West End Story (1957), with music by Leonard Bernstein, superimposing the story of Romeo and Juliet on contemporary New York. "Company" (1970) that earned Sondheim the most critical acclaim – hailed as a portrait of atomized big city life, relating the story of an immature young man. It won Sondheim his first Tony Award for Best Score. But perhaps what sticks out in theater goers’ memories more than anything else from Sondheim’s oeuvre is a single song, Send in the Clowds, from "A Little Night Music" (1973), a melancholy tale of middle-aged romance. It has been recorded hundreds of times – including by Frank Sinatra and Dame Judi Dench. * BELL HOOKS, WRITER, ACADEMIC, ACTIVIST Writer, academic and activist Gloria Jean Watkins, best known by her pen name bell hooks, died on December 15 aged 69. She adopted her lower case _nom de plume_ to honor her great-grandmother, as well as to suggest that the focus should be on her works, not the writer who created them. bell hooks rose to prominence with her book "Ain’t I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism", published in 1981 but written years earlier when she was a university student. The first of many influential works, this book explored how racism and sexism had combined over the course of US history to put black women at the bottom of the hierarchy of power. hooks wrote with “clarity, novel insight and extraordinary precision about art, media, race, gender and class” over more than four decades, The New York Times wrote in 2019. * JOAN DIDION, PEERLESS AMERICAN PROSE STYLIST An icon of US literature, an exquisite prose stylist and a penetrating political observer, Joan Didion died on December 23, aged 87. Didion was best known for her essay collection “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” (1968) and its title piece, chronicling the drug-addled hippy world of the San Francisco neighborhood Haight-Asbury. Didion gave a rather conservative take on the '60s counterculture, as demonstrated by her taking the title from the W.B. Yeats poem “The Second Coming”, an alarmed portrait of entropy. Her horror at the dark side of the counterculture was epitomized by her recounting of seeing a small child high on LSD in Haight-Asbury. But when she looked back on that moment in the 2017 documentary “The Center Will Not Hold”, Didion reveled in it as a killer detail: “It was gold,” she said. In the 1980s Didion turned her attention to politics, notably with a masterpiece essay on the 1988 presidential election campaign, “Inside Baseball”, skewering the disingenuity at the heart of US politics. The opening line stands as a tribute to her masterful sentence style, which twists and turns through subordinate clauses before landing with a thud: “It occurred to me, in California in June and in Atlanta in July and in New Orleans in August, in the course of watching first the California primary and then the Democratic and Republican national conventions, that it had not been by accident that the people with whom I had preferred to spend time in high school had, on the whole, hung out in gas stations.” * SARAH WEDDINGTON, LAWYER WHO WON ROE V. WADE Sarah Weddington, the Texas lawyer who won the landmark 1972 US Supreme Court abortion case Roe v. Wade, died on December 26 aged 76. A few years after graduating from university, Weddington brought a class action lawsuit on behalf of a pregnant woman against a Texas state law that banned abortions in the overwhelming majority of circumstances. The case of “Jane Roe” (real name Norma McCorvey) against Dallas County District Attorney Henry Wade was settled in the former’s favor in a 7-2 Supreme Court decision in 1973 – legalizing abortion throughout the US on the grounds that the “right to privacy” in the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution encompasses a woman’s right to abort a pregnancy. Weddington’s death came amid what is widely seen as the most serious challenge to Roe v. Wade since the ruling, as the Supreme Court reviews Mississippi’s prohibition of abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. * DESMOND TUTU, ANTI-APARTHEID ACTIVIST AND NOBEL LAUREATE Desmond Tutu, the South African Anglican archbishop fêted for his tireless campaigning against apartheid, died on December 26, aged 90. After years as a prominent activist urging international economic pressure and internal non-violent resistance against the apartheid regime, Tutu became in 1986 the first black Archibishop of Cape Town, the top position in the Anglican Church in South Africa. After Nelson Mandela became South Africa’s first president elected under universal suffrage in 1994, he chose Tutu to take charge of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which pursued restorative justice against violent actors both for and against apartheid, offering amnesty to perpetrators of violence who disclosed the whole truth about their actions and could show they were politically motivated. Tutu insisted that justice should not be seen as “punitive in nature”. In later years, Tutu campaigned for gay rights and for a Palestinian state. He became disillusioned with the ANC over corruption, denouncing a “gravy train”. But Tutu reconciled somewhat with the party upon the 2018 election of President Cyril Ramaphosa, a longstanding friend who promised to tackle graft.
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Under certain conditions, revenue from Greek tourism by 2030 could rise to €27 billion from its record figure of €18 billion in 2019, says INSETE.
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Three people, including a PKK/KCK terror suspect, were held while trying to flee to Greece through Turkey's northwestern border, according to the Turkish National Defense Ministry on Wednesday. The ...
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Germany is preparing to legalize cannabis for recreational use. The country’s coalition government announced on Tuesday that it would permit “the controlled sale of cannabis to adults for recreational purposes in licensed shops.” The new proposal seeks to create a market for the regulated sale and consumption of cannabis as part of a wider drug […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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The popular rap song “1-800-273-8255” by Logic, which takes its name from the phone number of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, may have prevented 245 suicides, according to a study recently published in the British Medical Journal. The song, which reached the top three of the Billboard Hot 100 in 2017, when it was released, […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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According to GREEK bankers and prominent economists, the growth rate in 2021 will eventually come to 8.5%, after a 9% plunge in 2020.
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The Great GREEK Grill will add an Alamo City location to a chain that dots the U.S., from California to Virginia. Courtesy, Tilson PR. San Antonio's ...
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We loved this Gucci look for her friend Princess Nina of GREECE'S wedding, a few months after the birth of her first daughter, Sienna. The sequinned ...
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… Wednesday morning on the Greek Island of Crete. The quake which occurred … occurred to the south of Crete was felt in Jordan. The …
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An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 on the Richter scale hit Greece's Crete on Wednesday, according to the country's Geodynamics Institute. Egyptian authorities said that the quake was felt in some of the ...
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Migrants in a dinghy accompanied by a Frontex vessel on the GREEK island of Lesbos, after crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey.
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GREECE confirmed 21657 new COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours, with 14 of these identified at entry points to the country, the National ...
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Santorini GREECE islands travle. Santorini has much changed since Xenia first visited with her father Credit: Getty.
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