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… Minister Dmytro Kuleba has asked Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias to … Nea" and stressed that Greece has a role and a … the United Nations." "Greece is in favour of de … of international law," the Greek Foreign Minister said.
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Guests to the 2022 event are encouraged to wear GREEK inspired clothing to get into the GREEK spirit. Posted Feb 5, 2022. HRMC Papa Luigi fundraiser ...
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Turkish authorities said the 19 migrants froze to death earlier this week after being illegally pushed back across the border by GREEK guards. Athens ...
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The return of the Parthenon Marbles from the British Museum to Greece is a recurring subject in the past few years Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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The number of new COVID-19 infections and deaths in Greece seems to stabilize below the high figures of last week. On Saturday, the National Public Health Organization (EODY) announced 16,023 new cases and 72 deaths, while 567 patients are intubated. Almost half of the cases reported a month ago. EODY in its daily report provides […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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The special forces of Ancient Greece, from the Band of Thebes to the Hetairoi of the army of Alexander the Great, became legend in history Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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A magnitude 4.2 earthquake near Skyros, Euboea, Central GREECE, GREECE, was reported only 11 minutes ago by the National Observatory of Athens ...
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More MPs set to submit resignation demands as No 10 rejigs team Boris Johnson’s desperate efforts to save his premiership were undermined on Saturday as one of his most loyal backbench supporters said it was now “inevitable” that Tory MPs would remove him from office over the “partygate” scandal. In an interview with the _Observer, _Sir Charles Walker, a former vice-chairman of the 1922 Committee of backbench Conservative MPs, implored the prime minister to go of his own accord in the national interest, and likened the events in the Tory party to a Greek tragedy. Continue reading...
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Festival offers chance to view Byzantine-style with a tour of the St. Barbara GREEK Orthodox Church of Sarasota.
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Advertisement Lawyers for the legal aid group Justice Abroad had traveled to Greece from Britain to defend the protesters -- who are British, American and Tibetan Canadian. "They pushed it into the ...
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25th Island of GREECE actually has at least 25 inhabited islands as part of its territory, and some of them are really interesting. · Bornholm Island, ...
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Hundreds of people in Istanbul marched to the Greek consulate on Saturday to protest the deaths of 19 migrants near Turkey's border with Greece. Turkish authorities said they froze to death earlier ...
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A group of ancient flowers was discovered in present-day Myanmar perfectly preserved in amber. A new study found that the flowers suggest that some flowering plants have been unchanged for nearly 100 million years. Ancient flower specimens are notoriously hard to come by due to the ephemeral nature of a flower’s life. Flowers mature, […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his wife, Emine, have tested positive for coronavirus, as they announced on Saturday Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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ISTANBUL (AP) — Hundreds of people in Istanbul marched to the Greek consulate on Saturday to protest the deaths of 19 migrants near Turkey’s border with Greece. Turkish authorities said they froze to ...
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… the slalom, carried the Greek flag and led the procession … Apart from Danou and Antoniou, Greece is participating with another three … Angelis (cross-country skiing). Greek athletes always lead the parade … of the Olympics as Greece was the birthplace of …
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… also many members of the Greek diaspora in the potential conflict … be, to evacuate Ukraine’s Greek community by sea. If … to open conflict, the large Greek community in the region (100 … for immediate “results.” For Hellenism (Greece and Cyprus), Erdogan’s trend …
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[Olympic torchbearers at the opening ceremony.] Torch bearers carry the Olympic flame during the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at the Beijing National Stadium on February 4, 2022. | David Ramos/Getty Images As the Beijing Winter Games begin, hopes that international sport could help promote global peace are melting away. The Beijing Winter Games that opened on Friday are officially the XXIV Winter Olympics. They could have been the XXVI Winter Games — that’s the 26th for those of us who have forgotten our grade-school Roman numeral lessons — save for a historical interruption: World War II, which led to the cancellation of the Winter and Summer Games of 1940 and 1944. (The Summer and Winter Games began alternating every two years with the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Games.) The idea that sporting competition between nations can play a role in promoting peace has been part of the Olympics since its origins in ancient Greece. Greek city-states that otherwise spent much of their time at war with one another observed (with some exceptions) a truce during the Olympics, allowing safe travel and participation for athletes and spectators during the Games. Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the French aristocrat who spearheaded the relaunching of the modern Olympics beginning in 1896, believed that “the Olympic Games may be a potent, if indirect factor in securing world peace.” Since 1993, the United Nations General Assembly has adopted the Olympic Truce resolution two years before every Games, unanimously calling for “all hostilities to cease during the Games, thereby mobilizing the youth of the world in the cause of peace.” In 2000, the committee behind the Games established the International Olympic Truce Centre in Athens “to promote the Olympic ideals to serve peace, friendship and understanding of the world.” Take away those lofty-sounding ideals, and the Olympics are essentially a glorified international athletics competition that is 100 percent guaranteed to run over budget for its host city. But as the example of World War II shows — not to mention the many Games over the years that have been at least partially disrupted by international conflict, including this one — more often, it is war that has stopped the Olympics, rather than the Olympics stopping war. WHEN A TRUCE ISN’T A TRUCE Questions about what role the Olympics play in promoting world peace are especially acute as the Beijing Games begin. Even as the ice hockey and curling matches have already begun, tens of thousands of Russian troops are stationed along the Ukrainian border, raising fears of an invasion that President Biden has said would be “the most consequential thing that’s happened in the world in terms of war and peace since World War II.” While a full athletic boycott of the Beijing Olympics over the Chinese government’s treatment of the Uyghurs failed to materialize, the US has led a number of allies in a diplomatic boycott of the Games, with India deciding to join on Thursday. (The diplomatic boycott meant that observing countries are not sending official government delegations to Beijing, so Chinese President Xi Jinping was mostly joined at the opening ceremonies on Friday by fellow autocrats.) And the Olympic truce didn’t stop Washington from launching a commando raid on Thursday that led to the death of ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, and reportedly a number of women and children. As the international relations scholar Kimberly Kim wrote in 2020, “most of the Games held in the modern Olympic era have failed to live up to the Olympic values and ideals.” [Protest of Beijing Olympics] Mayank Makhija/NurPhoto via Getty Images A Tibetan man holds a placard as he marches toward the Chinese Embassy during a protest against Beijing Winter Olympics in New Delhi, India, on February 4, 2022. Olympics in 1972 and 1996 were directly marred by deadly acts of terrorism. Ten days before the opening of the 1968 Mexico City Games, the Mexican government opened fire on student protesters in the capital’s Tlatelolco plaza, leading to the deaths of hundreds of people by some estimates, though the final death toll remains unknown. The 1980 and 1984 Summer Olympics featured alternating full boycotts from the US and the Soviet Union, as well as their respective allies. The 1936 Berlin Olympics were explicitly presented as a showcase for Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s vision of Aryan supremacy — though American sprinter Jesse Owens had something to say about that — and the 2014 Sochi Olympics, the most expensive in history, were staged in large part to display the strength of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Nor was peace universally observed in the classical Olympic Games. City-states were only forbidden from invading Olympia, where the ancient Games were held, or from stopping an athlete or spectator on their way to the competition; otherwise, warfare often continued during the Olympics. Even the Games weren’t always safe — in 364 BCE, troops attacked the sacred site of Altis in Olympia. Athletes stopped their competition, and spectators turned from watching the participants to watching the soldiers. Peace as we understand it now was never a goal of the original Olympics. What the Greeks observed during the Olympics was _ekecheiria_, which more accurately translates to “truce.” What the Olympics offered was a partial interruption to the normal background of near-constant conflict between the Greek city-states. Pierre de Coubertin’s vision that an athletic competition between nations could help lead to universal peace would have been utterly alien to the Greeks. DESCENDING FROM OLYMPIA For all its faults, there have been times when the modern Olympics have played a meaningful role in promoting international peace. In Barcelona in 1992, athletes from members of 12 former Soviet republics competed as a unified team, taking home more medals than anyone else. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, athletes from both Koreas marched under a single flag and fielded a unified women’s ice hockey team. [Xi Jinping at Olympic opening ceremonies] Anthony Wallace/Getty Images Chinese President Xi Jinping declares the games open during the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at the Beijing National Stadium on February 4, 2022. But that unified team in 1992 included Russia and Ukraine — two countries now on the brink of what could be Europe’s first conventional land war in decades. And relations between North and South Korea are arguably worse now than they were in 2018. Even though Olympic ideals played little role in it, the absolute number of war deaths has largely been declining since 1946, part of a long-term trend in human history away from our often violent past. But as the nature of global conflict has changed, the ideals of the Olympics — nations in friendly competition — seem an increasingly poor fit. What may happen in Ukraine notwithstanding, conflict primarily occurs not between countries but within them, as world wars are superseded by civil wars and open-ended campaigns against non-state actors. The Olympic truce has little to say about how the Chinese government is treating the Uyghurs, or the civilian casualties that mount in America’s war against ISIS and other terror groups. How nations treat their citizens — let alone citizens of no nation — isn’t in the purview of de Coubertin’s heirs, the sport autocrats of the International Olympic Committee. The Olympics today are an anachronism layered on top of an anachronism — an ancient religious rite first reimagined for a Victorian era of gentlemen amateurs, and then again for capitalistic excess and geopolitical prestige. Given China’s draconian Covid policies, spectators won’t be able to attend, and even athletes from different countries will have little chance to mingle and learn from each other, as de Coubertin once envisioned. No doubt the athletic performances will be extraordinary, as they are at every Olympics. But the truce won’t hold, because there was never any truce to begin with. _A version of this story was initially published in the _Future Perfect_ newsletter. __SIGN UP HERE TO SUBSCRIBE!_
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February 2, is the feast of the Presentation or Meeting of the Lord in the Temple (Ypapanti in Greek). This is a wonderful, wonderful, joyful, hopeful feast day. It is one of the major feast days of the liturgical calendar year. It is the 40th day after Christmas, when we celebrate Christ being brought, presented, […] The post The Feast of the Ypapanti of the Lord appeared first on Hellenic News of America.
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(MENAFN) Turkey attacked Greece over its "inhumane" treatment of refugees when 19 of them died out of cold at the Greek-Turkish frontier. Turkey’s National Defense Ministry stated the refugees ...
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Greek reports claim that the damage amounts to more than €40,000 ($45,225 at current exchange rates). Although the vehicle is insured, it is only fully insured in Lebanon, and for just a third of the ...
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Eleni Ioannidou, a doctor at the Rethymno Hospital, has been creating lately impressive mosaics using just expired pills. Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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Nicholas Yatromanolakis, the Greek Deputy Minister of Culture and Sports, who is responsible for contemporary culture highlighted the unique relations and cultural cooperation between Egypt and ...
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In good news for UK holidaymakers, Morocco will reopen its borders for commercial flights from this Monday (February 7), while on the same day, Greece will drop its testing requirement for vaccinated ...
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Lawyers say delay in case against three defendants including a Briton is to avoid embarrassing China The trial in Greece of activists who protested against Beijing holding the Winter Olympics has been postponed amid accusations that proceedings were delayed to avoid embarrassing China on the eve of the Games. The highly anticipated hearing had been due to take place on Thursday in the town of Pyrgos, with human rights lawyers travelling from the UK and Athens to attend. The activists, who included a Briton, an American and a Tibetan-Canadian, were arrested when they briefly disrupted the Olympic flame lighting ceremony in October. Continue reading...
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GREECE has led the parade, as is customary, at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games which started on Friday in the Chinese ...
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event-in-paris-marks-200-years-since-GREEK-. French actress Fanny Ardant reads the odes to Greece by Dionysios Solomos and Victor Hugo at the ...
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Greece's population declined by 39933 in 2020, as births continued to trail deaths and incoming migration dropped, the Hellenic Statistical ...
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To further honor Rev. Creel's missionary legacy and further reprints of the GREEK FireBible, any contributions can be sent to: Life Publishers, 1625 N ...
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GREECE traditionally leads the parade, regardless of its place in the alphabet, because that is where the Olympics originated.
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Repatriating the spoils of empire is stuck in all manner of legal and historical impasses that preserve the status quo Those who would see the Parthenon marbles return to Greece sense change in the air. As the politics of identity resurge, as the legacies of colonialism are scrutinised, Benin bronzes held in Aberdeen and Cambridge have been sent back to Nigeria, those in Glasgow are the subject of a formal request, and those in Germany are to return too. The Benin bronzes – looted by the British in a punitive raid on Benin City in 1897 – are a very different case from the sculptures that once adorned the great temple of Athens’ patron goddess on the city’s Acropolis, acquired (or so it is argued) legally by Lord Elgin in 1801. But still: Palermo’s Archaeological Museum has just sent its share of the Parthenon sculptures to the Acropolis Museum – on loan, but with talk of a permanent arrangement. The Palermo sculpture is a shoe-box-size fragment showing part of the goddess Artemis’s foot, rather than the 75m of frieze plus magnificent pediment held in the British Museum, but still, it’s a precedent of sorts. The Greek prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, made return of the Parthenon marbles a talking point on a recent visit to London. Even the Times has reversed its leader line to support repatriation. “Separating components of an artistic whole is like tearing Hamlet out of the First Folio of Shakespeare’s works,” says its editorial – though bringing the Bloomsbury sculptures to Athens would not complete anything at all, since half of the stonework is destroyed, and they will never be intact again. Charlotte Higgins is the Guardian’s chief culture writer Continue reading...
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The United States Army has agreed to a foreign military sales contract with Greece to give the country’s military its extra equipment as well as support for regional operations. The first round of equipment, known as Excess Defense Articles (EDA) arrived in Greece on Friday. The delivery contained 44 M117 Guardian Armored Safety Vehicles. The […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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The word 'Ophiuchus' might mean nothing to most people, but to astrology aficionados it could have been the 13th zodiac sign Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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Ancient GREEK warriors' helmets unearthed in Italy, spines threaded around poles found in Peru, headless medieval horse uncovered in Germany.
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The GREEKS: A Global History by Roderick Beaton (Basic Books, 2021), 590 pages. Sometime in the late 1970s, as the European Economic Community (EEC) ...
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Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin met on Friday to announce their unification against the United States on the issue of Ukraine. The White House issued a statement through press secretary Jen Psaki dismissing the meeting: “What we have control over is our own relationships and the protection of our own values […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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Tragic death of irregular migrants was not ignored, but fingers were not directly pointed to GREECE.
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Greece is easing travel restrictions for European Union citizens as a first step in its plan to open its critical tourism sector for the key summer period on March 1. “Our country is taking all ...
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Earlier this week, GREEK authorities pushed back several irregular migrants to Turkey and at least 19 of them froze death.
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Excavation area of Velia (Elea) near Ascea in Campania, Italy Archaologists found two helmets, metal pieces believed to be from weapons and the ruins of an ancient temple in the town of Velia, Italy, ...
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In this year’s sun seekers category, one Greek island made the top 10. The sun seekers category of the Travellers’ Choice awards looks at the best beach destinations in the world. While Cancun in ...
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Forty young children sang the Olympic Anthem in GREEK during the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing on Friday 4 February 2022 ...
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This GREEK restaurant in Vancouver, B.C. will make you feel like you're stepping right into Santorini, with its stunning decor and real flowers.
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Police in Athens and Thessaloniki on Friday carried out search operations at various GREEK football fan clubs and confiscated a number of weapons.
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… While the latest polls in Greece show the ruling New Democracy … popularity of KINAL means for Greece’s political scene, and explore … us about the key issues Greeks are concerned about. Panos Koliastasis … Parliamentary Systems: The Case of Greece”.
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… Movement for Change (KINAL) and Greek Solution parties, and rejected by … Alliance, the Communist Party of Greece and MeRA25. ΔΗΜΟΦΙΛΕΙΣ ΕΙΔΗΣΕΙΣ ΤΩΡΑ Participating in … which, after consultation among the Greek government, Nicosia and local municipalities …
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Archaeologists on the island of Hvar, Croatia have found stunning new evidence of the 4th-century GREEK settlement of Pharos including a grave, ...
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Coffee Cigarettes Amore, a new series of paintings by Greek artist Kyvèli Zoi, will be featured in a new art show that debuted on Wednesday in New York City. The show, with art exploring the inner pondering of unhealthy habits and how to work with them, will be the first solo exhibition in New York […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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While leaders of GREEK Life organizations have had to modify the rush process because of the omicron variant, criticisms of structural inequities ...
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From Monday, entry into GREECE for those who have an active European certificate will be done without a mandatory test, Health Minister Thanos ...
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