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Wednesday, February 9, 2022

Salma Hayek, Arnold Schwarzenegger are Greek gods in BMW Super Bowl ad that looks perfect for a movie

Pic credit: BMW USA/YouTube Actors Salma Hayek Pinault and Arnold Schwarzenegger will grace viewers’ screens as Greek gods in an upcoming Super Bowl commercial. The duo will portray “retired” Greek ...


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Parents of Black American Killed by Mob in Greece Speak on Long Road to Justice in New Gayle King Interview

This kid who had always done all the right things." RELATED: Video Emerges of Fatal Beating of American Tourist in Greece One month after Bakari's death, King sat down with his parents ...


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Hyatt dives into the Greek islands with a tranquil lava-themed hotel on Santorini

MSN and The Points Guy may receive a commission from card issuers. World of Hyatt loyalists have a great reason to celebrate today: The brand is finally heading to the Greek isles, specifically on the ...


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BMW Super Bowl Ad Stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Salma Hayek As Greek Gods

… stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Greek god Zeus and Salma Hayek … lazing by the pool, the Greek god struggles to use the …


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Met sergeant, 48, blames Mediterranean Greek background for kissing cheek of female officer

… ' Sgt Panayi cited Mediterranean Greek background during misconduct hearing  He … Police sergeant blamed his Mediterranean Greek background for kissing and pinching … Sgt Panayi, cited his Mediterranean Greek background and said it was …


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How the Ancient Greeks Measured Time Shows What they Valued

The ancient Greeks measured time in part because human beings have felt the need to track the passage of their hours and days since time immemorial, prompted certainly by the need to plant things at the appropriate time, on the appropriate day at just the right time of year. Perhaps there has just always been […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.


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Greece Loans Statue to Italy in Return for Parthenon Gesture

Greece loaned on Wednesday to the Antonino Salinas Regional Archaeological Museum in Palermo, Italy a statue of Athena from the Acropolis Museum. The statue dates between 420-400 B.C. and shows the goddess leaning on her spear (now lost). In a ceremony that started with the national anthems of Greece and Italy, the statue was transferred […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.


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Pfizer Made $36.8 Billion from Covid-19 Vaccine in 2021

Pfizer, the international pharmaceuticals giant helmed by Thessaloniki-born Dr. Albert Bourla, made a staggering $36.8 billion on its first-in-the-world coronavirus vaccine last year. First authorized for emergency use in December of 2020, just nine months after the virus began to shut down the country’s economy, the Pfizer vaccine, which was produced with Germany’s much smaller […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.


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Political scientist explains how a strategic blunder of the 1990’s set the stage for today’s Ukrainian crisis

Understandably enough, commentaries on the crisis between Russia and the West tend to dwell on Ukraine. After all, more than 100,000 Russian soldiers and a fearsome array of weaponry have now been emplaced around the Ukrainian border. Still, such a narrow perspective deflects attention from an American strategic blunder that dates to the 1990s and is still reverberating. This article originally appeared on TomDispatch. During that decade, Russia was on its knees. Its economy had shrunk by nearly 40%, while unemployment was surging and inflation skyrocketing. (It reached a monumental 86% in 1999.) The Russian military was a mess. Instead of seizing the opportunity to create a new European order that included Russia, President Bill Clinton and his foreign-policy team squandered it by deciding to expand NATO threateningly toward that country’s borders. Such a misbegotten policy guaranteed that Europe would once again be divided, even as Washington created a new order that excluded and progressively alienated post-Soviet Russia. The Russians were perplexed — as well they should have been. At the time, Clinton and company were hailing Russian President Boris Yeltsin as a democrat. (Never mind that he had lobbed tank shells at his own recalcitrant parliament in 1993 and, in 1996, prevailed in a crooked election, abetted weirdly enough by Washington.) They praised him for launching a “transition” to a market economy, which, as Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich so poignantly laid out in her book Second Hand Time, would plunge millions of Russians into penury by “decontrolling” prices and slashing state-provided social services. Why, Russians wondered, would Washington obsessively push a Cold War NATO alliance ever closer to their borders, knowing that a reeling Russia was in no position to endanger any European country? An Alliance Saved from Oblivion Unfortunately, those who ran or influenced American foreign policy found no time to ponder such an obvious question. After all, there was a world out there for the planet’s sole superpower to lead and, if the U.S. wasted time on introspection, “the jungle,” as the influential neoconservative thinker Robert Kagan put it, would grow back and the world would be “imperiled.” So, the Clintonites and their successors in the White House found new causes to promote using American power, a fixation that would lead to serial campaigns of intervention and social engineering. The expansion of NATO was an early manifestation of this millenarian mindset, something theologian Reinhold Niebuhr had warned about in his classic book, The Irony of American History. But who in Washington was paying attention, when the world’s fate and the future were being designed by us, and only us, in what Washington Post neoconservative columnist Charles Krauthammer celebrated in 1990 as the ultimate “unipolar moment” — one in which, for the first time ever, the United States would possess peerless power? Still, why use that opportunity to expand NATO, which had been created in 1949 to deter the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact from rolling into Western Europe, given that both the Soviet Union and its alliance were now gone? Wasn’t it akin to breathing life into a mummy? To that question, the architects of NATO expansion had stock answers, which their latter-day disciples still recite. The newly born post-Soviet democracies of Eastern and Central Europe, as well as other parts of the continent, could be “consolidated” by the stability that only NATO would provide once it inducted them into its ranks. Precisely how a military alliance was supposed to promote democracy was, of course, never explained, especially given a record of American global alliances that had included the likes of Philippine strongman Ferdinand Marcos, Greece under the colonels, and military-ruled Turkey. And, of course, if the denizens of the former Soviet Union now wanted to join the club, how could they rightly be denied? It hardly mattered that Clinton and his foreign policy team hadn’t devised the idea in response to a raging demand for it in that part of the world. Quite the opposite, consider it the strategic analog to Say’s Law in economics: they designed a product and the demand followed. Domestic politics also influenced the decision to push NATO eastward. President Clinton had a chip on his shoulder about his lack of combat credentials. Like many American presidents (31 to be precise), he hadn’t served in the military, while his opponent in the 1996 elections, Senator Bob Dole, had been badly injured fighting in World War II. Worse yet, his evasion of the Vietnam-era draft had been seized upon by his critics, so he felt compelled to show Washington’s power brokers that he had the stomach and temperament to safeguard American global leadership and military preponderance. In reality, because most voters weren’t interested in foreign policy, neither was Clinton and that actually gave an edge to those in his administration deeply committed to NATO expansion. From 1993, when discussions about it began in earnest, there was no one of significance to oppose them. Worse yet, the president, a savvy politician, sensed that the project might even help him attract voters in the 1996 presidential election, especially in the Midwest, home to millions of Americans with eastern and central European roots. Furthermore, given the support NATO had acquired over the course of a generation in Washington’s national security and defense industry ecosystem, the idea of mothballing it was unthinkable, since it was seen as essential for continued American global leadership. Serving as a protector par excellence provided the United States with enormous influence in the world’s premier centers of economic power of that moment. And officials, think-tankers, academics, and journalists — all of whom exercised far more influence over foreign policy and cared much more about it than the rest of the population — found it flattering to be received in such places as a representative of the world’s leading power. Under the circumstances, Yeltsin’s objections to NATO pushing east (despite verbal promises made to the last head of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, not to do so) could easily be ignored. After all, Russia was too weak to matter. And in those final Cold War moments, no one even imagined such NATO expansion. So, betrayal? Perish the thought! No matter that Gorbachev steadfastly denounced such moves and did so again this past December. You Reap What You Sow Russian President Vladimir Putin is now pushing back, hard. Having transformed the Russian army into a formidable force, he has the muscle Yeltsin lacked. But the consensus inside the Washington Beltway remains that his complaints about NATO’s expansion are nothing but a ruse meant to hide his real concern: a democratic Ukraine. It’s an interpretation that conveniently absolves the U.S. of any responsibility for ongoing events. Today, in Washington, it doesn’t matter that Moscow’s objections long preceded Putin’s election as president in 2000 or that, once upon a time, it wasn’t just Russian leaders who didn’t like the idea. In the 1990s, several prominent Americans opposed it and they were anything but leftists. Among them were members of the establishment with impeccable Cold War credentials: George Kennan, the father of the containment doctrine; Paul Nitze, a hawk who served in the Reagan administration; the Harvard historian of Russia Richard Pipes, another hardliner; Senator Sam Nunn, one of the most influential voices on national security in Congress; Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a one-time U.S. ambassador to the United Nations; and Robert McNamara, Lyndon Johnson’s Secretary of Defense. Their warnings were all remarkably similar: NATO’s expansion would poison relations with Russia, while helping to foster within it authoritarian and nationalist forces. The Clinton administration was fully aware of Russia’s opposition. In October 1993, for example, James Collins, the chargĂ© d’affaires at the U.S. embassy in Russia, sent a cable to Secretary of State Warren Christopher, just as he was about to travel to Moscow to meet Yeltsin, warning him that NATO’s enlargement was “neuralgic to Russians” because, in their eyes, it would divide Europe and shut them out. He warned that the alliance’s extension into Central and Eastern Europe would be “universally interpreted in Moscow as directed at Russia and Russia alone” and so regarded as “neo-containment.” That same year, Yeltsin would send a letter to Clinton (and the leaders of the United Kingdom, France, and Germany) fiercely opposing NATO expansion if it meant admitting former Soviet states while excluding Russia. That would, he predicted, actually “undermine Europe’s security.” The following year, he clashed publicly with Clinton, warning that such expansion would “sow the seeds of mistrust” and “plunge post-Cold War Europe into a cold peace.” The American president dismissed his objections: the decision to offer former parts of the Soviet Union membership in the alliance’s first wave of expansion in 1999 had already been taken. The alliance’s defenders now claim that Russia accepted it by signing the 1997 NATO-Russia Founding Act. But Moscow really had no choice, being dependent then on billions of dollars in International Monetary Fund loans (possible only with the approval of the United States, that organization’s most influential member). So, it made a virtue of necessity. That document, it’s true, does highlight democracy and respect for the territorial integrity of European countries, principles Putin has done anything but uphold. Still, it also refers to “inclusive” security across “the Euro-Atlantic area” and “joint decision-making,” words that hardly describe NATO’s decision to expand from 16 countries at the height of the Cold War to 30 today. By the time NATO held a summit in Romania’s capital, Bucharest, in 2008, the Baltic states had become members and the revamped alliance had indeed reached Russia’s border. Yet the post-summit statement praised Ukraine’s and Georgia’s “aspirations for membership,” adding “we agreed today that these countries will become members of NATO.” President George W. Bush’s administration couldn’t possibly have believed Moscow would take Ukraine’s entry into the alliance lying down. The American ambassador to Russia, William Burns — now the head of the CIA — had warned in a cable two months earlier that Russia’s leaders regarded that possibility as a grave threat to their security. That cable, now publicly available, all but foresaw a train wreck like the one we’re now witnessing. But it was the Russia-Georgia war — with rare exceptions mistakenly presented as an unprovoked, Moscow-initiated attack — that provided the first signal Vladimir Putin was past the point of issuing protests. His annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, following an illegal referendum, and the creation of two “republics” in the Donbas, itself part of Ukraine, were far more dramatic moves that effectively initiated a second Cold War. Averting Disaster And now, here we are. A divided Europe, increasing instability amid military threats by nuclear-armed powers, and the looming possibility of war, as Putin’s Russia, its troops and armaments massed around Ukraine, demand that NATO expansion cease, Ukraine be barred from the alliance, and the United States and its allies finally take Russia’s objections to the post-Cold War security order seriously. Of the many obstacles to averting war, one is particularly worth noting: the widespread claim that Putin’s concerns about NATO are a smokescreen obscuring his true fear: democracy, particularly in Ukraine. Russia, however, repeatedly objected to NATO’s eastward march even when it was still being hailed as a democracy in the West and long before Putin became president in 2000. Besides, Ukraine has been a democracy (however tumultuous) since it became independent in 1991. So why the Russian buildup now? Vladimir Putin is anything but a democrat. Still, this crisis is unimaginable without the continual talk about someday ushering Ukraine into NATO and Kyiv’s intensifying military cooperation with the West, especially the United States. Moscow views both as signs that Ukraine will eventually join the alliance, which — not democracy — is Putin’s greatest fear. Now for the encouraging news: the looming disaster has finally energized diplomacy. We know that the hawks in Washington will deplore any political settlement that involves compromise with Russia as appeasement. They’ll liken President Biden to Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister who, in 1938, gave way to Hitler in Munich. Some of them advocate a “massive weapons airlift” to Ukraine, Ă  la Berlin as the Cold War began. Others go further, urging Biden to muster an “international coalition of the willing, readying military forces to deter Putin and, if necessary, prepare for war.” Sanity, however, can still prevail through a compromise. Russia could settle for a moratorium on Ukrainian membership in NATO for, say, two decades, something the alliance should be able to accept because it has no plans to fast-track Kyiv’s membership anyway. To gain Ukraine’s assent, it would be guaranteed the freedom to secure arms for self-defense and, to satisfy Moscow, Kyiv would agree never to allow NATO bases or aircraft and missiles capable of striking Russia on its territory. The deal would have to extend beyond Ukraine if it is to ward off crises and war in Europe. The United States and Russia would need to summon the will to discuss arms control there, including perhaps an improved version of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty that President Trump ditched in 2019. They would also need to explore confidence-building measures like excluding troops and armaments from designated areas along the NATO-Russian borderlands and steps to prevent the (now-frequent) close encounters between American and Russian warplanes and warships that could careen out of control. Over to the diplomats. Here’s wishing them well. _Rajan Menon, a TomDispatch regular, is the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of International Relations emeritus at the Powell School, City College of New York, director of the Grand Strategy Program at Defense Priorities, and Senior Research Scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace at Columbia University. He is the author, most recently, of The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention._


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Josh Groban's Harmony Tour at The Greek Theatre on August 2nd!

Josh Groban is bringing his Harmony Tour to The Greek Theatre on August 2nd with special guest Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Also featuring Lucia Micarelli and Eleri Ward. Tickets are on sale now - ...


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Parents of Bakari Henderson, American killed in Greece in 2017, speak to CBS News ahead of retrial

"CBS Mornings" co-host Gayle King sat down with the parents of Bakari Henderson for their first interview before they return to Greece for a retrial in their son's murder case. Bakari Henderson was 22 ...


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Greek statue lent to Italy in exchange for Parthenon gesture

Greek Culture Minister Lina Mendoni, who travelled to Palermo’s A. Salinas Archaeological Museum for the handover, said the gesture “reciprocates the generosity” of the Italian institution that sent ...


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The Greek Gastronomy and Diet Festival be held online on February 15th 2022

… for everyone to explore Greek gastronomy, to create an … the real Greece when the situation allows. Greece has always … Greece’s Deputy Minister of Tourism will open the Greek … Alexandra Anthidou of Northern Greece Winemakers and Dimitris Dambassinas …


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Arnold Schwarzenegger, Salma Hayek star as retired Greek gods in BMW iX EV Super Bowl ad

The two decide to retire from their positions and move from Mount Olympus – home of the gods in Greek mythology – to Palm Springs, Calif.


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A Message from the High Council for Greek Education and The Office of Greek Education on The International Greek Language Day

On the occasion of the established celebration of the International Day of the Greek Language, February 9, the day of remembrance of our National poet Dionysios Solomos, we consider it a great honor, ...


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Metropolis of Chicago Federation of Greek Orthodox Church Musicians 2022 Winter Trip

At the invitation of John Lulias, Director of the Choir at St. Nicholas Church/Tarpon Spring, FL , seven singers representing the Chicago Metropolis’ Federation of Greek Orthodox Church Musicians ...


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NASA Rocket Launch From Mars Coming Soon

NASA will work with Lockheed Martin Space to build what they call a “Mars Ascent Vehicle” to launch samples from the surface of the Red Planet back to Earth. The Mars Ascent Vehicle, known as the MAV, is a small rocket that will launch sediment, rock, and atmospheric samples, becoming the first rocket launched from […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.


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New Type of Spine Stimulation Helps Patients Walk, Paddle a Canoe

A revolutionary new system that uses electrical spinal stimulation to nerves, simulating the impulses that they normally get from the brain, has restored function in three patients who had been completely unable to move their legs or torso. Although electrical stimulation therapy has been used for some years now, enabling some paralyzed patients — not […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.


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Images of recently abdicated King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson up for auction

The Duke and Duchess of Windsor were guests on board a yacht belonging to Greek millionaire Nicholas Zographos, a professional gambler who made his money in the casinos of the South of France.


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GREECE; Management consulting firms less optimistic, survey shows

Greek management consultants were less optimistic over economic developments in the fourth quarter of 2021, Hellenic Association of Management Consulting Firms (SESMA) said in a report. The SESMA barometer for the economy, which surveys and records the views of management consulting firms on a quarterly basis, showed that the General Index GRe+1, a composite index, […] The post GREECE; Management consulting firms less optimistic, survey shows appeared first on Hellenic News of America.


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'Greek god' Prince Philip used to 'show off' in front of Queen Elizabeth II

Prince Philip was said to be quite the catch in his prime as he was labeled as a “Greek god” and was known to “show off like mad” in front of the Queen and Princess Margaret, according per the Queen’s ...


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Staellinika celebrates International Greek Language Day with new content on Greek Mythology, Holidays and Traditions

On February 9th, as the world celebrates the life of esteemed Greek poet Dionysios Solomos and the influence of the Greek language in both the arts and sciences, Staellinika invites Greeks and ...


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Father of U.S. tourist killed in Greece speaks on seeing son's attackers in court ahead of retrial

“CBS Mornings” co-host Gayle King sits down with the parents of Bakari Henderson for their first interview before they return to Greece for a retrial in their son's murder case. Bakari Henderson, a ...


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Greek foreign minister to visit Moscow and meet Lavrov on February 18

This is the third visit of the Greek Foreign Minister to Russia over the past two years


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Housing funds for Greek Cypriots living in north

The Cabinet on Wednesday approved a housing scheme for Greek Cypriots who reside in the villages of Rizokarpaso and Ayia Triada in the north, or have decided to resettle there. The financial aid ...


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Greece travel: How will new Covid restrictions affect my holiday?

After tightening its travel rules in response to the Omicron variant, Greece has now relaxed its entry requirements for vaccinated travellers. While unvaccinated or partly vaccinated visitors will ...


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First Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Greece to Open at Costa Navarino

… first Mandarin Oriental property in Greece in spring 2023. The new … for the first time to Greece, signifying the further growth … opening our first property in Greece in Costa Navarino and … groves, pristine beaches and authentic Greek culture in the region with …


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Protesters detained after violence breaks out at building site of new Greek migrant camp

… the Greek mainland. Migrants and asylum seekers in Greece According … to figures published in December by the Greek … for international protection in Greece in December 2021 came … camps across Greece. On January 23, Greek newspaper Ekathimerini …


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The Greek Language is Not Dying; It’s Merely Changing

Is the Greek language, one of the most ancient languages in history of mankind, dying due to an avalanche of foreign words being introduced? Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.


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Dionysios Solomos: The Greek Poet of Liberty

Dionysios Solomos, born on the island of Zakynthos in 1798, is rightly regarded as the National Poet of Greece for writing “Imnos eis tin EleftherĂ­an,” (“Hymn to Freedom”), the first two stanzas of which became the national anthem of Greece. His work had a monumental influence in uniting Greeks and creating a common national identity […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.


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PM Mitsotakis congratulates school robotics team Minders on Olympiad distinction

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday received and congratulated the high school robotics team Minders, which won 5th place in the 2021 World Robotics Olympiad. The prime minister noted that Greek schools had made changes that allow children to become familiar with computing and IT applications at a very early age, while he also praised […] The post PM Mitsotakis congratulates school robotics team Minders on Olympiad distinction appeared first on Hellenic News of America.


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Greek Tourism; Surge in early bookings for new tourist season

A sharp rise in early bookings for the new tourist season has been observed in Greece, underlined Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias in an interview with ‘Ikonomikos Tachidromos’. He stated, among others, that “the picture we have from the tour operators, the airlines, the hotels and cruise sector is very good”. Asked if Greece can exceed […] The post Greek Tourism; Surge in early bookings for new tourist season appeared first on Hellenic News of America.


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Greece supported by record 4.85 bln euros from European Investment Bank in 2021

Private and public investment in Greece reached a record 4.85 billion euros (5.54 billion U.S. dollars) of support in total from the European Investment Bank Group, officials announced Tuesday. The ...


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Sky Express to offer Greek connections to easyJet customers

The move will allow customers to connect via Athens, Thessaloniki, Corfu, Zakynthos, Preveza, Kefalonia, Rhodes, Larnaca, Chania, Heraklion and Thessaloniki to over 20 new Greek destinations.


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Turkey-Greek Islands Ferries Starts Up Again After 2-Year Break

Ferry services between Turkey and the Greek Islands are resuming after being paused for two years during the Covid-19 pandemic.


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Greece's fledgling tech scene starts to take off

After years in which Greece was almost as well known for its financial woes as it was for its beaches, recent deals have highlighted a small but thriving startup scene that has grown up since the ...


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Mandarin Oriental signs for first Greece property

The first property in Greece from the brand, Mandarin Oriental, Costa Navarino will be located on the south-west coast of the Peloponnese, one of the most unspoiled and breath-taking landscapes in the ...


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Latest travel rules and Covid test changes for Spain, France, Greece and more for half term

Latest travel rule changes and PCR Covid test rules for UK travellers heading to Spain, France, Greece, Portugal and more for the half term holidays this February ...


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Greek and US forces team up for escape exercise

IMAGES Soldiers of the Greek and US armed forces participate … November at Stefanovikio in Central Greece. Hardalias presented diplomas to the …


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Finnish FM defends Greece on Turkey visit

… Frontex. Cavusoglu had accused Greece and Frontex of “inhumane … repeating Turkish allegations that “Greece has continued its pushback policy … of the pushbacks, because Greece pierced the boats. The … and refugees across the Greek border.  The Finnish foreign …


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Oscar-winning Alexander Payne becomes Greek citizen

… [Twitter/ Consulate General of Greece in Boston] Academy Award-winning … as a Greek citizen at the Consulate General of Greece in Boston … Alexander Payne is now a Greek citizen. He has proven once … United States to parents of Greek heritage. He has twice won …


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S&P foresees Greek credit rating upgrade by end-April

… sovereign analyst Frank Gill said Greece, which has a strong … size of its economy. Greece’s 10-year bond yield … its speculative grade rating means Greek bonds are only eligible for … two notches below investment grade. Greece has a positive outlook, meaning …


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Turkish Cyprus repeats offer to work with Greek side on migration

… ministry slammed the Greek Cypriot administration and Greece for “covering … also added that Greece and the Greek Cypriots have made … defense and foreign ministries. Greece must immediately end its … eastern Aegean Sea islands. Greece’s Migration Minister Notis …


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Greece says energy financial support since September exceeds 2 bln euros

ATHENS, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Greece will subsidise power bills for households and businesses facing soaring energy prices for a sixth consecutive month in February, the energy minister said on Wednesday, ...


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Greece Blasts Turkey Over Panagia Soumela “Desecration”

Greece and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew blasted Turkey on Tuesday over the “desecration” of the Panagia Soumela Monastery which turned into a nightclub for an advertising video clip. The controversial video clip, with a DJ playing loud electronic music in the courtyard of the historic monastery and people dancing, had many Orthodox Christians reacting in anger. […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.


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US Couple That Laundered $4.5 Billion in Bitcoin Arrested

A Manhattan couple has been arrested by the FBI after attempting to launder 119,754 stolen Bitcoin. Ilya Lichtenstein, 34, and Heather Morgan, 31, are accused of attempting to launder the Bitcoin after it was stolen by a hacker through more than 20,000 unauthorized transactions that took place on Bitfinex in 2018. Authorities have already recovered […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.


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Prince Philip: The Homeless “Greek God” Shunned by Palace and Churchill

Prince Philip was regarded as a "Greek God" Queen Elizabeth's bridesmaid said at an event to mark 70 years since she acceded to the throne.


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GREECE frantically searching for high-tech defense to repel Turkish drones

According to the report, the official stated that Turkey has established superiority over GREECE thanks to its drones and unmanned combat aerial ...


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The GREEK Selloff Opportunity

GREEK bonds are once again at center of selloff and GREEK yields are up 200 basis points since last August. See why selloff in GREEK bonds is an ...


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Pfizer sees COVID-19 vaccine, therapeutic sales topping $50 billion in 2022

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla speaks during a ceremony in Thessaloniki, GREECE, on Oct. 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos, File).


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