How the world sees Greece
Happy Pi Day! Math fanatics from all around the world and everyone else who just loves pi (or pie) celebrate Pi Day on March 14. Pi was named for the Greek symbol π, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. The number’s first three digits are 3.14. Pi Day is observed […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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A commercial “artificial sun,” or tokamak, has achieved a world-first for a private company, generating plasma at 180 million degrees Fahrenheit, which is the temperature at which fusion can take place. UK-based Tokamak Energy announced that its privately funded ST40 spherical tokamak had achieved an important temperature milestone on Thursday, calling it “the threshold required […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros welcomed three young students from Fordham Preparatory School, Stephen Johnson, Theodore Daskalakis, and Basil Lambros, who presented the Archbishop with a check ...
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The annual turnover of Greece Piraeus Port Authority SA PPA SA in 2021 was 1542 million euros 1689 million US dollars ...
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The climate watcher has produced nothing for the general public, except for a press release and a set of headlines.
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… from several countries, including a Greek national, were also evacuated. U …
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By Catherine Tsounis How much knowledge was lost by the burning of the Library of Alexandria and the Byzantine Empire that held the science of the ancient world? Kostas Kotsanas has an amazing museum called “Ancient Greek Technology: The inventions of the Ancient Greeks.” A knowledgeable staff explained ancient technology, before the pandemic and masks. […] The post Ancient Greeks Created First Robot appeared first on Hellenic News of America.
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Entry requirements still vary in different holiday destinations - so it's important to know what you have to do before you travel ...
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Greece confirmed 22,694 new coronavirus infections and 70 deaths associated with the virus in the last 24 hours, the National Public Health Organization (EODY) announced on Monday. A total of 11,986 cases had been recorded in the country the day before, Sunday, and 48 people died with the virus. Since the pandemic began, Greece has […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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Russia asked China for military support as well as economic assistance for its invasion of Ukraine, CNN reported on Sunday. The requests came after the invasion occurred, with one official declining to detail the Chinese reaction but indicated that they had responded in some way. Despite the report, the Chinese and Russian governments publicly deny […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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The meeting between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis focused on the regional benefits of enhancing bilateral cooperation and emphasis of positive ...
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Greece and China have signed a Joint Action Program aimed at strengthening cooperation on tourism in the coming years Greek Touris ...
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Alpha Bank, Greece's third largest lender by market value, reported a bigger loss in October-to-December versus the third quarter on lower fee and commission income as well as higher loan impairment ...
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Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis had a personal meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, on the sidelines of the informal summit of the 27 European Union leaders in Versailles, according to government sources. The same sources said that they had an in-depth discussion in view of the Greek prime minister’s meeting with the President of Turkey, […] The post PM Mitsotakis met with Chancellor Scholz appeared first on Hellenic News of America.
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Registration centres for displaced persons from Ukraine will operate at the regional asylum offices in Patras, Thessaloniki, Heraklion and Athens, Migration and Asylum Minister Notis Mitarachi announced after his visit to the regional asylum office of Thessaloniki. “As we have clarified, Greece will offer a 12-month residence and work permit to people who, due to […] The post Mitarachi announces the operation of four registration centres for displaced Ukrainians appeared first on Hellenic News of America.
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LONDON: Tafida Raqeeb, a UK schoolgirl suffering from brain damage, is said to be recovering in an Italian hospital after British doctors gave up on her chances of survival. Her parents won a historic court case allowing them to take their daughter to …
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… of Leros. The Hellenic (Greek) coast guard rescued 101 people … of migrants reaching the Greek islands in the northwestern … . Turkey has repeatedly accused Greece of pushing back asylum seekers … According to ABR, the Greek authorities carried out at least …
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held talks with the Prime Minister of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis where he discussed the integration of the war-torn coun ...
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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has seemingly challenged Russian President Vladimir Putin to a one-on-one fight over Ukraine. Taking to Twitter on Monday, Musk challenged Putin to a fight — with the stakes being Ukraine. “I hereby challenge Vladimir Putin to single combat,” he tweeted, using the Cyrillic alphabet to spell out Vladimir Putin’s […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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Simply establishing an anti-hazing policy and saying colleges oppose hazing is not enough now, and it hasn’t been for decades.
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[Airbnb logo seen displayed on a smartphone screen with a computer wallpaper in the background in Athens, Greece, on May 5, 2021.] Booking a Ukrainian Airbnb has come to look like a quick and effective way to get cash directly into Ukrainians’ hands. | Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images People want to help Ukrainians, and Airbnb has emerged as one way to do it. But is it the most effective? Booking an Airbnb in the middle of a war zone is not the average person’s idea of a good vacation plan. But as the Russian war on Ukraine enters its third week, with more than 2 million Ukrainians having fled the country and nearly that many internally displaced, ordinary people around the world are looking for ways to show solidarity with and support of the Ukrainian people. One novel method gaining popularity is booking Airbnbs in major Ukrainian cities like Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odessa, and Lviv — without any intention of staying there. This way of giving appears to have been popularized by online influencers, and according to a spokesperson from Airbnb, as of March 4, people around the world have already used the platform to book more than 61,000 nights in Ukraine, with over half of those bookings (34,000) being made by people in the United States. The total booking value comes to nearly $2 million. Because Airbnb is temporarily waiving guest and host fees for bookings in Ukraine — and because hosts get paid about 24 hours after a guest checks in — booking Airbnbs has come to look like a quick and effective way to get cash directly into the hands of beleaguered Ukrainians in cities under siege like Kyiv. Donors have also taken to buying products from Ukrainians off Etsy and eBay — either digital goods or physical ones they have no intention of receiving — as well as reserving rides through services like BlaBlaCar for transporting Ukrainian refugees to safety. These are examples of how, in the age of digital and social media, people can find creative and online ways to support humanitarian efforts and causes that go beyond the traditional model of donating to big nongovernmental organizations like the International Red Cross and the World Food Programme. “I think the world has changed,” said Anit Mukherjee, a policy fellow at the Center for Global Development who has written about the trend, noting that digital technology has given people greater agency in seeing how, where, and who their donations go to. But that trend raises two fundamental questions: Why has booking Airbnbs become such an attractive way of supporting Ukrainians? And just how effective is the method compared to other forms of charitable giving that could be directed toward Ukraine? Social and digital media can help forge at least the impression of intimate social connections, and since people tend to be more motivated to give to identifiable recipients, new platforms could help boost donation. But the kind of giving that is most psychologically rewarding may not be the most effective, and previous cases of viral digital campaigns — including ones led by those who have been promoting the idea of booking Airbnbs as aid — have ended up less helpful than they initially appeared. In the case of booking Airbnbs or buying things off Etsy, for instance, you’re helping a specific subset of the population in Ukraine that already has access to better resources, whether Airbnb-able property or simply the internet. Those in the most dire need could be left out altogether. Nevertheless, as Tyler Hall, director of communications at the direct cash transfer nonprofit GiveDirectly, put it to me, “The most effective use of your dollar can be discussed and debated, but during a crisis when people are fleeing right now and you’re watching it in real time, there’s seemingly no completely ineffective way to help someone who is running from these issues, or staying in and navigating with these issues and income interruptions.” In a crisis like this one, any help is better than no help. Booking Airbnbs could be an important first step to getting those who would otherwise not have donated to flex and build their charitable muscles, and the innovations in charitable giving taking place to support Ukrainians could hopefully also be extended and scaled up to support others in more neglected crises and conflicts. WHY PEOPLE ARE BOOKING AIRBNBS THEY’LL NEVER VISIT Hall told me that people identify with the Ukrainian hosts whose Airbnbs they are booking. “Our experience doing universal basic income and poverty alleviation in Africa shows that when you know a sense of the name and face of the person you’re reaching, exactly where, with some immediacy and transparency, it builds trust, but also builds connection.” This is backed by existing research that people identify more with “individual victims” than “statistical” ones. Giving cash directly to an identifiable individual or family allows donors to build deeper relationships with recipients than a donation to traditional relief organizations that will make its way to recipients the donor will never know. [Ukrainian families with children walk across train tracks at the Polish border.] Omar Marques/Getty Images Ukrainian refugees arrive at a reception point after crossing the Polish border on March 9, 2022. But the power of identification is double-edged. As Mukherjee noted, there is an “underlying subtext nobody wants to talk about” — namely, that Ukraine offers up a crisis and victims that people in countries like the US, UK, and Canada (the top three countries that have been booking Airbnbs for Ukrainians) can more easily identify with for reasons of race, religion, and geography. That’s much less the case for the tens of millions fleeing long-running conflicts in Syria, Yemen, Somalia, and other places in Africa and Asia, a dichotomy that has been apparent in much of the Western media coverage of the war in Ukraine. People may also be turning to Airbnb (which is neither a charity nor a financial institution) as a way of sending money directly because there are few other channels to do so outside of donating to big humanitarian NGOs. According to Mukherjee, current international regulations on the movement of funds across the world are so strictly focused on anti money laundering and counter-terrorism efforts that they make it hard to get funds to people affected by crises. And while tech platforms have taken a media hit in recent years, the 2022 Trust Barometer report from the PR firm Edelman found that people globally trust business more than governments, NGOs, and the media — and within the category of businesses, they trusted tech companies most of all. “If I can use the platform, which I’ve been using for the last 10 years, say, to book and pay for a homestay in Virginia,” said Mukherjee, “[then] in the same way, I can help somebody in Ukraine.” THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AIRBNB ALTRUISM The main problem with donating to Ukrainians via booking Airbnbs is who is being helped — and more importantly, who isn’t. Hall told me that by booking Airbnbs, people are “reaching folks primarily who speak English, who sell on Etsy or Airbnb in major cities.” As an active war zone, everyone in Ukraine is in some kind of need, but providing aid via Airbnbs is “not a system that’s designed to reach the most vulnerable or the people in poverty.” Ukraine is among the poorest countries in Europe, with a GDP per capita even lower than its neighbor and Russian ally Belarus. As of 2021, more than 30 percent of the population did not have access to the internet. At best, Mukherjee said, “you are choosing maybe the top 5 percent, maybe 1 percent, of the Ukrainian population. So let’s not fool ourselves, this is not effectively targeted.” The most effective form of giving would likely mean donating to the many humanitarian organizations operating in Ukraine and Eastern Europe, as Vox’s Kelsey Piper highlighted in a recent story. And while Airbnb has a way of verifying hosts, you still run the risk of encountering fake listings that are just taking advantage of people’s generosity. At the same time, though, this method of giving cash directly through Airbnbs may have inspired first-time donors or people who would otherwise not have given to Ukrainians. GiveDirectly is considered one of the world’s most effective charitable organizations, but as Hall told me, “You always have to weigh people’s desire to give as part of that effective discussion.” And enabling these first-time donors to donate can “unlock” money and donations that otherwise wouldn’t exist, which is effective in its own way. This is something GiveDirectly encountered when it expanded its work, which had mostly been among the extreme poor in sub-Saharan Africa, to the US. During the early days of Covid-19, GiveDirectly ran the largest donor-funded direct cash transfer program in US history to help vulnerable people weather the pandemic. GiveDirectly brought in a whole new group of donors during their Covid-19 campaign in the US, many of whom have continued to support their international campaigns. “Engaging people whose instincts are to give directly, which is one of the most effective ways to help people in this situation, builds up a lifetime of engaged and concerned and active givers for all programs,” Hall said. There are also important lessons here for large institutions that traditionally collect and deliver most humanitarian aid. Increasingly, donors want a more trustworthy, human connection with those they are sending their cash to, and easy, accessible ways to achieve that can help “nudge” individuals into donating more deliberately and effectively. “I do think that [the phenomenon of people booking Airbnbs to support Ukrainians] should serve as a model for all direct cash work,” Hall told me. “People who are doing other interventions, to give that connection between donor and recipient and not discount how profound that is in a globally connected world.” The reaction to Russia’s onslaught on Ukraine has inspired innovative new ways of supporting people on the ground. Two students at Harvard designed their own “stripped-down” version of Airbnb to quickly connect Ukrainian refugees with emergency housing, Google rolled out an air raid alerts system for all Android phones, and the US State Department has even partnered with GoFundMe to establish a channel for businesses, philanthropies, and individuals to support organizations providing humanitarian assistance to Ukrainians. Separate from individual customer bookings of Ukrainian properties, Airbnb has started a refugee fund, where it is aiming to offer free, short-term housing to up to 100,000 refugees fleeing Ukraine. These are all positive developments for Ukrainians in dire need of good news. But as Mukherjee pointed out, the participation of big corporations like Airbnb, Google, and Uber in supporting Ukrainians can and should be scaled up elsewhere. “This is also an opportunity to raise awareness of the need in places like Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan, and those refugees who are stuck at the border in Poland, who are being pushed back into Belarus.” Businesses in the West like Airbnb can provide ways to donate and support people in different conflicts and crises, both those today and those to come. “[Airbnb can say], ‘Well, you can transfer money to Ukraine and for refugees to help,’” Mukherjee said. “They might as well say, ‘You know what, we’re also going to do something about Yemen, do something about Syria, and there is a need in Afghanistan, and here are four organizations that are working in the field.’” This could encourage those who may be first-time donors to keep on giving — and support those around the world who are in the most need, whether or not they show up on cable news and social media feeds.
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Russian shelling hits flats and aircraft plant in Kyiv; China rejects assertion it was asked for help by Russia * Russia-Ukraine war: latest updates TALKS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE started on Monday and communication between the two sides was hard but ongoing, the Ukrainian presidential adviser and negotiator MYKHAILO PODOLYAK tweeted. TWO PEOPLE WERE KILLED and three injured when a SHELL HIT A RESIDENTIAL BUILDING IN NORTH-WEST KYIV on Monday morning, said Ukraine’s emergency services. The nine-storey RESIDENTIAL BUILDING REPORTEDLY CAUGHT FIRE due to Russian shelling after 5am. The Antonov AIRCRAFT PLANT IN KYIV HAS BEEN SHELLED BY RUSSIAN FORCES, the Kyiv city administration said in an update on its Telegram account on Monday morning. The site, also known as Hostomel, which is about 7 miles (11km) north-west of the centre of Kyiv, is the country’s most important international cargo airport and a key military airbase. A CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESPERSON HAS DESCRIBED ASSERTIONS BY US OFFICIALS THAT MOSCOW ASKED BEIJING FOR MILITARY EQUIPMENT FOR ITS UKRAINE CAMPAIGN AS “DISINFORMATION”. The comments came during a regular Chinese foreign ministry briefing in Beijing, Reuters reported. NINETY CHILDREN HAVE BEEN KILLED AND MORE THAN 100 WOUNDED in Ukraine since Russia invaded on 24 February, according to the Ukrainian general prosecutor’s office. A PREGNANT WOMAN AND HER BABY DIED AFTER RUSSIA BOMBED THE MATERNITY HOSPITAL WHERE SHE WAS DUE TO GIVE BIRTH, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAS REPORTED. Images of the woman being taken to an ambulance on a stretcher had circled the world, epitomising the horror of the attack. GERMANY WILL REPORTEDLY BUY UP TO 35 LOCKHEED MARTIN F-35 FIGHTER JETS, a government source has told Reuters. The US WILL TRY TO PERSUADE CHINA NOT TO SUPPLY ARMS TO RUSSIA at a high-level meeting in Rome. The UK DEFENCE MINISTRY said Russian naval forces were “effectively isolating Ukraine from international maritime trade”, in its latest defence intelligence update on the conflict. RAMZAN KADYROV, the leader of Russia’s Chechnya region, IS REPORTEDLY IN UKRAINE among Russian forces, according to footage shared by Chechen television channels and posted to Kadyrov’s Telegram account. VLADIMIR PUTIN WILL BE “HELD RESPONSIBLE” FOR WAR CRIMES IN UKRAINE AT THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT IN THE HAGUE, the UK health secretary, Sajid Javid, has pledged, saying the government would help gather the necessary evidence. The chief executive of the FACIAL RECOGNITION COMPANY CLEARVIEW AI said the UKRAINE DEFENCE MINISTRY HAD STARTED TO USE ITS SERVICES, according to Reuters. RUSSIA’S DEFENCE MINISTRY ACCEPTED RESPONSIBILITY FOR A ROCKET ATTACK on the International Center for Peacekeeping and Security, a military base in Ukraine NEAR THE POLISH BORDER, on Sunday. THE UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT, VOLODYMYR ZELENSKIY, URGED NATO TO IMPOSE A NO-FLY ZONE after the attack on the military base close to the Polish border. “If you don’t close our sky, it is only a matter of time before Russian rockets fall on your territory, on Nato territory,” he said. THE GREEK PRIME MINISTER, KYRIAKOS MITSOTAKIS, told ZELENSKIY on Monday that the full implementation of sanctions by EU countries would put pressure on Russia to stop attacks. THE GERMAN MULTINATIONAL PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY BAYER HAS SUSPENDED ADVERTISING AND INVESTMENTS IN RUSSIA, it announced today. Continue reading...
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The EU on Monday welcomed the latest talks between Turkish and Greek leaders, voicing hope that relations between the countries will continue to improve. Sunday’s negotiations between Erdogan are ...
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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday, a day after he held talks in Istanbul with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “Recently, we are all occupied with ...
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Auburn's Panhellenic Council will host Greek Sing on Thursday, April 14 at 7 p.m. inside Neville Arena. Greek Sing, which is a showcase of talent, sisterhood and friendly competition all while raising ...
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Country ready to accept ethnic Greek refugees as well as Ukrainians while also ready to send aid, says Mitsotakis ...
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Friday could see highs of 17C(62.6F), hotter than Athens, Greece, which is forecast to be greeting the weekend with rainy spells at 9C(48.2F).
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Four new Casa Cook and Cook’s Club hotels will open this year on the Greek islands of Samos, Mykonos, Rhodes and Corfu, as the Chinese group Fosun Tourism expands its investments in Greece, the group said. Fosun Tourism Group VP Alessandro Dassi said that Casa Cook hotels on Samos (128 rooms) and Mykonos (26 rooms) […] The post Fosun Group to open Cook’s hotels on Samos, Mykonos, Rhodes & Corfu appeared first on Hellenic News of America.
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The island of Sifnos topped the list with the ten most photogenic destinations of the world, according to the Spanish edition of Conde Nast Traveler, the largest travel magazine worldwide https://www.traveler.es/galerias/mejores-destinos-mundo-para-rescatar-tu-polaroid Sifnos, the Greek Cycladic island in the Aegean Sea https://www.instagram.com/visitsifnosisland/ came first with the Church of the Seven Martyrs, the idyllic landscapes, the Castle, […] The post Sifnos tops Conde Nast Traveler list of most photogenic destinations in the world appeared first on Hellenic News of America.
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The Greek trade deficit soared 98.7% in January as imports grew faster than exports for another month, Hellenic Statistical Authority said. More specifically, the value of imports totaled 6.318 billion euros, up 57.9% compared with January 2021 (excluding oil products imports it grew 42.8%, while excluding oil products and ships imports it rose 42.6%). The […] The post Greek trade deficit jumped 98.7% in January appeared first on Hellenic News of America.
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… sell its branch operations in Greece to Pancreta Bank SA. The … of HSBC Continental Europe in Greece are anticipated to be transferred …
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… the exports of good-quality Greek products," the foreign … Relations and President of Enterprise Greece, Ioannis Smyrlis, said to … of the contacts that the Greek mission had in Riyadh: … with Enterprise Greece managed to bring 45 Greek companies to …
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GREECE is scrapping more Covid rules from tomorrow, making travelling easier for Brits. From tomorrow, Greece is abolishing its Passenger Locator Form (PLF) requirement for all travellers, ...
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The Florida-based moving company will manage all the transportation needs for the Major League Baseball team in 2022.
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Cypriot Leader Savvas Tsivikos, organized a fundraiser in honor of Rob Menendez Jr. who is running for Congress in New Jersey’s 8th District.
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Staff at a refugee camp near Serres, northern Greece held a birthday surprise for a 7-year-old Ukrainian refugee over the weekend. The Greek Ministry of Migration posted the photo of the young refugee blowing out seven candles on her birthday with a message saying: “Even in the darkest of times, there’s light! A lovely surprise […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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Earthy chard, with its green leaves and fleshy stems, is a prime candidate for a Simon Hopkinson-inspired gratin and chard greens fried with garlic and chilli We have spotted sea beet on the sandy dunes near my parents’ house in Dorset. And, more recently, we’ve noticed it pushing defiantly through the shingle beach at Santa Marinella in Lazio. It’s a rugged and edible coastal plant, with glossy, gently serrated leaves, that thrives near tidelines in Europe, Africa and Asia, and it is the ancestor of all cultivated beets (or, more precisely, _Beta vulgaris_). Many beets are cultivated for their swollen roots: sugar beet, red beet (beetroot), and the wonderfully named _mangelwurzel_, or fodder beet, all of which have edible leaves, too. Others, notably spinach beet and Swiss chard, are grown primarily for their leaves and fleshy midribs. That beetroot and chard are related was a revelation almost as satisfying as discovering that the woman at the bookshop is the cousin of the man at the chemist (it’s all in the eyebrows). In his masterpiece Nosedive: A Field Guide to the World’s Smells, Harold McGee begins the soil chapter with the Roman naturalist Pliny, who thought the smell of fertile soil was the mixed breath of sun and earth. McGee then leaps 2,000 years ahead and recounts how Australian scientists named the smell of dry rock and earth being moistened petrichor_,_ from the Greek_ petri_ (rock) and _ichor_ (blood of the gods). Also how scientists identified the bacteria that creates volatile molecules in soil and named these particles geosmins, _geō_ meaning “earth” and _osmḗ_ smell. UK readers: click to buy these ingredients from Ocado Continue reading...
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis have agreed to improve bilateral relations and to focus on positive agenda, according to a statement released by the Presidential Communications Directorate.
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During talks with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky discussed countering Russian aggression, the work of humanitarian corridors, in particular, in ...
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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Monday he had tested positive for COVID-19 and would be self-isolating at home, a day after a trip to Istanbul.
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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday the full implementation of sanctions by European Union countries would help put pressure on Russia to ...
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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has tested positive for COVID-19, he said in a video message on Twitter on Monday.
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"All staff members employed by HSBC Continental Europe, Greece at completion of the potential transaction would transfer to Pancreta Bank SA as part of the sale," the bank said. Write to Sabela Ojea ...
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Saudi Arabia and Greece aim to increase their economic, investment, and trade cooperation. The Saudi Ministry of Investment organized Sunday the Saudi-Greek Investment Forum in Riyadh, with top ...
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HSBC Holdings Plc has agreed to sell its 15 Greek bank branches to Pancreta Bank SA, the latest move by the lender to cut back some of its operations outside of Asia.
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Greece is committed to enhance bilateral economic and trade historical ties with Saudi Arabia, saidKostas Fragogiannis,GreekDeputy Minister of F ...
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HSBC announced on Monday it has agreed to sell its branch operations in Greece to local bank Pancreta Bank, as the lender further sharpens its focus on its biggest market Asia. We apologize, but this ...
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A Valaris drillship allided with a Greek supramax near the VT Halter Shipyards and Chevron docks in Pascagoula in the US on Saturday morning. Minor damage was reported to both the 51,500-gt drilling ...
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