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Monday, May 1, 2017

MUnGA committee helps preserve continuation of Greek language teaching

Last Monday representatives of the Melbourne University Greek Association (MUnGA) paid a visit to one of Melbourne's oldest Greek schools, St Vasilios in Brunswick. The visit was a chance for the committee to present a generous and thoughtful donations to ...


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Greece stages bank raids in hunt for unpaid tax

Authorities in Greece will raid bank safety deposit boxes to confiscate cash, bonds and even works of art as they move to collect billions of euros in unpaid tax. The unprecedented move underscores the lengths to which the left-wing government is prepared ...


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Ruzafa and Erbenova win Xterra Greece

Set in the same venue as the 2004 Olympics, Xterra Greece took in some of the spectacular scenery around Vouliagmeni, Greece - along with a challenging course up into the mountains overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Just under 400 athletes including 28 ...


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Old player Varoufakis stages a comeback

He has been admired and criticized, even ridiculed, like few other public figures in GREECE; he returned to GREECE from various academic posts abroad ...


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Boston celebrates Greek struggle for independence

Boys were dressed as Evzones, the traditional Greek presidential guards. Girls donned the costume of Queen Amalia, Greece’s first queen. The children walked amid scores of families in the Back Bay waving Greek flags and celebrating the 23rd annual Greek ...


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Parthenon Marbles must be returned to Greece

I hadn’t see the Elgin Marbles/Parthenon Sculptures since I was 14. My cousin took me there when we were both in England. We had studied ancient Greece in school, and I was fascinated by seeing them. This is now a new century. I am decades older, and the ...


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Bag With 2 Embryos in Jars Found Outside Greek Cemetery

THESSALONIKI, Greece — Greek police say a black bag left outside a village cemetery in northern Greece contained two jars, each with an embryo in formaldehyde. The shepherd who found the bag Saturday while tending to his flock in the village of Vryssaki ...


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