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Saturday, February 15, 2020

North Macedonia fires Labor Minister Mizrahi over name dispute

The parliament in North Macedonia has voted to fire Labor Minister Rashela Mizrahi for failing to use the country’s new official name during a press conference — a sensitive issue in the Western Balkan nation following a long-standing dispute over the moniker. Last week Mizrahi triggered a storm of reactions in her country and in … The post North Macedonia fires Labor Minister Mizrahi over name dispute appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.


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Ottoman mosques cast historic light in Greek capital

Tracing the history of the Greek capital Athens, we can see not only the sacred rock of the classical Acropolis but a mixture of the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman eras. Even though Greece ...


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Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan: 'Work-wise, Steve's terrific. On a personal level, appalling'

The Trip to GREECE is the fourth instalment of the series directed by Michael Winterbottom, a show that has proved something of an unlikely success.


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Events of 2015 back in the limelight

The events of early 2015, when SYRIZA was negotiating austerity terms with GREECE'S creditors, stole the limelight again yesterday in Parliament, with ...


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Norwegian Spirit finishes $100 million drydock and will sail GREEK Isles

Norwegian Cruise Line's Norwegian Spirit just completed a $100 million drydock, as part of the Northwegian Edge fleetwide upgrade program.


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Brooke Robinson Announced as Lysicrates Prize Event Winner 2020

... the theatre which they use to vote for the best playwright, an echo of the pottery shards used by the voters of the ancient GREEK drama festivals.


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Why we romanticise ancient GREEK homosexuality, but snub Rome's role in popularising queer love

GREEK homosexuality has been set upon a pedestal, deemed a worthy and respectable model for romance by philosophers, writers and lovers alike.


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