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Friday, December 25, 2015

2 dead, 12 injured as 200 migrants try to enter Spain by sea

MADRID (AP) — Two people drowned and at least 12 others were injured when they tried to get to a small patch of Spanish territory in North Africa by swimming from Morocco and scaling a barbed-wire fence that juts into the sea, Spanish and Moroccan news agencies reported Friday. More than a million people hoping to escape war and poverty have made their way into Europe this year, according to migration monitors, but attention has been focused on two more common routes — across the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece or across the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy. Spanish television broadcaster TVE showed images of Red Cross ambulances attending to and feeding dozens of migrants, covered in red towels and blankets next to the 9-meter (30-foot) high fence that protrudes out into the Mediterranean at Ceuta's western border with Morocco.


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GREECE, Italy report arrival of 4000 new migrants

More than 800,000 migrants came via the Aegean Sea from Turkey to GREECE this year, and 150,000 from North Africa to Italy, the UN refugee agency ...


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Year in review 2015: Greek crisis far from over

But, not before causing huge damage to GREECE'S economy, its confidence, and perhaps most important its relations with its European neighbours and ...


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Pregnant And Homeless Amid A Dire Refugee Crisis

LESBOS, GREECE -- I'd like to offer another story of the random, haphazard nature of help and need when you're trying to deal with a daily influx of ...


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What Jesus, Mary And Joseph Have In Common With Syrian Refugees

Away in a manger was really, really far away. As we celebrate Christmas amid the biggest mass migration of people since World War II, it's worth noting how the plight of refugees fleeing turmoil in the Middle East echoes the holiday's origins. While the story of Christmas is one of triumph -- of angels and wise men celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ -- it's also about Mary and Joseph's dangerous journey, some 90 miles from Nazareth to Bethlehem, to register for a census. In a town too full to house them. With a baby who didn't exactly have his paperwork in order. There's plenty to debate about whether Jesus, Mary and Joseph were _actual_ refugees -- but history shows that they certainly followed an arduous path, under government rule, to a place where their child would not be welcome. To map their route, the Orlando Sentinel reached out to James Strange, a New Testament and biblical archaeology professor at the University of South Florida in Tampa. According to the report, Mary and Joseph likely traveled a common route: south along the flatlands of the Jordan River, west over the hills around Jerusalem, and then to Bethlehem.  "It was a fairly grueling trip," Strange said. "In antiquity, the most we find people traveling is 20 miles a day. And this trip was very much uphill and downhill. It was not simple." Strange notes that Mary, pregnant as she was, would have endured freezing temperatures, the constant threat of outlaws on the trade route and harsh terrain.  When Mary finally reached Bethlehem, she and Joseph were turned away. Bethlehem was packed with "10,000 other people from the house of David," Strange said, for Caesar Augustus' census. The couple opted for a manger. The Los Angeles Times puts it perfectly: > Luke tells us that the baby king was born in a Bethlehem stable or a > cave -- a place where animals are kept -- because there was no room > in a simple traveler's hostel. Unlike Augustus in his palace on the > Palatine Hill in Rome, the authentic emperor arrives unprotected, > vulnerable. And their hardships were far from over once Jesus was born. King Herod, worried that Jesus threatened his crown, had all of Bethlehem's children 2 years old and younger slaughtered. Mary and Joseph fled to Egypt, by foot and on a donkey, where they lived in exile for years. What does it feel like to be forced out of your home under threat of death, travel across nations through unwelcome terrain, only to arrive at your destination feeling helpless, unprotected and vulnerable?  Syrian refugees know, because they've made the same journey. The Hufington fPost's Sophia Jones traveled with refugees, many of them Syrian, for 1,000 miles over land and sea, from Turkey to Greece and on through several other countries to Austria and Germany.  Jones reports that hundreds of thousands of refugees have made similar journeys, risking death at the hands of outlaws or any number of environmental dangers, or imprisonment or indefinite relocation to refugee camps. (Read her story, here.) Many of the refugees have one simple goal; the same as Mary and Joseph had: The preservation of family. Jones reports: > ... Nearby, a young couple from the predominantly Kurdish Syrian > city of Hasakah waits to get into [volunteers] Philippa and Eric's > small blue car. They clutch their toddler and a 15-day-old baby girl > wearing a tiny green hat. >  > "Her name is Simav," the mother, Amira, says of her tiny bundled > newborn. "In Kurdish, it means 'silver water.'" >  > With that, Simav lets out a larger-than-life wail. Just two weeks > after entering the world, she's already survived the sea. The United Nations estimates that 400,000 refugees, many of them Syrian, will have entered Europe after their dangerous journeys from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, by the end of the holiday season this year. _ALSO ON HUFFPOST:_ -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.


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Astronomy may be able to explain the biblical Star of Bethlehem

Flickr/epSos .de Bright stars top Christmas trees in Christian homes around much of the world. The faithful sing about the “Star of Wonder” that guided the wise men to a manger in the little town of Bethlehem, where Jesus was born. They’re commemorating the Star of Bethlehem described by the Evangelist Matthew in the New Testament. Is the star’s biblical description a pious fiction, or does it contain some astronomical truth? PUZZLES FOR ASTRONOMY To understand the Star of Bethlehem, we need to think like the three wise men. Motivated by this “star in the east,” they first traveled to Jerusalem and told King Herod the prophecy that a new ruler of the people of Israel would be born. We also need to think like King Herod, who asked the wise men when the star had appeared, because he and his court, apparently, were unaware of any such star in the sky. These events present us with our first astronomy puzzle of the first Christmas: How could King Herod’s own advisors have been unaware of a star so bright and obvious that it could have led the wise men to Jerusalem? Next, in order to reach Bethlehem, the wise men had to travel directly south from Jerusalem; somehow that “star in the east” “went before them, ‘til it came and stood over where the young child was.” Now we have our second first-Christmas astronomy puzzle: how can a star “in the east” guide our wise men to the south? The north star guides lost hikers to the north, so shouldn’t a star in the east have led the wise men to the east? And we have yet a third first-Christmas astronomy puzzle: how does Matthew’s star move “before them,” like the taillights on the snowplow you might follow during a blizzard, and then stop and stand over the manger in Bethlehem, inside of which supposedly lies the infant Jesus? WHAT COULD THE ‘STAR IN THE EAST’ BE? The astronomer in me knows that no star can do these things, nor can a comet, or Jupiter, or a supernova, or a conjunction of planets or any other actual bright object in the nighttime sky. One can claim that Matthew’s words describe a miracle, something beyond the laws of physics. But Matthew chose his words carefully and wrote “star in the east” twice, which suggests that these words hold a specific importance for his readers. Can we find any other explanation, consistent with Matthew’s words, that doesn’t require that the laws of physics be violated and that has something to do with astronomy? The answer, amazingly, is yes. ASTROLOGICAL ANSWERS TO ASTRONOMICAL PUZZLES Flickr/epSos .de Astronomer Michael Molnar points out that “in the east” is a literal translation of the Greek phrase _en te anatole_, which was a technical term used in Greek mathematical astrology 2,000 years ago. It described, very specifically, a planet that would rise above the eastern horizon just before the sun would appear. Then, just moments after the planet rises, it disappears in the bright glare of the sun in the morning sky. Except for a brief moment, no one can see this “star in the east.” We need a little bit of astronomy background here. In a human lifetime, virtually all the stars remain fixed in their places; the stars rise and set every night, but they do not move relative to each other. The stars in the Big Dipper appear year after year always in the same place. But the planets, the sun and the moon wander through the fixed stars; in fact, the word “planet” comes from the Greek word for wandering star. Though the planets, sun and moon move along approximately the same path through the background stars, they travel at different speeds, so they often lap each other. When the sun catches up with a planet, we can’t see the planet, but when the sun passes far enough beyond it, the planet reappears. And now we need a little bit of astrology background. When the planet reappears again for the first time and rises in the morning sky just moments before the sun, for the first time in many months after having been hidden in the sun’s glare for those many months, that moment is known to astrologers as a heliacal rising. A heliacal rising, that special first reappearance of a planet, is what _en te anatole_ referred to in ancient Greek astrology. In particular, the reappearance of a planet like Jupiter was thought by Greek astrologers to be symbolically significant for anyone born on that day. Thus, the “star in the east” refers to an astronomical event with supposed astrological significance in the context of ancient Greek astrology. What about the star parked directly above the first crèche? The word usually translated as “stood over” comes from the Greek word _epano_, which also had an important meaning in ancient astrology. It refers to a particular moment when a planet stops moving and changes apparent direction from westward to eastward motion. This occurs when the Earth, which orbits the sun more quickly than Mars or Jupiter or Saturn, catches up with, or laps, the other planet. Together, a rare combination of astrological events (the right planet rising before the sun; the sun being in the right constellation of the zodiac; plus a number of other combinations of planetary positions considered important by astrologers) would have suggested to ancient Greek astrologers a regal horoscope and a royal birth. WISE MEN LOOKING TO THE SKIES Molnar believes that the wise men were, in fact, very wise and mathematically adept astrologers. They also knew about the Old Testament prophecy that a new king would be born of the family of David. Most likely, they had been watching the heavens for years, waiting for alignments that would foretell the birth of this king. When they identified a powerful set of astrological portents, they decided the time was right to set out to find the prophesied leader. If Matthew’s wise men actually undertook a journey to search for a newborn king, the bright star didn’t guide them; it only told them when to set out. And they wouldn’t have found an infant swaddled in a manger. After all, the baby was already eight months old by the time they decoded the astrological message they believed predicted the birth of a future king. The portent began on April 17 of 6 BC (with the heliacal rising of Jupiter that morning, followed, at noon, by its lunar occultation in the constellation Aries) and lasted until December 19 of 6 BC (when Jupiter stopped moving to the west, stood still briefly, and began moving to the east, as compared with the fixed background stars). By the earliest time the men could have arrived in Bethlehem, the baby Jesus would likely have been at least a toddler. Matthew wrote to convince his readers that Jesus was the prophesied Messiah. Given the astrological clues embedded in his gospel, he must have believed the story of the Star of Bethlehem would be convincing evidence for many in his audience. David A Weintraub, Professor of Astronomy, _Vanderbilt University_ _This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article._ NOW WATCH: Here's what you actually see while you're watching a meteor shower


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The latest: 2 dead as 200 Africans try to swim to Spain

Refugees and migrants calls the attention of a rescue team when approaching the GREEK island of Lesbos on a dinghy, after crossing a part of the ...


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GREEK, Italian coastguards report nearly 2000 new migrant arrivals

Around 1,700 migrants arrived in the GREEK port of Piraeus from Turkey via the islands of Lesbos, Chios and Samos, the GREEK Coastguard reported.


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Spain Says “No”

GREECE'S leftist prime minister, Alex Tsipras said “Austerity has been politically defeated in Spain,” and that the election was a sign “that Europe was ...


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Economist Warren Mosler: If the EU Doesn't Loosen Its Deficit Limits, Greece Should Leave the Euro

… could help lead Greece out of its crisis. (Image: Greece, Euro via Shutterstock) Six years into Greece's … . But the problem in Greece is the Greeks are very good savers …


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Undeterred by winter, Syrian refugees flock to a Turkish city for risky boat trips to Europe

All await word from the shadowy middlemen who arrange passage to the nearby GREEK islands, entry point to Europe, everyone's ultimate objective ...


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Turkish, GREEK leaders release joint New Year's message, point to peace in Cyprus

The Turkish and GREEK leaders of divided Cyprus issued a joint New Year's message on Friday, expressing hopes for peace and the reuniting of their ...


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GREEK Parliament recognizes the State of Palestine

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — GREEK lawmakers have unanimously approved a resolution calling on the country's left-led government to formally recognize ...


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4% of people hear music in a completely different way, and it tells us something fascinating about the brain

Kevin Winter/Getty Images Imagine stepping into a friend's car, her favorite playlist pumping, only to be immersed in the sounds of hundreds of clanging pots and pans. To an estimated 4% of the world, that's what the stuff we call music sounds like. These people are tone-deaf, a disorder known as congenital amusia. People who are really tone-deaf aren't just bad at karaoke: They can't pick out differences in pitch, the quality of music we're referring to when we say something is "low" or "high." Say you're listening to your neighbor practice the piano, for example. In general, you could probably say whether the note you just heard was higher or lower than the one you heard before that. People who are tone-deaf lack that ability. They still hear a difference, but they don't process it the same way as someone who isn't tone-deaf. A WORLD THAT SOUNDS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT We talked to Marion Cousineau, a researcher at the International Laboratory for Brain, Music and Sound Research at the University of Montreal who spent years working with people with amusia (or "amusics") in the lab to get a sense of what the world sounds like to them. Each person she's talked to, Cousineau said, describes their amusia a little bit differently. While some people hear clanging pots and pans, for example, others might hear sounds they find beautiful. In the lab, they find out if participants have amusia using a version of this test, which you can try online right now. "We had a journalist once who came to the lab to do a piece on it once. He was crazy about music and was constantly going to shows and concerts. Then he took the test and found out he was amusic." In other words, while some tone-deaf people might experience sound one way, others might experience it in a vastly different way. Kevin Winter/Getty Images AMUSIA RUNS IN FAMILIES Exactly what causes tone-deafness is still somewhat mysterious, but researchers are finding some fascinating clues. From studying families, for example, scientists have been able to conclude that it's hereditary, meaning that if you have it, chances are higher that your children will too. We also know that amusia is a type of agnosia, a word derived from Greek roots that together essentially mean "not knowing." Agnosias describe conditions characterized by an inability to connect your sensory input (what you're seeing, hearing, or feeling) with your previous knowledge about the thing that you're sensing. BRAINS THAT DON'T KNOW THEY'RE TONE-DEAF A 2009 study got a bit closer to telling us what's happening in the brain of a tone-deaf person when she or he listens to music and hears noise instead. For that study, two groups of volunteers — one with amusia and one without — were hooked up to an EEG so researchers could take a look at some of the electrical activity in different areas of their brains. They had both groups listen to a series of notes in which one was out of key. Each time the out-of-tune notes were played, the researchers saw specific and similar activity across the brains of both groups. In other words, it appeared that amusic or not, everyone's brains were at least picking up on the mismatched sounds. But while both the non-amusics and amusics displayed similar brain activity in the first few milliseconds after hearing the sound, only the non-amusics displayed another smattering of activity a few hundred milliseconds later. This second burst of activity in people without tone deafness, the scientists reasoned, suggested that only the brains of people who were not tone deaf were communicating the harsh tune with a higher brain area, making them aware that they'd heard it. In other words, the researchers suspect, while the brains of both groups had identified the harsh tune on some level, amusics were not _aware_ that they'd done so. "Their brains were picking it up," said Cousineau, "but they couldn't say there was a change." That idea has been bolstered by several other, more recent studies that suggest that amusics have weaker links between fronto-temporal brain areas, one of the regions we rely on to think critically and solve problems, and posterior auditory areas, important for processing sound. What this growing body of work has shown is that in amusics, many aspects of the brain involved in experiencing music are working just as they should. But somewhere up the chain of command — between hearing a tune and processing it — something goes awry. And this is responsible for the vastly different musical world that tone-deaf people experience. "A lot of the people who'd come into the lab were told all their lives that they can't sing, that there's something wrong with them and that it's their fault," said Cousineau. "But it isn't their fault at all, and that's what we were able to share with them." NOW WATCH: This 3-minute animation will change the way you see the universe


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As More Borders Close, Families Rush For Refuge

LESBOS, GREECE -- This morning a boat landed almost right in front of our hotel. There had been reports of a failed motor, but it made it. Several ...


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Catholic Christmas celebrations

Roman Catholics, Protestants and followers of 11 Orthodox Churches (including Antioch, Alexandria, Cyprus, Bulgarian, Romanian and the Greek) celebrate Christmas on December 25


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A Greek Christmas Gift from My CIA Father

Leslie Absher describes the gift her spy father gave her 30 years ago as she was traveling from the US to Greece for Christmas.


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Getting to GREECE: Nur and Leyla

They had already succeeded in crossing illegally into GREECE, but she had been stopped while traveling separately on the way to the attempted ...


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“Wine Tourism” the New Fashion Only in Kefalonia

“Wine Tourism” is the new fashion in how to spend your vacation. Dimitris Lolos had a brilliant idea and decided to create The Greek Wine Experience in Kefalonia, the first organized effort of wine tourism in Greece. The Greek Wine Experience will include various interactive tasting sessions and facts on the history of Greek wines.


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The Ancient Greek Roots of Christmas

Christmas is the most important – and perhaps the most treasured – celebration of Christianity filled with joy and love. Countries around the world celebrate with different customs that have deep roots within history and tradition. In Greek tradition, we can find a variety of similarities in the commemoration of the birth of Christ and


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Minor earthquake south of Crete

Athens, December 25, 2015/ Independent Balkan News Agency By Olga Mavrou A magnitude 4.4 or 4.6 minor earthquake was reported in Greece this morning, in the south of the island of Crete, at local time 04.24. Its epicentre was located at  34.62N,  25.45 E, or about 50 km south of the city of Ierapetra, in […]


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Women: join the army if you want to be hired in the police or the coast guard

Athens, December 25, 2015/ Independent Balkan News Agency By Olga Mavrou Defense Minister Panos  Kammenos announced that he wants more Greek women to join the army. But as far as it concerns women interested in getting a job as police officers or in the Fire Department or the Coast Guard, joining the army should be […]


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Turkey Wants Joint Refugee Plan

Greece and Turkey need to work together because they are “both victims of the refugee crisis,” Turkish Ambassador Kerim Uras, told Greek journalists. The post Turkey Wants Joint Refugee Plan appeared first on The National Herald.


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Two leaders of Cyprus wish joint Happy New Year

The Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders of the divided Mediterranean island of Cyprus have taken to the airwaves together to send out holiday wishes in both Greek and Turkish for the first time


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Refugee crisis grows in Greece as EU looks on

Despite much-hyped EU summits and agreements, Greece has yet to see much substantive practical support in dealing with the refugee crisis, as Pavlos Zafiropoulos writes from Athens.


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Claudio Ranieri insists he will take Leicester City to the 'maximum' after their year of redemption

"Look, in my career, what was important was just four matches with GREECE, what I did before those four matches with GREECE was nothing!


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Ancient Greek statue destroyed 2000 years ago by an earthquake to be REBUILT

The Colossus of Rhodes stood astride the port of the ancient city in GREECE, which is now a tourist destination for hundreds of thousands of people ...


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More Migrants Arrive By Boat To Greece's Shores On Christmas

… On the beaches of Lesbos, Greece, retired English professor Julie Segedy …


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Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders make historic joint appeal for reunification

… ever the leaders of the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities … his Greek Cypriot counterpart Nicos Anastasiades who said he wanted Greek and … away in 1974 after a Greek-inspired coup. Today it’s only …


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Bleak future for stranded refugees in GREECE

As temperature drops, there are growing concerns over the fate of the stranded refugees in GREECE. Our reporter visited a refugee camp near the ...


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Pointe-Claire family skips giving Christmas presents to help Syrian refugees

A Pointe-Claire family is skipping giving Christmas presents this year and is instead sending gifts to a Syrian refugee family in GREECE. The Mckenna ...


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22-Year-Old Frenchman Crossing Europe on Foot Arrived in Greece

FOR X-MAS DAY A 22-year old French man named Roman is travelling towards eastern Europe on foot. He started his journey from Lyon, his hometown and a few days ago he arrived in Thessaloniki Greece. He travels light, carrying a small backpack, his dream of changing the world and a small leather-bound notebook, where he


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Is it True That Greeks Don’t Read?

"We do not sell enough of these books, to justify having them on our shelves and occupying space. Unfortunately, Greeks don’t read”. The post Is it True That Greeks Don’t Read? appeared first on The National Herald.


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200 Syrian migrants, Turkish captain stopped off Marmaris

Some 200 Syrian migrants and a Turkish captain were intercepted by Turkish Coast Guard teams as they attempted to cross to the Greek island of Rhodes from the touristic Turkish town of Marmaris late on Dec. 24


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Christmas celebrated at Fener GREEK Orthodox Patriarchate

A noel service was held at the Fener GREEK Orthodox Patriarchate in ... in the Aya Yorgi church, located in the garden of the Fener GREEK Patriarchate.


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Greeks in Istanbul take out rally to mark Christmas

… sweets to people. Dozens of Greek Orthodox Christians gathered in the … the Zografeion Lyceum, a 19th-century Greek school in Beyoglu district, from … towards the Consulate General of Greece. "Christmas is important for …


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Tired and cold, refugees wait to head into the unknown

People of all ages battle harsh weather and living conditions as they wait to cross the Greek-Macedonia border.


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Greek economy braces for rough ride in 2016

Athens, December 25, 2015/ Independent Balkan News Agency By Zacharias Petrou Greece has a challenging New Year to look forward to as the country’s government gears up for more unpopular austerity measures in order to finally arrive – it hopes – to the much needed debt relief in the first quarter of 2016. Reffering to […]


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GREEK Minority Leader Disappointed With Albania Govt

GREEK Minority Leader Disappointed With Albania Govt ... Party, PBDNJ, the main GREEK minority party in Albania, with the government of Edi Rama.


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Macedonia FM not optimistic of solving name row with GREECE any time soon

Shkup-Skopje, dtt-net.com – Foreign minister of Macedonia says he is not optimistic that the country will solve the 24-year-old name row with GREECE, ...


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GREECE'S drive to recognise Palestine disappoints the ADC

GREECE should play a constructive role by demanding that the Palestinian Authority accept bi-lateral negotiations with Israel, rather than promote ...


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Josh Elliott Is Leaving NBC Sports

Josh Elliott is out at NBC, less than two years after joining the network, according to ... email · print. Comment. By TV Guide. GREECE Post. By TV Guide.


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World Briefing: Cyprus: A Holiday Wish for Peace in 2 Languages

For the first time, the Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders of the ethnically divided Mediterranean island took to the airwaves together to send out holiday wishes in both Greek and Turkish.


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At least 13 migrants dead in GREEK sinking

Seven children, four men and two women drowned when a boat carrying migrants capsized off the tiny GREEK island of Farmakonisi, coastguard ...


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GREEK, Turkish Cypriot Leaders Issue First Joint Christmas Message

The leaders of GREEK and Turkish Cyprus stood side by side on television ... "I wish the new year will allow us, Turkish Cypriots and GREEK Cypriots, ...


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GREEK cinema struggles to rise from economic ruins

In recent years, much of the world watched in disbelief as GREEK leaders bickered with allies and each other while the nation's economy spiraled ...


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Refugees bring revenues to GREEK shipping companies

According to GREEK Coast Guard data, from the beginning of the year till December 21st, an estimated 804,465 refugees have arrived in Greece, with ...


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8 GREEK hotels win Tui Holly Awards

8 GREEK hotels win Tui Holly Awards Tui also released the list of top destinations for Germans during this year's season. Greece occupied the 4th place ...


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GREEK Orthodox community sings Xmas carols in Istanbul

Turkey's GREEK Orthodox community marked Christmas Day Thursday with Kalanda, a GREEK Orthodox tradition of singing Christmas carols. Students ...


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Anarchists Group Assumes Responsibility for Attack Against Turkish Consulate in Thessaloniki

The group “Antistate Makhnovists” assumed the responsibility for the attack against the Turkish Consulate in Thessaloniki, Greece, in an announcement posted on an anti-authoritarian’s website on Thursday. The attack with firebombs against riot police that were outside the Turkish Consulate took place on early Sunday 20 December. The group says that the attack was an


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