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Sunday, April 3, 2016

An uncertain future for thousands of migrants on GREECE'S Lesbos island

Migrants on the Greek island of Lesbos a few hours before many were due to be returned to Turkey. But they're not sure what the future holds because ...


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Greece Prepares To Send Migrants Back To Turkey

[Greece Prepares To Send Migrants Back To Turkey]Europe's leaders are hoping a controversial plan of collective deportations from Greece will alleviate the migrant crisis affecting the continent. Under the deal failed asylum seekers will be expelled from Greece and sent back to Turkey from Monday. Turkish Interior Minister Efkan Ala said they had made provision to receive 500 people on the first day, but the Greeks had only provided the names of 400.


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Champion Olympiakos beats relegated Panthrakikos 4-0

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Already-crowned champion Olympiakos had an easy night beating already-relegated Panthrakikos 4-0 in the Greek league on Sunday.


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Parade in Warren celebrates GREEK Independence Day

The procession traveled from St. Demetrios GREEK Orthodox Church on ... WARREN, Ohio (WKBN) – The annual GREEK Independence Day parade ...


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Greece braces for violence ahead of Monday's deportations

PIREAUS, Greece, April 3 (UPI) --Tensions are high in Greece as military personnel there are preparing to roundup and deport roughly 750 Syrian refugees. A newly negotiated European Union deal will see some 250 migrants returned from the Greek island of ...


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The Greek Parade in Boston Was Canceled Due to Inclement Weather

The 22nd annual parade of Boston for the Independence of Greece was canceled due to weather conditions early on the morning of April 4, including snow, cold and wind.


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Turkey's readiness questioned day before Greece deports refugees

There was little sign of preparation on either side of the Aegean less than 24 hours before Greece was due to begin returning migrants to Turkey, and Greek and Turkish officials gave conflicting information on the logistics of the plan.


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Greece, EU/IMF lenders to resume bailout talks amid tension

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece and its EU/IMF lenders will resume talks on the country's fiscal and reform progress this week aiming to bridge differences and conclude a key bailout review, which will pave the way for negotiations on long-desired debt relief.


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Wikileaks: IMF threatens to leave Troika ahead of GREEK disaster and United kingdoms referendum

The IMF anticipates a possible GREEK default coinciding with the United Kingdom's referendum on whether it should leave the European Union.


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The Guardian view on the EU refugee deal: Greece has Europe’s reputation in its hands

Deporting migrants could be a human rights catastrophe. Officials must tread with the greatest care The crunch has arrived. After a vote by Greek MPs, Monday sees the start of the implementation of last month’s EU agreement with Turkey, the process of ...


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Protesters clash with police at Italian-Austrian border

[Police try to stopp protesters who demonstrate against new borders, on their way in the Italian village of Brenner on the Italian-Austrian border, Sunday, April 3, 2016. Austria's defense minister said his country will deploy soldiers at a key Alpine pass to stop migrants arriving from Italy. Hans Peter Doskozil told German daily Die Welt that the move anticipates a shift in migrant flows from the Turkey-Greece route to the central Mediterranean. In an interview published Saturday, the newspaper quotes Doskozil saying that the military can provide "considerable support to border security" at the Brenner pass. ( AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)]MILAN (AP) — Italian demonstrators clashed with Austrian police on Sunday when they crossed the Brenner Pass border to protest against Austria's plans to enforce controls to limit the passage of migrants.


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GREECE prepares to return asylum seekers to Turkey

GREECE was preparing to return a group of failed asylum-seekers to Turkey on Monday amid fears of further unrest at detention centres on the Aegean ...


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Turkey's readiness questioned day before refugee swap with GREECE

There was little sign of preparation on either side of the Aegean less than 24 hours before GREECE was due to begin returning migrants to Turkey, and ...


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Protests in Greece and Turkey over EU refugee deal

Protests against the presence of refugees take place in Greece and Turkey as EU deal is about to get implemented.


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Three possible ways forward for GREEK talks

A splash of international espionage entered the GREEK saga on Saturday when WikiLeaks published the conversations of high-level International ...


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'Proud of the solidarity shown by the Greek people'

Giorgos Kyritsis, the spokesman for Greece's governmental committee on refugees, says the country's EU partners must help deport rejected asylum applicants to Turkey. Hardly any applications are being made in Greece.


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Greek championship results and standings

April 3 (Infostrada Sports) - Results and standings from the Greek championship matches on Sunday Sunday, April 3 Atromitos Athinon 1 Panaitolikos Agrinion 0 Iraklis 0 Asteras Tripolis 1 Kalloni 0 AEK Athens 0 Levadiakos 1 PAS Giannina 1 Olympiakos Piraeus ...


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Greece counts down to first Turkey migrant returns under EU deal

A Syrian refugee holds a child carrying a placard reading "we ask the EU governments to help us" as refugees and migrants including children who left the Chios registration camp protest on April 3, 2016 and camp out in the port of Chios. AFP / LOUISA ...


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Greece Scrambles to Finalize EU Migrant Deportation Plan

Hours before the scheduled start of the deportation of hundreds of migrants from the island of Lesbos, Greek officials had yet to finalize their plans under a deal between the European Union and Turkey. Activists in Lesbos planned a protest for Monday when ...


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Migrants Panic As GREECE Plans For Deportations By Sarah Lynch

Refugees and migrants are panicking, and looking for ways to immediately flee GREECE, ahead of planned deportations to Turkey this week. Hundreds ...


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Deportation of Migrants From Greece to Turkey Starts Monday

… to deport migrants currently on Greek islands back to the Turkish … Kyritsis, a spokesman for the Greek government's refugee crisis …


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Greece in countdown for the return of hundreds of migrants to Turkey

… transferred – are sketchy and Greek officials on Sunday were tight-lipped … migrants" who arrived in Greece after March 20 face being … returned to Turkey from the Greek islands, another Syrian refugee will …


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Migrants protest on Greek island of Chios against deportations

Migrants waving signs that read “We want freedom” protested on the Greek island of Chios on Sunday, a day before a controversial EU deal that will see hundreds of people deported back to Turkey was due to come into effect. An estimated 750 people will ...


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Greece insists refugee deportations will begin despite doubts over EU-Turkey deal

Operation due to begin on Monday on islands of Lesbos and Chios, but questions remain as to how it will be implemented Greek officials have insisted that hundreds of migrants and refugees will be deported to Turkey on Monday as part of a controversial EU ...


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Chios and Piraeus Port on a Tight Rope

“We are aiming to convince the refugees and migrants that they should trust the GREEK authorities and that they should be transferred into our official ...


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Greek authorities brace for migrant backlash ahead of Turkey returns

A passenger flight headed to Faro, Portugal, took off from Brussels Airport on Sunday, the first passenger flight to depart from the airport after suicide bombings killed more than 30 people there and at a Brussels metro station last month. Turkish town ...


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Tsipras accuses IMF of trying to push Greece into default

Alexis Tsipras, the Greek prime minister, has accused the International Monetary Fund of attempting to push his country into default and demanded clarification of remarks made in a leaked teleconference transcript. The row, which prompted an emergency ...


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Austrian police clash with people protesting border closure

[Police officers try to stopp protesters on their way in the village of Brenner on the Italian-Austrian border, Sunday, April 3, 2016. Austria's defense minister said his country will deploy soldiers at a key Alpine pass to stop migrants arriving from Italy. Hans Peter Doskozil told German daily Die Welt that the move anticipates a shift in migrant flows from the Turkey-Greece route to the central Mediterranean. In an interview published Saturday, the newspaper quotes Doskozil saying that the military can provide "considerable support to border security" at the Brenner pass. (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)]BERLIN (AP) — Austrian police have clashed with protesters demonstrating against the closure of Europe's borders to migrants.


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Uncertainty prevails on day before GREECE starts returns of migrants

Under the deal, those who cross into GREECE illegally will be held and sent back once their asylum applications are processed. For every Syrian ...


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'Voice' of Paris terrorist raids traversed GREECE last year

Early last year, he was spotted driving through northern GREECE with his family. French police alerted their Greek counterparts to his presence and his ...


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LOOKING BACK @ STOUGHTON & RANDOLPH: Alms collected for GREEK War Relief

The GREEK War Relief held at all theatres throughout the country last week was observed in Stoughton and according to Edward Longo, manager of ...


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The most horrifying Yelp reviews of McDonald’s locations across the US

[McDonalds bacon burger 2.JPG]Biz Carson/Business Insider McDonald’s is fighting negative stereotypes with new menu items like kale salad and Greek yogurt. However, to fully turn around business, the chain has to look at its worst locations. When customers go to a McDonald’s, they are expecting speedy service and reliable food, not a five-star meals. When they can’t get that, they turn to Yelp. While there are some McDonald’s around the US with sleek seating and engaged employees, there are many locations that enforce the less than positive associations people have with the chain. Here are some of the wildest one-star Yelp customer reviews of the lowest rated McDonald’s across the US. CHICAGO 2402 N Lincoln Ave [mcdonalds double]Biz Carson/Business Insider "The worst McDonald's there is, ever was, and ever will be. It looks like a waiting room in purgatory, it smells like a taxi with a faint hint of bleach, and it tastes like they went rogue and started microwaving breakfast sandwiches from the freezer at Speedway. I feel substantially worse about myself simply for having been here, and cannot shake the feeling that every good thing I've ever done in my life has just been canceled out." Michael S. SAN FRANCISCO 730 Stanyan St Instagram Embed: http://instagram.com/p/-Na1I7CWKq/embed/ Width: 658px "This is sort of the Dorian Gray's portrait of all McDonalds; all that processed, chemically, quasi-food that makes up their offerings is physically manifest in one single location. In other words: for once, a McDonalds truly looks how it tastes. Avoid." David D. NEW YORK CITY 18 E 42nd Street [NYC McDonald's]Biz Carson/Business Insider "Please avoid this McDonald's.  For the last two years I lived in NYC, every time I ate there - ANYTHING there - I would get queasy and ill later.  Even two fries. Something is Just Plain Wrong with that McD's.  If you must, there are plenty of others to choose from.  Better still, go to one of the hundreds or thousands of non-chain restaurants - for goodness' sakes, you're IN NYC." Scott. S. LOS ANGELES 1800 S Western Ave Instagram Embed: http://instagram.com/p/1CmLKThgZG/embed/ Width: 658px  "A man used the urinal and just walked out with out washing his hands!!!! Restroom doors gross me out to start and I was stuck with clean hands and no towels! Anyway! I got out with the help of toilet paper! But the food! The nuggets were gross!!! Disgusting!!" Nathan A. HOUSTON 2017 Main St. Instagram Embed: http://instagram.com/p/e91eQ9IJv8/embed/ Width: 658px "This McDonald's makes me feel like a rubber-necker at a terrible car accident. I don't wanna look, but its just so horrific that I can't help it. 'Officer, could you bring the body over here? We can't get a good look.' You already know any McDonald's in the middle of a rough downtown area and next to a 24 hr bus station is gonna be bad. But this one is beyond the pale. I was in the Army for years, much of it stationed in the Third World, so I've been in some hair-raising places, believe me (I was in Beirut in the 80s). However, this McDonald's makes my list of '100 places no sane person should ever go.'" David S. BROOKLYN, NEW YORK  139 Flatbush Ave [McDonalds]Biz Carson/Business Insider "Once upon a time I was on a downward spiral INTO HELL. I decided to succumb to McDonald's of all places instead of cooking a sensible meal or even heating an Amy's Organic frozen food meal. I would give this establishment a -5 if possible." Anna S. INDIANAPOLIS 1611 N Meridian St. Instagram Embed: http://instagram.com/p/fFniHojn7M/embed/ Width: 658px "If you are looking for a cozy place to grow old, then your car in the drive-thru at this McDonald's may be for you.  There are glacially slow and have been on every occasion.  Food is as you'd expect, it isn't any better with the wait." Jeff C. "This is the slowest, rudest Mickey D's in town. Its also the only one close enough to walk to, so... I will be back." Matt U. PHILADELPHIA 3935 Walnut St. Instagram Embed: http://instagram.com/p/YV_iRPOPrW/embed/ Width: 658px "Since this is a McDonald's, I went in with low expectations, but this place still managed to fall short of this low bar... This place is almost always filled with either hoodrats or drunk Penn kids. Stay away." Craig C. SAN DIEGO 1624 Rosecrans St.  Instagram Embed: http://instagram.com/p/1275YQAXGO/embed/ Width: 658px "The kids who work here need a gentle massage from my foot on their slow working a----.  Ditch this dump." Jeff L.  ATLANTA 31 Forsyth St. Instagram Embed: http://instagram.com/p/dnJgTQEzUE/embed/ Width: 658px "In this location, along the strip used as a primary site for the zombie TV series 'Walking Dead', the food is cold, hard, and stale. The service associates trudge through glassy-eyed government workers and the nearly homeless. Ketchup is not offered as a self-service condiment for fear that it will be taken and hoarded."  BEN E. SEATTLE 1530 3rd Ave Instagram Embed: http://instagram.com/p/BDQqz-VBwMs/embed/ Width: 658px "When being told to meet at 'the sketchy a-- McDonald's' is all that's needed to establish location it might speak poorly of your business reputation. Maybe not. Who am I to judge?" Sal P. MINNEAPOLIS 407 15th Ave SE Instagram Embed: http://instagram.com/p/1hKfrOFtJM/embed/ Width: 658px "Back in my very very broke days, I would eat here occasionally and spend literally a couple of dollars on something to get me by. Everything was filthy.  No one was nice.  The food was awful.  I think everyone should have this experience at least once in their lives to show you how bad food can be. Once you have experienced the lows, you will appreciate every other meal that much more for the rest of your life. ..or perhaps you'll die from this one.  That would be pretty unlucky, so try not to do that."  Ninja S. PORTLAND 7487 N Ida Ave Instagram Embed: http://instagram.com/p/_m5IgLrIZu/embed/ Width: 658px "If your thinking of eating at this McDonalds, quickly punch yourself right in the face! This is exactly what i think of when I think of gross fat food. Recently they remodeled the building but it did nothing for the quality of service or food."  Simon R. WASHINGTON, DC Union Station, 50 Massachusetts Ave NE Instagram Embed: http://instagram.com/p/3odIFNBWqA/embed/ Width: 658px "Watching COPS on a Saturday night while I bang out my Yelp reviews, I like to deliver a little beat down of my own.  This McDonald's in DC anchors the stop that boards the Regional Amtrak Metroliner to NYC. I had a bad experience here a couple years ago, and I see they still don't have their s--- together. No Shamrock shakes?  But the sign is there. 'We don't have them anymore.' It's not even St. Patty's day yet... Don't stop by here.  Hit the large food court in the basement of Union Station, just steps away." Jim P. BALTIMORE 15 W North Ave Instagram Embed: http://instagram.com/p/8q7L8GBah9/embed/ Width: 658px "I had a long hair in my quarter pounder sandwich. Right smack in the middle. That's just basic hygiene folks." Osama S. NOW WATCH: I ate at a McDonald’s in Spain, and it was so much better than in America


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The IMF plot to usher Greece towards bankruptcy

A plan to further destabilise the already frail Greek economy, paving the country's way to default, was revealed on Saturday, when WikiLeaks published the transcript of an intercepted teleconference between the top two International Monetary Fund officials ...


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Bewildered migrants await fate on Lesbos

Migrants continue to arrive on the Greek island of Lesbos, only to find detention and uncertainty as an EU deal on forced returns begins, the BBC's Sarah Rainsford finds.


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Questions over whether Turkey and Greece are ready for controversial return of migrants

"We're not opposed to returns as long as people are not in need of international protection, they have not applied for asylum and human rights are adhered to" Just hours before the controversial EU-Turkey migrant deal is due to fully come into force, there ...


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Greece Grapples With Unrest Ahead of Migrant Transfers to Turkey

Greece is due to start sending Syrian refugees and other migrants back across the Aegean Sea to Turkey on Monday, putting into practice a controversial deal between the European Union and Turkey aimed at stemming the migration flow into Europe. Returns are ...


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GREEK isle profited from migrant influx but that may soon end

MYTILINI, Greece — As a main European gateway for migrants flooding in from Turkey, the Aegean island of Lesbos, long known for its olive oil and ...


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Trudeau to walk in Montreal's Greek Independence Day Parade

… Papineau for today's Greek Independence Day Parade. The parade …


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Justin Trudeau to participate in Montreal’s annual Greek Independence Day Parade

… alongside Montrealers in the annual Greek Independence Day Parade. READ MORE … end of Ottoman rule in Greece.


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Turkish authorities on Saturday hastened its setting up of reception centres to process Syrian and other migrants two days ahead of the implementation of a hugely controversial deal with the EU for them to be sent back from Greece to Turkish soil.

… Aegean Sea for EU member Greece from Monday but so far … migrants being sent back from Greece. Dikili residents protest refugees… sports arenas in the town. Greek news agency ANA meanwhile reported … the Aegean from Turkey to Greece this year alone and 366 …


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German minister says migrant crisis may have peaked

BERLIN (Reuters) - On the eve of the first expulsions of refugees from Greece to Turkey under a deal to slow the influx of migrants to western Europe, Germany's interior minister expressed cautious optimism that the crisis had peaked.


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GREECE banks eye debt relief push during IMF meetings

Brussels: Eurozone finance ministers are likely to start discussing debt relief for GREECE on the sidelines of the IMF's spring meetings in mid-April, ...


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Greek Independence Day parade taking place in Toronto Sunday afternoon

The Greek Independence Day parade will be marching along Danforth Avenue on Sunday afternoon. Parade begins at 1 p.m. at Eastern Commerce Collegiate Institute. It will move westbound on the Danforth and end at Broadview at around 3 p.m. Road closures will ...


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Turkey Preparing for up to 500 Refugees from Greece Monday: Minister

Turkey has prepared to take in up to 500 migrants from Greece on Monday under a plan agreed with the EU to reduce the flow of illegal migration, the Turkish interior minister said. Turkish media reports have said the first wave of migrants sent back by ...


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Justin Trudeau in today's GREEK Independence Day Parade

Montrealers who've watched Prime Minister Justin Trudeau jet set around the globe will get to see him back in his riding of Papineau for today's GREEK ...


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GREEKS American leaders to support Hillary Clinton

Although the primary races for both parties are close to the finish line, the only remaining candidate to have formally engaged with the GREEK American ...


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Uncertainty reigns over migrants in GREECE

Less than 24 hours before GREECE is due to begin returning migrants to Turkey, little sign of preparation is evident on Lesbos, the island through which ...


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Afghan offered asylum in Lithuania thanks to YouTube plea

Social media has come to the rescue of an asylum seeker stuck in Greece. Lithuania has promised to admit an Afghan man who sent out a plea on…


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Wikileaks: IMF deliberately causing debt crisis in Greece

This is an incredible story that sounds like some kind of trashy political thriller - except the documents have been revealed by Wikileaks. European elites in the IMF have been working behind the scenes to engineer several crisises in order to amass power ...


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Turkey preparing for up to 500 migrants from Greece Monday

[Under an EU deal, all migrants who arrived in Greece after March 20 face being sent back to Turkey]Turkey has prepared to take in up to 500 migrants from Greece on Monday under a plan agreed with the EU to reduce the flow of illegal migration, the Turkish interior minister said.


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