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Friday, December 16, 2016

Local Greek chapters donate toys to St. Jude

Two men from the Phi Delta Theta fraternity at Southeast Missouri State University, along with two women from the Delta Delta Delta sorority at Southeast, took a trip on Dec. 15 to Memphis, Tennessee, to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The group ...


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Merkel Meets Tsipras Amid Growing Anger at GREEK Bailout Standoff

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and GREEK Prime Minister Alexis Tspiras held talks Friday (December 16) as a row broke out over Greece's ...


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Greek Bond Yields Surge After Debt Relief Talks Collapse

Greek bond yields are surging in the latest twist of the nearly seven year old Greek crisis, when on Wednesday Eurozone fin mins and the ESM, suspended their promise to grant short-term debt relief measures to the Greek government, as a result of pledges ...


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Greek opposition New Democracy Tourism Sector head Manos Konsolas on island VAT rates and migration crisis

The head of Greek main opposition New Democracy Tourism Sector Dodecanese MP Manos Konsolas, made the following statement: "New Democracy will vote for suspending the abolition of reduced VAT rates in the third group of islands and, especially, the ...


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Cancer-related deaths on the rise in GREECE

One in 10 deaths recorded in GREECE in 2014 were due to blood circulation complications, while one in four were due to cancers, according to a report ...


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Greek football club banned from refugee shirt protest

Larissa (Greece) (AFP) - Greek top flight football club Larissa said Friday that they have been banned from wearing shirts bearing a slogan highlighting Europe's refugee crisis. Players were planning to have 'The refugee children are our children ...


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GREEK minister sees progress despite latest debt drama

About 5,000 GREEK pensioners marched peacefully through central Athens Thursday to protest years of cuts to their pensions under the country's ...


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Fewer cruise ships to visit GREEK ports next year

The GREEK cruise market is bracing for a serious contraction next year, according to figures on cruise ship calls scheduled for GREEK ports in 2017.


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How European databases failed to catch Freiburg murder suspect

An Afghan asylum-seeker arrested for the murder of a student in Freiburg had already been convicted of a violent crime in Greece. Why wasn't he picked up in Europe's police search networks?


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Attica Security Police Dismantle Migrant-Trafficking Ring Operating in Greece, Italy

A major operation by the Attica Security Police Organized Crime Squad was underway on Friday to dismantle a network of migrant traffickers illegally smuggling people into Greece from Turkey and from there by boat to Italy and other European countries. The operation, which began on Thursday, was focused on Attica and western Greece on Friday, […]


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Shots Fired Outside GREECE-Ridge Mall, Police Questioning Person of Interest

GREECE, N.Y. -- A scary situation for holiday shoppers at GREECE-Ridge Mall as gunshots were fired just outside. GREECE police are questioning a ...


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Court: GREECE businessman kept $100K in sales tax, lied on tax returns

Rochester, N.Y. (WHAM) - A business owner in GREECE was sentenced Monday for filing false tax returns in order to keep $100,000 in sales tax.


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Child Abusing Syrian Refugee Gets 5 Years in Prison in GREECE

A 32-year-old Syrian asylum seeker who was arrested on Wednesday for abusing his three-year-old son at the Souda refugee camp on Chios island ...


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Choice Hotels Announces Development Agreement for Greece

… Hotels Announces Development Agreement for Greece Choice Hotels International, Inc. (NYSE … will be developed on the Greek mainland and islands under the … appeal to international travelers visiting Greece for either business or pleasure …


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Uproar about Greek authorities’ fiasco with Afghan migrant murder suspect

German authorities say they were unaware that an Afghan migrant accused of the recent rape and murder of a female medical student in Germany had been convicted of attempted murder in Greece after violating parole there. The news added a disturbing twist to ...


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Help Refugees: a lifeline for teenagers living in seedy Athens squats

Small charity’s dedicated volunteers are helping vulnerable young people forced to seek shelter in squalid, dangerous places • CLICK HERE TO DONATE TO OUR APPEAL When Karim’s father sent him, aged 17, from Kabul to find safety in Europe, he hoped to get work in his uncle’s supermarket in Germany. Earlier this month he was selling drugs on the streets of Athens to make money for food. He considers himself relatively lucky, since other teenagers from Afghanistan have turned to prostitution in the nearby park to earn money to survive, though he does concede that this is not what his father, an academic, had in mind for him. “I escaped Afghanistan for a good future. This was unexpected,” he said, pacing around a corner of Victoria Square, a seedy part of central Athens, at about midnight in early December. When he speaks to his parents he doesn’t tell them about the difficulties he faces. “All the time I think about going back.” Related: Please help us help #childrefugees survive the winter - Guardian/Observer 2016 Appeal Related: 'Prisoners of Europe': the everyday humiliation of refugees stuck in Greece Continue reading...


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Buckfast, malt extract and antisocial Daleks

Greek debt | Buckfast | WH Auden’s nether regions | Antisocial Daleks You report that the European finance ministers have frozen the Greek debt relief deal (15 December). The reason was the Greek government had made small surpluses on its budget (after complying with the imposed austerity measures) and had used some of them to help Greek pensioners with a one-off Christmas bonus. This was to be given to pensioners with an income of less than £650 a month. Top of my reasons to vote for Brexit was the appalling treatment of the poorest people in Greece. How refreshing to be reminded that my decision was justified. DAVID ELLIS _Comberton, Cambridgeshire_ • If consumption of Buckfast tonic wine features in over 6,000 crime reports (Buck up, G2, 15 December), should the monks of Buckfast Abbey review their business model before the Charity Commission removes their charitable status? GUS PENNINGTON _Stokesley, North Yorkshire_ Continue reading...


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Archaeologists Just Discovered a 2500-Year-Old Lost City Atop a GREEK Mountain Peak

An international team of Swedish and GREEK archaeologists discovered the remains of a former metropolis located 190 miles north of Athens.


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Greek PPC transfers 24% of ADMIE shares to China’s State Grid

Greece’s Public Power Corporation on Friday signed an agreement transferring 24 pct of shares in the Greek power grid operator ADMIE to China’s State Grid for 320 million euros. The signature of the agreement was attended by Environment and Energy ...


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Tsipras cites strong economic growth for Greece during Berlin talks

In Berlin for meetings with Chancellor Merkel, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has reported on his government's "spectacular overachievement" on revenue targets. Strong economic growth was also forecast.


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Greek PM says EU must take active role in Cyprob Geneva conference

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met on Friday in Berlin with the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel. They discussed Euro-Turkish relations, among other matters, and spoke of the significance of the Cyprus problem and the refugee crisis to those relations.


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Change of plans: Greece will most likely go with an internal selection for Eurovision 2017

Two months ago Greece’s public broadcaster, ERT decided that the country would once again participate in Eurovision 2017. Since then rumors have swirled that Greece will host a National Final to select their entry for the forthcoming contest.


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Choice Hotels International Expands Portfolio in GREECE

"We are thrilled to be expanding our European portfolio to GREECE, an important travel and tourism destination that has shown signs of strong recovery ...


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Police: Shots fired outside store at Mall at GREECE Ridge

There are a lot of GREECE Police officers at the Mall at GREECE Ridge Friday morning. 13WHAM News will continue to update this story (WHAM photo).


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Police: Someone fired handgun at vehicle in GREECE Ridge Mall parking lot

Police are on the scene at GREECE Ridge Mall for reports of shots fired outside the mall. Officers have been on scene on the northwest side of the mall, ...


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Greece's Tsipras pushes bonuses in Germany

… Jean-Claude Juncker to discuss the Greek program, Commission spokesman Margaritis Schinas … talks in Athens between the Greek government, its European creditors and … would continue from EU headquarters. Greek stocks rebounded Friday after three …


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Tax Reform Key to Greek Recovery, Says IMF »

… basic public services." "Greece still needs to reform the … IMF said. While noting that Greece has undertaken a huge fiscal … Fund observed. "Simply put, Greece cannot modernize its economy by …


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Bank Of Greece Sees Growth Picking Up Strongly In Coming Years

Greece's economic growth is … bailout reviews, the Bank of Greece said Friday. The bank forecast … the growth potential of the Greek economy by fostering faster labor …


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Greek PM Alexis Tsipras tells Angela Merkel ‘wounds of crisis’ must be healed

… some Greeks. The trip’s timing was also significant, as Greece wrangles … of enforced austerity in debt-laden Greece, required under the terms of … three institutions handling negotiations with Greece – the European Commission, the European …


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Tsipras in Berlin says Greeks who made 'sacrifices' deserve help

… not allow Greece to slip back into instability". Greek lawmakers approved … bonuses, stressing that decisions on Greece's bailout package rested … " the aid programme for Greece and how he sees the …


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Hollande Calls for a Solution for Greece, Avoiding More Uncertainty

… Calls for a Solution for Greece, Avoiding More Uncertainty BRUSSELS – French … find a solution to allow Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to … freeze short-term measures to alleviate Greece’s debt until it establishes …


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Students of the William Spyropoulos School of St. Nicholas Sing the Kalanta at TNH

NEW YORK – Students of the William Spyropoulos Greek-American School of St. Nicholas in Flushing on Thursday morning visited the exhibition for the Olympic Games of Athens 1896 hosted by... The post Students of the William Spyropoulos School of St. Nicholas Sing the Kalanta at TNH appeared first on The National Herald.


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Greek Tourism Minister Kountoura visits Canada

Kountoura was the key speaker at the special event Window in Greece organised by the General Consulate in Toronto to promote the Greek tourism in the Canadian market and the presentation of tourist investment opportunities in Greece. The Greek minister had ...


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Greek mythology book which clocked up a £10,000 fine was handed in by the borrower's grandson more than 130 years later

A pensioner has escaped a £10,000 fine after returning a volume of a Greek mythology borrowed by his grandfather from a library more than 130 years ago. Rusholme Hutton loaned a copy of The Siege of Troy, And, the Wanderings of Ulysses by Charles Henry ...


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Finding John Haviland

As a child in the early 1960s my classmates and I gathered every Saturday afternoon after Greek language school in the courtyard of St. George Greek Orthodox Cathedral to play our favorite game, hide-and-seek. We yearned to locate the best hiding spots and ...


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Tspiras, Merkel differ over Greek Christmas giveaway

Greek PM Alexis Tspiras has met with Angela Merkel in Berlin after his government passed a planned Christmas giveaway for pensions in defiance of its international creditors. A deal on debt relief has now been suspended. “Our vision is that growth not ...


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PHOTOS: $2.9M for GREEK Revival mansion blocks from Marietta Square

Views of the historic GREEK Revival home at 303 Kennesaw Ave. in downtown Marietta. The property is selling for $2.9 million. Photos courtesy of Live ...


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Syrian Refugee Jailed in Greece for Attack on Toddler Son

A Greek court has convicted a Syrian man of severely beating his 3-year-old son in a refugee camp, and posting video of the attack on social media in a bid to blackmail his estranged wife to join him. The court on the eastern island of Chios Friday ...


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Merkel, Tsipras Meet Amid Growing Greek Bailout Tension

BERLIN—German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday signaled she wouldn’t intervene in the conflict pitching the Greek government against its creditors over its decision to give low-income pensioners a Christmas bonus. The spat comes amid concern in the ...


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It's 2016, and Macedonia is a real place

In reiterating GREECE'S position that they want the Republic of Macedonia to use a “a compound name for the country; a name that will distinguish it ...


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Lost Greek City Discovered Underground (Details)

Lost Greek City Discovered By Archaeologists Hidden Under A Hill Near Athens. Scattered on and around the Strongilovoúni hill on the great Thessalian plains near a village called Vlochós, some 190 miles north of Athens, the ruins had been dismissed as ...


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Greek Drama Stolen Dreams Being Shopped for U.S. Hispanic Market

MIAMI: SOMOS Distribution has closed a deal for the exclusive rights in the U.S. Hispanic market for the Greek series Stolen Dreams, which os currently airing in its fifth season on the Mega channel in Greece. Stolen Dreams tells the story of a man with ...


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Are you certain you own land in Greece?

If you own land in Greece, you may be familiar with the term adverse possession, known in Greek as χρησηκτησία. Under Greek Law, if a third party enters, uses or builds on another person's property, then he or she can in fact claim ownership of ...


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Gustavus suspends four Greek life organizations after investigation

Four Greek life organizations at Gustavus Adolphus College were suspended after a hazing and harassment investigation. The four organizations suspended around Nov. 25 were Phi Alpha and Omega Kappa fraternities and Delta Phi Omega and Tau Mu Tau sororities.


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Sliding in polls, Greece's Tsipras seeks pensioners' support

ATHENS, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras seems determined to go down in history as a leader who tried to save Greece's most vulnerable from austerity. But the crowd of pensioners in Athens on Thursday night was cynical about his ...


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Greek financial crisis on sidelines as Merkel, Tsipras meet to talk refugees

Berlin is concerned that unless Greece manages to accommodate asylum seekers, many of them will find their way toward Germany.


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Switching to organics in GREECE

“We persuade citrus growers in GREECE to switch to organic, providing funding to help them with the three-year switch, in return for allowing us ...


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Discovered, 2500 Years Old 'Lost City' In GREECE

An International Group of Archeologists has discovered a 2500 years old abandoned city, in western Thessaly, GREECE. 200 years ago from today, this ...


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Merkel stands by Greece as Tsipras faces German fiscal critics

… renewed her pledge to help Greece deal with migration, steering clear … creditors about Greece’s commitment to its bailout terms, the Greek premier … . Progress with the implementation of Greece’s program has had beneficial …


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Michael Psaros on the Greek Crises

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBXGPZBpoLLeQMWB0ONCj3A The post Michael Psaros on the Greek Crises appeared first on The National Herald.


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