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Saturday, March 31, 2018

Patra police break up robbery ring

Four suspected members of a robbery ring believed to have used stolen cars to drive through store fronts before robbing valuables were arrested by police in Patra, western GREECE, on Saturday. Acting on a series of tip-offs provided by the local Security Police, officers raided a business in Corinth, ...


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Minister slams KAS rejection of BBC request to film at temple

Culture Minister Lydia Koniordou has criticized a decision by the Central Archaeological Council (KAS), the main guardian of GREECE'S cultural heritage, to turn down a request by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) to shoot at the Temple of Poseidon on Cape Sounio next month. “We must create ...


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Greek league resumes after 3 weeks; PAOK wins at Atromitis

ATHENS, Greece (AP) After a government-ordered three-week suspension of the Greek league, PAOK beat Atromitos 2-0 and returned to first place on Saturday. Also, defending champion Olympiakos came from behind to draw at Levadiakos 1-1. AEK, a point behind ...


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PAOK Remain Top as Greek Super League Returns

Greece’s Super League roared back into action on Saturday after being suspended on March 12 amid a wave of acrimony over docked points, fan violence and a club manager sporting a handgun. At the center of much of the recent controversy has been northern ...


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Ankara claims “not doubt about Turkish sovereignty” over Imia islets

“The legal status of Imia is firmly established. Greek sovereignty over Imia is a given and beyond doubt,” Greek Foreign Ministry said on Saturday commenting on an unbelievable statement by the Turkish Foregin Ministry that raises …objections that the Imia islets in the Aegean are included in the “Natura 2000” Environmental Program. “Turkey is mistaken … The post Ankara claims “not doubt about Turkish sovereignty” over Imia islets appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.


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Greece Start and End Routes with Turkish Gulet Muhtesem A

Mar. 31, 2018 / PRZen / MARMARIS, Turkey -- For travellers who are seeking Greece-only gulet charters, without having to start and end their trips in Turkey, the 16-person, 8 cabin, 32-meter Muhtesem A gulet is a great choice to consider. She offers guests ...


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Greek fashion designer presents creations under Acropolis

ATHENS, March 31 (Xinhua) -- Vassilios Kostetsos, one of the top Greek fashion designers in Greece in the past three decades, staged on Saturday a unique fashion show at the entrance of the Herod Atticus Odeon at the foot of the Acropolis in Athens.


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5th day of water shortages in Greece's second-largest city

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) -- Large sections of the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki have been without water for a fifth day because of damage to an old pipeline, prompting a judicial investigation into the city's state-owned water company. The center ...


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The Feast Day of Virgin Mary with President Pavlopoulos in Andros

President of the GREEK Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos and Mrs. Stella Kokolis, President of the Federation of Hellenic American Teachers USA, attended the Feast Day of the Panagia Theoskepasti (Virgin Mary), the patron saint, in Andros on March 24th. A new message to Turkey, this time from the ...


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Akis Petretzikis' Traditional GREEK Pascha Cookies

GREEK celebrity chef has a simple recipe for your traditional GREEK Easter (Pascha) koulourakia, or cookies. These are the “national” cookies of Greece, particularly during the festive holiday season and occupy a place of honor on every GREEK Paschal table right next to traditional Tsoureki and red-dyed ...


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Water Supply in Thessaloniki to Begin to Normalise as of Saturday

THESSALONIKI – Thessaloniki Water Supply & Sewerage Co (EYATH) technicians estimated on Friday that the water supply in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, the […] The post Water Supply in Thessaloniki to Begin to Normalise as of Saturday appeared first on The National Herald.


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'Turkey won't accept faits accompli in the Aegean Sea'

Turkey will not accept any faits accompli on the geography of the Aegean Sea, said Turkey's Foreign Ministry on Saturday. GREECE recently passed a law on 446 “Natura 2000” protected regions on land and at sea -- including the disputed Kardak islets in the Aegean -- that caused rising tensions ...


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'Science Comics: Robots and Drones' review: past, present, and future

The most recent, Robots and Drones, covers the science of robotics from the days of ancient GREECE and its automatons to modern drones and robotics used by the military and in our homes. Along with its adorable automaton narrator, Pouli, children are taken on a journey through time to learn about ...


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The National Hellenic Museum to hold Annual Gala – “Connecting Generations”

CHICAGO (March 30, 2018) – The National Hellenic Museum (NHM) will hold its Annual Gala “Connecting Generations” Saturday, May 12, at the Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile. The NHM Gala has always been a great opportunity for hundreds of Greek Americans and friends from across the country to gather together for a night of festivities and […] The post The National Hellenic Museum to hold Annual Gala – “Connecting Generations” appeared first on Hellenic News of America.


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FYI 4-1-18

The scholarship is designed to reward members who live in the GREEK Village house and are impactful in the fraternity's success via scholastics and dedication to the fraternity's values. Recipients must live on campus during the term in which the award is presented. They must also be in good academic ...


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'World Make Way': New Poems Paint Classic Pictures

And the whole book is really based on a form from the GREEK called ekphrastic poetry, where poems are inspired by art. I assigned these varied paintings to 18 of the top children's poets in America who would then write their emotions toward the painting. Rather than describing the painting, it's what they ...


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Ministry of Foreign Affairs announcement on a statement regarding Imia made by the spokesperson of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The legal status of Imia is firmly established. Greek sovereignty over Imia is a given and beyond doubt. Turkey is mistaken if it thinks it can violate international law in the Aegean without consequences, as it does in other places in its environs. We would advise Turkey to measure its words.


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Relatives hold impaired siblings for money

A mentally impaired brother and sister in GREECE were held prisoner by their cousin for eight months and forced to transfer 80,000 euros to him. Costas Kantouris. Associated PressApril 1, 20182:19am. A brother and sister were held prisoner by relatives for more than eight months near the northern ...


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Greeks 'Paying More' for Healthcare

The figures from GREECE'S statistics body ELSTAT, quoted in a report by Kathimerini newspaper on Saturday, also point to the fact this figure is higher than before the country was engulfed by the economic crisis. Private-sector benefactors have been plugging gaps in the country's healthcare spending.


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American Educator's Representative with President Pavlopoulos in Andros GREECE

President of the Greek Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos and Mrs. Stella Kokolis, President of the Federation of Hellenic American Teachers USA, attended the Feast Day of the Panagia Theoskepasti (Virgin Mary), the patron saint, in Andros on March 24th. A new message to Turkey, this time from the ...


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Athens says Imia sovereignty beyond doubt after Ankara challenge

"We would advise Turkey to measure its words." The statement from Athens followed one issued by the Turkish Foreign Ministry, criticizing Athens for adopting an environmental law regarding European Union Natura programs that it claimed GREECE "has long been exploiting... with respect to the Aegean ...


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Kotzias to brief party leaders on 'Macedonia' name talks

Following the progress achieved in United Nations-mediated talks last week in Vienna on the “Macedonia” name issue, GREEK Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias and his counterpart from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Nikola Dimitrov, are to take stock before further negotiations after GREEK ...


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The 25th of March Maryland GREEK Independence Day Parade 2018

GREEK-Americans of the Diaspora of Maryland, Washington D.C. and Virginia ignored the snow flurries that surprised everyone on Sunday, March 25, 2018 and began gathering in Baltimore's Greektown to celebrate and honor our ancestors' sacrifices to preserve the ideals of Freedom and Democracy in ...


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Police killing of Kasur boy: LHC orders recording of witness statements

An FIA official said that out of these nine passengers seven were deported from GREECE while two others were deported from Germany and Australia. All reached Lahore through Gulf Airline flight number 764. During preliminary inquiry, the deportees told the immigration officers that they had crossed into ...


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French club in South Africa to watch Mamelodi Sundowns talisman Percy Tau

However, the man tipped to walk away with the 2017/18 PSL Player of the Year Award could leave the 2016 African champions as he is courted by clubs in GREECE, Denmark and France. According to the club's spokesperson, Thulani Thuswa, he revealed on Saturday morning that a French club is in the ...


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GREECE Leads in European Defence, Joining New EU Security Arrangement

GREECE sits in the center of an unstable region with lukewarm ties to the European Union, but it remains a force of stability and a strong EU member, especially in its role in Europe's new Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) on security and defence. Relations have been worsening between the ...


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Michigan's unique, ubiquitous culinary treat: Coney Island hot dogs

Grimm hypothesizes GREEK immigrants saw people eating hot dogs at Coney Island, where they were invented, and soon were adding yesterday's chili to freshly grilled sausages in the towns they eventually came to call home, especially Detroit, where they produced cheap, ready-made coney dogs for ...


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Curlers hit the ice for 2018 Bonspiel

The Finals will take place on Sunday at 1pm for the Women's Division and 3:30pm for the Men's. Now the theme this year was GREECE, but, since it was in honor of the Winter Olympics, many of the athletes were wearing costumes to honor countries or Olympic events, while some stuck closer to this year's ...


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CCHS students traveling to GREECE and Italy...

Caldwell County High School students and chaperones are leaving today (March 31) for a 10-day tour of GREECE and Italy as part of the first and hopefully annual Cald-Well-Traveled program started by CCMS art teacher Miranda Meeks. Travelers include (front, from left) Emma Watson, Rachel Beckett, ...


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Positive signals from Vienna

Positive signals that a resolution to the name dispute between GREECE and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia could be within reach emerged from Vienna on Friday where foreign ministers of the two countries held talks under the aegis of United Nations mediator Matthew Nimetz. After talks ...


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Fouad al-Zayat, wanted in Cyprus, quietly buried on the island after his death in Lebanon

Syrian-born businessman Fouad al-Zayat, who had been linked with an arms kickback scandal in GREECE and wanted in Cyprus for fraud, has died, it was reported on Saturday. Al-Zayat, also known as The Fat Man, died Monday from cancer in Lebanon at the age of 77, daily Politis reported. His body ...


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GREECE is under attack! Chinese space station will crash to GREECE within hours

The destruction of the Chinese space station in the earth's atmosphere and the fall of any parts of it on Earth will happen between Saturday night March 31 and late Sunday afternoon on April 1 (GMT time), according to the latest estimate of the European Space Agency. According to the Renewable ...


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Syrian refugees forced to choose war over Europe's squalid camps

Overview of Moria camp in Lesbos, GREECE. The camp that has a capacity of 2000 people is overflowing with 6000 at the end of March 2018. Georgios Makkas for The National. Washing clothes in a bucket, Mohammed Khalid chuckles with a hollow laugh, his red hands fumbling in the cold water.


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For many refugees, the hopelessness only increases once they're able to leave an island camp

They fled to Turkey, then GREECE, where they spent 8 months on the island of Samos and where his wife suffered a mental breakdown and Asieh became very ill, losing a third of her body weight in a matter of weeks. The family was placed in large container with eight other families, all from various Arab ...


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Europe’s policy of containment follows refugees from Greek islands to mainland

THEBES, GREECE — For the roughly 13,000 refugees marooned in camps on four Greek islands, those who get to go to the mainland are the lucky ones. They can move freely in the country, and might be further along in their application process. However, while ...


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GREEK Yogurt Market Research Report2023: Expected Major Development To Be Observed Across ...

GREEK Yogurt Market Report 2018-2023 has been organized based on an detailed market analysis with inputs from industry experts. The report covers the market landscape and its growth prospects over the coming years. The report also includes a discussion of the key vendors operating in this market.


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Russian whistleblower tells Kathimerini of her fears after Maltese journalist's murder

A man attaches a placard to the fence of the GREEK Embassy in Ta'Xbiex, Malta on Tuesday, as civil society activists called on the GREEK government to grant political asylum to Maria Efimova, a former Pilatus Bank employee who ignited a political scandal in Malta when she became a source for ...


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'Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World' Review: A Cross-Cultural Journey Begins

And its artistry would have done any Egyptian proud, with etchings of falcon heads, winged gods, and a head of pharaonic gravity. Inscribed, too, are the names of the Royal Sealer's parents: Alexikles and Zenodote. He was, it seems, GREEK or the child of GREEK immigrants; he rose in the court high ...


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Relatives kidnap impaired brother, sister for over 8 months

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) - GREEK police say a brother and sister were held prisoner by relatives for over eight months near the northern GREEK city of Thessaloniki and forced, under threats of violence, to transfer large amounts to their captors' bank accounts. Police say a 58-year-old GREEK man, his ...


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Bulldozers demolish illegal constructions at Mykonos’ famous beach Psarou

The unprecedented took place in one of the most famous beaches of  Greece, Psarou Beach on the island of Mykonos, the island of rich and the on-stop parties. Bulldozers demolished illegally built constructions what operate in summer as shops and bars. Local media report that in the presence of the Police. city planners and local … The post Bulldozers demolish illegal constructions at Mykonos’ famous beach Psarou appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.


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Acropolis among 7 most famous ancient buildings in 3D animations project

Countries like Greece, Italy, Egypt, and Mexico are famous for some of the most fascinating historical monuments in the world. Sadly, not all of them have managed to survive the cruel wheel of time, and after so many centuries the only thing left to remind us of them are their ruins. But have you ever … The post Acropolis among 7 most famous ancient buildings in 3D animations project appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.


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Greek and Turkish Cypriots demand opening of Dherynia crossing

Greek and Turkish Cypriots on Saturday demanded the opening of the Dherynia crossing point in the Famagusta district to boost confidence and cooperation between the two communities. In an event held on the north side of the road, which leaders Nicos ...


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Turkish president recites Muslim prayer at the Hagia Sophia

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey's president recited an Islamic prayer Saturday in the Hagia Sophia, a historic Istanbul landmark that has become a symbol of interfaith and diplomatic tensions. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recited the first verse of the Quran at the end of his remarks for an art festival opening, dedicating the prayer to the "souls of all who left us this work as inheritance, especially Istanbul's conqueror." The Hagia Sophia was built during the 6th century Christian Byzantine Empire and served as the seat of the Greek Orthodox Church. It was converted into an imperial mosque with the Ottoman conquest of Istanbul in 1453.


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Migrants stuck in limbo in Greek islands

… of asylum-seekers stuck on the Greek island. He lives in a … the deal, migrants arriving on Greek islands must be returned to … on a daily basis in Greece, he said. Alobeidy's …


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Refugee Runners Seek Support for Greek Road Race

… refugee camp in Katsikas, north-west Greece and are running to raise … living there and the local Greek community. Nevertheless, the group of …


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Des Moines Commemorates Archbishop Demaskinos and His Letter 

DES MOINES, IA – On March 23, the Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines, the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Chicago, St. George Greek Orthodox Parish […] The post Des Moines Commemorates Archbishop Demaskinos and His Letter  appeared first on The National Herald.


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UN Special Envoy in Vienna: Progress Was Made on All Issues

Greece and FYROM are preparing “for a big step forward” toward resolving the name issue, Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias said in Vienna on Friday, following […] The post UN Special Envoy in Vienna: Progress Was Made on All Issues appeared first on The National Herald.


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Greece Doesn’t Have the Luxury to Have Many Open Fronts, Claims ND’s Dendias

ATHENS – “Greece does not have the luxury to have many open fronts on its borders” underlined New Democracy (ND) parliamentary spokesman Nikos Dendias in […] The post Greece Doesn’t Have the Luxury to Have Many Open Fronts, Claims ND’s Dendias appeared first on The National Herald.


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The Guardian apologises for controversial Greece 'poverty' tour

The UK daily The Guardian has apologised over a $3,500 "educational and informative tour" of crisis-ravaged Greece amid uproar and accusations of promoting "poverty porn". Announced on Wednesday, the holiday - billed by the paper as "Greece and The Euro ...


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Greeks spend more than EU peers on health

Greeks continue to pay considerable sums out of their own pocket to make up for the shortfalls of the national health system, significantly more than many of their European counterparts. According to data for 2016 from GREECE'S statistics agency, ELSTAT, Greeks forked out just over 5.05 billion euros for ...


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