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Crisis Hasn’t Kept Greeks from Beloved Coffee, Industry Soaring

The National Herald 25 Jun 2018

ATHENS – Not even eight years of crushing austerity and an economic crisis that has seen poverty, suicide and unemployment rates spike has separated Greeks from their ancient tradition of a coffee drinking ritual. The coffee industry is growing fast in Greece, the International Coffee Organization (ICO) said with its data revealing Greeks ranked 17th in the world for consumption per capita....

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Alexis Tsipras and Gabriel Sakellaridis b May 2014

Tsipras in UK in bid to promote Greek role in Balkans, seek investors

Kathimerini 25 Jun 2018

The Greek premier is to meet on Monday with Archbishop Gregorios of Thyateira and Great Britain and later with young Greek scientists working in the UK capital, at the Hellenic Center of London, at 6 p.m ... The Greek premier will be ......

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Greek Health Workers Protest SYRIZA Budget Cuts, Poke Tsipras

The National Herald 25 Jun 2018

ATHENS – Mocking Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who donned a tie to celebrate a debt relief deal with the country’s international creditors, Greek hospital workers from the union POEDIN blocked the entrance to the Finance Ministry to protest ongoing budget cuts under the ruling Radical Left SYRIZA-led coalition ... With Greek health facilities ......

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Greek paratrooper arrested for firing gun without reason at Hania base

Kathimerini 25 Jun 2018

A Greek army paratrooper was arrested on Monday was arrested after allegedly firing his service gun for ......

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Greek-American Stories: Characters

The National Herald 25 Jun 2018

Across the street from where I lived with my parents lived two Greek-American women, Joanna and Irene, who were raised by a nanny, Kyria Anastasia, a friendly, sweet soul, brought from Greece by their parents, who were doctors ... “How long have you been engaged?” a Greek neighborasked her ... Then, a new grocery opened on Sherman Avenue that we’d heard was owned by a Greek....

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Greek-American businesswoman eyes California office

Kathimerini 25 Jun 2018

Even though our family came from very humble origins – my yiayia and neither of my husband’s could read or write – we could not be prouder of our Greek ancestry ... There were several reports of Greek Americans voting in large numbers for Trump ... The Greeks invented democracy, and, as Plato argued, the enemy of democracy is chaos....

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Experts warn of plenty of work ahead for Greek recovery

Kathimerini 25 Jun 2018

Eurozone officials greeted last week the upcoming end of the third Greek bailout program this August as Greece has returned to normality, but the situation on the ground is quite different, experts warn in Greece ... Yet as austerity continues, over one in three Greeks (34.8 percent of the population) are threatened by poverty or social exclusion, per the latest ELSTAT figures, while foreign investments remain few and far between....

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News Analysis: Experts warn of plenty of work ahead for Greek recovery

Xinhua 25 Jun 2018

ATHENS, June 25 (Xinhua) -- Euro zone officials greeted last week the upcoming end of the third Greek bailout program this August as Greece has returned to normality, but the situation on the ground is quite different, experts warn in Greece ... He argued that "the Greek civil sector has a tremendous human capital that has been largely untapped....

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{ MP3 } Tarja - Act II (Live) rar

Finger Lakes Times 25 Jun 2018

13.Until Silence / The Reign / Mystique Voyage / House of Wax / I Walk Alone (Acoustic) [Live]....

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Italian government calls for migrant processing centres in North Africa

The Independent 25 Jun 2018

Ahmad Zarour, 32, from Syria, reacts after his rescue by MOAS (Migrant Offshore Aid Station) while attempting to reach the Greek island of Agathonisi, Dodecanese, southeastern Agean Sea ... Syrian migrants holding life vests gather onto a pebble beach in the Yesil liman district of Canakkale, northwestern Turkey, after being stopped by Turkish police in their attempt to reach the Greek island of Lesbos on 29 January 2016....

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New protest in Greece against Macedonia name deal

DNA India 25 Jun 2018

As the two countries' foreign ministers signed the deal Greek protesters clashed with riot police, who beat them back with tear gas near the small Greek village of Pisoderi, 25 km away. Six policemen and six protesters were injured, police said, as around 500 demonstrators waving Greek flags tried to approach the ceremony ... for modern-day Greeks....

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In London, Tsipras Seeks Investors, Plays Up North Macedonia Name Deal

The National Herald 25 Jun 2018

Tsipras was to meet British Prime Minister Theresa May, the head of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn and Archbishop Gregorios of Thyateira and Great Britain, as well with young Greek scientists, the kind who have continued to flee Greece under his reign, seeking work and a better life in other countries during Greece’s 8-year-long austerity and economic crisis....

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No Way Back: Greece’s North Macedonia Name Deal

The National Herald 25 Jun 2018

ATHENS – The way Panteion University sociology professor Alex Sakellariou sees it, the deal Greece’s anti-nationalist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras made to let the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) call itself North Macedonia – giving away forever the name of an ancient Greek province – has irrevocably split Greeks into two camps ... “The vast majority of Greeks do not like the agreement....

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