Greece Archive
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It’s Possible To Stop The Olympics From Screwing Over Host Countries
Posted on 05.08.2016 | No CommentsAnti-government demonstrators burn a Brazilian flag during a protest on the Rio de Janeiro state economic crisis and against 2016 Rio Olympics, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 6, 2016. (Photo: REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes) Twelve summers ago, the Olympic t... -
Introducing Pelion – Mama Mia’s Greece and an Island Alternative
Posted on 27.04.2016 | No CommentsWhen watching Mama Mia, I dreamed of the island paradise where Meryl Streep and Amanda Syfried ran their crumbling hotel. "Where is this?" I asked myself. I had been to Crete and Santorini. I had seen pictures of Mykonos and Zante, but I had no idea w... -
Meteora Magic in Photos: Sacred Monasteries on Monoliths
Posted on 21.03.2016 | No CommentsA visit to the monasteries of Meteora, Greece will take your breath away. The landscape has been carved by wind and rain over thousands of years to create massive stone spires reaching to the sky. Atop these magnificent monoliths are ancient monasterie... -
Thousands of refugees, migrants stranded across Greece
Posted on 25.02.2016 | No CommentsThousands of refugees and migrants are stranded across Greece, including hundreds who have been waiting in buses along the country's main north-south highway for roughly two days. -
Witness recounts horror of drowning migrants as Merkel warns refugees their stay in Germany is temporary
Posted on 31.01.2016 | No Comments'I will never stop hearing those cries for the rest of my life.... I will never forget. It was terrible. They died screaming. It was dark' -
Greece: Bomb blast damages industry federation building in central Athens, no one hurt
Posted on 24.11.2015 | No CommentsPolice in Greece say a bomb has exploded outside the building of the Federation of Greek Enterprises in central Athens, causing damage but no injuries. -
Greek coast guard rescues 242 people after boat capsizes near Lesbos
Posted on 28.10.2015 | No CommentsAt least 11 migrants died in the eastern Aegean Sea Wednesday in five separate incidents, including a large shipwreck from which 242 others were rescued by the Greek coast guard. -
Half a million migrants crossed the Mediterranean into Europe in 2015 so far, double the amount of last year
Posted on 29.09.2015 | No CommentsIn September alone, 60,000 migrants and refugees have arrived in Greece, according to the latest estimates from the International Organization for Migration -
Austerity gamble pays off for Alexis Tsipras as his left-wing Syriza party returns to power in Greece
Posted on 21.09.2015 | No CommentsThe prime minister resigned last month and triggered an early election, seven months into his four-year term, to face down a rebellion in his party over austerity measures -
Greeks vote in 3rd national polls this year expected to yield coalition government
Posted on 20.09.2015 | No CommentsThe surveys, which showed many of the 9.9 million voters were undecided until two days before the vote or might abstain altogether, indicated the winner would not have enough votes to form a government alone. -
‘He tried’: Tsipras pleads with Greek voters for a second chance ahead of Sunday election
Posted on 19.09.2015 | No CommentsJust two months after Tsipras and his Left-wing Syriza party were forced to capitulate humiliatingly to Greece’s eurozone creditors, the 41-year-old finds himself neck-and-neck in the polls -
‘F— the rest!’ On Greek island of Kos, a migrant caste system has emerged, with Syrians at the top
Posted on 12.09.2015 | No CommentsBetween Jan. 1 and Aug. 14, 158,456 people from Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Bangladesh and sub-Saharan Africa arrived on Greek shores by sea
