Greece
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Football in Greece is plagued by endemic fan violence, which often spreads to other sports, such as basketball and volleyball. A Greek policeman was severely injured late on Thursday when a mob of volleyball fans set upon riot police outside an arena in Athens. State television ERT said rioters shot a flare at a 30-year-old…
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Greece has warned its public officials not to attend events or ceremonies hosted by Taiwan to avoid possible diplomatic problems with its key trading partner, China, a report by the Japan-based Nikkei Asia has said. While the European Union (EU) does not have formal relations with Taiwan or recognize Taipei’s claim to independence from Beijing,…
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Wildfires like those we’re seeing on the Greek islands are not unusual at this time of year, experts say – but there’s a warning that the effects of climate change are making them more frequent and ferocious. Professor Stefan Doerr, director of the Centre for Wildfire Research at Swansea University, says places like Rhodes have…
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Peace came to both Greek and Turkish Cypriots after an operation on the Eastern Mediterranean Island launched by Türkiye in 1974, the president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) said Wednesday. “If this operation had not been carried out, Cyprus would have been worse off than Crete. They would have wiped out all…
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A Greek prosecutor freed a police officer who shot and killed a 20-year-old Syrian national in the central province of Larissa, local media reported on Sunday. The officer, 45, told the prosecutor that he regretted the incident and claimed he had not intended to kill the victim, according to the ERT public broadcaster. He claimed…
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Criticism against the Greek government is growing as the country continues to battle raging wildfires that have forced thousands to flee. Authorities on Evia, Greece’s second-largest island, have in recent days denounced “insufficient” means to tackle the blazes when the situation was “critical”. The fires on Evia, some 200 kilometres away from Athens, have besieged…
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The principles of Keynesian economic theory are considered as effective financial intervention plans and are very effective in resolving economic crisis (Keynes., 1936), especially when governments “responsibly” apply them with clear understanding of the current situation and future forecasts. This is one of the reasons an economic index from the Heritage Foundation ranked Greece…
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Data credibility has been a problem since Greece applied to join the European Union in 1999. It is also a fact that most researchers, when citing the origins of the Greek financial crisis, use fabricated statistical data provided by the government. This was evident in the widely criticized deal between Goldman Sachs and the…
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The Greece Financial Crisis Abstract This paper presents a thorough analysis of the Greek debt crisis, starting with the chosen structure, methods applied for academic analysis, and a comprehensive discussion on the causal factors. A combination of both quantitative and qualitative sources will be employed for this discourse, with concentration on the period…
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Police in northern Greece have clashed briefly with extreme left protesters outside an international trade fair where the prime minister is hosting the commerce secretary of the United States. The protesters dispersed quickly from a square by the Thessaloniki International Exhibition Center. Two other demonstrations — one staged by 6,000 pro-communist unionists and one…
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A house is threatened by a huge blaze during a wildfire in Kineta, near Athens, Greece, on July 23, 2018 (Valerie Gache / AFP / Getty) A house burns during a wildfire in Kineta on July 23, 2018 Flames rise as a wildfire burns in the town of Rafina, near Athens, on July 23,…
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Greece continues to deal with the devastating wildfires in east and west Attica that killed 80 people and left 187 injured. Image shows people watching a wildfire in the town of Rafina on July 23, 2018 Greece observed a period of mourning Wednesday as crews continued checking cars and homes burned in fast-moving fires that have…
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Catching a frisbee is difficult but doing so successfully requires the catcher to weigh a complex array of physical and atmospheric factors, among them wind speed and frisbee rotation. Were a physicist to write down frisbee-catching as an optimal control problem, they would need to understand and apply Newton’s Law of Gravity. Despite this complexity,…
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A jaguar (Panthera onca) hunts a fish as it swims in its enclosure at Pessac Zoo on the outskirts of Bordeaux. Two jaguars named Catalina (2) and Mato (1), are on display for the first time in Europe. Their enclosure has a pool of about 100 cubic meters where visitors could observe the predators’ aquatic…
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Members of the European Union Parliament have strongly condemned the European Commission’s proposal to relocate 54,000 refugees from Turkey to EU member states, instead of relocating refugees from Italy and Greece as previously agreed, EuroReporter confirms. Italian MEP Barbara Spinelli said: “I strongly welcome Ska Keller’s response to the Commission in this report. I would…
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