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A history of Greek theatre in two acts
Ancient Greek drama dealt with everything from murder and incest to sex and sausages. Yet, says Michael Scott, one theme above all dominated the performance of tragedies and comedies in democratic Ath
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After seven years of bailouts, Greeks sink yet deeper in poverty
Greek pensioner Dimitra says she never imagined a life reduced to food handouts: some rice, two bags of pasta, a packet of chickpeas, some dates and a tin of milk for the month. At 73, Dimitra - who herself once helped the hard-up as a Red Cross food server - is among a growing number of Greeks barely getting by. After seven years of bailouts that poured billions of euros into their country, poverty isn't getting any better; it's getting worse like nowhere else in the EU.
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Greece to defuse WWII bomb after mass evacuation
Greek soldiers are defusing a World War II bomb in the second city Thessaloniki after evacuating tens of thousands of people from the area.
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Prominent neo-Nazi movement sees surge in support after Trump's election
Greece’s most prominent neo-Nazi movement says it has found a new surge in support following Donald Trump’s election as US President, and that his ban on travellers from some Muslim-majority countries “validates” the group’s far-right views. Stirring a hardline, nationalistic element in Greece, the new President’s controversial immigration ban has sent thousands of supporters of the far-right Golden Dawn party, which represents about 10 per cent of the popular vote and is the country's third-largest party, onto the streets.
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Greece three weeks away from 'explosive' debt problems, says IMF
Greece’s embattled government has three weeks to break the deadlock in increasingly difficult talks with creditors or risk the country’s debt crisis resurfacing with renewed vigour. Faced with the dilemma of agreeing to additional austerity or calling fresh elections, prime minister Alexis Tsipras was weighing his options at the weekend. Fears of further uncertainty in Europe’s weakest member state mounted as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted that Greece’s debt load could become “explosive” by 2030.
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Russian diplomat found dead in Athens
A Russian diplomat was found dead in Athens on Monday. The 55-year-old man was found by some of his aides at his residence on 7 Atticou street. According to reports he did not show up in his office Monday morning, while he had not contacted anybody, which prompted his associates to search for him. After arriving at his house and he was not answering the door they called the Greek police...
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Greece Ends Year With Surplus; Passes Landmark Budget That Projects Economic Growth
The Greek parliament has approved a 2017 budget that calls for keeping spending restraints in place, while projecting economic growth to continue at 2.7%. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said that 2017 will mark Greece’s “final exit” from its nearly decade-long financial crisis. The budget adds more than 1 billion euro in new taxes, mostly indirect taxes on items from phone calls to alcohol. It also cuts spending by over 1 billion euro.
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Building Totalitarianism in Europe – The Last Coup of Victoria Nuland
"Nobody, including the President of Cyprus, the Greek PM or any international conference are entitled to take any decisions infringing, directly or indirectly, upon the sovereignty of the Republic of Cyprus or alter its constitutional structure." By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos.
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Swedish and Greek archaeologists discover unknown city in Greece
An international research team at the Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg, is exploring the remains of an ancient city in central Greece. The results can change the view of an area that traditionally has been considered a backwater of the ancient world. Archaeologists from the University of Gothenburg have begun exploring a previously unknown ancient city at a village called Vlochós, five hours north of Athens. The archaeological remains are scattered on and around the Strongilovoúni hill on the great Thessalian plains and can be dated to several historical periods.
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Greece out of recession for first time
The Greek economy emerged from recession for the first time since 2014, managing two straight quarters of GDP growth, figures released Monday showed. Greece’s gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 0.5 percent in the three months to September from the previous quarter, and by 1.5 percent from the third quarter of 2015, statistics bureau Elstat said. It had already nudged 0.2 percent higher in the second quarter from the first. Two consecutive quarters of growth officially mark the end of a recession.
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2,200 years ago in Turkey, this disturbing rental agreement was inscribed in stone
Written in Greek, the lease allows renters to use slaves that come with the property
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Refugee children 'arrested, detained and beaten' for carrying toy guns
Five Syrian refugee children have been arrested and detained in Greece after they were found carrying plastic toy guns on their way to perform in a children's play. The boys, aged between 12 and 16, were seized "on suspicion of being members of an armed group", and then allegedly detained, beaten and forced to strip naked.
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Refugees arrivals from Greece DOUBLE to 1,000 in one week
Violent clashes between refugees and locals have broken out in Greece - as the number of migrants arriving from Turkey has doubled to 1,000 in just one week. On Chios, local residents were sprayed with tear gas by police after hundreds marched through the main square demanding the removal of the island's huge refugee camp. On Lesbos, migrants have lead two demonstrations through the capital Mytilene demanding the right to leave the island and travel to mainland Greece having been stranded there for months.
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Auction halves number of Greek private TV stations - BBC News
The number of privately owned TV networks in Greece has been halved to four after a government auction of new licences.
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Startling Photos Juxtapose the Tourists and Refugees on the [Greek] Island of Kos
For today's Cameo we're having 36 year-old German photographer Jörg Brüggemann with his series Tourists vs. Refugees...
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Olympic Games We No Longer Play
As the games of the XXXI Olympiad get under way, competing in the nude isn't the only ancient custom that has fallen out of fashion.
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Shackled remains at ancient Greek site tell tale of intrigue
One of the strongest theories is that they were supporters of Cylon, an Athenian noble and Olympic champion who staged an attempted coup in Athens in 632 BC with the help of his father-in–law, the tyrant of Megara.
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EU rejects Greek request for emergency summit
The head of the European Union has rejected Greece's request for an emergency meeting aimed at ending an impasse over the country's bailout. EU Council President Donald Tusk said the group's finance ministers needed to resume talks themselves within days. Greece agreed to a third rescue package worth €86bn (£60bn; $94bn) last year and faces a looming debt payment. However, it has been unable to unlock the next loan instalment after clashing with its creditors over more reforms.
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Newly discovered mass graves could be filled with an ancient Greek tyrant’s followers
Thousands of years ago, an ancient Greek athlete named Cylon tried to overthrow the government. It did not end well. Now, archaeologists have stumbled upon mass graves near Athens containing the skeletal remains of 80 men who the researchers believe may have been followers of that wannabe tyrant, Cylon of Athens. The remains — which had teeth in good condition — were found in two graves that date to between 675 and 650 B.C....
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Greece Begins Sending Migrants Back as E.U. Deal Takes Effect
On Monday, the Greek and European Union authorities effectively started ushering people out, as a phalanx of police officers began enforcing a program of mass deportations of migrants back to Turkey.
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