The Florence, SC Chapter One of the Evrytanian Association of America has scheduled a Quarterly Hellenic Culture Lecture Series with the first lecture taking place on Saturday, March 17 from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Drs. Bruce and Lee Foundation Library. The topic of the lecture is The Fight for Greek Independence 1821 [...]
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Getty Museum Returns Two Ancient Artifacts to Greece
Two ancient Greek artifacts were returned to Greece on Friday by the Getty Museum in California. One item was a carved relief depicting the female form: the other a tablet recording a religious calendar. The pieces are dated from the 5th-century-B.C. Both antiquities will briefly remain at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. The carved [...]
White House Welcomes Greek Deal
The White House Tuesday welcomed the deal reached by Eurozone finance ministers to prevent an impending Greek default, but warned more still needs to be done to resolve the drawn out sovereign debt crisis. “The Europeans have taken important steps to deal with the crisis,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters during a [...]
Wall Street Up on Greek Deal
Stocks rose on Tuesday, with the Dow briefly topping 13,000 for the first time since May 2008, after Greece secured a bailout to avoid default, but gains were limited as investors had priced in expectations of a deal. Signs of improvement in the economy and stabilization of Europe’s debt crisis have driven the Dow more [...]
UN Chief Has Full Confidence in Downer
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has full confidence in his Special Adviser on Cyprus, Alexander Downer, according to the UN chief’s Spokesman Martin Nezirky. Commenting on press reports concerning the Cypriot House of Representatives’ decision regarding Downer, Nezirky said “of course we are aware of the stories.” “The Secretary General has full confidence in his [...]
UN Chief Ban Ki-moon May Call Conference on Cyprus
UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has urged the leaders of the two communities in Cyprus to make decisive steps towards a final agreement on the Cyprus problem, noting that at this state of the talks, to maintain the momentum and continue negotiations, even in an intensive manner, is not enough. Speaking after talks at [...]
Cyprus Rivals Face Deadline to Keep UN Peace Talks Alive
UN leader Ban Ki-moon will start two days of talks with the rival leaders of divided Cyprus on Monday having warned them that time is running out to seal an accord. Ban has in the past told Demetris Christofias, head of the internationally recognized Greek-Cypriot government, and Turkish-Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu, that he could end [...]
Greek National Issues in Washington and the «War of Interests»
U.S. Newspaper “Washington Post” refers to a “war of interests” in the U.S. Capital, recording several long-term conflicts and problems, such as the case of Cyprus, the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Armenian community’s persecution within Turkey. The article also presents the views of representatives from organizations dealing with Hellenic issues, but also experts [...]
Gus Bilirakis on Turkey’s Possible Involvement in Greek Fires
Greek – American Congressman Gus Bilirakis, co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on Hellenic issues, and member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, expressed his concern regarding reports that Turkey may intentionally have started the forest fires in Greece during the 90s. As reported from his office in Washington, Mr. Bilirakis says he is worried by [...]
Nashville Promoting its Replica of the Parthenon
The city of Nashville in Tennessee is promoting its iconic replica of the Parthenon. The new logo for Metro Nashville Parks shows the Parthenon, the world’s only full-scale replica of the temple in Athens. The logo also shows beech tree leaves, a species native to Nashville which can be found throughout the park system. It [...]
Ban Ki-moon Warns Time is Running Out for Cyprus Deal
U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon warned Cyprus’s Greek and Turkish leaders that they were running out of time to settle their dispute over the island, and urged them to break a deadlock in talks at a summit in New York later this month. In unusually blunt letters to both leaders, Ban laid out the differences between [...]
UNSG: No Deadline for Cyprus Talks at Greentree But Progress Necessary
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said there is no deadline at the Greentree meeting, noting however that the Cyprus talks cannot go on the way they do and the leaders will have to agree as much as possible during their next meeting in New York. In remarks at the United Nations Correspondents’ Association dinner [...]
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05 / 23 Greek Relief from Archaeological Museum of Athens Goes on View At Getty Villa
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05 / 23 2012 Global Summit of Women to Take Place in Athens
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05 / 23 Τsantes Family Donates $100,000 in Support of Hellenic Studies Program
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05 / 23 George Tsetsekos to Step Down as Dean of LeBow College
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05 / 22 Campaign Calls on Greeks Outside of the Country to Support Their Homeland
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07 / 23 St. Nicholas of Manhattan in Ruins while Mosque Rises
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08 / 12 John Thomas Financial CEO Thomas Belesis Is Optimistic @FoxBusiness
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11 / 27 Greek American Pihakis Busted by Feds for $5.8 Million
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08 / 03 George Demos Tells Fox News We Must Rebuild St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church at Ground Zero
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12 / 27 Greek Orthodox Community of America Renounced Anti-Semitic Statements by Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus
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