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Animals
New Pet Law Has Greek Dog Owners Ready for Combat
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If a new law being drafted in Athens is passed, owners of a legendary breed of Greek hunting dog may be forced to retreat into the wilderness.
Ancient Greece
A New Greek Revolution for the Parthenon Sculptures
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Recent comments by British PM Boris Johnson continue to highlight the British side’s intransigence on the issue of the Parthenon sculptures.
Greek News
How We Made Crete Our Home
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Having found Crete when coming to an All Inclusive in Hersonissos some 14 years ago we instantly fell in love with the island.
Health
Opinion: Greece Has a Health — Not a Tourism — Emergency
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Greece has an emergency! This pandemic is a gnawing catastrophe, unlike anything the people here have seen in decades.
Greece
7 Strategies to Stem Spread of the Coronavirus in Greece
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Two months ago Greece seemed to successfully bend the coronavirus curve and was able to open some activities for a few weeks.
Diaspora
Greek Diaspora Commemorates Homeland’s Bicentennial
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Every year Greece and the Greek Diaspora celebrates its national day on March 25th. This day commemorates the start of the War of Independence.
Ancient Greece
Apollo Vs Agamemnon: The Plague in Ancient Greece was Divine Wrath
The plague appeared in Greece as a weapon of divine wrath. Agamemnon, offended the priest of Apollo and the God spread pestilence among the Greeks.
Greek news
How Molon Labe is Distorted by QAnon and the Gun Lobby
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By Dean Argiris
As Greeks we all know the story. My maternal papou was a proud Spartan and so the story of King Leonidas and his 300 personal guards was akin to a bedtime story for me.
It got to the...
Greek News
Ted Cruz Is No Leonidas
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Opinion by Mark Arey
Ted Cruz wants you to think he is a hero. His appearance on the floor of the Senate and his appearance at the inauguration sporting the Gonzales Flag on his facemask have raised more than a...
Diplomacy
Are Greece-Turkey Talks the Nail in the Coffin of Turkish Sanctions?
The Greece-Turkey exploratory talks that were widely anticipated in the international political world recommenced on Monday, with the two sides agreeing to meet again.
Despite the fact that the diplomats agreed to continue talks in Athens in the near future,...
Greek news
Ted Cruz Is No Leonidas
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Opinion by Mark Arey
Ted Cruz wants you to think he is a hero. His appearance on the floor of the Senate and his appearance at the inauguration sporting the Gonzales Flag on his facemask have raised more than a...
Greece
Why Greece Was Less Effective in Dealing with Covid's Second Wave
While Greece was internationally praised for its initial response to the Covid-19 pandemic back in the spring, its response to the second wave was less effective, says a Greek expert in Public Health at Walden University in the US.
In...
Greece
The Big Dilemma: Should COVID-19 Vaccines be Mandatory?
As Covid-19 vaccines will become available soon, health experts and governments worldwide are mulling whether they should be made compulsory. In liberal democracies forcing people to vaccinate is a tricky and, in many cases, unconstitutional.
But, there are concerns that...
Economy
Is Covid-19 Triggering a Populist Backlash in Greece?
As Greece is currently in the middle of the second, stricter lockdown to curb the Covid-19 spread, populist voices are becoming louder and louder -- and they are echoing from all sides of the political spectrum.
While Greece's performance in...
Greek News
Is Malliotakis the Anti-AOC Republicans Needed in New York?
The election of Republican Greek-American Nicole Malliotakis, the Staten Island native who will represent the state's 11th District, is seen by many as an antidote to the leftist political positions taken by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, usually referred to by...