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The euro zone economy is declining for six consecutive quarters. Nine of the 17 countries are in recession Spain France Italy Finland Netherlands Portugal Cyprus Greece and Slovenia. The austerity policy imposed by the troika and the German govern

The euro zone economy is declining for six consecutive quarters. Nine of the 17 countries are in recession: Spain, France, Italy, Finland, Netherlands, Portugal, Cyprus, Greece and Slovenia. The austerity policy imposed by the troika and the German government of Angela Merkel is sinking Europe. Eurostat data was released on Wednesday (15th) and are relative to GDP in the euro area in the first ...
People on the move Greek police beat a tortured Turkish woman

I understood that they were swearing at me. The female police officer was holding my hair.One of the male officers punched me in my face.My beating went on for approximately five minutes. Then the guard from the Exarheia police station heard my screams, entered the room and tried to take me away from [them]..I was then transferred again to the Exarheia police station where I spent ...
Aldar selects Greek contractor for Bani Yas infra project

Abu Dhabi-based Aldar Properties has awarded Athena, a subsidiary of Greek firm J&P-AVAX, a €125m contract for the construction, operation and maintenance of marine works, along with roadworks, infrastructure and soft landscaping on Yas Island. The infrastructure works include excavations and earth-moving, roadworks, sanitary and storm water networks, pumping stations, tap water, ...
CITI Good News We No Longer Think Greece Will Exit The Eurozone

Last summer, Citi's chief economist, Willem Buiter, introduced a bold call: he assigned a 90% probability that Greece would exit the euro on January 1, 2013. This assertion was made before European Central Bank President Mario Draghi introduced a new ECB bond-buying program, dubbed "OMT" (outright ...
Playoffs begin in basketball with Rethymno upsetting PAOK

By George Georgakopoulos The league that in the last three years has produced the European basketball champion entered its playoffs on Tuesday and Wednesday with the first games of the quarterfinal round, with AGO Rethymnou producing the first upset.The side from Crete that had finished fifth in the regular season managed to defeat PAOK 75-71 at Thessaloniki on Tuesday and take a 1-0 lead in ...

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Double Suicide (Shinju ten no amijima) [DVD]

Much like the teenage lovers in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the adult lovers in Masahiro Shinoda's Double Suicide (Shinju ten no amijima) find that their love for each runs into a wall erected by a structured society that will not permit it. While Shakespeare's ill-fated lovers were caught in the cross-hairs of familial feuding, the lovers in Double Suicid ... ...

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PAOK bounces back to win at Asteras

By George Georgakopoulos PAOK recovered some of the ground lost in the Super League playoffs by beating fellow Champions League-spot contender Asteras 2-1 at Tripoli on Wednesday, while PAS Giannina and Atromitos shared a 1-1 draw.The results have placed PAS Giannina and PAOK as joint leaders of the playoff table with seven points at the halfway point of the mini league, with Asteras on five ...
Greek Yogurt Creates a Crazy Amount of Waste

you're eating — a lot of waste went into making it. Justin Elliott explains that to make the popular dairy product, yogurt makers have to create a lot of acidic whey, "a thin, runny waste product that can’t simply be dumped. Not only would that be illegal, but whey decomposition is toxic to the natural environment, robbing oxygen from streams and rivers. That could ...
Greece Counting On Tourism To Spur Growth

(Photo/Andy Dabilis) STILL A WONDER - There are few jaw-dropping sites in the world and even after 2,500 years, The Acropolis one of them. Tourists stop to stare at the Parthenon even before going up. A CNN poll put the Acropolis as the second most beautiful World Heritage site, after only Angkor, Cambodia. Trust us: the Acropolis is better. As the crisis unfolds in Greece, the big question on ...
Obama Administration On Slippery Slope

(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) President Barack Obama walks from the podium after speaking on the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny in the East Room of the White House in Washington, May 15, 2013. Obama announced the resignation of Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller, the top official at the IRS. The Obama administration has recently taken two ...
Not Even The Greek Flag

It might appear to be an innocent omission. It is not. Not only it is an important issue in itself, it reveals that the Church in America is on the wrong course. The National Herald revealed last week in its Greek edition that the Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in New York no longer displays the Greek flag. The American flag and the flag of the Patriarchate fly above the main ...

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Placido Domingo turns Allende short story into opera

Under the baton of Placido Domingo, acclaimed Chilean writer Isabel Allende's short story "Una Venganza" ("An Act of Vengeance") emerges from the printed page as the opera "Dulce Rosa", a production with a Latin heart and Greek tragedy in its soul that premiered Friday in Los Angeles.

"Dulce Rosa" is a further effort by the L.A. Opera, directed by Domingo, to bring lyric opera to a wider audience.

"We're always looking to create new works," the Spanish tenor told EFE.

Domingo got behind the adaptation of "Una Venganza" when the idea was proposed to him by composer Lee Holdridge and librettist Richard Sparks, to whom Allende gave the go-ahead years ago without really expecting anything to come of it, she told EFE.

"It finally emerged, to my surprise," the author of "The House of the Spirits" said, adding that she often receives requests from artists to stage her stories but "only about 10 percent are used as proposed, the rest get lost somewhere along the way".

Allende chose to remain on the sidelines of the project and leave the work "to people who know the field".

"Dulce Rosa" relates the traumatic experience of young Rosa Orellano, played by Uruguayan soprano Maria Antunez, who, after a political uprising takes the life of her father, a powerful senator of a Latin American country, is raped by a guerrilla with whom she will later attempt to settle scores. ...