Author: Athanasios Koutoupas
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Athens and Epidaurus 2016 Festival Kicks Off with Verdi’s ‘Aida’
The next event is the Festival Open Party on June 14, with a concert featuring a number of Greek musicians and bands at the Piraeus 260 venue. A full list of the events is available on the festival website www.greekfestival.gr. The organizers on Wednesday presented the festival’s official trailer, directed by Michalis Konstantantos with graphic…
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Socceroos beat Greece 1-0
A 1-0 win for the Socceroos over Greece at ANZ Stadium last night came courtesy of the last kick of the game, Mathew Leckie’s turn and shot from the edge of the box earning Ange Postecoglou’s side the most last-gasp of victories. If either side deserved to shade a fixture that was occasionally physical and…
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German Parliament Recognizes Armenian Genocide
The Turkish government angrily denounced the vote as “null and void,” and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called his ambassador in Germany back to Ankara for consultations. “The way to close the dark pages of your own history is not by defaming the histories of other countries with irresponsible and baseless decisions,” Turkey’s foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, wrote on Twitter. In Ankara,…
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‘Greeks’ Exhibition to Open June 1 at National Geographic Museum in Washington, D.C.
“The Greeks is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of Greek history and culture to visit North America in a generation,” said Kathryn Keane, vice president of Exhibitions at the National Geographic Society. “From their Bronze Age beginnings to the height of classical civilization, the Greeks and the traditions they founded continue to have a…