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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joins Greek Independence Day parade in Montreal
Trudeau quickly left the head of the procession to shake hands with members of the crowd lining the sidewalk. He later waved a Greek flag from the sidelines. The parade, which has been taking place in Montreal for about 40 years, featured brightly-dressed dancers and schoolchildren waving Greek, Quebec and Canadian flags. One float paid tribute to the…
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Greek family opens it home to Syrian refugee families
As soon as Dimitris Spiridis arrived with a huge bag of croissants to hand out to migrants living in a sprawling border camp at Idomeni, he decided that he needed to do more to help. “There was rain and fog. The only thing you could hear at eight in the morning was tears and coughing,”…
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On Alexandria’s Fouad Street, some have a longing for the elegant past
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt: Along Fouad Street, a Costa coffee shop near old buildings with Italian and French architecture reminds Egyptians that commercial ventures threaten to erase traces of Alexandria’s aristocratic past. Named after King Fouad I, who died in 1936, the street is a throwback to a time when the arts flourished in a cosmopolitan city…
