Tag: Greece
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Marathon journey of Rio 2016 flame includes Rio Bridge in Greece
This year, these have been designed by London born Greek-Cypriot designer Eleni Kyriacou, who trained under Alexander McQueen. They are accompanied by specially designed sandals and will be used at the flame lighting ceremony in Olympia and at the send off festivities in Athens. The relay to Rio also marks 80 years since runners carried a flame…
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Greek-Cypriot author Georgiou wins 2016 European Literature Award
(en.protothema.gr)
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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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Grow Greek Tourism Online’ initiative supported by Google
Google announced at a press conference on Wednesday that it supports the initiative “Grow Greek Tourism Online.” In cooperation with the Economy, Development and Tourism Ministry and the National Greek Tourism Organisation as well as the Greek Tourism Enterprises Association, Google announced the implementation of a free web education platform for tourism. Through a wide…