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- Greek hoopsters defeat Georgia and go top
Greece scored its 10th win in 11 World Cup qualification games downing Georgia 81-69 on Thursday and has returned to the top of its pool one game before the conclusion of qualifying.
Ekathimerini. Thu, 21 Feb 2019 21:00:37 GMT. - Windows, dual-screen devices and shells: Piecing together Microsoft's Chromebook-compete strategy
It's Microsoft codename-apalooza time. How do Lite, Centaurus, Pegasus, WCOS and now, Santorini, all fit into what seems to be Microsoft's evolving Chromebook-compete strategy? Read on.
ZDNet. Thu, 21 Feb 2019 19:40:00 +0000. - Neptune's new moon given Greek mythological name
A tiny moon of Neptune discovered in 2013 has finally been named after scientists have finished puzzling over its origins.
Sky News. Thu, 21 Feb 2019 12:55:00 +0000. - Greek authorities rescue 21 migrants adrift off usual route
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) - Greek authorities say they have rescued 21 migrants found adrift in a small boat in a section of the northeastern Aegean Sea off the usual illegal immigration route. ...
Washington Times. Thu, 21 Feb 2019 06:35:48 -0500. - UK weather: Balmy Britain will be hotter than Athens, Madrid and Rome this weekend
A flow of warm air originating from north Africa is likely to send temperatures for this weekend close to the all-time record. It would make the UK at least 5F hotter than Greece.
Daily Mail. Thu, 21 Feb 2019 01:25:29 +0000. - Tiny new moon discovered around Neptune
A diminutive nugget of a moon has been discovered lurking in the inner orbit of Neptune.The moon, dubbed Hippocamp for the half-horse, half-fish sea monster from Greek legend, is about the size of Chicago and so faint only the ...
New Zealand Herald. Thu, 21 Feb 2019 08:36:19 +1200. - Libya's ancient ruins blighted by theft, shunned by tourists
Graffiti covers the walls of a Greek amphitheatre in Cyrene, an ancient ruined city in eastern Libya now struggling with neglect, vandals and illegal confiscation of land by locals. ...
Yahoo. Wed, 20 Feb 2019 09:19:41 -0500. - Greece's central banker protests, says minister is meddling
Greece's central bank chief has asked Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to intervene after a cabinet minister phoned him to tell him how to do his job and then allegedly leaked the conversation to the press.
Fox News. Tue, 19 Feb 2019 15:04:56 GMT. - Norwegian Announces Seasonal Service from New York to Athens and Chicago to Barcelona
Service from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport to Barcelona-El Prat Airport begins June 7, 2019; and service from John F. Kennedy International Airport to Athens International Airport begins July 2, 2019. ...
Travel Industry Wire. Mon, 18 Feb 2019 12:14:01 EST. - Greeks squeezed by foreign investors in Athens property boom
Greeks say they are being priced out of their homes by rich foreign investors and Airbnb rentals.
BBC News. Mon, 18 Feb 2019 01:23:22 GMT. - Tributes paid to Greek baker who fed hundreds of refugees
Tributes have been paid to Dionissis Arvanitakis, a baker who provided free bread to refugees on a Greek island, after his death at the age of 77.
Irish Independent. Sun, 17 Feb 2019 19:52:15 +0000. - Macedonia officially changes name to North Macedonia after long-running dispute with Greece
Prespa Agreement comes into force to end decades-long naming dispute
Jon Stone. The Independent. Wed, 13 Feb 2019 09:39:00 +0000. - Greece looks to procure MH-60R maritime helo
Greece is considering the procurement of the Lockheed Martin MH-60R Seahawk maritime multimission helicopter to augment and replace current platforms, the country’s government announced on 12 February. ...
Gareth Jennings, London. Janes 360. Wed, 13 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMT. - Balkan Nation Is North Macedonia Now
Enter North Macedonia. The small Balkan country of Macedonia officially changed its name Tuesday by adding a geographic designation that ends a decades-old dispute with neighboring Greece and secures its entry into NATO. ...
Voice of America. Tue, 12 Feb 2019 18:00:32 -0500. - Call me by my new name: Balkan nation is North Macedonia now
The small Balkan country of Macedonia has officially changed its name, adding a geographic designation that ends a decades-old dispute with neighboring Greece and secures its entry into NATO
ABC News. Tue, 12 Feb 2019 17:01:09 -0500.
Facts about Greece
The Hellenic Republic, also known as Greece, is a parliamentary
democracy located on the Balkan peninsula in southern Europe. Its
capital city is Athens, and its currency is the Euro. The primary
language of Greece is Greek, and the country's estimated population in
2007 was 10,706,000.
For more information about Greece, visit the Hellenic Electronic Center website and the Greece Background Note web page. For detailed maps of Greece, visit this Greece map website.