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PM A. Tsipras at the 71st UN General Assembly: Meetings With Erdogan and Ban Ki-Moon
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will attend the 71st UN General Assembly in New York that will be chiefly focused on immigration issues. On the sidelines of the event, he will meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and UN...
Greece
Thessaloniki Mayor Gets Damaskinos Award for Promoting Tolerance
Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris was the second recipient of the "Damaskinos Award" on June 1, 2016, in New York City. The award goes to individuals who have promoted and defended tolerance and cooperation among all religions in Greece. Boutaris...
Hollywood
Nia Vardalos Makes Her Public Theater Debut
Nia Vardalos will be onstage later this year in her debut for the prestigious New York Public Theater company.
She will be playing the lead in an adaptation of Cheryl Strayed's "Tiny Beautiful Things". Strayed was also the inspiration for...
Greece
Four-Year-Old Greek Boy Needs Financial Help For Medical Expenses
Four-year-old Konstantinos Kotsonis is suffering from a level-four neuroblastoma in the left suprarenal gland with metastasis to the bones and marrow. The diagnosis occurred in June 2014 by Ippokrateio Hospital in Thessaloniki and ever since the boy has been...
Culture
Greek Culture and Sports Minister Highlights the Importance of Culture Heritage at UN Event
The destruction of cultural heritage affects the core of human existence and undermines the prospects for progress, Culture and Sports Minister Aristidis Baltas said in a speech on Friday, during a meeting on the protection of cultural heritage at...
Greece
Video: PM Tsipras Discusses Greece's Future with President Clinton at CGI 2015
Prime Minister of Greece Alexis Tsipras, participated at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting 2015. Interviewed by former US President Clinton, Tsipras said that he is keen to bring back investors but also focus on the Greek debt restructuring.
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Greece
Foreign Minister Kotzias to Have Series of Bilateral Meetings in New York
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias has scheduled a series of bilateral meetings in New York on Sunday, on the sidelines of his participation in the Ministerial Week of the 70th UN General Assembly.
They include his counterparts from Georgia, Giorgi Kvirikashvili;...
Greece
Video: Greek PM Alexis Tsipras Arrives in New York for UN Meetings
Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras arrived at the hotel of the Greek mission in Manhattan at 11.30pm on Saturday, September 26.
Tsipras is in New York City to participate at the UN General Assembly and hold meetings with other heads...
Greece
Greek Wine Fashionable in London and New York
Greek wine, especially white, has become fashionable in the restaurants of New York and London and it’s certain that current production will need to increase to meet demand in the future, winemaker Evangelos Gerovasiliou told Praktorio radio station in...
Business
SkyGreece Airlines Plans Direct Flights to U.S. and Canada
SkyGreece Airlines will act as a communication bridge between the Greek Diaspora in the U.S. and Canada and the motherland through the launch of transatlantic flights from Greece to New York and Toronto.
During a press conference that took place on April...