January 30, 2024
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Two Greek-American brothers, Andrew, 39, and Angelo, 51, Hatziagelis, have been arrested in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens, New York, on suspicion of planning a campaign of attacks on high-profile domestic targets. According to US media reports, their arrest took place earlier this month after police raided the brothers’ home …
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December 19, 2023
Arts, Culture, FEATURED
Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis came under fire for ordering the removal of an art piece that depicted the Greek flag in pink stripes made of bed sheets belonging to victims of femicide in Greece. With a single phone call to the Greek consulate in New York, the foreign minister demanded …
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September 21, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics, Turkey-GR
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday in New York, on the sidelines of the 78th UN General Assembly meeting. A statement by the PM’s office said both leaders confirmed the positive climate in Greek-Turkish relations and the strong commitment to maintaining it. …
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November 10, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Emirates flight EK209 from Athens to New York has been ordered to divert back to Athens on Thursday night and is flying to Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos accompanied by two F-16 fighter jets, state broadcaster ERT reported at 9:30 in the evening. “This is normal when the code Renegade …
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September 23, 2021
Greece, Politics
Τhe presence of the Archbishop of America Elpidoforos at the opening of the Turkish House in New York a few days ago has irked the Greek government, angered the diaspora Greeks in America and had Cypriots fuming. The Archbishop was present at the inauguration of the Turkevi Center that will …
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September 13, 2021
FEATURED, Politics, World
Religious leaders gathered for the inaugural lighting ceremony and memorial service at St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine in New York on Friday. The church has being built to replace the one that was destroyed in the attacks on 9/11. The smaller St. Nicholas built in 1916 was …
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February 16, 2020
Very Mix
Work has started again on the moribund St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine at the World Trade Center although it likely won’t be visible for another month. The Minnesota company fabricating the exterior screen for the long-stalled project was paid $5.7 million and has resumed working on it, Michael …
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December 11, 2019
Economy
Development and Investment Minister, Adonis Georgiadis, publicly admitted that the government of New Democracy intends to privatize everything in Greece. Speaking at Capital Link’s 21st Annual Forum on Investing in Greece, the Minister did not leave room for misinterpretation. He assured the audience, US investors, that the government’s sole aim …
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September 25, 2019
Greece, Politics
Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, and Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, held a 45-minute meeting at the UN headquarters in New York on Wednesday morning (local time.) The Greek-Turkish relations, the Cyprus issue, migration flows and the EU-Turkey agreement and other bilateral issues were on the agenda. It was the …
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October 15, 2018
Archeology
An Ancient Greek Amphora is to go on auction in New York at the end of the month. Too bad that the ownership is currently disputed by Greek forensic archaeologists who have alerted authorities to investigate the issue. The black-figured amphora may end back to Greece, local media report. The …
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September 26, 2018
Greece
Bilateral issues, migration and the Cyprus problem were high on the agenda during a meeting between Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on the sidelines of the 73rd General Assembly meeting of the United Nations in New York. During the meeting that lasted one hour, …
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May 11, 2018
Arts, Culture
For generations of Greek music fans, two names have come to symbolize the country and its social and political struggles: the internationally acclaimed singer Maria Farantouri and the composer whose music she took to the world, Mikis Theodorakis, whom most Americans know primarily through his score for Zorba the Greek. …
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February 6, 2018
Archeology, Culture
A most probably American tourist who stole a handful of stones from the ancient site of the Acropolis many years ago, returned them per mail to the Greek National Tourism Organization in New York. The four small stones were put in a plastic bag and had a handwritten note in …
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January 6, 2018
Archeology, Culture
Investigators raided the office and the Manhattan home of the billionaire Michael H. Steinhardt on Friday afternoon, carrying off several ancient works, Prosecutors say the antiquities were looted from Greece and Italy. Mr. Steinhardt, a hedge-fund manager and philanthropist, has been collecting art from ancient Greece for three decades and …
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September 30, 2015
Politics
This is the chance for Greece to promote its most important interests: debt restructuring and investment. The United Nations General Assembly turned into an arena full of opportunities for fruitful contacts so that the debt-ridden country can boost its two noble causes. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras did not leave any …
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December 2, 2014
Politics
American billionaire John Paulson made a direct intervention in the Greek political environment saying that he opposes early elections in Greece and warning that investors need political stability. Speaking during the 16th Annual Capital Link Invest in Greece Forum in New York, Paulson said among others: – “It’s too early …
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February 20, 2013
Very Mix
The stealing of a Salavador Dali painting was as ‘surreal’ as the famous painter would have thought. Suspect Phivos Istavrioglou, 29, not only he left his finger prints behind after stashing it in a shopping bag and flew it to Athens, Greece. He returned it to gallery per post. Security cameras had captured …
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March 26, 2012
Tourism
“Up Greek Tourism” Advertising campaign has been launched at New York last Friday. The 2-minute animated billboard in Times Square has been made possible through contributions from Greeks around the world. The campaign aims to make Greece attractive to potential tourists form the USA. The billboard designed to highlight Greece’s beauty was organized by volunteer …
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May 17, 2011
Culture
Socrates was a philosopher who lived 2,400 years ago. Dominique Straus-Kahn is a banker and was the Head of International Monetary Fund until he got trapped in custody two days ago. So what do these two men have in common? A lawyer : Benjamin Brafman! Then the trial of Socrates was heard a …
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May 16, 2011
Economy, Very Mix
For those you didn’t experienced Latin in school Sic transit gloria mundi means “Thus passes the glory of the world” or else “wordly things are fleeting’. And here ‘fleets’ Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the once most economically powerful man in the planet, who was holding the keys to countries economies and supported or not …
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