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Blind attack in the Gungoren district…explosive mixture in the foundations of the Turkish state, just hours before the confrontation between country’s old-guard secular elite and the political Islam begins. With political tensions rising by the day in Turkey and Istanbul waking to the deadliest attack against civilians in the country in five years, officials have […]

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Four years after the death of dancer Martine Cazenave, her bridal veil sways ethereally again the day of her marriage. 68 year old artist Jean Ronzier kept his promise to marry his eternal love, who died four years ago in the age of 52. «To me it seemed perfectly natural. What is surprising is people […]

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62% of Egyptian men admit to having sexually harassed women. And who is to blame for the maltreatment? 53% of men say women. 83% of Egyptian women reported having been sexually harassed. Nearly half of them said the abuse occurred daily. Only 2.4 percent of Egyptian women reported it to the
police, with most saying they did not […]

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Last summer, Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth and Julie Walters were in the Greek islands of Skopelos and Skiathos, as well as Pilio for the filming of the movie “Mama Mia!.” Considered as one of the most successful musicals of the past decades, “Mama Mia!,” which premiered in London in 1999 and is responsible […]

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The recipe for the magic filter of happiness is simple: economic prosperity, political freedom, equality. The streets of Denmark are full of the happiest persons on earth. According to the latest World Values Survey published by the United States National Science Foundation, Danes are the unquestionable champions of happiness.  Money does not buy happiness… This […]

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Harvard University, the most famous educational institution in the United States, has a new base in the historic city of Nafplion in Greece. It is a modern Centre for Hellenic Studies, which constitutes Harvard University’s first facility for international programs in continental Europe.
The site carries an immense symbolic weight, as Nafplion was the first capital […]

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To be a working mother or not to be?

  
The image is a familiar one. “I wake up early in the morning, I prepare the breakfast for my family, I get the children ready to school, pack their lunches, go to work and after a tiring day, I try to devote as much time as I […]

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Kythnos, Cyclades

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3,500 years after the legendary Argo, which according to myth carried Jason and the Argonauts on their heroic quest for the Golden Fleece in Colchis, an exact relpica of the historic trireme sets sail from Volos on a 60 day trip to Venice.

(Reuters)
The modern-day Argo, with 50 oarsmen aboard, is a reconstruction of an ancient […]

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Three «thunderous» NO, in three years…First the French, next the Dutch and now bad luck comes in threes for the European Union which is sinking once again in the vicious cycle of introversion. Brussels is watching the developments pass them by without being able to react… After the Irish blow to the Lisbon Treaty, Friday, 13th […]

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