The financial crisis in Greece is bad news for many – but the country’s food manufacturers say they are benefiting as the euro’s depreciation against the dollar has made their products more competitive outside the euro zone.
And many are hoping to pick up extra sales in the UAE. A number of Greek businessmen who attended [...]

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Ibn Sina, the Arabic speaking humanoid robot, recently thrilled other passengers as Emirates Airlines flight EK817 was transporting one of the world’s most advanced robots from Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) to Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, Emirates News Agency (WAM)reported.
A first for Emirates, Ibn Sina the robot, travelled as a First Class passenger on the [...]

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New Democracy Eurodeputy G. Papanikolaou has submitted a question to the European Commission about Athanasios Lerounis, a Greek volunteer teacher abducted in Pakistan.
Lerounis has made a dramatic appeal to Pakistan’s government to arrange his release and safe return to Greece, in a hand-written letter dated October 2, according to reports in local newspapers. The hand-written [...]

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Traditional Greek cuisine was “paraded” before the eyes of hundreds of thousands of Chinese television viewers last weekend, through the popular program of the television channel, “International Channel Shangai”, the biggest radio-television group of Shanghai (SMG)
The program referred not only to the ingredients and the way they are packaged, but also to their richness, their [...]

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Despite the geographic distance, Vietnam and Greece hold huge potential for expanding bilateral cooperation in economy, trade, investment, culture and social affairs, said the Vietnamese government leader.
While receiving the outgoing Greek Ambassador to Vietnam , Platon Alexis Hadjimichalis (foto), in Hanoi on Jan. 11, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said the bilateral economic, trade and [...]

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A Greek national, Athanasius Lerounis, who was kidnapped by Taliban from the Kalash valley of Bumburate in October last year, is said be in good health and has grown a beard, giving him a Taliban look.
A member of a delegation which had visited Nooristan to seek Athanasius’s release from the Afghan Taliban told Dawn that [...]

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Bollywood celebrities, sportspersons and socialites gathered in Mumbai on Sunday to welcome the arrival of torch for the Marathon Flame from Athens.
The torch lit the Marathon Flame for the Mumbai Marathon to be staged in the city on January 17.
Champion marathon runner Maria Polyzou of Greece escorted the torch from Athens to India.
Bollywood actor John [...]

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Pirates on Wednesday captured a Greek cargo ship off the Indian Ocean archipelago of the Seychelles while it was on its way to South Africa from Kuwait, a Kenyan maritime official and the EU said.
The Filitsa is the latest vessel to be seized off the Seychelles, which has seen a surge in piracy over the [...]

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The 11th annual Mumbai Film Festival (Oct 29-Nov 5) will open with a screening of Steven Soderbergh’s The Informant! and close with The Dust Of Time, from Greek master Theo Angelopoulos.
11th Mumbai Film Festival (MFF) will honour two extremely talented film-makers from India and abroad. Indian actor-producer Shashi Kapoor will receive the Indian lifetime [...]

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Abducted Greek volunteer Athanassios Lerounis has made a dramatic appeal to Pakistan’s government to arrange his release and safe return to Greece, in a hand-written letter dated October 2, according to reports in local newspapers.
Lerounis, a Greek volunteer working with the Kalash tribe near the Pakistani border, was abducted by masked Taliban [...]

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