the Greek People

Three members of the Vernon's so-called Greeks gang have lost their appeals of their November 2012 murder convictions. Peter Manolakos, Leslie Podolski and Sheldon Richard O'Donnell were convicted of various counts in the murders of David Marnuik, Thomas Bryce, and Ronald Thom between July ...

A report by Turkish television network TRT alleges that Greeks are fighting on the side of Kurds against Turkish forces in Syria's Afrin. The report comes at a period of heightened tensions between the two NATO allies over sovereignty of the Aegean islets of Imia and the imprisonment of two Greek soldiers ...

The Greek community in South Africa will commemorate Greek Independence Day on Sunday March 18 in Johannesburg. According to the Federation of the Hellenic Communities and Societies of South Africa, the celebrations will take place at the Orthodox Cathedral of Sts. Constantine and Helen at ...

Three members of the notorious Greeks gang from Vernon have lost their appeals of their November 2012 murder convictions. The B.C. Court of Appeal announced in a brief online statement that the appeals of gang leader Peter Manolakos and his associates Leslie Podolski and Sheldon Richard ...

The number of days of declared labor required for the provision of social security (i.e. healthcare services) to salary workers by the Single Social Security Entity (EFKA) will be raised from 50 to 75 per year from 2019, according to an amendment tabled by the Labor Ministry in Parliament on Wednesday.

Nine in 10 Greeks regard archaeology as valuable, useful, fascinating and important in building a national conscience and identity, well above their peers in eight other European countries, according to a new study. More than half of Greeks (55 percent) rank it very highly as a science and believe it plays ...

Greece is taking a great interest in the ongoing deliberations at the annual session of China's National People's Congress (NPC), as the decisions made in Beijing this March will have a deep global impact, a member of the Greek Parliament told Xinhua in a written interview recently. “The National People's ...

Greeks have among the highest rates of trust among Europeans in the platforms that spread the most fake news, namely online platforms and social media, according to the latest Eurobarometer survey, which interviewed around 26,000 citizens and was presented on Monday. In contrast, Greeks appear to ...

Collectively, these terms are known as the Greeks, and they provide a way to measure the sensitivity of an option's price to quantifiable factors. These terms may seem confusing and intimidating to new option traders, but broken down, the Greeks refer to simple concepts that can help you better understand ...

The Turkish armed forces are expecting to take delivery of their first F-35 joint strike fighters before the end of 2018, according to Turkish daily Yeni Safak. Turkey has committed to buying around 100 of the expensive fifth-generation aircraft. So far, though, Ankara has allocated funds for only 30 F-35s.

On February 20, the Queen's College Inter-Greek Council hosted its semi-annual “Meet the Greeks” event, in which Greek organizations were able to showcase their respective fraternity or sorority through tabling and speaking to the crowd. The Greek organizations featured were: Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA), ...

The council's goal is increasing cultural awareness for students on campus by organizing events in the community, she said. “Multicultural Greeks are often underrepresented,” Jimenez said. “This spot would be used to recognize multicultural communities and their contributions to the campus community.”.

Many Greeks argue that its neighbor's use of “Macedonia” suggests an encroachment on the Greek region of that name, whose capital is Thessaloniki. That city has itself staged protests over the disagreement. Using this argument, Greece has blocked the Republic of Macedonia's attempts to join NATO and ...

Now a team of Greek scholars proposes another—and much earlier—wave of European migration: the Hellenistic Greeks, in triremes powered by sail and oar in the first century CE, nearly a millennium before the Vikings. These ancient Greeks regularly visited what is now Newfoundland, the study's ...

Protesters have taken to the streets of northern Greece demanding the release of two Greek soldiers detained by Turkey, amid rising tensions between the two countries. Greece's defence minister, Panos Kammenos, described the pair as “hostages” and ordered border patrols to be stepped up along the ...