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Charity worker Maria Karra talks to an elderly man who lives on the streets of Athens. Maria Karra can’t believe her eyes. The founder of an Athens charity for the homeless says the hardship she sees daily on the city’s streets reminds her of crises in much poorer countries. “I used to do this in…
The absence of a deal would, in our view, begin the path to Grexit. In that case, the press conference will probably be dominated by the ECB’s role in handling the situation. On the ECB’s specific role in a Grexit scenario, Mr Draghi said this week that if no deal is struck this weekend, the…
European leaders have confronted the Greek government with a draconian package of austerity measures entailing a surrender of fiscal sovereignty as the price of avoiding financial collapse and being ejected from the single currency bloc. A weekend of high tension that threatened to break Europe in two climaxed on Sunday night at a summit of…
Suppose you consider Tsipras an incompetent twerp. Suppose you dearly want to see Syriza out of power. Suppose, even, that you welcome the prospect of pushing those annoying Greeks out of the euro. Even if all of that is true, this Eurogroup list of demands is madness. The trending hashtag ThisIsACoup is exactly right. This…
I know, right? Will your friends agree? Share this Link People In Toronto Created A Memorial To A Dead Raccoon After The City Forgot To Pick It Up http://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/people-i… RIP #DeadRaccoonTO People In Toronto Created A Memorial To A Dead Raccoon After The City Forgot To Pick It Up – BuzzFeed News.
‘How can anyone be allowed to paint a swastika on the statue of Marianne, the goddess of French liberty, in the very center of the Place de la République?”That was what the chairman of one of France’s most celebrated luxury brands was thinking last July, when a tall man in a black shirt and a…
ATHENS The leader of Greece’s main opposition party, New Democracy said on Friday it would back attempts by the government to seal a deal with international creditors to stave off financial meltdown. “We want an agreement by Sunday for Greece to stay in Europe. We will authorize the Prime Minister to negotiate and come back…
IN PERSON (Jen Chung/Gothamist) The Long Island lacrosse-playing college student who burst into Broadway history as the first, social media-documented idiot to barge onto a stage to charge his precious cellphone faced the press today. Nick Silvestri, 19, read a statement before a group of reporters admitting, “I don’t go to plays very much, and…
When the story of the Teens is set down in stone, the section on how people lived will include plenty of shudder-worthy chapter headings: crop-tops, selfie sticks, sharing plates small and large. But the portion on housing in the 2010s will have just two factors: stacked and elevated. The “Jengaform” look of recovery-era multifamily architecture…
In China, the invisible hand of the market sometimes needs help from the iron fist of the state. That’s certainly true after a meltdown vaporized $3.5 trillion in the value of shares traded on the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges. President Xi Jinping’s government isn’t being subtle in its campaign to reflate the bubble it had a big…