Lincoln

The role of the Greek diaspora, the shortcomings of the Biden administration, the excesses of the Trump camp, Greece’s relationship with the Greek-American community, and international developments were among the topics discussed with Jake Sotiriadis, a strategy advisor at the State Department.

The current US elections are of increased interest to Greece. In addition to electing a new president, Americans are electing, always by a majority system, the new 435 members of the House of Representatives, representing an equal number of constituencies in the country, and 33 senators, one-third of the members of the Senate.

After the official confirmation of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz’s candidacies by the Democratic National Convention last Thursday, the electoral landscape in the US is set.

Elaine Papoulias lives in Lincoln, Massachusetts, a small town with a population of about 7,000, half an hour from Boston, which she said reminds her of Laconia.

Turkey on Jan. 12 commemorated the seventh death anniversary of founding father of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Rauf Denktaş, who passed away in 2012.

Denktaş was born on Jan. 27, 1924, in the western Cypriot town of Baf, now on the Greek side of the island.

Getting out of a pair of handcuffs was one of Harry Houdini's oldest tricks. In 1904, during a performance in London, the illusionist was manacled in a pair on which a blacksmith had spent five years perfecting the locking mechanism, claiming "no mortal man" could pick it. It took Houdini more an hour and 10 minutes to get out of them.

The Nebraska Department of Agriculture (NDA) has signed letters of intent with nine soybean processing companies in Bulgaria. The agreement will promote Nebraska soybeans and soybean products in their facilities.

So far we have never seen Greek PM Alexis Tsipras doing any type of physical exercise. And even if he does, it is kept quite secretive. But during his official visit to the US he managed to take some time off from his heavy schedule and went for a jog. Mr. Tsipras put on his shorts and sports shoes and started running at the Lincoln Memorial to relax.

Six Syrian actors battled a fraught U.S. visa process to tread the boards in New York this week, seeking to impress on American theater goers the human cost of a war raging halfway round the world.

An Istanbul court on May 11 ordered three years in jail for a man who attacked Gezi protesters with a machete in Istanbul in 2013, Doğan News Agency has reported.

The court made its decision on four suspects including the machete-wielding attacker, Sabri Çelebi, over attacking protesters during the Gezi Park protests, stating that the man injured four people with a sharp object.