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Mail article about the Queen's wine merchant stocking Cretan wine (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-7562693/Sipping-fine-wines-GREECE-approved-Queens-wine-spirit-merchant-Berry-Bros-Rudd.html)
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Greece to Ask for NATO’s Support in Dispute With Turkey
Greece’s prime minister says he will ask other NATO members at the alliance’s London summit to support Greece in the face of fellow member Turkey’s attempts to encroach on Greek sovereignty, notably last week’s agreement with Libya delimiting maritime borders in the Mediterranean.
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/12/01/world/europe/ap-eu-greece-turkey-dispute.html
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Funeral Services Join New Black Friday Hype in Greece
The Black Friday phenomenon began in the United States, as the day after Thanksgiving gradually became the official first day of shopping for the Christmas season. It received its name from the fact that sales from this one day alone allowed retailers to go “into the black,” or make a profit, for the entire year.
Introduced to Greek consumers in 2015, with mostly electronics stores jumping on the bandwagon, just four years later it has turned into an annual event for most retailers in the country
...with zero background in this annual event and no established rules concerning sales, all the Black Friday-related media promotion and frenzy in Greece can appear to be a bit misleading, to say the least.
https://greece.greekreporter.com/2019/11/29/funeral-services-join-new-black-friday-hype-in-greece/
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'Laziness has won': apostrophe society admits its defeat
Organisation formed in 2001 to preserve punctuation mark comes to a full stop
A society dedicated to preserving the “much-abused” apostrophe is to be shut down as its chairman said “ignorance and laziness” had won.
John Richards, who worked in journalism for much of his career, started the Apostrophe Protection Society in 2001 after he retired.
Now 96, Richards is calling time on the society, which lists the three simple rules for correct use of the punctuation mark.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/dec/01/laziness-has-won-apostrophe-society-admits-its-defeat