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According to a Bloomberg piece, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is poring over archives of videos with interviews of Donald Trump, including Playboy magazines, desperately seeking ways to better understand and possibly influence the newly elected US President before the two meet. The atricle cites two sources familiar with her preparations. From the Bloomberg:

According to estimates by the General Secretariat for Greeks Abroad (GSGA), over 5 million people of Greek origin are living in 140 countries around the globe. The US has the lion’s share of people of Greek descent living outside the geographical borders of the motherland, with approximately 3 million, while the European continent has 1 million (including the former Soviet states).

There is one thing certain about the new resident of the White House. That he does not resemble any of his predecessors. 

Donald Trump's campaign was full of anger and defied every code of ethical behavior, but there was very little concrete content of what his policies really would be. 

The British Prime Minister Theresa May and the US President Donald Trump will meet to talk about a special relation between the two countries.

The High Court of Great Britain will convene on Tuesday in order to decide whether Prime Minister Theresa May may use her powers in order to begin official negotiations on leaving the European Union or will have to seek the approval of Parliament first.

According to documents leaked from the UN and they are in the hands of the known journalist Mr. Ignatiou, it seems that Melvut Cavusoglu knew that the negotiations in Geneva on the Cyprus dispute would last two days and not just one as he argues now.

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias over the weekend repeated his call for the dismantling of the system of guarantees and the removal of Turkish forces from the ethnically divided island in order to make way for an elusive peace deal.

"If we want to resolve the problem, we have to do away with its causes.," Kotzias said in an interview with German news agency DPA.

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish-Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci will meet this coming Thursday in Nicosia to process and assess the results of the meetings held in Switzerland on Wednesday and Thursday of technical teams of the main parties involved in the United Nations-backed efforts to reunify the island.

"It is not strange that already people in the United States, in Britain and, soon, in Germany and the rest of the world will want somebody who will fight for them," said Reince Priebus, the Greek-American chairman of the Republican National Committee and President Donald Trump's chief of staff, in Washington on Thursday, one day before the presidential transition.

Britain's Royal Navy has disposed of a suspected World War II bomb discovered in London's River Thames close to parliament, leading to the closure of two bridges, police said on Jan. 20.

"Victoria Embankment has now reopened after police and the Royal Navy worked together to remove a suspected WWII ordnance," London's Metropolitan Police said in a statement.