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A group of 17 students (pictured here in Meteora) from the US, India, Japan, Venezuela, Taiwan, Mexico and Kuwait earlier this month visited Greece on a 10-day educational tour that included visits to archaeological sites, museums and modern monuments as well as meetings with government officials and business leaders.

Conservative opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis will start a two-day visit to the United States on Thursday, where he is expected to meet with fund managers.
On Thursday, he will speak at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Boston and on Friday he will meet with investors in New York.

Henry David Thoreau famously wrote of "the sunshine of a winter's day," and now the simple place that inspired him the most is going solar.

Officials are breaking ground on a new visitor's center at Walden Pond State Reservation, and the $8 million complex will feature two decidedly high-tech touches: a solar canopy and a pair of electric vehicle charging stations.