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Six more people lost their lives due to the H1N1 virus, raising the death toll to 100 people in six weeks. According to the Hellenic Center for Disease Control & Prevention (KEELPNO) in the last 24 hours 102 new cases...

Defense Minister Panos Kammenos will visit Lesvos, Chios and Leros on Tuesday to inspect the registration and identification centers on the islands which are almost complete, the ministry said in a press release. Before his visit, he will hold a...

Vyroneia, a small village of the Serres prefecture in northern Greece, is steeped in history. Standing at the foot of the Belles mountain and near the rare biotope of Kerkini, Vyroneia went into the history map as the place...

President of the Cyprus House of Representatives Yiannakis Omirou and Vice Prime Minister and Defense Minister of Lebanon Samir Mokbel expressed on Tuesday their willingness to further bilateral ties on all levels. Mokbel, who is on an official visit to...

The hotspot of Chios has officially commenced its operation as 70 refugees arrived and registered today. Executives of UNHCR led the refugees inside the building in order to register and identify them by handing them numbered bracelets and bottled water....

Two men being held in Austria on suspicion of links to the Paris terrorist attacks in November passed through the Greek island of Leros, according to a Kathimerini newspaper report. The two suspects are French citizens of Algerian and Pakistani...

The Athens Concert Hall, or “Megaron” as it is known in Greece, is participating in the worldwide commemoration events to mark the 400th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) by hosting an innovative version of...

The head of Greece’s privatization agency (HRADF) on Monday dismissed media reports claiming the agency has started negotiating a 20-year extension of the concession agreement with the managing company, Athens International Airport S.A. (AIA), which will be paid for...

Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos said that "it is a given that some neighboring countries will close their borders with Greece," referring to the migrant flow in Europe. The closing of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) border to...

Turkish jet fighters entered Greek airspace several times on Monday, as NATO was preparing to deploy ships to the Aegean Sea to tackle migrant smugglers. Specifically, six Turkish fighter jets and a CN-235 maritime patrol aircraft entered successively in the Athens...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that Greece did not sufficiently fulfill its obligations so far on the migrant issue, but added that a border fence will not solve the problem. "To raise a protective fence in Former Yugoslav Republic of...

Turkey did not allow the aircraft carrying Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to Iran to land in Rhodes for refueling claiming that the island is in a demilitarized zone. It was revealed on Monday that the Greek prime minister's trip...

An earthquake with magnitude 5.3 occurred near Patras, Greece, at 20:55 local time on Feb 15, 2016. The epicenter was located 7km from the town of Krestena in the Peloponnese. Two smaller aftershoocks of magnitude 3.0 followed the main quake. Authorities reported...

The European Commission has allotted Greece 12.7 million euros to tackle the migrant crisis, European Commission Chief Spokesperson Margaritis Schinas said today. Athens is currently implementing a program of construction of five so-called hotspot centers for hosting and registering refugees...

The leaders of Germany, France and other European Union countries will meet with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu prior to the start of the February 18 European Council summit to discuss the migration crisis. European government officials are concerned over...