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Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris alleged through a tweet that he has found two Greek islands that he could potentially purchase to host refugees. Sawiris, who is worth an estimated 2.9 billion dollars according to Forbes, had expressed his interest in...

Farmers from northern Greece will be position themselves at polling stations to protest on election day, Sunday September 20, announced the head of the nationwide coordinating committee of farmers and stockbreeders Christos Gondias. Gondias spoke to the Athens-Macedonia News Agency,...

Ellinopoula.com is a web-based educational platform catering to the needs of Greek Diaspora children and parents, focusing on building and maintaining Greek language skills through entertainment and other methods. The website's founders wished to create an on-line fun place that Greek kids...

Employment growth in Eurozone accelerated marginally for the second straight quarter in the three months ended June, figures from Eurostat showed Tuesday. Employment rose a seasonally adjusted 0.3 percent in the second quarter, following a 0.2 percent climb in the...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees sounded the alarm regarding the refugee situation in Greece after several EU member states shut their borders. Interior ministers of the European Union adopted on Monday the first proposal of the European Commission...

Turkish authorities collected around 200 migrants and refugees traveling aboard a wooden 20-meter boat that capsized. At least 22 people, including 4 children and 11 women lost their lives off the south-western coast of Turkey in the wreck. The boat...

Rufus Wainwright, distinguished singer and songwriter, will present the Symphonic Visual Concert Prima Donna on Tuesday at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus within the framework of the Hellenic Festival. Prima Donna, the central character of which is inspired by Maria...

SYRIZA candidate and former minister of state Alekos Flambouraris is allegedly involved in a 3.9-million-euro construction scandal, according to a protothema.gr report. As of 2010, Flambouraris is the owner of 50 percent of construction company DIATMISI ATE which he claimed...

For the first time in Greece’s peace time history the birth-death indicator is negative and child mortality has risen, the spokesman of the free clinic "Metropolitan Social Clinic of Elliniko," Giorgos Vihas, told ANA-MPA, during a presentation of poverty...

Greece is making efforts to meet its responsibilities toward refugees but now it is high time for Europe to show its solidarity, Greece's caretaker Alternate Minister for Migration Policy Ioannis Mouzalas said here on Monday, in a doorstep statement...

A small tremor measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale shook the Greek island of Crete, early on Tuesday morning around 8am, according to the Geodynamics Institute of Athens. The earthquake's epicenter was located 39 kilometers south-southeast of Heraklion, Crete, in...

Former Greek soccer international Kostas Katsouranis has signed with Heidelberg United, which plays in the Australian Victorian National Premier League, a semi-professional Australian Soccer League, ABC reports. Katsouranis is one of Greece's most capped players with 116 appearances and was...

The debate between SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras and New Democracy president Vangelis Meimarakis was as predictable as heat in July and ended in a draw because both parties had very little of substance to say. At least, the two opponents...

Monday's debate between SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras and New Democracy chief Vangelis Meimarakis on public broadcaster ERT was an exchange of accusations, ambiguous trivialities and vague promises. Tsipras expressed the certainty that SYRIZA will win the elections and form government,...

The Cypriot dispute's ongoing peace talk efforts look set to increase in the following months after Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades met with Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci on Monday afternoon. The AFP cites United Nations Envoy Espen Barth Eide claimed that Anastasiades and Akinci...