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Greek Coast Guard in Search of Female Missing from Aegean Sea Cruise

The Greek Coast Guard have launched a rescue operation in the sea region between the Aegean islands of Kea and Kythnos and the north coasts of the island of Chios to locate a female passenger of cruise ship "MSM Magnifica." The...

Greek Finance Ministry: 20% of Inspected Businesses Commit Financial Violations

The Greek Finance Ministry's General Secretariat of Public Revenue released information on Wednesday regarding financial inspection efforts across the country from the past few weeks. Out of 5,031 inspected businesses between August 10 and August 16, 1.027 were found committing financial violations. This amounts to 20.41%...

Greek Ship Transporting Refugees to Dock at Piraeus Port After Route Changes Once Again

Passenger ship "Eleftherios Venizelos," which departed with 1,700 Syrian refugees from the Greek island of Kos on Wednesday morning, changed its final destination yet again. According to information provided by the Greek Coast Guard on Wednesday evening, the ship will eventually dock at...

Greek PM Tsipras: 'Where There's a Will, There's a Way'

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras congratulated Productive Reconstruction, Environment and Energy Minister Panos Skourletis on Wednesday on his efforts to protect the environment following the latter’s decision to temporarily suspend the license of Canadian mining company Eldorado Gold, arguing...

Greek-Australian Helps Revive Island of Imbros

Schinoudi, a village on the island of Imbros, seems abandoned, a fact that irrefutably shows that the notorious Turkification policy imposed in 1964 essentially eliminated the Greek element from the island. In recent years, however, something seems to be...

Greek Environment Minister Announces Stoppage of Skouries Goldmine Development

Greek Productive Reconstruction, Environment and Energy Minister Panos Skourletis announced on Wednesday that there will be a temporary stop on the ongoing gold mining project in Skouries, northern Greece. "With my decision today, we recall the approval of the technical studies....

SYRIZA MP Lafazanis: We will not Give the Green Light for a Third Memorandum

The Greek government's problems caused by its shift to a memorandum policy cannot be answered with bluffs or tricks, SYRIZA deputy Panagiotis Lafazanis on Wednesday said in statements to Real FM. "The snap elections insinuate anti-democratic ideas and can neither...

Fitch Upgrades Greece to 'CCC'

Fitch Ratings has upgraded Greece's Long-term foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) by one notch to "CCC" from "CC." The issue ratings on Greece's senior unsecured foreign and local currency bonds have also been upgraded to "CCC" from...

'Liveability' in Athens Ranks Lowest in Eurozone Due to Economic Crisis

"Liveability" in Athens has ranked the lowest among Eurozone member states as quality of living in the city have decreased by six percentage points in the last five years. Athens' liveability dropped to 75.3 percent in the index from the...

German Bundestag Approves Greece's Bailout Agreement

The German Bundestag approved on Wednesday Greece's third bailout agreement after Chancellor Angela Merkel lobbied her party's lawmakers stressing that the deal is in Europe's interest. After a three-hour session, the majority of the German lower House voted in favor...

Terry Antonis Signs Three-Year Deal With PAOK F.C.

Australian soccer player Terry Antonis has signed a three-year deal with Greek soccer team PAOK F.C. after a five-year spell at the Australian Sydney F.C. Antonis, who is of Greek descent, played 69 games and scored five goals as a...

Ferry to Transfer 3,000 Refugees to Thessaloniki

The ferry that was to transfer 3,000 refugees from Kos to Athens, will now transfer them to the Thessaloniki Port after stops to board more from the islands of Kalymnos and Leros. The ferry "Eleftherios Venizelos" is already in the...

Tsipras Ambivalent Over Timing of Snap Elections

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras postponed for next week his decision to ask parliament for a vote of confidence or go for snap elections immediately. In both cases elections are unavoidable since the prime minister has "lost" almost one third...

Samaras Criticizes Government for Stance on Airport Privatization

Former Prime Minister Antonis Samaras criticized the Greek government harshly for having accused his then-government of “selling out” on the issue of privatizations by trying to sell some of Greece's regional airports, when current premier Alexis Tsipras is now...

Greek Businessman Savvidis Offers to Build Mosque in Return for Hagia Sophia

Greek-Russian businessman Ivan Savvidis has made a generous offer to the Turkish people. The President of the Federal National-cultural Autonomy of Greeks in Russia said he would fund the construction of a mosque in Trabzon and as an exchange...