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"The people's majority will offer us the opportunity to govern for the next four years by giving a clear mandate to SYRIZA," said party leader Alexis Tsipras in an interview to Sunday newspaper Real News. "The Greek people understand that...

The interior ministers of Britain, France and Germany have called for a special meeting of European Union interior and justice ministers within the next two weeks to deal with the continent's escalating migrant crisis. The ministers said in a statement...

A Syrian refugee, named Mohamed, was rescued by a group of Greek vacationers on their way home from an excursion to the Greek isle of Pserimos, near Kos, after being stranded at sea for 13 hours, wearing only a life vest. At first,...

The immigration problem in Lesvos, Greece, seems to be out of control as the number of undocumented immigrants arriving on the island is constantly increasing. Just on Saturday morning, around 100 inflatable boats reached the Greek island shores, carrying over 4,000 refugees. The great influx...

PASOK and Democratic Left (DIMAR) announced that they will cooperate in the Greek elections under the name Democratic Coalition at a joint press conference of Fofi Gennimata (PASOK) and Thanassis Theoharopoulos (DIMAR) on Sunday. As they announced, the parties will keep their...

European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs Pierre Moscovici told French newspaper "Libération" on Friday that there was a near physical altercation between Greece's former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem before the start of the February 16 Eurogroup. Moscovici said that...

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde stressed out that there is an urgent need for cash-strapped Greece’s unsustainable debt burden to be reconstructed. In an interview with Swiss French-language daily newspaper "Le Temps" on Saturday, Lagarde implied that the International Monetary Fund is...

"Against us is the old political system that pushed the country into a tragedy, which built the regime that led to the bailouts. We want to demolish this regime," Greece's former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras stated at a gathering of...

The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, the world's first university museum situated on Beaumont Street in Oxford, UK, opened its doors on Wednesday to young visitors, offering them the opportunity to travel back in time and experience the majesty of the...

The place of the stars is in the sky and they are there to inspire imagination and romance... But when the "stars" decide to come to Greece, they set off a frantic explosion among the cinephile public. From Sophia...

A 17-year-old immigrant was found dead after an exchange of fire between port authority officers and traffickers in the southeastern Aegean island of Symi. An officer and a suspected smuggler were also injured during the incident on Saturday noon. When the...

The Church of Cyprus has announced that 34 treasures that were stolen from the island’s Turkish-occupied areas, are expected to return on Friday afternoon to Cyprus. The treasures will return to Cyprus following a decision by the Munich Court...

Greece's outgoing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is likely to strike an alliance with the opposition and other political parties forming a new coalition government, after the September 20 vote, experts claim. University of Athens political scientist Theodore Couloumbis commented on Tsipras' decision to get...

Greek-American former CIA analyst and case officer John Kiriakou will be honored with a 2015 PEN First Amendment Award during a ceremony in Beverly Hills, CA on November 16. PEN Center USA stated that they “are admirers of Kiriakou's bravery in...

Having a solution to a problem is better than not having one at all. But one could equally ask: what kind of solution can be considered fair in comparison? Is a resolution that endeavors to split and fragment a...