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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Thursday, in a statement to Reuters, he is confident that Greece and its European partners will be able to work through their differences and reach to an agreement by the end of the month. He...

About 4,000 mine workers and their families protested on Thursday outside the Ministry of Productive Reconstruction, Environment and Energy in Athens over the Greek government's expressed intention to stop works of the Hellas Gold mining operation in Skouries, northern Greece. The...

Deputy Citizen Protection Minister Yiannis Panousis said he has got the "green light" from Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to take action to end the occupation of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens Rectorate by anarchists. Panousis sent an ultimatum...

The Brussels Group is expected to resume its meetings on Saturday. Council of Economic Advisors (SOE) President Giorgos Chouliarakis, Finance Ministry general secretary Nikos Theocharakis and Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis' advisor Elena Panariti will participate from the Greek side. International Monetary...

Greek officials have asked the International Monetary Fund (IMF) if they can postpone loan repayments but the request was denied, according to a Financial Times report. Athens is scheduled to repay IMF a total of almost 1 billion euros in...

FIFA and UEFA have threatened the Greek Ministry of Sports that they may ban Greece's teams from all international tournaments unless there are several changes in the new sports law. The new sports legislation drafted by Deputy Sports Minister Stavros Kontonis gives more...

Another Greek debt restructuring is not currently up for discussion, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said in an interview to Bloomberg TV. While some kind of restructuring might be on the agenda in 10 years, “today the issue for Greece is...

An high-ranking official close to Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said the Greek government is not planing to give in to its creditors' pressures and go against the program they had promised to the Greek people who brought them...

60 days, 4 cities of Burma and 100 photo responses to the question "What is the meaning of Love." This is the exciting photographic project of Maro Verli, entitled "From Myanmar... with Love." On September 17, 2014, Verli wrote at her personal...

“I want to see Latin America and I will not let death keep me from fulfilling this promise,” stated Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis in 1936, expressing a dream he was never able to fulfill. However, the influence of his work reached...

ABBA‘s Björn Ulvaeus posted in a new website called Mamma Mia: The Party, explaining he was working on an exciting project, making fans across the world excited in the prospect of an ABBA tour after all these years. However, that...

  Greece will continue to claim the late classical "Dorias" stele that was sold during a Christie’s auction on Wednesday with all available legal means, Culture Ministry circles said following the news about the item. The sources said the fact that the...

The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) basic scenario for Greece does not foresee a Grexit - a Greek exit from the Eurozone - Financial Counselor and Director of Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the IMF, Joss Vinals, said on...

European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi dismissed fears of a possible Greek default. Asked about a Greek default during a regular news conference in Frankfurt on Wednesday, Draghi said: "I don't even want to contemplate that. And based on the...

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has accused the newly elected Greek leftist-led government for backsliding on reforms and destroying the economic progress achieved by its predecessors. Moreover, the Eurogroup hardliners leader highlighted that no one expects a resolution of the standoff...