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Following a similar decision by the council of eurozone ministers, the board of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) decided on Friday to grant Greece a two-month technical extension of its 2nd economic adjustment program financed by the fund. Instead...

A recent Greek poll showed SYRIZA still in the lead with 7% difference from ruling New Democracy. The vote estimate for SYRIZA stood at 36.5% (38.5% in November) and 29.5% for New Democracy (27% in November). "To Potami" was in third...

The Greek city of Trikala in central Greece will be the first in the world to operate driverless buses in an urban environment, in a pilot scheme that city authorities hope will be up and running by September next...

The crocodile that was found in an artificial Cretan lake this summer has become a local sensation in the Rethymno area, Greece . Fearless locals -- who have become used to the crocodile -- are seriously considering performing the...

Cyprus was prepared for the possibility that no hydrocarbon reserves would be found in the “Onasagoras” area in block 9 of Cyprus` Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), Minister of Energy Giorgos Lakkotrypis told journalists on Friday announcing the preliminary results...

The Greek Finance Ministry announced that the introduction of a capital gains tax on property sale will be postponed for another two years, until December 31, 2016, through legislation to be tabled in Parliament on Friday. The new law is...

United Nations spokesman Ari Gaitanis arrived in West Africa this week, dispatched from his post in Afghanistan, to examine the situation of the first ever UN emergency health mission. "There are concerns that the steps implemented by the international...

Panathinaikos lost 80-67 at the Athens Olympic Stadium (OAKA) to Barcelona on Friday during a meaningless game for the first group stage of the Euroleague. However, the game will be remembered for a bomb threat that scared the teams at...

The EU Summit was particularly important for the European Union’s orientation to a growth direction, according to Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras. The Premier agreed on speeding up the process for making use of EU Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker's 315-billion-euro...

The Greek Prime Minister’s office announced on Friday night that Antonis Samaras would be taking legal action against Independent Greeks (ANEL) after its leader, Panos Kammenos, and MP Pavlos Chaikalis alleged that there was an attempt to bribe the latter so...

President of the Hellenic Republic Karolos Papoulias met with New Democracy honorary President and Former Prime Minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis. The two men discussed Greece’s current situation and Mitsotakis expressed his concern about the difficult phase the country is going through. Over the last few days, Mitsotakis...

On the morning of December 19, a ship carrying some 200 illegal migrants was found floating adrift, 117 nautical miles southwest of the Greek town of Pylos in the Peloponnese, after the Italian coast guard alerted the Unified Search and...

Deputy prosecutor Dimitris Mitroulias requested the referral of six people to the three-member Felony Court of Thessaloniki regarding a scam that was set up at a Greek Orthodox convent near the city. The deputy prosecutor proposed that two monks, a nun...

Independent Greeks (ANEL) President Panos Kammenos held a press conference to talk in depth about the alleged attempted bribery of ANEL MP Pavlos Chaikalis. Kammenos said that Chaikalis had informed him of the incident but the two men decided not to...

"We will have hard times in 2015," SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras said during a visit at the Attica Region headquarters where he met with Prefect Rena Dourou, also a SYRIZA politician. The chief of the leftist opposition party that leads...