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Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu is due in Athens for talks on Friday amid a tense atmosphere between Greece and Turkey, which has been exacerbated by the neighboring country's decision to carry out naval exercises in the Aegean while...

Greece's capital city, Athens, and second largest city, Thessaloniki, were included among the 35 cities across the world that will join Rockefeller Foundation's "100 Resilient Cities" initiative, was announced yesterday. The initiative is dedicated to help cities become more resilient to physical,...

Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Kyriakos Gerontopoulos responded immediately to the Greek community of Mariupol's request for financial support of the local Medical Center “Hippocrates.” More than 100,000 Greek Diaspora members are currently living in war-hit Ukraine and medical care availability...

Criminal charges for felony, misdemeanor and conspiracy from a criminal organization offenses against 16 Greek football officials, including referees, members of the Hellenic Football Federation (EPO) and one of the country's most popular football clubs' chairman, in relation to...

A large percentage of young Greeks still wish to find employment in their own country, despite the fact that employment barriers across the world have dropped significantly. Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and The Network, which includes 50 job search websites,...

A new study conducted by the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE) think tank and the Hellenic Film Academy (HFA) suggests that Greece needs to offer incentives to domestic and foreign film production companies so that they wish to shoot within the country....

A Hellenic Air Force F-16 jet crashed off the southern coast of Crete in southern Greece earlier today due to mechanical failure during a scheduled training exercise, the Greek National Defense Ministry announced. According to the Ministry, the two...

Greek trade union organisations have announced plans for protest rallies this Sunday to demonstrate against the demands made by the Troika representing Greece's lenders. The General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE), the largest umbrella trade union representing the private sector, has announced...

Justice Minister Charalambos Athanasiou announced that there is nothing he can do to grant Nikos Romanos an educational leave from prison and that the only option is for the inmate to complete a distance learning degree from behind bars....

Taxi Union Association of Athens (SATA) President Thymios Lymberopoulos lashed against taxi drivers who decided to collaborate with Uber, an American transport company that recently expanded to Greece. With two posts on SATA’s official Facebook page, Lymberopoulos expressed his dissatisfaction in...

Τhe power vacuum created in Greece after the withdrawal of the German occupation forces in October 1944, generated a disorder that resulted in battles in December between the forces of the Left and the newly formed Greek government armed...

Passenger traffic at the Athens International Airport in Greece surpassed the 1 million milestone for the first time in the last five years, totalling 1.04 million passengers in November, an increase of 27.4% compared to the corresponding month last year. Domestic passenger numbers grew...

Two of Greece's largest state universities are forced to ask for urgent state funding because their operation is at stake. The National Kapodistrian University of Athens issued an "urgent and anxious" appeal for state funding along with the submission of...

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) have stated in a recent report that Greece’s refugee reception system is “dysfunctional.” Thousands of migrants and refugees risk their lives to reach the Aegean Sea islands each year, where they are faced with inhuman...

By Andrew Chugg* Intriguing enigmas continue to envelop the story of the Amphipolis tomb, Greece . What was the gender of the occupant? When was the tomb sealed? Who was the architect of the monument? This article unravels them all. What...