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Everything indicates that teachers will start the new school year 2013-14 with a five-day strike from September 16 to 20. According to the teacher’s union ELME website, so far 49 local unions have voted in favor of the five-day strike. The...

The State’s General Accounting Office has paid 4.3 billion euros in overdue bills but still owes 1.4 billion euros to individuals, with some businesses complaining the lag in reimbursements for Value Added Tax (VAT) overcharges and other monies the...

The TBM, Hipppodamus, started from the region Agia Varvara, for the tunneling of the extension of the Athens Metro Line 3 to Piraeus. The opening of the tunnel will take approximately 2,5 years. It will be 6,5 kilometers long and...

Greece's crushing economic crisis, which has created a record 27.6 percent unemployment rate apparently has so many workers scared of losing their jobs that they are working without being paid for months. The shocking data came from IKA's Labor Inspectorate...

Greece's jobless rate is continuing its unrelenting rise, setting another record for May of 27.6 percent, up 0.6 from the previous reporting period and with nearly 1.4 million people out of work. The data came from the European Union's statistics...

The Rehabilitation Centre Oasis in Thessaloniki on Sept. 20 will present a music performance featuring the works of one of Greece's greatest poets, the C.P. Cavafy- By Heart and Singing from the group Cavafy of Ano Syros. As 2013 has...

During its 15th regular meeting, the Municipal Council of Thessaloniki unanimously approved to continue the program of providing a free meal per school day to needy students of primary and secondary education. The decision concerns all the schools in the...

The local community of Corfu is shocked by the news of a double tragedy that took place in the village of Antipernoi. According to police reports, a 50-year-old German woman, who was a permanent resident of the island of Corfu,...

Next to the famous Greek fashion designer Mihalis Aslanis' dead body,  found by one of his associates on the afternoon of August 28, were empty boxes of drugs and four handwritten pages in Greek  and French where he had...

In the framework of the 19th Sarajevo Film Festival, the film The Cleaners by Konstantinos Georgousis, which is a disquieting look at the racist extremism of the Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn, was awarded with a special jury prize...

A tragic accident took place the night of Aug. 25 in the village of Avgio, in the region of Amaliada, in northwestern Elis, West Greece where police said a car flipped over, killing a man whose son was driving. Police...

Beginning Sept. 1, Greek supermarkets, who are seeing sales plummet during a crushing economic crisis, will be allowed to sell expired food but must specially mark them so consumers are aware they are past the date by which they...

The Greek financial crisis has been forcing more and more housewives into illegal prostitution to make ends meet. They take off their aprons, leave their kids and husbands at home, dress up in sexy clothes and prostitute themselves to...

A normal opening of the new school year is at risk, after the fruitless meeting of the Minister of Education, Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos, with the board of the teachers' union OLME, which was held on August 22 at the ministry,...

A 29-year-old Bulgarian woman was arrested early in the morning of August 21 in Orestiada, northern Greece accused of murdering her 52-  year-old husband with a hunting shotgun. The police said a few days ago she wounded her husband with...