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The results of the vote for electing the new Central Committee in the second SYRIZA Conference on Sunday night show that the leftist candidates won over the more conservative ones. The vote makes it apparent that most delegates continue to...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave what seemed like a prelude to war while speaking at a Turkish University. He said that "Turkey isn't just Turkey," adding that apart from its 79 million citizens there were hundreds of thousands...

Eida Karmi was too weak to make the journey from her war-torn home of Syria to Greece on her own. The 115-year-old woman who is unable to walk fled her country with the aid of a family friend who...

More and more Greeks have turned to credit cards to help them in paying their income and property taxes, according to the Greek newspaper Kathimerini. According to their data, the total amount of taxes put on credit cards in 2016...

Cruise tourism in Greece might drop as high as 30 percent in 2017 compared to this year, according to the Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE). SETE representative Andreas Stylianopoulos said that the decrease is irreversible. Stylianopoulos is also president and CEO of...

Attica Deputy Governor Giorgos Karameros, member of the Ecologist Greens party, was photographed throwing the Alexis Tsipras poster from the SYRIZA Conference in a recycle bin. This was Karameros' humorous response to criticism by New Democracy MP Adonis Georgiadis. The...

The two pilots who flew a Cessna airplane that went missing on Sunday have been found dead next to the remains of the airplane three kilometers north of Kalavryta. According to the Civil Aviation Service, the last known communication with the small vessel...

A moderate earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale was recorded at 11:14 p.m. on Saturday night in northwestern Greece. According to the Geodynamics Institute of the Athens Observatory the quake's epicenter was located 12 kilometers northwest of the city...

The technical teams of Greece's creditors arrived in Athens today (Monday) ahead of the second review of Greece's bailout program. The European Union mission chiefs will arrive on Wednesday and the International Monetary Fund representatives are due on Friday. The thorny...

It is not by chance that in some capitals they call us tough, said Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias in an interview with the Sunday edition of Ethnos newspaper. In his interview Kotzias referred to all the pending issues concerning...