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On Sunday, Riots broke out late in the evening in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki outside of Oreokastro Migrant Camp which accommodates some 1,300 refugees. According to Greek authorities, refugees who are residents at the center flooded the streets...

Defending champion Olympiakos scored a goal in each half at Panionios to win 2-0 (video) and go top of the Greek league. In other action: Panaitolikos - Kerkyra  4 - 0  (video) Asteras Tripolis - Platanias  2 - 0  (video) Panathinaikos - Xanthi ...

The second SYRIZA conference re-elected Alexis Tsipras as party president with 93.54% of the total vote. Out of the total 2,926 delegates, 2,758 voted with 176 of them casting a blank ballot and 34 ballots were not valid. No other...

Greece's Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities on Friday celebrated 40 years of documenting and protecting the country's rich underwater heritage. The ephorate presented the latest impressive findings of archaeological research of the 2015-2016 period in a conference at the Acropolis Museum....

British police have officially ended the excavation of the site on Kos island where toddler Ben Needham went missing on July 24, 1991. The search was declared over on Sunday morning, exactly three weeks after it began. Digging on another...

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble acknowledged that Greece has made progress in reforms but, again, he rejected any talk on debt relief before 2018. Despite the Greek government's belief that creditors will negotiate debt easing measures before the end of the...

Greece's Migration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas defended the government's handling of the refugee crisis, although he admitted that some mistakes were made. Mouzalas spoke at the SYRIZA Conference on Saturday giving an unofficial report of the administration's handling of the...

Several aftershocks that followed the 5.3 magnitude earthquake that shook Ioannina on Saturday night forced most citizens to spend the night on the streets and city squares. The main earthquake was followed by 4 more powerful aftershocks, 4.2, 4.4, 4.5...

An earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale hit northern Greece, near the city of Ioannina at 11:14pm local time according to the Athens Institute of Geodynamics. The epicenter was located 10km deep in the village of Pogoni, north west...

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde was in favor of Greece exiting the euro zone because its debt is unsustainable, wrote French President Francois Hollande in his new book entitled, 'A President Shouldn't Say That'. "Lagarde is in favor...