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Watch interviews and coverage from the opening night of the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival (LAGFF), the most Greek red carpet in Hollywood! 10 years ago, a few Greeks were crazy enough to start a festival promoting Greek Cinema in...

Cyprus’ inflation rate for May 2016 decreased at a rate of -2.1%, according to the Statistical Service of Cyprus. The Consumer Price Index for May 2016 increased by 0.61 units to 98.66 units compared to 98.05 units in April 2016....

At a ceremony held at the Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens on Wednesday, Greek President Prokopios Pavlopoulos presented trophies to the three winners of this year’s Hellenic Entrepreneurship Award (HEA). This brings the total number of winners to 14...

Dealing with terrorism and ending the war in Syria as a means to halting migration were at the top of the agenda in a meeting between President Prokopis Pavlopoulos and French Prime Minister Manuel Valls in Athens on Thursday. Welcoming...

The Greek drug squad, in collaboration with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, have confiscated a container filled with thousands of opiates. The pills, worth 13 million dollars in street value, were destined for the Islamic State. Last week, the...

A bailiff appeared in Greek Parliament on Thursday to deliver a legal summons to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos. The action was taken by leftist war hero Manolis Glezos, NGL/GUE MEP Nikos Hountis, former deputy...

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras addressed a meeting of the cabinet on Thursday. He expressed the expectation that the European Central Bank (ECB) will decide on a waiver to allow it to accept Greek bonds as collateral after the review...

All eyes were on the European Central Bank's (ECB) June policy meeting in Vienna on Thursday. Great expectations resulted in disappointment regarding Greece with the central bank holding back from allowing Greek banks to resume access to cheap loans. Meeting...

Atenistas, in collaboration with the Urban Rail Transport SA, is organizing a unique photo contest, which will be followed by a photo exhibition in the center of Athens, called "Athens Through the Photos of its People." The aim of...

  The Greek government is putting up for sale 71,000 properties such as airports, hotels, spas, beaches, marinas, golf courses, and Olympic properties in order to boost its ailing economy, a Guardian report says. Stergios Pitsiorlas, head of the newly established...