Greece

The secretary-general of Amnesty International, Kumi Naidoo, has sent an open letter to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, calling on him to take all necessary measures to improve living conditions at migrant reception centers on the Greek islands. Naidoo, who visited...

Greek police on Saturday morning arrested a man who stormed the Serbian embassy in central Athens wielding a knife. The incident occurred at around 9.30 a.m. and led to police and a special negotiator being dispatched to the scene but the...

Senior officials from Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) said on Friday that they have made progress in talks to revise school books in the two countries as part of an effort to end hostility between...

Born in the jungle of Congo, it wasn't easy to follow his dream of playing basketball, but perseverance, hard work and "God" helped Christ Wamba to overcome violence and poverty and reach one of Europe's best leagues, overnight! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKJACAVCJfU Christ Wamba,...

Daisy Mavraki, crowned as Greece's 1952 "Star Hellas" died on Thursday in Athens aged 83. Mavraki, born in Crete, was voted the most beautiful Greek woman in the the first beauty contest held in the Greek capital after the end...

File Photo The controversial court ruling which sentenced a kindergarten cleaner to ten years in prison for forging her grade school degree will be reviewed after Supreme Court Judge Xeni Dimitriou intervened in the case on Thursday. The 53-year-old, who has...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Friday once again called people belonging to the Muslim minority of Western Thrace "Turks" whose rights are being violated by Greece. The statement came in response to a European Court of Human Rights decision...

Τhe Bank of Greece on Thursday presented a plan to reduce Greek banks' non-performing loans by up to 47 percent. Greek banks currently hold the highest level of such loans in Europe. The non-performing loans are a huge burden for banks...

Greece officially opened the third tank for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) on the small island of Revithousa, off of the coast of Athens, on Thursday. George Stathakis, Greek Environment and Energy Minister, spoke at the opening ceremony for the project, saying it was...

The last five years of archaeological research and excavation in central Greece's Petroto village, near the Trikala area, has unearthed a major settlement that dates back to the late Bronze Age. The archaeologists, led by Maria Vaiopoulou, the Karditsa Ephorate of...