Greece

A 53-year-old woman was convicted to 15 years of imprisonment for forging an Elementary School diploma in order to get a job in the public sector as a cleaner back in 1996. The sentence was reduced to 10 years after...

Greece's military has reportedly suspended military cooperation with Turkey over the two Greek soldiers still in confinement in Edirne. In a report carried by Greek newspaper Kathimerini on Monday, it was claimed that a number of "confidence-building measures" with Turkey...

A 19-year-old Greek woman was arrested at Hong Kong’s international airport and charged with possession of 2.6 kilos of cocaine. Irene Melissaropoulou; a model from Lesvos, remains in custody and will appear in court on February 14. According to Hong Kong...

A Greek court has sentenced a 50-year-old Bulgarian woman to life imprisonment for the murder of her husband, Vasilis Kokkinis. The body of the 60-year-old man was discovered inside a freezer at her apartment in Kallithea, south of Athens, in...

Former Greek Finance Minister between 1996 and 2001, National Defense Minister between 2001 and 2004, and PASOK member Giannos Papantoniou, as well as his spouse, Stavroula Kourakou, were given a four-year suspended imprisonment by a Misdemeanors Court on Tuesday...

The businessman Makis Psomiadis, former owner of AEK FC, was sentenced to a non-suspended and non-redeemable 10-year imprisonment for the embezzlement of 21.5 million euros from AEK FC when he was in charge of the team about 10 years...

The new bill of the Finance Ministry predicts imprisonment of tax evaders in the combat against tax evasion and will be submitted to the Greek Parliament in a few days. Concerning the big cases of tax evasion and inflow of...

Due to a quarrel over a field, a 28 year old from Zoniana, Crete shot and killed a 62 year old stock farmer on April 6th, 2010. Father and son went to the farm of the unfortunate man at Mylopotamos,...

Life imprisonment and an additional 12 year imprisonment imposed by the Mixed Jury Court of Thessaloniki on a 20 year-old national of Albania, who was found guilty of murdering a 19-year-old expatriate last May, motivated by robbery. The incident occurred...

On April 21st, 1967, Greece woke up with a military junta taking over power and putting the country in shackles for seven years

While the heroes of the glorious 1821 Revolution fought and died for freedom, there were Greek politicians who betrayed them for money and high positions. These were politicians who usurped the glory of the real warriors of the 1821 Revolution...

The formation of the United States of the Ionian Islands under British rule in Greece is a little known period of the country's history.

The scariest Greek ghost towns and haunted houses seems a rather appropriate subject at the moment given the rapid approach of Halloween. When one takes into consideration the country’s long and vast history, it is not surprising that there...

Police in Greece have dismantled a pirate network which provided illegal pay TV services in Greece. The operation followed a thorough investigation by the Patras Security Sub-Directorate. The Hellenic Police have made ten arrests, including the ring leader, deputy leader,...

On September 27, 1831, Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first leader of Greece after the Ottoman occupation, was assassinated in Nafplio. His murder robbed the country from the chance to become a modern state sooner. Kapodistrias was born on Corfu on February...