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TIME magazine featured Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in its annual list of The 100 Most Influential People in the World, categorizing him as a "Leader." The list, published on Thursday, has been drawn up for twelve consecutive years and each...

Josephine Witt, the 21-year-old activist whose confetti attack frightened European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi, talks exclusively to Greek Reporter about her protest, how she sees Greece and what she believes about Europe's future. From our conversation, two...

Violent incidents involving anti-establishment rioters and Greek Police broke out late on Thursday in downtown Athens, Greece. Hoodie-wearing rioters threw Molotov cocktails and stones against police, who responded with teargas. The incidents were sparked when anti-establishment militants tried to enter the Athens...

A 6.1-magnitude earthquake has struck off the eastern coast of Crete, Greece, on Thursday, according to the Athens Geodynamic Institute. The tremor struck at 9.08 pm local time at a focal depth of 10 kilometers. No damages or casualties...

With Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and hundreds of Greek-Americans including John Stamos in attendance, President Barack Obama's reception in honor of Greek Independence was literally a Full House. Guests were welcomed at the White House's East room at 5.15pm...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Thursday, in a statement to Reuters, he is confident that Greece and its European partners will be able to work through their differences and reach to an agreement by the end of the month. He...

About 4,000 mine workers and their families protested on Thursday outside the Ministry of Productive Reconstruction, Environment and Energy in Athens over the Greek government's expressed intention to stop works of the Hellas Gold mining operation in Skouries, northern Greece. The...

Deputy Citizen Protection Minister Yiannis Panousis said he has got the "green light" from Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to take action to end the occupation of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens Rectorate by anarchists. Panousis sent an ultimatum...

The Brussels Group is expected to resume its meetings on Saturday. Council of Economic Advisors (SOE) President Giorgos Chouliarakis, Finance Ministry general secretary Nikos Theocharakis and Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis' advisor Elena Panariti will participate from the Greek side. International Monetary...

Greek officials have asked the International Monetary Fund (IMF) if they can postpone loan repayments but the request was denied, according to a Financial Times report. Athens is scheduled to repay IMF a total of almost 1 billion euros in...

FIFA and UEFA have threatened the Greek Ministry of Sports that they may ban Greece's teams from all international tournaments unless there are several changes in the new sports law. The new sports legislation drafted by Deputy Sports Minister Stavros Kontonis gives more...

Another Greek debt restructuring is not currently up for discussion, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said in an interview to Bloomberg TV. While some kind of restructuring might be on the agenda in 10 years, “today the issue for Greece is...

An high-ranking official close to Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said the Greek government is not planing to give in to its creditors' pressures and go against the program they had promised to the Greek people who brought them...

60 days, 4 cities of Burma and 100 photo responses to the question "What is the meaning of Love." This is the exciting photographic project of Maro Verli, entitled "From Myanmar... with Love." On September 17, 2014, Verli wrote at her personal...

“I want to see Latin America and I will not let death keep me from fulfilling this promise,” stated Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis in 1936, expressing a dream he was never able to fulfill. However, the influence of his work reached...