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Many Greek-Australian women participated in the breast cancer information day that was organized by the Breast Cancer Network of Australia in cooperation with the Greek Community of Melbourne and the Australian Social Welfare. The day's main speakers were Oncology...

Starting today, the Greek coalition government enters a "hot" five-day period in which it has to fight several hard battles on different fronts. The most important battle is the one against the Troika of Greece's international lenders who seem to...

The possibility of extending Greece 's bailout program by six months, to mid 2015, is being considered by the Eurozone Finance Ministers, according to a document obtained by Reuters, while Athens insists it is only discussing an extension of a...

Panathinaikos jumped to third place in the Greek league after Mladen Petric headed in a late goal for a 1-0 win over Panetolikos on Thursday that kept its hopes for a title upset alive (video). Panathinaikos was just a point...

By racist behavior from a portion of APOEL Nicosia fans was stigmatized the recent football derby between their team and fierce rivals Omonoia last Sunday in Cyprus. The biggest football match in Cyprus ended with an 1-0 narrow win for home...

"What elections? Are there any union elections? I don't have anything, whatsoever..." With this answer Greece's Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, replied today during the ruling New Democracy committee meeting, on reporters' question on whether the Constitutional revision can move...

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu is due in Athens for talks on Friday amid a tense atmosphere between Greece and Turkey, which has been exacerbated by the neighboring country's decision to carry out naval exercises in the Aegean while...

Greece's capital city, Athens, and second largest city, Thessaloniki, were included among the 35 cities across the world that will join Rockefeller Foundation's "100 Resilient Cities" initiative, was announced yesterday. The initiative is dedicated to help cities become more resilient to physical,...

Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Kyriakos Gerontopoulos responded immediately to the Greek community of Mariupol's request for financial support of the local Medical Center “Hippocrates.” More than 100,000 Greek Diaspora members are currently living in war-hit Ukraine and medical care availability...

Criminal charges for felony, misdemeanor and conspiracy from a criminal organization offenses against 16 Greek football officials, including referees, members of the Hellenic Football Federation (EPO) and one of the country's most popular football clubs' chairman, in relation to...

A large percentage of young Greeks still wish to find employment in their own country, despite the fact that employment barriers across the world have dropped significantly. Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and The Network, which includes 50 job search websites,...

A new study conducted by the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE) think tank and the Hellenic Film Academy (HFA) suggests that Greece needs to offer incentives to domestic and foreign film production companies so that they wish to shoot within the country....

A Hellenic Air Force F-16 jet crashed off the southern coast of Crete in southern Greece earlier today due to mechanical failure during a scheduled training exercise, the Greek National Defense Ministry announced. According to the Ministry, the two...

Greek trade union organisations have announced plans for protest rallies this Sunday to demonstrate against the demands made by the Troika representing Greece's lenders. The General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE), the largest umbrella trade union representing the private sector, has announced...

Justice Minister Charalambos Athanasiou announced that there is nothing he can do to grant Nikos Romanos an educational leave from prison and that the only option is for the inmate to complete a distance learning degree from behind bars....