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Greek Australian director Nadia Tass (Tassopoulos) has recently been honored for her exceptional contributions to Australian cinema. For the last 25 years, Tass has directed some of the most beloved films in Hollywood, but it is her contributions to the...

Greece is one of the largest exporters to the US in a range of alimentary products like olives, fish, legumes, and cheese as well as a number of manufactured goods like pipes and razor blades. In 2013, olive exports to...

In the azure waters off the rocky coast of Antikythera, a remote island in the Mediterranean with a population of less than 50, lies one of history's most intriguing shipwrecks, CNN reports. In 1900, sponge divers from the Greek island...

La Gazzeta dello Sport, Italy's longest-running and most prestigious sports newspaper, added Kostas Manolas in its top eleven for the first six weeks of the Campionato. Historically, the Italian league has always been known for its world-class defensive lines, so to...

AP - Cyprus' President on Tuesday suspended talks on reunifying the ethnically divided island in response to Turkish plans to search for oil and gas in waters where the Cypriot government has already licensed companies to drill. Cypriot government spokesman...

Three men were killed during a mortar firing exercise at a range in Volos, central Greece earlier today. According to sources, two of the men were professional soldiers and the third was a draftee. A second lieutenant was also injured...

On Monday, a new witness of Sunday's deadly crash in northern Greece came forward to authorities. The man claims to have been a passenger in the truck that plowed into dozens of cars on the Egnatia Highway between Veria...

Archbishop Demetrios of America will visit Cyprus between October 20 and 27. The trip follows an official invitation extended by Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades, together with the unanimous agreement of the Holy Synod of the Church of Cyprus. The 86-year-old...

31-year-old Antonis Stamboulos, accused of being a member of the guerrilla group Revolutionary Struggle, announced on Tuesday morning that he is going on a hunger and thirst strike in a bid to pressure authorities to transfer him to Korydallos...

The Pipinos, the first submarine constructed in Greece, was launched on Monday in the Skaramangas shipyard of western Athens. The christening of the Pipinos was attended by Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, Deputy Prime Minister Evangelos Venizelos, Defense Minister Dimitris...

The Greek state's last meeting of the first round of negotiations with the heads of the troika is currently underway at the Finance Ministry. The heads of the troika are expected to leave Athens later in the day and return...

A 3-million-year-old fossil of a gigantic bear discovered in the village of Milia in Grevena in northern Greece proves once again that the Greek palaeo-environment was favorable to the development of creatures of such enormous size. In the past,...

A few years ago, the Greek Tourism Organization launched a campaign dubbed "Live Your Myth in Greece." It was good, catchy, and it worked. Today, following the 2015 budget proposal, it seems that the ministry of finance officials are...

With all the hype surrounding the excavations currently under way at ancient Amphipolis, a group of graphic designers have created a 3D video which transports viewers to the tomb itself, giving them some indication of what the Kastra hill...

A man who has spent years deceiving elderly Greeks – among them the mother of Health Minister Makis Voridis – has just been arrested in the Menidi of Attica following a chase with police officers. The minister of health's mother...