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The government of the Netherlands decided to give back to the Church of Cyprus four portable Byzantine icons that date back to the 16th century, from the Antifonitis Church in occupied Kyrenia in Cyprus, which were stolen after the...

Four Greek-Australians won seats in the Australian Parliament. The Greek Labor MP, Maria Vamvakinou was elected in the seat of Calwell in Victoria. In the Senate, Nick Xenophon was triumphantly reelected in South Australia, while Senator Arthur Sinodinos, who has...

Over 200 movies are on the screening list of the 19th Athens International Film Festival, which opens on Wednesday in Athens and runs to September 29. The event, as Kathimerini reports, opens with Noah Baumbach's Frances (2012) - a...

Representatives of the Troika told Financial Times that there will be new austerity measures under the new bailout despite Samaras’ statements in Brussels. Meanwhile, on his return from Brussels, Samaras stressed that,''We cannot take any other measures." The Troika representatives underlined...

Scientists from Greece and the US believe they are close to tracing the wood from which ancient triremes were made.  The scientists are searching in Pieria (one of the regional units of Greece, located in the southern part of...

A number of 69 poets will participate in 22 different events that will take place in the region of Athens as part of the first international Athens World Poetry Festival. The Festival will commence on Sept. 23 till 29,  in...

Led by labor unions, Greek workers on Sept. 18 began a two-day general strike against austerity measures and the coming involuntary transfer and firing of scores of thousands of municipal employees, joining high school teachers who were on the...

On October 30, the 2nd Greek Medical & Health Tourism Workshop will be held in Moscow. Eleven businesses, among which, private hospitals, rehabilitation centers and hotels with spa facilities have applied to participate, aiming at the development of medical...

Greek police are investigating the stabbing death of a 34-year-old hip-hop artist that leftist groups said was killed by a gang of neo-Nazi Golden Dawn members who critics say travel in packs to assault immigrants and their perceived foes. There...

CNN recommends Mycenae, Greece, as one of the 15 most important, though not very popular archaeological sites in the world. The article published on the official website of CNN bore the headline Digging deep: 15 ancient ruins you might...

A photograph of a female shop owner pushing a little Roma girl street musician on a pedestrian walkway under the Acropolis to send her away has taken off on the Internet and set Greek authorities to investigate the apparent...

On September 2013, the final agreement for the restoration of the historical Apostolos Andreas Monastery in Karpasia, in the occupied part of Cyprus, was signed. The restoration will be realized according to the plans of the University of Patras and...

A big concert dedicated to the Greeks who promoted Greece abroad with their work, the “Greeks of the World”, Theo Angelopoulos, Odysseas Elytis, Constantine P. Cavafy, Nikos Kazantzakis, Michael Cacoyannis, Maria Callas, Iakovos Kambanelis, Melina Mercouri, Yiannis Ritsos, Giorgos...

Greece Debt Free, a website set up with the intention of getting contributions to wipe out Greece's $390 billion debt and pay for years of wild overspending by successive governments, made a two million euros ($2.6 million) donation on...

As noted in a document signed by the Secretary General for Gender Equality, Zetta Makri, which was sent to the Hellenic Parliament after a question raised by New Democracy MP Fevronia Patrianakou, "...the deadly virus was introduced in Greece...