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The Greek Film, Miss Violence, directed by Alexandros Avranas was twice awarded in this year’s Venice Film Festival. Miss Violence received the FEDEORA critics’ award and the Arca award, while Themis Panou won the Coppa Volpi Award for best actor...

Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew expressed support for Pope Francis's prayer for peace in Syria and said "We will pray for peace in Syria with Pope Francis." Bartholomew said on his visit to Estonia that he welcomed the day called by...

Greek-Australian rock goddess Orianthi Panagaris, better known simply as Orianthi talks exclusively to Greek reporter about her new album Heaven in This Hell, music and Greek heriatge.

After more than three years of insisting, demanding, pestering, pleading, threatening, cajoling, badgering and negotiating with successive Greek governments to make reforms needed for bailout loans to keep coming  - which always have, even when there was a failure...

Six decades after its first trip around the Argosaronic Gulf, Yiannis Latsis’ historic passenger ship Neraida returns to its traditional destinations as a floating museum of business history. In the second half of September Neraida, which has adorned many postal...

The math, already against Greece being able to repay $325 billion in two bailouts from international lenders, got even worse with the news from the International Monetary Fund that there will be a 46.8 billion euro ($61.76 billion) hole...

On September 6, representatives of the Hellenic Police, the Fire Brigade and Coast Guard hosted a rally in the White Tower of Thessaloniki, the second biggest city in Greece, shouting slogans, to express their opposition to wage and pension cuts. At...

Frustrated in efforts to sell off major state enterprises, Greece is turning toward trying to get rid of other properties that can fetch anywhere from 310,000-3.4 million euros in a bid to bring in cash in smaller batches -...

A civil servant of the Greek Ministry of Interior has been arrested in the U.S.A, while trying to illegally transfer two ethnic Albanians to the U.S.A. The two Albanians allegedly have Greek passports. The leadership of the Ministry of Interior...

With summer ending it won't last long, but Greece's record-breaking tourist year has put the brakes on a runaway recession - without stopping it. According to the country's statistical agency ELSTAT, the economy shrank 3.8 percent during the second...

“2014 is a very crucial year. Even the slightest crisis reversal must turn into reality. Otherwise, neither the economy nor society could cope with another recession and another downgrade. Even if our partners prove to be patient, the patience...

A tremor measuring 4.2 degrees on the Richter scale took place Friday at 5:57am local time off the island of Crete, the Athens University Institute of Geodynamics made known. The epicenter was 371 kilometers south-east of Athens and 60...

This year, some of the Turks who flock to Sismanogleio Megaro of the Consulate General of Greece will have the opportunity to be taught online Greek language courses via Skype. Due to this year’s great demand, Sismanogleio Megaro is not...

A historic monument of Christianity is being sacrificed on the altar of modernization. The Orthodox Church of Prophet Elias in Izmir (Smyrna) in Turkey, one of the few Christian churches in the region, is set to be demolished under...

The annual Roadshow presentation of Greek enterprises to foreign institutional investors wrapped up on Sept.  6 after being organized for the 8th  consecutive year Athens Exchange in London. During the presentation, there were more than 1,000 meetings between 200 investment...