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National Theatre of Greece is going to perform  and come on stage with only satirical drama that will now bring Cyclops by Euripides. The performance will be staged by Vassilis Papavassiliou, with the leading triumvirate of Dimitris Piatas (Cyclops), Nikos...

Kleopatra Kapsahati, a teacher of nursing in the 1st Technical High School of Tyrnavos in Larissa, Greece, passed away on July 27 after she felt unwell when informed that her request to be excluded by from a so-called mobility...

A study released on Thursday by National Bank of Greece's (Bog) Strategic and Financial Analysis Department shows that an increase in corporate investment in the export sector of up to 14% of the country's gross domestic product would after...

Sticking to his mantra of blaming the coalition government of Prime Minister and New Democracy Conservative leader Antonis Samaras, who has the support of PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos, the head of the major opposition Coalition of the Radical...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' hope that international lenders will yet agree to cut Greece's debt even if it makes them take losses is still alive, at least with International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde, who said Europe...

The exhibition The Greeks: Agamemnon to Alexander The Great will be hosted in four museums in Canada and the USA from December 2014 to September 2016. The exhibition will be presented at the Royal Ontario Museum, the Canadian Museum of...

A Greek-origin MEP from the German Liberal Democrats party George Chatzimarkakis has asked the European Commission to take a position over the coming firing of Greek teachers he said were supremely qualified but are first in line to be...

A diplomatic incident was prevented at the last minute on Monday at the land borders between Greece and Turkey along Evros River, it was announced on Wednesday. Turkish soldiers, patrolling along the Turkish bank of Evros River at noon on...

The French newspaper Le Figaro has an extensive reportage-tribute to the Korydallos prison in Athens, and especially to Wing 6, the so called VIP wing. The newspaper writes: In the lethargy of summer, there’s a place which is better protected from...

The 51-year-old man from Turkey, who was arrested by the Counter-Terrorism Unit, was led to the public prosecutor at the Court of Appeal, in the framework of the investigations concerning the weapons on the island of Chios and was...

A fire broke out in the region of Agia Elesa on the island of Kythera and is burning hollies and shrubs. The fire expanded quickly because of the winds, and the three Canadair jets which were called to help extinguish...

The Greek-Australian crew for the shooting of the documentary about Greek Shipping, and generally about the relation of Greeks with the sea, has arrived in Greece. This week the crew members were on Oinousses, one of the islands which...

“We don’t need no thought control,” are the famous lyrics of The Wall that signaled the concert of Roger Waters on July 31 at the OAKA stadium of Athens. “Hello, Athens. I’m so glad to be here,” were Waters' first...

Four people are dead and one injured in a shootout between rival Roma families in Gastouni, in the prefecture of Elis in the Peloponnese, according to local media. After the police investigation, three Roma were arrested who allegedly caused the...

The film, You Know What? I Love You, made its premiere on July 27 during the Melbourne International Film Festival. The film is directed by the Greek-Australian Natalie Cunningham, who has already received highly encouraging comments. The film in question...