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Social phenomena we first met in the Brazilian favelas and in the shanty towns of the central states of the USA have come to Greece. In the Greece of destitution and misery, the first favelas are born from families who...

A new program concerning unemployed people that come from families whose members are all unemployed will be implemented in August through the Manpower Employment Organization (OAED). The program concerns 50,000 unemployed people, who will work for five months. The program...

While 2012 was a disappointing year for tourism with people staying away in the face of protests, strikes and riots against austerity, the year 2013 - which could set a record of 17 million arrivals - began with a...

French President Francois Hollande and former Eurozone chief and current Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker have chosen the Ionian Greek island of Ithaca for their summer holidays, joining a long list of celebrities choosing to come to Greece during...

Greek police on July 23 were pressing a diligent manhunt for Ilir Koupa, the last remaining escapee from Trikala Prison. The search was said to be going on in the area between Thesprotia and Ioannina continues. Koupa fled after...

Archbishop of Crete Eirinaios said the Church is proposing to give farmland to people without jobs to help them during a crushing economic crisis. Speaking dto the Church News Agency Dogma, he noted that he "wanted to show the love...

Well-known business executive and shipowner Victor Restis was arrested on a warrant from the prosecutor's office while Greek police said they were looking for three more people who appear to be involved in an embezzlement and money laundering case...

A lot of Greek-Australians participated in the special event organized by a number of institutions in honor of Plutarch Deliyannis, one of the most distinguished Greeks of Melbourne who died recently. The event was organized by the Greek Orthodox Community...

“Cyprus should be defined by the blue of the encircling Mediterranean Sea rather than the Green Line, which marks an occupation that should not exist there,” Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister of Australia and the Leader of the Labor Party...

In a comedy of errors that is classically Greek, an electronic system designed to handle all Greek tax returns, some 1.2 million - which got started more than three months late - is riddled with so many problems that...

Just as Greece was celebrating what looks like a record tourist season, a  20-year-old British citizen died early on July 23 from apparent stab wounds suffered in a wild melee in the summer resort town of Malia in Iraklio,...

Official guests from the Bavarian community and members of the Greek community attended the celebration that took place at the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Germany (Griech.-Orthodoxe Metropolie von Deutschland). The event was organized to celebrate the fifty years from...

A petrified trunk of a conifer tree from China, which is estimated to date back to the Jurassic geological period (that extends from 159 to 200 million years ago), is permanently exhibited at the special exhibition section The Evolution...

The well-known travel website TripAdvisor.com, based on the votes it collected by travelers who visited Greek beaches in 2013, presented the top 10 of the most beautiful  beaches in the country. Elafonisos, a small Greek island between the Peloponnese and...

Despite big tax hikes that went along with big pay cuts and slashed pensions, expected tax revenues in Greece are far off the mark as austerity-crushed Greeks continue to cut back spending, causing a shortfall of 815 million euros...