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Olympiakos held a title fiesta for its fans at the Karaiskakis Stadium after trouncing relegated Kalloni 5-0, goals coming from the league’s top scorer Costas Fortounis and from David Fuster, Pajtim Kasami, Omar Elabdellaoui and Brown Ideye. The Reds...

Main opposition party, New Democracy has now entered the final stages for holding its 10th annual conference in a week's time, ND leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Sunday. He said the conference slogan will be "Oxygen for Greece" and will make a "new start"...

Commenting on the ongoing negotiations with the creditor institutions to wrap up the review of the Greek economic program, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said in an interview with the state broadcaster ERT broadcast on Saturday night, that the goal...

An earthquake of 4.2 Richter magnitude occurred right before 5pm on Sunday afternoon. According to first estimates the earthquake was 4.2 on the Richter Scale, however the Institute of Geodynamics classified the earthquake at 3.9. The earthquake occurred 25 kilometers Southwest of Athens, Greece,...

Charitos Moudoufaris, is the Starbucks barista whose design will be featured on the Starbucks cups for a limited time. Starbucks had recently run a competition, during which employees with an "artsy" side, were called to design on the cups and...

On the occasion of the Olympic Games, this year's International Monuments and Sites Day, which is celebrated every year on April 18th, is going to be dedicated to athletic heritage. The International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and UNESCO, have set...

Vima newspaper, published in its Sunday edition a recent poll by KAPA research, according to which New Democracy (ND) is ahead of SYRIZA by 4.4%. The majority of the participants in the poll (70%), see the negotiations with the creditors' negatively, three...

House Speaker Yiannakis Omirou called on the international community, on Sunday, to realize that now is the time to exert pressure on Turkey in order to abandon its intransigent stance on Cyprus, noting that so far we have not...

Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos and IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde discussed on Saturday night the creditors' proposal which illustrates contingency-measures that Athens will have to adopt in case it does not make its fiscal goals, as presented at...

US Finance Minister, Jack Lew requested from the IMF, the European Institutions and Greece, to complete the program evaluation and find a reasonable solution to the restructuring of the country's debt, after meeting with Greek Finance Minister, Euclid Tsakalotos. The Greek...