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Greece's Culture Ministry and the Arcadia Antiquities Ephorate announced that the Tegea Archaeological Museum has been nominated as a candidate for the European Museum of the Year Award (EMYA) in 2016. The museum was included in a list of candidates...

Running water flowed in Heraklion's Venetian-era Morosini Fountain - better known as the Lions Fountain - for the first time in 10 years after the water supply was reconnected on Friday, restoring the landmark to its former glory. One of the...

The remains of six Greek soldiers who fell during the 1974 Turkish invasion in Cyprus and were until recently considered to be missing, will be handed over to Greece's Alternate Minister of National Defense, Dimitris Vitsas, during a special...

Greek main opposition New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis, fresh from his victory in an internal party election for president, sharply criticized the SYRIZA-led government on Friday for crushing self-employed professionals, recently hired people and pensioners with its policies. He made...

Whether it's good or bad economic times, farmers in Greece love to make their demands known by threatening massive "tractor protests" in the city of Athens and by blocking the nation's major highways. These are terrible economic times and the...

The Greek Orthodox Church believes that the body, as the "temple of the spirit," must be buried whole to make resurrection possible. This is why Greek religious authorities, in spite of the severe problem of space, condemn any plans...

The rich in Greece come in all forms and shapes as wealthy people can be found even among the least expected professions, thanks to practices of corruption and outright fraud. So, little surprise that the name of a priest was...

Starting from the first photograph ever taken in Greece, in 1839, a panorama of photographic and three-dimensional images from the 19th and 20th century will be presented in Athens. The National Archaeological Museum is celebrating 150 years since its foundation and...

Greek State Minister Nikos Pappas met with the Ambassador of Canada to Greece Keith Morrill at the government headquarters on Friday. Pappas clarified that Greece welcomes Canadian investments in Greece but always provided upon strict respect to the law. Moreover, they discussed...

The Greek government surpassed a medium-term program target for a primary deficit of 0.25% in 2015 and was very close to recording a primary surplus for the year, after revenue surpassed targets by approximately 2 billion euros in the last...