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Clashes erupted on Wednesday afternoon between a group of unknown individuals and police forces in central Athens. The incidents took place outside of the University of Economics (ASOEE) on Patission Street, when a number of hooded individuals began setting trash...

Another mostly peaceful demonstration of students organized by left-wing student associations ended in clashes in central Athens on Thursday. Several hundred protesters attempted to overturn the riot police's ''MAT'' trucks, which had been parked vertically along Vasilissis Olgas Avenue in...

A total of twelve protesters were detained by Greek police officers on Thursday morning in Thessaloniki and charged with breaking security measures by entering the city's Kemal Ataturk Museum. A Greek anarchist group claimed responsibility for the protest, which included...

More than thirty migrants were evacuated by police forces on Wednesday morning as part of a new police operation to clear out illegal habitations in the downtown Athens district of Exarchia. The operation, which was executed by members of the...

Serious clashes between Afghan migrants and Syrian refugees erupted late at night on Monday and during the early hours of Tuesday in a camp near Vathy, on the island of Samos. A large fire also broke out in the camp...

A largely-peaceful student protest organized by leftist student associations ended in clashes with Greece's MAT riot police in central Athens on Friday afternoon. Several hundred demonstrators attempted to overturn MAT police trucks which had been parked vertically along Vasilissis Olgas...

Greek authorities have discovered two bodies inside a car which had sunk to the bottom of the sea off Neos Molos, in Drapetsona, Greece. The vehicle was found 32 meters (105 feet) under the surface of the sea, and the...

The headquarters of Greece's Ministry of Labour, Social Insurance and Social Solidarity in downtown Athens was the target of another ”intervention,” as the well-known Greek anarchist group ”Rubicon” terms it, on Wednesday afternoon. At approximately 1:10 PM local time, twenty...

Greek police announced on Monday that they have arrested three men on the island of Kythnos for allegedly plundering precious historical artifacts from ancient shipwrecks off the coast. The police said that they have discovered approximately 25 ancient amphorae (pottery vases),...

A car crash took place on Sunday morning on the old highway of Kavala-Thessaloniki, involving a car which was carrying migrants. According to EKAB, Greece's Emergency Service, a 64-year-old Greek man died as a result of the crash. The car, which was...