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Mystery Flight: Venezuelan Aircraft Lands in Athens in Absolute Secrecy

A government plane from the South American nation of Venezuela landed in Athens on Saturday, March 2 at 14:00 local time (12:00 GMT) and reportedly stayed there for approximately four hours. This odd occurrence was revealed by Greece's SKAI TV...

President Pavlopoulos Says Attack on SKAI TV "Criminal, Undemocratic"

The President of the Hellenic Republic, Prokopios Pavlopoulos, has unequivocally condemned  Monday's terrorist attack on Greece’s SKAI TV station. In a statement today he also expressed his support for the owners and employees of the television and radio station, as...

Bombed Skai TV Says Greek Government Ignored Warnings (video)

While Greece's PM Alexis Tsipras condemned the bombing outside the offices of the Skai TV headquarters in the early hours of Monday, station officials said the government has made it a target by ignoring repeated complaints about threats it has...

Tsipras Says Attack Against Skai TV Targets Democracy

Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras condemned the bombing of Skai TV headquarters in the early hours of Monday, saying that it was an a attack against democracy. "It was an attack by cowardly and dark forces against democracy itself," the...

Bomb Blasts Skai TV Headquarters in Athens (video)

A bomb exploded outside the main building of Greece's Skai TV station at 2:30 AM (0030 GMT) local time on Monday morning. There were no injuries or victims as an anonymous phone-call alerted authorities of the threat. The station reported on...

Yanis Varoufakis Challenges Wolfgang Schaeuble: "Prove Me Wrong"

Former Greek Finance minister Yanis Varoufakis is notorious for challenging EU officials over the Greek bailout programme and Wolfgang Schaeuble's interview on Skai TV last night opened another chapter in the public duel between the two men. In an open...

Poll: Almost Nine in 10 Greeks are Dissatisfied With the Govt

A new poll by the University of Macedonia on behalf of privately owned Skai TV found that seven in 10 Greeks believe that the government's negotiation strategy led to delays in bailout review conclusions that were against the country's interests. The...

Airlift Operation Overnight for Hundreds Trapped in Burning Ferry Off Greece, One Dead [video]

Some 165 passengers have been rescued so far from the Italian-flagged burning ferry-boat "Norman Atlantic," which belongs to the Greek ferry line ANEK, sailing from Patras in western Greece to the Italian port of Ancona and was replacing the...

Tough Penalties for Businesses with Debts to IKA

Social Insurance Institute (known in Greek as IKA), the largest social security organization in Greece announced on Tuesday 5th of November that the businesses that have not paid their contributions to the institute will face tough penalties from Wednesday...