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"Why should I be answerable when even the U.S. State Department itself was unaware until recently when a report came out," President Nicos Anastasiades said answering questions over an alleged secret U.S. airbase in Cyprus. According to Cyprus Mail, Anastasiades...

The World's Billionaires list is an annual ranking that is based on documented net worth of the wealthiest billionaires in the world compiled and published by the American business magazine Forbes. The 2018 list published by Forbes had four Greek...

A Belgian-style wheat beer made on the Greek island of Paros, called 56 Isles Aegean Wit has been voted among the world's top six great tasting beers, winning an unprecedented three stars in the 2018 Great Taste Awards. Great Taste,...

Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the President of Germany, visited the ancient site of ancient Messene, near modern-day's city of Kalamata in southern Peloponnese. Steinmeier arrived to the site using a small electric car and was accompanied by the President of the Hellenic...

A Turkish newspaper known to be pro-government claims that Greece and Egypt are trying to "strangulate" Turkey in the eastern Mediterranean through the delimitation of large Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ). An EEZ is a sea zone prescribed by the United Nations...

A Turkish court on Friday ruled that U.S. evangelical Christian pastor Andrew Brunson should be released from jail, putting an end to a diplomatic row between Ankara and Washington, Reuters says. The court passed a 3 years and 1-1/2 month...

Greek and foreign scientists are really excited with the surprising discoveries in the archipelago of the Greek island of Fournoi. At least 58 shipwrecks, most of them dating back to the ancient, Roman and Byzantine times, were found under the...

The 59th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, running from November 1 to November 11, will present a large tribute to the Greek queer cinema, with a selection of 38 short and feature films dating from the late 1960's to the...

The Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV) published a report with figures that show the levels of taxation in Greece and the services people receive in return for their taxes. The figures present the extremely high levels of taxation that the...

The remains of 573 Greek soldiers that fell in the mountains of Albania during the 1940-1941 Greco-Italian war, at the start of WWII, will finally be laid to rest on Friday. A funeral ceremony to be held at a new...

Greece still seeks reparations for its victims of World War Two and repayment for a loan it was forced to make to its Nazi occupiers, President Prokopis Pavlopoulos told his visiting German counterpart on Thursday. Reparations are "legally active and...

The BBC has released the first trailer of the "The Little Drummer Girl", an adaptation of John le Carre’s famous spy thriller, that was partly shot at the ancient temple of Sounio, south of Athens. The miniseries, which will be...

The expansion of the "golden visa" foreign investors incentive program is among the priorities of the Economy and Development Ministry of Greece. At a press briefing on the Ministry’s plan over the next two months, Stergios Pitsiorlas, Greece’s alternate Minister...

Greece’s unemployment rate fell to 19 percent of the workforce in July from 19.1 percent in June and 20.9 percent in July last year, according to the Hellenic Statistical Authority's report released on Thursday. The statistics service, in a monthly report,...

Children are quite noisy sometimes, aren't they? Even though everyone excepts this as a fact, a complaint about noisy children actually led a family in the Greek capital of Athens to court, after a neighbor sued them, complaining about the...