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The NPO Save the Children has released statements on Thursday saying that the conditions under which the children in migrant reception centers in Greece are living is driving them to self-inflicting harm on themselves and using drugs to cope...

The package with explosives sent to German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble on Wednesday was sent from the region of Attica and cited as its sender New Democracy Vice-President Adonis Georgiadis, the Citizens Protection Ministry confirmed. The package arrived at the...

UN Special Adviser on Cyprus Espen Barth Eide said on Wednesday that good efforts are on the way and expressed the view that it will not take too much time before the leaders in Cyprus resume the talks aiming to solve the Cyprus...

A Greek woman who has emigrated to London released a video of her speech about the Brexit on Monday, and the video became viral in social media. Stella Tsantekidou, a young woman who works as a legal consultant in London,...

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Thursday had phone contact with the winner of the Dutch elections Mark Rutte to congratulate him for his victory. Source: ANA-MPA

Greece’s jobless rate increased 23.6 percent in October-to-December from 22.6 percent in the third quarter, according to Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) data released on Thursday. The increase in unemployment rates is attributed to the fact that many people who work...

The terror group "Conspiracy of Cells of Fire" on Thursday claimed responsibility for a parcel bomb that was sent to German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble on Wednesday. In a post on the Indymedia Athens anarchist website signed by the group,...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras might call a press conference on Thursday or Friday to announce early elections, a Forex Live report says. According to Forex Live author Ryan Littlestone claiming exclusive sources, Tsipras will call the press to speak...

Self-proclaimed billionaire Artemis Sorras and seven of his associates have been ordered to appear as suspects before a First Instance Prosecutor on Thursday and respond to various felony charges relating to his political grouping “Assembly of Greeks” (Ellinon Synelefsis). Prosecutor...

Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos and Labor Minister Efi Achtsioglou on Wednesday briefed SYRIZA MPs on the party's committees for monitoring the government's work on economic and labor issues. The roughly two-hour briefing was held at SYRIZA's offices on the second...

One of the biggest thorns in the negotiations between Athens and international bailout auditors is Greece's pension expenditure, highlights a Bloomberg report that presents a graph depicting the percentage of GDP spent on pensions by Eurozone countries. The report states...

Greece is caught in a self-reinforcing recessionary spiral caused by its high and unsustainable debt, which must be deeply restructured in order to allow recovery, according to an interim report published by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) on Wednesday...

European Parliament Vice President Dimitris Papadimoulis raised the issue of collective labor contracts during a debate in the Europarliament on Wednesday. Addressing European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs Pierre Moscovici asked him to state the position of the European...

Greece is a country full of beautiful villages, people, food and antiquity; all against the back drop of the glistening sea. It's no surprise that the small village of Molyvos on the Aegean island of Lesvos won the contest...

A meeting of the UN Secretary General with the leaders of the two communities in Cyprus, in the coming days, is not in the cards, a source close to the Greek Cypriot negotiating team has told CNA. Questioned on a...