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An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale hit the Aegean island of Lesvos, Greece, on Monday morning according to USGS. The temblor was reported at 5:51 a.m. The quake's epicenter was located 70 km NE of the Island near the...

By Thimios Tzallas The fate of Greece’s ‘Blairites’ provides a bitter lesson for centre-left parties across Europe, argues Thimios Tzallas. It is very often argued that the European Union and the International Monetary Fund got it wrong with the Greek crisis. They overestimated...

The prime minister's stopover in Paris on the way back from Lisbon was not a "holiday" but mainly focused on finding solutions for Greece's debt and efforts to promote foreign investment, government sources said, in reply to main opposition New...

Protesting farmers from the Nikaia roadblock used their tractors to blockade the Athens-Thessaloniki national highway at the Tempi valley on Sunday, at about 14:30. The farmers said the road would be blocked for roughly two hours in a "symbolic...

President of the Republic of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades announced on Sunday he will convene a meeting of the National Council next week to inform leaders of the parliamentary political parties on the developments on the Cyprus issue. Speaking in Nicosia...

The Greek bailout not only came with financial restructuring and pension cuts but also included mass hiring freezes that could continue to affect how children are taught in secondary schools. The hiring freeze in combination with a large numbers of...

A First Instance Court will decide on Tuesday (Feb. 7) whether to temporarily freeze the sale of any assets of the bankrupt DOL media group and whether it will exempt one bank account to allow for the payment of...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Uz7liYHBUs The administrators of the web channel "Heritage Inmoshum, asked Canadian students if they could recognize the language that was heard in a sound bite from a Greek television show. The answers, were quite impressive, as no one recognized the...

As the march of climate change continues and the specter of drought looms large for Mediterranean countries like Greece, the problem of collecting water in areas of low rainfall will become increasingly acute. A lone Greek scientist has been...

Yanis Varoufakis wrote in an op-ed in Efimerida ton Syntakton on Saturday. The former finance minister called on Prime Minister Alexis Tspiras to adopt a plan originally proposed by Varoufakis while he was still in office. The plan would unilaterally...

Greek Justice Minister Stavros Kontonis along with the US Justice Department are working on an investigation of the alleged corruption of Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis. Greek and US investigators aim to determine the extent to which medicines were overpriced, Kontonis said. At...

The measures that the government and the creditors are now negotiating are the result of the government's inefficiency and lack of credibility, main opposition New Democracy (ND) Vice President Costis Hatzidakis said on Saturday in an interview with the Athens-Macedonian...

The UN Secretary General's Special Adviser on Cyprus Espen Barth Eide met with Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias in Athens on Friday. Eide said the discussion had focused on security aspects of the Cyprus issue and a conference on Cyprus to be...

Environment and Energy Minister Sokratis Famellos has tabled a bill in parliament that would ratify the International Agreement on the Protection and Sustainable Development of Prespa Park in northern Greece. The bill would continue to protect the park as a natural...

Researchers have pinpointed 83 genetic variants that could affect the height of a person and their findings have been published in "Nature" magazine. Part of the research team included five Greeks from Genetics Professor Panos Deloukas of Queen Mary University...