Greek News

Greek doctors working in the United Kingdom worry that they might lose their jobs after statements by British Prime Minister Theresa May and Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt. Speaking on BBC television on Thursday, May said that the UK National Health...

Swedish-born Greek singer Helena Paparizou is reportedly in talks to represent Greece in the next Eurovision song contest in Kiev next year. The news was revealed by Paparizou's close friend, TV host Themis Georgantas, who said that she was...

Greek scientists are one step away from developing a new generation of health-enhancing 'superfoods' enriched with bioactive substances extracted from the aromatic plants that grow in Greece and act as nature's dispensary. Talking to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency on Friday,...

Gerry Rice, Head of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Communication Office, denied a report by Reuters stating that the IMF would hold a special advisory role in Greece's bailout. The report cited two IMF sources pointing to a new...

Defending the government's handling of the television licences tender procedure, Minister of State Nikos Pappas on Saturday urged main opposition New Democracy to realise that the tender process was now over. "The government collected that the parties of graft...

Greece has submitted a complaint to NATO regarding the presence of Turkish Navy submarines in Greek territorial waters during September. The Greek Foreign Ministry and the National Defense General Staff (GEETHA) filed a complaint regarding the presence of Turkey's submarines...

The Greek police have arrested two foreigners - a 35-year-old from Poland and 52-year-old Ukrainian - involved in a heated altercation with a third man, reportedly a foreigner, who was killed by hanging from a tree in Klafthmonos Square near the Greek Interior Ministry...

Primary school parents in Mytilene protested after being informed that 15 refugee children would go to school with their children on Monday. The refugee students were to be placed in classes at the 8th, 9th, 11th and 15th primary schools of...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will most likely not join in the Greek bailout program bearing in mind its disagreement with EU resistance to debt relief. Senior sources within the IMF, however, point to a strong possibility of the fund...

Stylianos Pattakos, a leader of the 1967 coup, died at the age of 103 following a stroke on Saturday. The last survivor of the coup that governed Greece for seven years will be remembered in history as a brigadier...

The facial reconstruction of the so-called "Griffin Warrior", the resident of a 1,500-year-old tomb found near the Mycenaean Palace of Nestor, shows his features. Archaeologists Jack Davis and Sharon Stocker of the University of Cincinnati discovered the unplundered tomb in summer,...

Greece's coast guard said that 131 migrants were rescued Saturday off the western coast after their vessel sent a distress call and was found rudderless at sea. According to initial reports, the migrants were believed to have been trying to...

It is puzzling and often wondered why the Hellenic nation failed to propel forward like other nations? Why did they simply choose to exist in living memory of their ancestors rather than continue in their footsteps? They were blessed...

Airlines on Saturday announced the cancellation of hundreds of flights ahead of a series of rolling strikes by the country's air traffic controllers, however the action was averted at the eleventh hour. Greek Transport Minister Christos Spirtzis had accused...

President Prokopis Pavlopoulos said that Greece and Europe with neither tolerate attempts to dispute the Lausanne Treaty nor leave them unanswered. The Greek president visited the Aegean island of Limnos on Saturday for celebrations marking the 104th anniversary of the island's...