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Passenger ferry Evia Star was evacuated on Tuesday morning following a bomb threat, according to Greek authorities. After an anonymous call warning of an explosive device on the ship, police forces evacuated all 48 passengers and inspected the ferry. No...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is to call a meeting with party leaders and ask them to vote in favor of the unpopular security fund reforms required. The coalition government majority has dwindled down to 153 votes after the vote...

Akis Tselentis the director of the Geodynamic Institute of Athens stressed that Greek citizens need to be cautious after the 6.1 Richter earthquake that took place near the island of Lefkada a few days ago. The institute’s director and professor...

The recapitalization of Greece’s banks is being completed and the next step is to return to normal financing methods by the European Central Bank (ECB) and lift capital controls in the first quarter of 2016, the head of the...

The Paul and Alexandra Kanellopoulos Museum in Athens' old quarter district of Plaka on Friday will inaugurate an exhibition on ancient Greek drama, entitled "Discovering Ancient Theater." The opening ceremony will be held at noon, in the museum's temporary...

Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the alleged mastermind of the bloody terrorist attacks in Paris, had passed through Athens, as DNA evidence shows. Investigations also showed that Salah Abdeslam, a wanted Paris attack assailant, had also passed through Greece in August. Abdeslam took...

Greek-Australian Tom Poursanidis was sentenced to seven years in prison after he duped an elderly man from Melbourne out of 4.92 million dollars, over the course of eight years, reported the Greek Diaspora newspaper Neos Kosmos. The 52-year-old Greek-Australian builder,...

A bomb exploded on Tuesday morning causing serious damages at the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV) offices in Athens. The explosion occurred at 3:35 am at Xenofontos Street, next to Syntagma Square, and the noise was heard kilometers away. Several...

The introduction of agriculture in Europe occurred around 8,500 years ago, changing not only the way of life of the continent’s inhabitants, but also their genes, according to new international scientific research, based on analysis of ancient DNA. The...

The Greek mogul Aristotle Onassis was born on the 15th of January 1906. Born into a rather wealthy family in Izmir (or as was then known Smyrna), Onassis later grew to become the wealthiest and most famous mogul, businessman,...

The European Stability Mechanism's (ESM) Board of Directors authorized the disbursement of 2 billion euros to Greece, following the country’s completion of the first set of prior actions as demanded by creditors. In the ESM's announcement it is mentioned...

United Kingdom's Prime Minister, David Cameron announced on Monday that he has decided to allow the French air force to operate out of the Royal Air Force base in Akrotiri, Cyprus, in order to facilitate counter- ISIL operations. France's military aircrafts...

Greece and Cyprus see eye to eye with regards to the current and leading challenges both are facing, the President of the Hellenic Parliament Nicos Voutsis said on Monday. Voutsis, who is paying an official visit to Cyprus, met with...

Greek Police reported something that is difficult to believe for anyone paying attention to the ongoing refugee crisis these past few months: there has not been a single refugee or migrant arrival at the East Aegean island of Lesvos...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to discuss the refugee crisis very soon. This is according to German government deputy spokesperson; Georg Streiter though he did not provide a date or...