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Greek Police have arrested a 39-year-old Georgian male, who is being described as the leading member of the group that committed a robbery and murder on the Greek island of Hydra this past August. An elderly couple who lived and owned a...

An innovative system for the early diagnosis of malignant melanoma was created by Greek researchers from the Department of Biomedical Engineering, at the Technological Institute of Athens. The system comprises of two separate smartphone applications, one for the patient...

Member states will monitor the implementation of reforms by Greece and decide whether to enter into discussions on further debt relief, the general director of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) Klaus Regling said during a conversation with MEPs of...

The refugee crisis is a “special case” and therefore the impact on the economies of member-states must be taken into consideration when examining their draft budgets, as presented by the European Commission in Tuesday’s meeting of EU finance ministers...

"Conspiracy theories did not exist in the antiquity. The ancient Greeks were rationalists and scientists with the original sense of the term. All scientific researches on the Antikythera Mechanism, one of the greatest mysteries of the ancient world, dated...

SYRIZA's Labor Policy Department called on all workers, unemployed, pensioners and students to join the general strike on Thursday. In an official announcement, the left-wing party department urges Greek citizens to "actively respond" to the pressure of creditors who continue...

Fourteen refugees and migrants, including seven children, drowned early on Wednesday morning, off the western coast of Turkey, when the boat carrying them to Lesvos capsized. Another twenty-seven people, whose nationality is not yet known, were rescued by the...

Greek finance minister Euclid Tsakalotos told Reuters that Greece plans to return to bond markets in the second half of 2016. Tsakalotos was in London on Tuesday to speak to international investors and meet with hedge funds. He reiterated that...

Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem expressed optimism that Greece will fulfill the prior actions required by Monday in order to receive the 2-billion-euro subtranche and an additional 10 billion euros for the recapitalization of Greek banks. With some measures still pending,...

The European Union says its asylum processing is so clogged with foreign migrants seeking refuge that it would take a year to process all pending applications if the migrant influx stopped immediately. That analysis from the Malta-based European Asylum Support...

  Over 540,000 migrants and refugees entered Europe through the Greek islands between January 1, 2015 and October 1, 2015, according to a latest report published by Frontex. The European Union's border patrol agency noted that this is 13 times the number that had...

EU Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos on Monday referred to the significant progress made on the refugees issue at the extraordinary Justice and Home Affairs Council, held in Brussels.   Avramopoulos briefed the ministers on the...

On the occasion of the Bulgarian edition of the poetic anthology "Metamorphoses of Cities" by the renowned Greek-Cypriot poet Michalis Pieris, the Embassy of Bulgaria in Nicosia, Cyprus organized a poetry evening dedicated to Pieris’ oeuvre. The event took...

Thousands of people have traveled from Turkey to the city of Thessaloniki in Northern Greece to commemorate the 77th anniversary of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's death, in his childhood home. Kemal Ataturk, who is considered the father of the modern Turkish...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras claimed that the Greek government will legislate all the necessary prior actions that will greenlight the disbursement of the additional bailout funds to Greece at this upcoming Monday's Euroworking Group. The Eurozone's finance ministers decided on...