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Sapounohoma Beach - Ios "Sapounohoma," situated at the west part of the Greek island of Ios, is a fantastic small beach with plenty of sand, a few small pine trees and a tiny church, that you can only reach by sea. Milokopi Beach...

After the third day of reopening of the Athens Stock Exchange, bank shares took another dramatic dive reaching a cumulative 63.81 percent loss. The banking index lost 27 percent at closing on Wednesday, dragging all Greek stocks down. The market...

Greece needs a generous 100-billion-euro debt haircut in order to be able to come out of a perpetual financial slump, says a Telegraph report. An analysis by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) says that the impact...

House Speaker Zoe Konstantopoulou said that Greece should default on its sovereign debt payments while indirectly accusing the prime minister and certain cabinet members for not utilizing the findings of her committee on the debt. The Parliament President gave a...

Construction of the first mosque in Athens will start as soon as final details of the much-delayed project are ironed out and the building permit is about to be issued. It has been seventy years since it was decided to...

An increasing number of individuals and agencies are acknowledging the necessity for a hair-cut on the Greek debt. The National Institute for Economic and Social Research (NIESR) published a report on Tuesday that calls for the biggest Greek debt haircut that has...

Some 8,500 kilometers away from Greece, Greek tradition lives on. In a piece for Lifo magazine actress and director Glyka Stoiou narrated her short encounter with Athina Marouda a Greek living in Alaska. Marouda and her family moved from the Greek island of Zakynthos to...

The farming industry needs growth and fair conditions, according to Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras Tsipras expounded on future policies he wants to apply in the farming industry, after a meeting he had at the Greek Ministry of Rural Development on Wednesday. He argued that Greece...

The European Central Bank decided on Wednesday for the second straight week to keep Emergency Liquidity Assistance to Greece at around 91 billion euros. The decision was expected considering that the Greek government seems to not have made any formal requests for an...

An initiative by the Greek Student Association (GSA) at the University of Toronto’s revived modern Greek classes at the institution this past academic year. According to The Varsity, the university’s student newspaper, modern Greek classes had not been offered at the...

Chris Pratt is apparently an Ancient Greek scene painter, among other things. The professional actor, who stars in Jurassic World, the third highest worldwide grossing of all time, drew a painting that is hanging on the wall of a friend's Greek restaurant, Omega...

Former minister Panagiotis Lafazanis on Wednesday said that he will not vote for the memorandum and expressed the view that all SYRIZA deputies of the left platform will probably do the same. He added that if the memorandum is...

Main opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Evangelos Meimarakis on Wednesday had a meeting with the presidium and members of the General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE). Meimarakis said that the main opposition is not well informed on the course of...

Greece ’s cybercrime unit is launching an investigation to determine if there has been an attempt to hack the online system used by the General Secretariat for Public Revenues, it was revealed. The Chief Prosecutor of the First Instance Court,...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will visit Egypt on Thursday (August 6) to participate in the inauguration of a new Suez Canal waterway, while he will also meet with French President Francois Hollande, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, and...