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According to Eurostat figures, population in Greece was 11.062 million on January 1, 2013  and dropped to 10.992 million on January 1, 2014. The new figures show that during the previous year, births in our country amounted to 94,100, while...

During  an event organised by the Cypriot parliament to mark the 40 years of the Turkish invasion, the House President Yiannakis Omirou stated that the difficult economic situation of Cyprus should not affect the course of the Cypriot problem. Omirou said that the national...

One of the main aims of The Archdiocese of America is to bring Greek children of the diaspora in contact with Greek culture and orthodox faith. This year, more than 250 Greek boys and girls from the U.S.A. will visit Greece...

The President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping is due to arrive on the Greek island of Rhodes this Sunday, where he will spend the night before departing for Brazil, which is his final destination. Greek Prime Minister...

A heart surgeon and department chief at public hospital Evaggelismos in Athens, Greece was arrested for bribery and attempted extortion. The 59-year-old surgeon was arrested on Wednesday after a complaint from a patient who was hospitalized after he suffered a heart attack. The doctors...

The delegation of Greece 's international lenders, the so-called Troika, is expected to meet with Finance Minister, Gikas Hardouvelis today and with Labor Minister Yiannis Vroutsis tomorrow. Hardouvelis announced on Wednesday that the extraordinary and harsh measures taken over the...

In the House’s summer session, 51 of the 100 MPs voted in favor of the creation and sale of the so-called “Small DEI,” which consists of 30 percent of the Public Power Company which has the monopoly of electrical...

The 19-year-old Greek-Australian Pavlos Tsapournis was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, but decided to do his military duty in Greece, to serve the homeland of his parents. The 19-year-old man is serving on the Greek  island of Samos, just across...

The Greek Parliament has approved a bill splitting state utility Public Power Corporation (PPC) by carving away a subsidiary and selling it to private investors. The Parliament's first summer session, consisting of one-third of the total of 300 MPs, approved the...

ATHENS, (AP) — A Greek appeals court has increased the sentence imposed on a local taxi driver over the stabbing death of a British teenager holidaying on the resort island of Zakynthos, Greece. The 23-year-old driver, Stelios Morfis, was convicted...

The German newspaper Deutsche Welle published an article today, June 9, on Greek artists, focusing on how they have dealt with the economic crisis in Greece. It has been one year since the state television and radio broadcaster ERT was...

Greek universities scored very low in the world rankings, while also scoring low on a European level. The top ten universities in the world are mainly from the U.S. As for Greece, the University of Crete got first place, according...

There are poor people, there are successful people and in between there are bureaucrats. It is not the first appearance of this New Class in world history. At the moment, it resembles a social class that used to exist many...

Golden Dawn MP Nikos Michos has been placed under house arrest after a dispute between the prosecutor and the investigating judges, concerning whether he should be placed under house arrest or taken into custody. The Golden Dawn MP appeared today, July 9, at the...

With a long announcement, Facebook thanked the Greek Police and especially the Cyber Crime Unit for the arrest of two Greek hackers, 31 and 27 years old, who created the virus "Lecpetex" that damaged thousands of computers around the world. Facebook administration stated that...