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The fourth live sheep export from the Greek island of Crete to Libya is in progress. On Wednesday, July 2nd, 2,500 sheep will be transported by a special type of ship to a Libyan port. According to experts, Cretan sheep are...

  The No1 seeded player on the ATP rankings and recent winner of the Roland Garros has just lost 3-1 to Nick Kyrgios. The Greek-Australian caused the biggest upset of the tournament so far and one of the biggest ones in tennis...

Two premature babies of German origin who were born in Greece, gave the chance to Greek doctors to once again prove their professionalism. About one month ago, when a German neonatologist, who was pregnant, came to Greece for holidays with her ​​husband, no...

The Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF), which oversees the sale of several state assets, has reconsidered the sale of 51% of the Thessaloniki Water Supply & Sewage Co., after citizens in northern Greece expressed their disagreement. The local community...

The Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE) has submitted a non-binding offer to Forthnet for the acquisition of Nova, its pay television program. The offer amounts to around 250-300 million euros and the financial advisor for OTE is Barclays Bank. The offer came...

Greek-American rapper, record producer and songwriter Drew32 was chosen to represent Greece in BBC Radio’s 1Xtra 2014 World Cup Freestyle competition. 32 rappers, each representing one of the 32 countries participating in the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, spit a 32-bar...

There has been serious reaction to the Greek Government's attempt to sell 30% of the Greek PPC (DEY), especially from the opposition party, SYRIZA, as well as several unions. Meanwhile, Greek citizens and tourists face the possibility of blackouts...

The Greek National Opera will perform a large open air surprise concert following a program of events hosted in unexpected places to show its continuous artistic outward trend. This time the “culture attack” will happen at the archaeological site...

Bank credit to the private sector remained negative in May, with the annual growth rate of total credit extended to the domestic private sector slowing at -3.5, from -3.7 in the previous month, the Bank of Greece said on...

The social-economic conditions in Greece have not been favorable for a long time; the recession is still leaving its marks on Greek society, unemployment affects mainly the youth, the public sector is shrinking and the private sector cannot soak...

About one out of every hundred employed and unemployed Greeks has submitted a CV in the online platform of the European public employment service, EURES. This was recorded in the quarterly report of the European Commission for Employment and Social...

As the summer season in Greece is slowly approaching, tourists are planning their vacations and vet Greece’s tens of islands so as to find the most suitable for their taste. At least, that’s the case for tourists who are...

(AP) — Greece's World Cup players want their bonus money to be used to build a new training site for the national team in the cash-strapped country. Yiannis Andrianos, the government's general secretary for sports, said Monday that players had...

The European Parliament has elected German center-left politician Martin Schulz as the assembly's president. Schulz, who also served as president of the Parliament from 2012 until earlier this year, was re-elected Tuesday with a majority of 409 votes of the 723...

(AP) - The number of unemployed people in the 18 eurozone countries declined fractionally in May, but not enough to bring down the jobless rate, which remained at 11.6 percent compared with a month earlier. The European Union's statistics office,...