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Despite tears and tantrums, parliamentary immunity enjoyed by Greece 's Golden Dawn MPs Giorgos Germenis and Nikos Michos, as well as two former (now independent) members, Chrysovalantis Alexopoulos and Stathis Boukouras, was lifted at a dramatic vote in the chamber Wednesday. The decision to...

Greek American Paul Halvatzis, a real-estate agent for Amorelli Realty (a company owned by his mother Anita Halvatzis, based in Astoria) negotiated the selling of the historical Steinway Mansion in Astoria, New York. The 27-room mansion is a historical building...

Striking cleaning ladies continue to camp outside the Greek Finance Ministry in their months-long protest at public sector suspensions. Many cleaning ladies who have been suspended or laid-off in various Greek regions are taking part, and they have stated their determination to continue their...

Archeologists engaged in excavations at the Byzantine port quarter Yenikapı on the European side of the Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey, seem to have struck upon some artifacts resembling modern day notebooks. According to the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet, archeologists came along...

The 51 year-old American, who was seriously injured by homemade fireworks during an Easter celebration on the Greek island of Santorini, thanked all the people who stood by her side and helped her recover and said that she wants to...

The Greek government is to accelerate its job-cutting measures so as to hit the Troika's target of 11,000 public sector dismissals by the end of 2014. Those at risk of dismissal are those who have been placed in the state's availability-mobility scheme and those suspected of having been hired...

The high abstention rate is not the only problem in Greek elections, but at least the 30,000 dead people still on the voting lists have a valid excuse. According to the Ministry of Interior, although 70,000 people died between May and December...

Elections Wednesday for management councils at Greek universities and for the National Students Union will surely be as partisan as usual, given each Greek political party has its own student wing in the universities.  However, student elections have lost dynamism during the recession, with campaigning shrinking alongside...

The city of Trikala, central Greece, will be the first European city to host the automated buses that operate without a driver. Trikala won first place in the European program for automated road transport systems, CityMobil2, which is co-financed by the...

United Nations mediator Matthew Nimetz is to visit Athens and Skopje at the beginning of July to try yet again to settle a dispute over what to call the Former Yugoslav Republic of Yugoslavia (FYROM), which identifies itself as...

With his New Democracy Conservatives putting taxpayer-funded ads into the media with critical elections looming for the European Parliament and Greek municipalities this month, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras told private Antenna television in an interview that he won't seek...

Ancient Greek Sandals, is a line of shoes by Greek fashion designer Christina Martini. They have been praised by the New York Times, Elle and Vogue Magazine and even the Financial Times, while many other fashion magazines and blogs...

Greece has one of the lowest rates of abused women, according to the figures published by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA). Although numbers are pretty high, Greece is still in the lowest bracket of the report. It...

The work and holiday visa arrangement between Greece and Australia will be signed on Wednesday, May 14. The visa will be available to young people aged 18 to 30 years old, who want to travel and work in Australia...

Several studies by Greek and foreign scientists have indicated that the Ancient Greek language, apart from being a living language, is also a therapeutic one, as it is said to posses the ability to cure many disorders, for example...