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The flu has been spreading rapidly in Greece and two more persons have died due to flu-related complications the last 24 hours, increasing the deaths to 48. Moreover, on Thursday, February 20, two new flu cases have been transferred...

The data on the effects of the Greek unemployment, conducted by research company Metron Analysis, show that 3 out of 4 people have been unemployed for about 2.5 years and the majority of them are high-level manpower. According to the...

The special investigating judges for the Golden Dawn case, Ioanna Klapa and Maria Dimitropoulou, have requested the Greek government to lift the parliamentary immunity of the rest of the party’s parliamentary group. More specifically, the investigators have requested the lift...

Over the past few days, the spotlight is on Greek Non-Governmental Organizations that are responsible for defrauding state money and donations through unclear and opaque procedures. What comes as a bigger surprise, is that the Greek NGO “Voluntary Corp...

With his once-dominant and former ruling party on the edge of extinction, PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos is aligning himself with The 58 Initiative, a group of academics and intellectuals who are trying to unify the country’s fractured center-left...

The citizens of Athens, Greece, have filled the Varvakios market as the butchers of the market are offering a total of 1.5 tons of meat, while the municipality of Athens gives out wine in order to celebrate Barbeque Thursday...

The residents of Cephalonia are still trying to recover from the significant disasters that the successive earthquakes have caused their island. However, they can find comfort in the fact that every tourist that had so far visited the island...

The 65 year-old Canadian, Vicky Fitzgerald from New Scotland possesses a rare medal from the Intercalated Olympics that took place in Greece’s capital in 1906. Mrs. Fitzgerald's medal seems to be one of the remaining medals from 1896 on which...

The arrest in Athens of Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) leader Huseyin Fevzi Tekin and three other Turkish citizens in a February 10th raid highlighted the importance of regional counter-terrorism co-operation, experts said. The operation, which initial reports said was...

The European-Mediterranean Seismological Center reported that a 4.2 magnitude earthquake occurred at about 1:08am on Thursday at a depth of 2 kilometers and about 18 kilometers northwest of Argostoli, on the Greek island of Cephalonia. The Geodynamic Institute of Athens,...

A new Greek airline, Ellinair, completed its maiden flight from Thessaloniki to Kiev and back at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, bringing 96 Ukrainian tourists to the main northern city. They were welcomed at the airport by owners Mouzenidis Group, while...

The sixty-one marble sculptures that adorn the halls, the terraces and gardens of Achilleion palace on Corfu, Greece, were declared monuments by the Central Council of Modern Monuments. The majority of frescoes, busts and statues created by noted or unknown...

Visitors of the National Geographic store in London will have the chance to admire the natural beauty of Peloponnese, southern Greece, through an interactive event from February 17 to 24, in Knightsbridge, west London. "It is an amazing experience not only for...

In a period of high unemployment, such as the one that Greece is going through with 60 percent of youth unemployment, the news that Ryanair is preparing to invest in it and open thousands of job positions seems almost...

The Archbishop Iakovos Leadership 100 Endowment Fund, one of the most prominent charitable Greek organizations in America, celebrated its 30th year anniversary, February 13-16, 2014 at The Ritz-Carlton, Naples in Naples, Florida. During the three-day conference, attended by some 400...