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A Greek woman living in Sydney, won six million dollars in the Lotto six months after her divorce with her husband of twenty years. The 62-year-old husband instituted legal proceedings demanding half the sum. The husband maintained that even though...

The number of candidates of Greek origin in the elections for the new House of Representatives and Senate in Australia, which will take place on September 7, reaches 17. It is estimated that the three Greek-Australian MPs and the two...

The Greek-American businessman from New York City John Catsimatidis (owner of companies including the Red Apple Group, the Gristedes supermarket chain and the United Refining Company) goes on with his campaign for mayor in the 2013 New York City...

The American magazine Vice published a particularly caustic article on the summer camp that members of the Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn organized on the Greek island of Crete. In this article, which is full of irony and humor, the...

According to a document that was sent by the Greek Embassy in Hanoi, Vietnam, to the Hellenic Ministries of Foreign Affairs and of Rural Development and Food, with the subject Blocking of Greek olive oil import in Vietnam, Messenian-Greek...

The Greek dairy industry company Kri Kri has announced its cooperation with the British supermarket chain Waitrose to promote Greek yogurt and dairy products the same way the product has taken off with American consumers and is a craze...

After the death of Thanassis Kanaoutis, 19, in his attempt to avoid a ticket check, while he was on a trolley bus the night of Aug. 13, his family decided to press charges against the inspector and the trolley...

In the midst of the summer season in Greece, the Financial and Economic Crime Unit (S.D.O.E) conducted extensive spot checks all around the country. In four cases, the auditors discovered serious discrepancies and  shut down four businesses. In particular, during...

Vacations for the ministers in Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' coalition government have come to an early end as he put them back to work on Aug. 19 with a Cabinet meeting to talk over the return of envoys...

Acclaimed Greek-American artist Stephen Antonakos passed away at the age of 87 in New York. Antonakos was born in St Nicholas in southern Greece, "up in the mountains and hard to locate exactly, " as he put it. He moved...

More and more Greek families are relying on their elderly relatives'  pensions. With soaring unemployment and reduced salaries and allowances, pensions of a few hundred euros retirees receive every month can make the difference to the family budget. In some...

Greek-Australian Steve Constantinou, who was accused of murdering  escort Johanna Jazzy O Martin and appears to be addicted to gambling, was found guilty of Martin's death according to a recent decision of the Court of Melbourne. Two incidents from Constantinou's...

The power supply to the Greek island of Santorini was returning to normal over the weekend, after several days of serious shortages following a blackout caused by a power station fire last Tuesday, with the country's electricity distribution network...

A day after being forced to resign as head of Greece's privatization agency TAIPED because he'd taken a ride on the private jet of a businessman buying the state gambling monopoly OPAP, Stelios Stavridis said he had done nothing...

Greece΄s current account surplus widened in June, helped by a smaller trade gap and surging tourism receipts, the Bank of Greece said on Monday. The current account balance, a key measure of economic competitiveness, showed a surplus of 663 million...