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With conflicts in the Middle East and Egypt not far from its borders, intelligence agents in the region – including Greece – need to keep close links of co-operation to ferret out trouble and identify flashpoints, a security conference...

Texas oilman Greek-American George P. Mitchell, known as the father of the fracking process, died on July 26 at his home in Galveston, Texas at the age of 94. He was the co-founder of Mitchell Energy & Development Corporation. He...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, who said Greece is an emerging "success story," despite a six-year-long recession and record unemployment, got another pat on the back from a fellow political leader when visiting Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta said...

The Felony Appeal Court has rejected a request from former defense minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos for a summer break in his ongoing trial on money laundering and corruption charges. He has been held in detention since April fo 2012. His...

Greece has begun to grant residence permits to foreigners who invest or buy Greece in property above a certain amount, with three having already been issued, and two others are pending, authorities said. The news came from the Ministry of...

The British newspaper Mirror published a long article on July 29 under the title “”Malia 2013: Three British girls raped in a week in notorious Crete party resort.” The article lies on the first page of the electronic edition of...

Art lovers and Philhellenes in Mexico City will have the chance to witness the splendors of the Parthenon,  the emblematic monument for western culture, a symbol of architectural perfection and harmony, through the exhibition Parthenon: Architecture and Art (Partenon:...

Three years after international bailouts began to keep Greece's economy from imploding, the government has spent a first rescue package of $152 billion and is working its way through a second of $173 billion but the country's debt is...

The budget committee of Germany΄s lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, did not block the payment of the next sub-tranche of E2.5 billion aid to Greece Monday under the EU-IMF rescue programme, Norbert Barthle, the budget speaker of Chancellor...

Angry monks at the Esphigmenou Monastery in the monastic community of Mount Athos in northern Greece, refusing to obey an eviction order, tossed Molotov Cocktails and rocks at bailiffs attempting to serve them on July 29, chasing them off...

Greek Defense Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos, who was Foreign Minister before being bumped in favor of PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos in a Cabinet shakeup by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the New Democracy Conservative leader, is going to Washington ahead...

Italian Prime Minister, Enrico Leta, is going to meet on Monday noon with his Greek counterpart, Antonis Samaras, in a scheduled two-day official visit in Athens, where he will discuss several crucial matters concerning the difficulties that the European...

The Cypriot Professor of Bristol Robotics Laboratory, Ioannis Ieropoulos, who is popular within the British community for his radical studies, presented a device that produces electricity using human urine as a fuel. The Cypriot scientist explained to the newspaper Fileleftheros...

In a bid to reduce rampant tax evasion, Greece is planning to reduce the Value Added Tax (VAT) paid when making purchases via credit card and is going to offer them some reasons why they shouldn't use cash, the...

Philosophers from around the world will gather in Athens from Aug. 4-10, returning to the land of its most famous practitioners, for the World Congress of Philosophy. The president of the Organizing Committee, Professor of Philosophy at the  University of...