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The Mideast news agency Al-Jazeera writes that Greece's crushing financial crisis is having a devastating effect on the country's cultural heritage with the government looking almost everywhere to cut spending for its protected sacred cows. According to Al Jazeera, Greece...

As the battle of dueling polls continues to show the ruling New Democracy (ND) Conservatives of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and the major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) trading places as number one, the tiny Democratic...

The BBC, in an article written by Theopi Skarlatos, has drawn attention to one of the least known collateral damages of the economic crisis in Greece: theft of archaeological treasures and unlawful antiquity trading. According to police reports, it has...

In a travel story in the Financial Times about castles on the island of Cyprus, the piece identified the occupied territories in the northern third of the country as the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, a designation recognized only...

Twenty acres of beach are being lost each year in Chania on Crete, according to TUC Professor Costas Synolakis who presented the course of the study so far over the causes of the coastal erosion in the northern part...

Meeting with Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras in Athens on July 21, U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew gave America's support for the crushing austerity measures that have impoverished the lives of many but which political leaders said are necessary...

As the legacy of the late Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis slips further into the past so too does it worth. Perhaps the most famous mega luxury yacht after Brittanie, the Christina O, the yacht he bought for his...

With Greece expecting a record tourist season with 17 million visitors, there's a big drop in Greeks visiting destinations in their own country with Crete, one of the favorite draws, seeing a large fall in domestic tourism. Crete used to...

Good news for Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras swinging the axe on public workers: some 60% of Greeks agree that the bloated public sector has to be cut, just as the government is readying plans for involuntary transfers and...

With Prime Minister Antonis Samaras touting Greece as a burgeoning "success story," and a recovery from a crushing economic crisis, a study for an investment fund has found the country needs a  20-billion euro ($26.27 billion) liquidity injection to...

An Albanian who was allegedly among a group of convicts who in March escaped from a prison in central Greece was killed early Sunday. One policeman was wounded as a result of the dawn clash in the mountainous northern region...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has described the Turkish invasion against Cyprus in the summer of 1974 as the biggest national tragedy in the modern Greek History. In a message on the occasion of the completion of 39 years since...

Cypriots on July 20 remembered what happened on that day in 1974, as Turkish troops unlawfully invaded and occupied the island and as Turkey still keeps its presence in the northern third of the country. At 8:20 a.m. sirens blared...

Discover an alternative way of holiday-making with respect towards the environment where Green Tourism becomes a reality and ideology. Aspros Potamos is located in southeast Crete, a thousand meters above sea level and the coastal village Makrys Gialos. The area...

With the International Olympic Committee (IOC) ready to drop wrestling starting with the 2020 Games, many of the world's top young wrestlers are hoping to change its mind by taking part in a tourney July 20-21 at the site...