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Construction of a multipolar museum in Vergina was set to start on June 6 but it won't be finished until 2015, the head of 17th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities  Angeliki Kottaridou said at a news conference. The first...

Activists from Greece traveled more than 7,500 kilometers to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, to protest in front of the Eldorado Gold Corporation's headquarters. The Greek mine opponents read a letter addressed to the company’s president presenting the social and...

Some 95 immigrants were detained on the island of Lesbos, which is close to Turkey, and now a preferred landing spot because of a fence built along the Turkish border. The immigrants arrived at the port of Mytilini, capital...

Public Order and Citizen Protection Minister Nikos Dendias met on June 5 with the  ambassadors of the European Union to Greece, the ambassadors of Norway and Switzerland, and a representative of the European Commission Representation in Greece. to talk...

The Austrian newspaper Oberosterreichische Nachrichten published a tribute to western Greece under the title The Virgin Greece, and wrote of a tour that starts at Parga and ends at Lefkada following the “traces of mythology”. In its presentation of Parga,...

Manitoba is the first region in Canada seeking young migrants from South Europe, which is suffering from unemployment. Temporary and permanent employees from the labor market of Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain are those wanted to work in Manitoba. This...

Turkish authorities released the Greek student who was detained on June 6 on the allegations he was involved in provoking the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul last weekend. George Iatridis, 25, who was reportedly studying in Turkey under the...

Once a ruling heavyweight in Greek politics, as recently as 2009 when it won the elections with 44 percent of the vote, the PASOK Socialist party - down to 5 percent territory after backing austerity measures - is also...

Former defense minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos ran the show in organizing a vast money-laundering operation to hide the trail of money stolen from defense contracts, witnesses said at his trial on corruption charges. That included offshore companies to be used...

Greek Foreign Minister, Dimitris Avramopoulos, paid a short visit to the U.S.A. He was the main speaker at the annual forum of the American Jewish Committee in Washington. Describing the contemporary social reality in Greece, Avramopoulos mentioned challenges that "political...

On June 3, the oldest Greek-Australian woman, Katerina Kilikidis, died at the age of 110 in Melbourne. She lived the Asia Minor Catastrophe in 1922 and survived the difficult overland journey from Turkey to Greece. With her parents, she went...

The roll-over of an M113 armored personnel carrier was the cause of a soldier's death. The accident occured in the early morning hours of June 4, on an access road by the Athens-Lamia National Road, close to the region...

The Region of the Peloponnese organized a special event in London, where Prefect, Petros Tatoulis, presented the touristic product of the Peloponnese to tour operators and many journalists. The Prefect characterized the Peloponnese as a safe destination and talked about...

Within less than six months of operation, the Greek deli divine shop in London called The Life Goddess, managed to be chosen among more than 300 projects as a finalist in the New London Awards 2013, one of the...

A 25-year-old Greek is allegedly among eleven foreign citizens that were arrested during the anti-government demonstrations in Turkey on June 5. They are expected to be interrogated about the role they played in the demonstrations. The arrested is a postgraduate...