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The annual EU Education and Training Monitor for 2019 was published by the European Commission on Thursday, revealing some very interesting results about the situation of education across the Union and of course in Greece. According to this year's report,...

Yet another tragedy involving and migrants took place in the Mediterranean Sea on Friday morning, this time off the coast of the islets of Oinousses in Greece. Five children and two adults were drowned in the Aegean Sea when the...

According to a plan of Greece's Ministry of Citizens' Protection, up to ten thousand migrants, including economic refugees and asylum seekers, are expected to be transferred in the near future from the Eastern Aegean islands to the Greek mainland. This is...

Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis described on Thursday a proposal submitted by main opposition party SYRIZA on the ability of diaspora Greeks to vote in general elections as “deeply offensive,” saying it treats them as “second-class citizens.” “The proposal is deeply...

A man was found dead on Friday afternoon near Kryoneri in Attica, Greece. The country's Fire Service tweeted that during an operation to extinguish a fire that broke out in a forest near the town of Kryoneri, a man was...

Dr. James Ker-Lindsay, who is a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and is a Research Associate at the Centre for International Studies at Oxford University, maintains that over the past fifty years the Cyprus Problem has...

The holy icon of Saint Paraskevi, which has resided in the village of Kattavia on Rhodes, Greece or the last 120 years, traveled more than 5,000 miles recently, all the way to Baltimore, Maryland. Faithful from the greater Baltimore area, as...

President of the Republic of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades attended a dinner hosted by the Federation of Cypriot-American Organizations in New York on Thursday evening. The Cypriot president was accompanied by his wife Andri Anastasiades and other senior members of his administration. Speaking...

Piraeus Bank participated in a conference called ''The New Era of the Greek Financial Sector,'' which took place on September 24, concurrent with the international conference "Sibos 2019," now underway in London, England. The event was presented under the auspices...

Greek police on Thursday arrested eight people suspected of belonging to an antiquities smuggling ring in the town of Larissa. Police say that the gang conducted illicit excavations in mountainous rural areas of Thessaly and Pieria in central Greece with...

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades has deplored Turkey’s “gunboat diplomacy,” saying that Ankara’s illicit activity in the Eastern Mediterranean undermines the prospects of reaching a settlement on the ethnically-split island. Speaking at the UN General Assembly in New York, Anastasiades declared...

The Cyprus issue and climate change dominated the talks between Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in New York on Thursday. In a statement, Mitsotakis said that he "thanked the Secretary-General for his very substantial...

Work crews belonging to the Athens municipality arrived in Exarchia Square early on Thursday morning and began their work to clean up and give the central Athens square a “facelift,” which the city promises will finally make the area...

According to an announcement made on Thursday, Greece's national police and the EU's law enforcement agency Europol dismantled a 66-member organized crime group believed to be involved in trafficking human beings, illegal adoption and money laundering on Monday. The network, which...

A hotel on the Greek island of Rhodes and the manager of the local Thomas Cook office turned the recent devastating news of the travel giant's collapse to a fairytale for a British couple this week. Thomas Cook, a 29-year old...