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By Dimitris Dalakoglou, VU University Amsterdam* Greek banks have reopened after weeks of closure. The patient and orderly way customers queued outside to use ATMS during...

July 24, 1974 is an important day in modern Greek history as it marks the day democracy was restored after seven years of military...

It was the dawn of July 20, 1974, when sirens wailed in Cyprus as 43,000 heavily armed Turkish troops invaded the island from the...

The deserted tourist resort in Varosha, Cyprus, might play a serious role in a 41-year-old diplomatic dispute between the Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus and the...

By Leslie Absher A baby before the coup, brought there by her father, a young spy on his first mission. “There is much I’ll never...

Forty-one years after November 17, 1973 and the celebration of the brave student revolt against the colonels', dictatorship has lost its sheen and most...

The police chief of Hydra island in Greece was photographed giving the Nazi salute while on a trip to Germany. Greek newspaper "Ethnos" published the picture...

It was eighteen years ago, on June 23, 1996 that Andreas Papandreou, the man who founded a movement - the PASOK Socialists - and...

Using data from the CIA Factbook, Globalpost.com labeled all countries in the world with their highest valued export, creating a world map of exportable products. The map shows...

The wife and brother of New Democracy MP Gerasimos Giakoumatos have been arrested on suspicion of tax offenses, according to reports. Dimitris Giakoumatos and Eleni...