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Greek riot police fought a group of Athens businessmen who tried to prevent a tax inspection on their shops, officials said on Thursday, highlighting the resistance the government faces in cracking down on the country's endemic tax evasion. Four policemen...

Air Canada unveiled its new low-cost carrier and leisure group Tuesday under a new brand, rouge, targeting several new leisure destinations in Europe and the Caribbean starting in July. The Financial Post first reported on some of the details of...

Murthel Groenhart from the Netherlands won the championship of the kick boxing K-1 World Max 2012 Final 8 in the Greek capital of Athens Saturday night. Groenhart defeated Artur Kyshenko of Ukraine to claim the title and win the prize...

Global tobacco giant Philip Morris International has reportedly transferred some of its production from other plants in Europe to the unit of its Greek subsidiary Papastratos at Aspropyrgos, western Attica. The newspaper Kathimerini reported that the Chairman and CEO of...

Greek workers and their unions have taken part several times in multiple strikes to protest against the government's various proposed and adopted reforms. The goal of these strikes is to cause inconvenience and exert pressure on government officials or...

Greek riot police used tear gas Thursday to disperse youths throwing firebombs and stones during an Athens protest to mark the fourth anniversary of a deadly police shooting that triggered major disturbances. No injuries or arrests were reported from the...

Princesses of the Mediterranean at the Dawn of History is a new show organized by the Athens Museum of Cycladic Art, in collaboration with the University of Crete and the Ministry of Public Education and Culture. For the first time...

FAGE International SA is seeking to persuade bond investors to fund its US expansion by offering to isolate its units in Greece, buffering the rest of the yogurt maker from declining revenue there. FAGE, which traces its roots to a...

Mario Modiano, a Jewish-Greek journalist who chronicled some of the most turbulent times of modern Greek history, died at the age of 86. Modiano, whose family survived the Holocaust that decimated the historic Jewish community of Thessaloniki by fleeing to...

IKEA Greece has unilaterally decided to cut wages by up to 15% and demanded employees to sign individual employment contracts to replace their collective agreement IKEA Greece on 20 November announced that it would unilaterally cut salaries by up to...