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Former Greek president Kostis Stephanopoulos died at the age of 90 at Errikos Dynan private hospital in Athens following complications during a respiratory infection. The conservative New Democracy politician was rushed to the hospital on Thursday, November 17, and...

A joint British-Greek study by the Imperial College of London (ICL), published in the "European Respiratory Journal,"  studied respiratory-related deaths in Greece during the years of the economic crisis and found that there had been a decline. The scientists studied...

UNHCR, the UN refugee agency documents that there were 169,993 arrivals in Greece by sea in 2016, compared to 85,723 arrivals in 2015. From these 87 percent were from the world’s top 10 refugee-producing countries (Syria and the Arab...

Popular Greek actor George Vasileiou, aged 66, died on Wednesday morning, after losing a tough battle with cancer that he had been dealing with for a long period of time. News of his illness was first publicized in September...

Four dead were dragged from the sea region, east of the airport of Lesbos, after an inflatable dinghy carrying refugees and immigrants capsized on Wednesday morning. A young girl, aged four, a young boy, a woman and a man...

Greek statistics for road accidents rose by 12.3 percent in April compared to the previous year, according to the Hellenic Statistical Authority of Greece (ELSTAT). The data included road accidents that caused death or injury. The number of accidents...

Greek journalist Alexandros Vellios confessed that he has just a few months to live and wrote a book about his personal battle with cancer, titled "My Death and I - Right to Euthanasia." The writer says that while writing...

33.7% (577, 500 persons) died prematurely in the EU in 2013 according to Eurostat data released today. The rate concerns individuals of an age under 75 years and according to eurostat definition could be considered as premature, “as they could...

Five more people have died in Greece in the last 24 hours from complications caused by the influenza A (H1N1) virus increasing the number of deaths to 129. Moreover, 101 patients are hospitalized in intensive care units, the country’s Center...

A 57-year-old man decided to end his life by setting himself on fire outside his ex-wife's home in the area of Nikaia in Piraeus, Greece . According to reports, the man was drunk and appeared outside his ex-wife's home a...