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Niko is a three-year old boy who has seen more major surgery in his short lifetime than many of us do collectively. He was born with a major heart defect, essentially half a heart, which necessitated five open-heart surgeries,...

Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomeos expressed satisfaction after holding 30-minute talks on Tuesday with US President Barack Obama, who assured him that when he meets Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on December 7 he will stress the need for respect for...

For the business-savvy community anywhere in North America interested in exploring the markets of Southeastern Europe and vice-versa, and that, for the purpose of widening their commercial reach in newly-discovered areas both in the private and the public sector,...

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, on a visit to the US, was received on Wednesday night (local time) in New York by UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon at the UN headquarters, for talks that included environmental issues ahead of December's international...

Senator Menendez has sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in an effort to advance the dialogue regarding the problem of Cyprus. The letter that the Senator from NJ is also circulating in the US Senate asking...

Stephen Lagakos, an international leader in biostatistics and AIDS research and professor of biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), died in an auto collision on Monday, October 12, 2009 in Peterborough, N.H. He was 63 years...

And George Apostolakis, Commissioner to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. President Obama said, “As we take on the 21st century challenges facing our nation, I am confident that these individuals will work to keep our nation safe at home, and strengthen...

Art museum highlighting heroes and myths of ancient Greece Four slabs of marble and two clay vases bound for Baltimore received exit visas issued by the Hellenic minister of culture himself. They were driven to the airport in Athens, Greece,...

Sakellarios Vallas, a pizza shop owner fought off a would-be robber.  The Greek American stopped a robbery attempt and restrained the suspect, a 20-year-old Stoughton man, until police arrived. The suspect was taken into custody and charged with the crime. See...

Michael Dukakis, the former Greek-American Governor of Massachusetts, may be picked up for U.S. Senate, serving out the remainder of the late Ted Kennedy's term. For the last 47 years, Dukakis and Kennedy shared a progressive ideology, a lengthy...