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The European Commission announced on Thursday a new emergency support package for Greece to help the country tackle the refugee crisis. The support of 209 million euros will be used to help refugees stranded in the country rent homes and pay...

Sledgehammers and iron bars were used to destroy electronic ticket machines at the electric railway station (ISAP) in Perissos, north of Athens. According to witnesses a group of 15 people, who had their faces covered, stormed the station on Wednesday...

Charles, Prince of Wales, and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, arrived at Corfu Airport late on Wednesday afternoon for holidays. The couple and their entourage was transported to the Mayor's Skala, where he boarded a British high-speed boat and...

Museums and archaeological sites in Attica will be open over the weekend, as the union of the Ministry of Culture employees (POE-YPPO) decided to call off a strike they had announced for Saturday and Sunday. The union reached the decision...

Greek police announced that the wreckage of a private aircraft that went missing on Wednesday, was found with two passengers dead in the Dendra area, near Larissa, early on Thursday morning. The airplane that belonged to the Larissa Flight Club...

The historic ship "Georgios Averof" which served as the Greek flagship during most of the first half of the last century, arrived back at Trocadero quay, next to Faliro Marina on Wednesday. It returned to her permanent berth after the...

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had an optimistic message to Greeks saying that the worst is over and that the end of program in 2018 will signify a new era for the country. In a live interview with Alpha TV, Tsipras...

Dimera Company, owned by prominent businessman Ivan Savvidis, bought three Greek newspapers at an auction held at an Athens court. The Greek-Russian businessman, who among others owns football club PAOK of Thessaloniki, bought "Imerisia" for 580,000 euros and the two...

A Russian man was arrested in Chalkidiki, northern Greece, suspected by the U.S. authorities of running a multi-billion money laundering operation. According to Greek police, the 38-year old man was arrested at a luxury hotel where he was holidaying with...

According to analysts at the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO), the road to normality for Greece will be long and all indicators point to the probability that the end of the strict oversight of the country will not come in...