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The European Parliament got a rare treat when a student from the Music School Chania Giorgos Papageorgiou played his lyre during a presentation about Greece and the island of Crete. The student, a young man named George, appeared alongside two other students,...

In the past ten years 558 Greek Cypriots and 184 Turkish Cypriots who were missing were identified and their remains returned to their families. However, for the remaining 950 Greek Cypriots and 309 Turkish Cypriots missing, the wounds remain...

On Saturday Panathinaikos' basketball team won its sixth consecutive Greek Cup and set a record of 18 overall in defeating Aris 68-59. The game was played at Thessaloniki’s Nick Galis Hall as Panathinaikos agreed to play the game at Aris. This...

Museums and archaeological sites throughout Greece will be closed on Monday due to a 24-hour warning strike declared by the Panhellenic Union of Employees for Guarding Antiquities. The museum and site guards are demanding that they continue to receive Sunday,...

Banks are becoming increasingly concerned about Greece's sudden rise in new bad loans since Janauary of this year. Banks sources have reported that the spike in January contrasts drastically the path that financial institutions thought the country's non-performing loans (NPLs)...

Over the past several weeks at least four mega luxury yacht owners have chosen Perama, Elefsina or Halkida to undergo repairs, maintenance and even construction. Actually, unbeknownst to most Greeks, our shipyards are well-known among the mega luxury yacht...

The winnings of the €16.4 million OPAP lottery, Joker, have been claimed by a Cypriot women, sources have reported. The winnings are the highest ever collected by a single winner and she reportedly won by guessing the 5+1 numbers correctly...

The shots fired by a Turkish military patrol boat on Friday morning in the area around the island of Farmakonisi, in the eastern Aegean, constitutes an unacceptable act which constitutes a serious violation of International Law, Greek diplomatic sources...

According to the latest poll which Star TV aired on its nightly bulletin, the major opposition party of New Democracy (ND) is leading the current SYRIZA government by 13 percentage points. The poll was conducted as a MRB survey and...

The funeral of Greek painter and academic Dimitris Mytaras will be held at public expense by order of Interior Minister Panos Skourletis. The funeral will take place on Monday at noon, at Athens 1st Cemetery. Mytaras passed away at the...