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Six Turkish jet fighters violated Greek air space between the islands of Fournoi and Ikaria on Tuesday. According to the Greek Air Force, the Turkish warplanes spent about 30 minutes in Greek air space. This is the 78th time Turkish...

The LaTrobe University Department of Languages and Linguistics is offering an interesting program on Hellenism in cooperation with the Greek Community of Melbourne Centre of Contemporary Culture. The program will last six weeks with six hours of teaching per...

New Democracy, Greece's main political opposition has yet to decided when it will go ahead with its postponed presidential elections. The party's parliamentary group convened today, ahead of the discussion of the yearly budget in the Greek parliament. New Democracy's interim president Yiannis...

The vice prosecutor of Areios Pagos, one of Greece's Supreme Courts, supported on Tuesday the extradition of a Syrian citizen to the United States to stand trial there, the citizen is currently being held in Greece. The Syrian is being accused...

Panathinaikos F.C. is likely to lose 1.2 million euros due to the incidents that took place on the day of Greece's biggest soccer derby. The Greek Superleague's disciplinary committee has punished Panathinaikos for the extensive clash that took place before...

The recapitalization of the banks is probably the biggest robbery in Greece's history, Popular Unity leader Panagiotis Lafazanis said in an interview with Praktorio FM on Tuesday. The only solution for exiting the crisis is nationalising the banks and exiting...

Public transportation will be disrupted on Thursday, December 3rd, due to the public transportation employees of the Athens metro, tram, bus, trolley and electric railway (ISAP) services and suburban railway employees joining together in a 24-hour strike called by Greece’s...

"Greece will not become a tax haven. We will follow the road of European countries which maintain high tax rates," Economy Minister George Stathakis said on Tuesday, addressing a conference organized by the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce. "We will...

Greek Alternate Minister for Migration Affairs Yiannis Mouzalas revealed that the government is planning to move refugees and migrants stranded at the border with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) to Athens. In recent weeks, FYROM has adopted a...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras addressed his SYRIZA parliamentary group on Tuesday afternoon, issuing strong criticism against his political opposition and standing behind his government's achievements thus far. The Greek prime minster also ruled out the possibility of a national unity...