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Greece's Defense Minister Panos Kammenos on Wednesday denied reports that Athens would lease two FREMM frigates from France in order to enhance military power in the Aegean. Last week Deputy Defense Minister said that Greece will acquire two frigates on...

(Archive photo) Athens police arrested a 22-year-old woman for letting her newborn baby die in the light shaft of her apartment building is likely to be charged with infanticide. The woman, who is a student, told police that she gave birth...

  A Turkish court has rejected for a third time the appeal launched by the defense team of the two Greek soldiers held in Edirne for their release on bail. According to Turkish media, the judge rejected the appeal claiming that...

Greece shows the second highest rate of severe material deprivation (21.1 percent) in the EU, meaning that more than one in five Greeks can not afford to pay their bills, Eurostat says. According to a report called "Can you afford to...

The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew met the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, early on Wednesday afternoon, at the presidential mansion in the Turkish capital, Ankara. Erdogan's office issued a photo from the meeting, which was also attended by Turkish Foreign...

Panathinaikos football club have been banned from European competitions for three years for failing to pay their debts to former players, UEFA announced on Tuesday. The Athens club were given a suspended sentence by UEFA's Club Financial Control Body (CFCB)...

In celebration of the increasing popularity of Greek wines in North America, Wines of Greece have announced their annual road show and events schedule. The road show is set to kick-off events in Canada, with first stop being in Montreal...

Greece' minister for Migration has expressed his "deep concern" over the increasing trend of refugee and migrant flows to the country in recent weeks. Speaking in parliament, Dimitris Vitsas said that the increase in numbers is "enormous" at Evros on...

(AP photo/Petros Karadjias) A rare 6th century mosaic depicting St. Andrew taken from a looted church in Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus in the 1970s has been returned, Archbishop Chrysostomos II said on Monday. According to the Associated Press, the mosaic showing a bearded...

Angelos Delivorias, one of the most prominent archaeologists of his era and former director of one of Greece’s most prestigious museums, the Benaki, passed away at the age of 81, it was announced on Tuesday. Delivorias, born in Athens, Greece...