Greece

Two men with their faces covered entered in an apartment in the Peristeri neighborhood in Athens on Thursday, shot a couple in the head and stabbed their son in the jaw. According to police, the perpetrators entered the home of...

Speaking to reporters in Ankara on Thursday, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirimn spoke of 130 islets in the Aegean for which it is not clear who they belong to. Other than challenging the ownership of the islets, Yildirimn also criticized...

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades met on Friday morning, in Malta, with the British Prime Minister Teresa May, with whom he discussed developments on the Cyprus problem. CNA has learned that May informed Anastasiades about her recent visit to Turkey and...

The education ministry rejected press reports on Thursday that the Institute of Educational Policy was planning to remove the teaching of Sophocles’ classic play “Antigone” from the high school curriculum. “No such proposal has been officially submitted,” the ministry said,...

Almost 300 people from the agriculture industry across Greece gathered together symbolically outside the Thessaloniki International Trade Fair on Thursday, to send a "political message" that they are present and will be monitoring developments relating to their businesses. The rally...

About 500 refugee children attended classes in 20 schools across the country on the first day the Greek government program back in October and the numbers have been increasing exponentially.  The Greek government is aiming for more than 10,000...

"We defend the international and European law and we reiterate that legality is Greece's weapon in the international arena," said Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias on Thursday in his address at a pie cutting ceremony held at the Foreign Ministry. "Greece...

"Some things cannot be agreed unless they are agreed together as a package," Greece's Foreign Minister Euclid Tsakalotos said on Thursday, replying to criticism about alleged delays in implementing measures for concluding the 2nd review of Greece's program. Replying to...

Greece is to lower the tax-free threshold for low incomes in order to close the evaluation of the bailout program, a Kathimerini report says. The proposal for lowering the tax-free threshold to incomes of 6,000 euros per year and above...

Greek police on Thursday failed to stop protesting farmers who reached with their tractors the entrance of the Thessaloniki International Fair. Dozens of farmers gathered with their vehicles at the YMCA Square in the center of Thessaloniki to demonstrate against...