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Ilias Kasidiaris, the spokesman for Greece's neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, facing charges along with other party leaders of running a criminal gang, told supporters that he will run for Mayor of Athens next year despite the government's vow to...

The first crematorium in Greece is planned for the city of Volos, Central Greece. The legal framework allowing the creation of crematoria has already been unanimously passed by the Greek parliament, while the required joint ministerial decision and presidential decree have...

The Greek government continues to tax tobacco products as part of the austerity measures demanded by international lenders while simultaneously trying to stop the growing trade in illegal cigarettes that threatens revenues. Cigarettes are a prized commodity in Greece. Forty...

After continuous and close cooperation over the past few months between the Greek and Albanian police authorities, Albanian fugitive Ilir Koupa was arrested earlier on Saturday in Albania. The Greek police’s Ilir Koupa task force, which was set up after the escape of...

Two prosecutors who authorized the first – and last – furlough for convicted November 17 terrorist Christodoulos Xeros who vanished earlier this month, are facing charges of negligence for their role in releasing a man serving six life sentences...

Germany's finance minister said Friday he was glad he did not have to implement the sort of painful austerity drive imposed on Greece in his own country. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss ski resort of Davos,...

A new report published on Thursday by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) points to an increase in tourist arrivals of 15.2 percent during January-September 2013 compared to the same period in 2012. Arrivals from European countries, which account for 88.7...

The incident that took place earlier this week involving a boat transporting illegal immigrants in the Aegean Sea and the Greek coast guard, has triggered many anti-racist demonstrations which are scheduled to take place in the following days. The anti-racist...

Greek-Australian Health Services Union (HSU) national secretary Kathy Jackson (née Koukouvaos) took to the witness stand in the Melbourne Magistrates Court.on Thursday, in the fraud and theft trial of Craig Thomson. During heated cross-examination by Thomson's lawyers, Jackson described the union...

In a meeting held earlier on Friday in Brussels, the eurozone’s finance ministers have agreed to provide the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with political guarantees, in order for it to continue to participate in the Greek bailout package, as...