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A group of teachers was on ERT TV shortly after 9 p.m. Saturday, interrupting the main news broadcast. The newscaster suddenly announced, mid-report, that the broadcast was being interrupted for a commercial break. When the newscaster returned from the break viewers...

Two people were injured during a Monday morning protest that occurred in Thessaloniki’s refugee camp of Diavata. Approximately forty refugees and migrants blocked the road outside of the camp, demanding better living conditions. The Diavata area has been covered in snow...

Student demonstrators opposing reforms to Greek secondary education clashed with police in central Athens on Monday. Police fired tear gas at protesters who were hurling Molotov cocktails and rocks in Syntagma Square, opposite the Greek Parliament. There are no reports of...

A group of demonstrators entered the office of Greece's Minister of Education Costas Gavroglou on Monday afternoon, following a protest outside the Ministry of Education which attracted approximately 200 high school and university students. The students entered the Ministry chanting...

Members of the national union of public hospital workers (POEDIN) on Monday clashed with police in a protest outside the Finance Ministry over ongoing austerity. Police fired tear gas at protesters who tried to storm the ministry building. Some protesters...

Greek riot police fired tear gas at angry protesters on Sunday who threw bottles and chairs at the governing SYRIZA party's headquarters in Thessaloniki after a rally against the 'Macedonia' deal. Earlier over 5,000 people marched in Greece's second-largest city...

Greek riot police fired tear gas on Saturday to disperse protesters gathered outside the parliament building in Syntagma Square to demonstrate against the agreement on the naming dispute with FYROM. Some of the protesters waving Greek flags and shouting slogans...

  Toronto Greeks joined the thousands in Athens who rallied on Sunday in protest against the use of the term ‘Macedonia’ in any settlement the Greek government pursues with FYROM to end the decades-long name dispute. The two countries, with mediation...

One thing we can all agree on is that Greeks generally love controversy. The cancellation of a film premiere about a basketball club triumph due to threats from opposing sports fans was just the latest in a series of...

Hundreds of people gathered on Wednesday night at Pedion tou Areos (Field of Mars), one of the biggest parks in central Athens, to protest against the abandonment of the park, and to leaving it to its fate. With lanterns and...