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"The next months will be crucial and we are very well aware that if we do not take care the health system will come under great pressure," stated Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday, at a ceremony marking the...

The Greek prosecutor in the trial of the criminal organization Golden Dawn proposed that the jail sentences of up to 13 years imposed on its leaders last week should be suspended. Only Giorgos Roupakias, sentenced to life for the murder...

Greece announced on Sunday that its male citizens' mandatory military service will be increased “soon” from nine to twelve months. Defense Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos said that the increased military service,, in combination with the recruitment of professional officers and the...

A 90-year-old woman unable to pay her rent who was evicted from her home in Athens, was forced to sleep on the streets for two nights. The woman, who had been living with her grandson, was in arrears in her...

Ersin Tatar, a hardline Turkish Cypriot politician who favors closer ties with Turkey, on Sunday won the election to lead a country that is only recognized by Ankara among all the nations of the world. Turkish Cypriot broadcaster BRT says...

Greek health authorities announced on Sunday that 438 new coronavirus cases were detected in the last 24 hours throughout the country. Nine people hospitalized at ICU's lost their lives. The authorities said that 32 of the new cases are associated...

Alexis Alexiou became a global case study for the medical books when back in March 2020 he battled the coronavirus, pneumonia, and the flu -- all at the same time -- and survived. His experience, described in a book to...

Despite warnings by Greece's health authorities that a lockdown could be imposed in Thessaloniki - the country's second-largest city - due to the spread of the coronavirus, hundreds of young people seemingly have no intention of adhering to social...

Greece is seeing its brain drain reversed into a "brain gain," a new trend triggered by the pandemic crisis and colossal investments.

One of the most important private collections of ancient Greek and Roman marble sculptures opened to the general public for the first time in Rome last week. The 90 works from the Torlonia Collection -- the most prestigious private collection...