Iranian authorities say they have released a journalist working for the Washington Times. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Ghashghavi said British-Greek journalist Iason Athanasiadis-Fowden had...

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran has released a British-Greek journalist held for more than two weeks since demonstrations erupted following disputed presidential elections, Iran's state television reported...

Communist Party of Greece (KKE) General Secretary Aleka Papariga addressed the 35th KNE-ODIGITIS festival organised by KKE's youth group in Piraeus on Saturday night, where she stressed the need to...

A British-Greek journalist jailed for two weeks in the midst of the unrest caused by Iran’s disputed election has been released, Tehran said today. Iason Athanasiadis-Fowden, also known...

05/07/2009ATHENS, Greece -- A homemade device exploded outside the office of former Public Order Minister Sifis Valyrakis in the central Athens district of Kolonaki on Friday afternoon (July 3rd)....

TEHRAN -- Iran on Sunday released a British-Greek journalist working for The Washington Times who was arrested in connection with "recent street riots," foreign ministry spokesman Hassan Ghashghavi...

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"I don't think there is anyone who does not admit that the present examination system has reached its limits," Education and Religious Affairs Minister Aris Spiliotopoulos said in an interview...

People take part in a protest against the presidential election in Iran in front of the European Commission headquarters in Brussels July 4, 2009. Iran said on Sunday it had released a Greek...

An overwhelming majority of people in Greece believe that the country cannot accept any more immigrants, according to a survey carried out by the firm Public Issue and printed in the Sunday issue of...

Athens' Sunday newspapers at a glance The Siemens bribery and kickbacks scandal and speculation about the presidential election dominated the front-page headlines in Athens' newspapers on Sunday. ...

ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - The spiritual leaders of the Orthodox Christian churches in Istanbul and Russia led Sunday prayers together in a show of unity after years of jostling for influence. Istanbul...

Seven new cases of swine flu have raised the total of diagnosed cases in Greece to 147, the National Centre for Health Operations (EKEPY) reported on Sunday. Of these, 54 cases have made a full...

Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill, conducts a service at the patriarchal church of Aya Yorgi ( St. George) before his meeting with Ecumenical Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I in...

Instead of cookouts, fireworks displays or lake retreats, nearly 300 people spent the 4th of July at an Athens TEA Party, with TEA standing for "Taxed Enough Already." "This is Independence Day,...

The interior ministry's IT services building in the Athens district of Neos Kosmos was seriously damaged in an attack early on Saturday morning by a group of masked and hooded anti-establishment...

ISTANBUL (ANA-MPA - A. Kourkoulas) The new Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill I arrived in Istanbul on Saturday, beginning a tour of visits to other Orthodox Churches by visiting the...

Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS) leader George Karatzaferis addressed his party's 4th conference on Saturday, calling for a "break with and overthrow of the rotten establishment". Analysing his party's...

Munich - The former director of industrial giant Siemens AG in Greece, Michalis Christoforakos, has apparently confessed to charges of bribery, German media reported Saturday. The Greek manager, on...

Ten people have been arrested in connection with the kidnapping of shipowner Periklis Panagopoulos and were led before a public prosecutor on Saturday. The case was solved by the Attica police, who...

The increasing reliance of Greeks on bottled water has boosted sales of the resource, reportedly retailed at 1,600 times the price of water sold by the Athens Water and Sewerage Company (EYDAP), and...

OTE telecom may cut the high-speed Internet access of some 100 tertiary education institutions after claiming that computers at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) are being used to...

VASSILIS PSOMAS/ANAA firefighter attempts to extinguish a fire that started on a truck that was traveling on the Athens-Patras national road yesterday. The truck, which was carrying paper, caught...

Robbers 2 Banks 0 Two armed robbers held up a branch of the Agricultural Bank in Nea Halkidona, western Athens, shortly after 10 a.m. yesterday, netting an unspecified sum. The pair fled on a...

A recent survey on what teachers think of the external evaluation of their work by assessors has produced some very encouraging results.The measure, contrary to what many would have had us believe,...

APTurk Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (l) walks with his Romanian counterpart Cristian Diaconescu (r) at the end of their meeting in Bucharest, Romania, yesterday. On his first visit abroad since...

STATHIS KOUSOUNISThe number of high-quality Greek hotels offering all-inclusive services is increasing and they are improving their product.According to estimates by the Panhellenic Federation of...

Greek economic sentiment rebounded for the third straight month in June, with the index compiled by the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE) reaching 59 points, up from 49.2 in...

Car sales in Greece resumed their downward trend in June as they posted an 11.2 percent decline compared with the same month last year, the National Statistical Service (NSS) announced yesterday.The...

As you wander around the Greek capital, spare a thought for Poseidon. How different things might have been had the sea god won the epic showdown for the city, back in mythical times. Competing for...

Bargain of the week: Stockholm plus Faced with intense competition from low-cost airlines, Scandinavian airline SAS (0845 607 2772; flysas.co.uk) is seeking to add value to its flights between...

In June, a far-left militant group called Armed Revolutionary Action claimed it carried out a similar attack on another Athens tax office that caused no injury. Photo by...

Government Spokesman Evangelos Antonaros on Friday dismissed main opposition PASOK party leader George Papandreou's call for early elections in September, saying the government had no intention of...

Nikos Martis Former Gov. Minister President of the MACEDONIA HESTIA 8 Kaissarias St. 115 27 Athens Tel 210 777 8800 19th June 2009 O P E N L E T T E R to The President of The...

The Black Sea Bank for Commerce and Development on Friday announced it will offer funding of up to 40 million US dollars to the Turkish state bank Turk Eximbank through a five-year, revolving...

03/07/2009ATHENS, Greece -- A strike planned by the media Thursday (July 2nd) had to be cancelled after a court in Athens declared it illegal. The decision came shortly after the strike action began...

in transparency expressed by main opposition PASOK comes "too late" and is "hypocritical". Government spokesman Evangelos...

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) yesterday ruled against Greece for failing to adopt a European Union directive that would allow foreigners to work here without having to face unnecessary...

A series of police sweeps in central Athens has put a huge strain on police detention centers, necessitating the transfer of detainees, chiefly immigrants, to police facilities in the countryside,...

APA sand sculpture is displayed during the international sand sculpture festival in the Bulgarian town of Burgas, east of Sofia, yesterday. The town is holding the festival for the second time and...

EUROKINISSITransport Minister Evripidis Stylianidis (photo left) spoke yesterday about the creation of a commercial rail route linking Greece and Russia in order to facilitate trade relations and...

A day after a former PASOK cadre claimed that his party kept secret accounting books in the late 1990s in order to hide illegal contributions, the government attempted to steal a march on the main...

The large amphitheater at Epidaurus was built by Polycleitus in the 4th century BC; another 21 rows were added later by the Romans. Since 1955, theatrical performances have become a mainstay of the...

Police yesterday issued arrest warrants for three people linked to a violent brawl that broke out on Wednesday night during a party at a Roma settlement in Megara, west of Athens, and led to the...

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Athens - A top Greek judge's car was destroyed in a bomb blast while a tax office caught fire in a separate attack and another bombing targeted a government-affiliated migration organisation, police...

Visitor arrivals are expected to drop by between 5 and 13 percent this season, according to a semi-annual report prepared by research group Academy of Tourism Research and Studies (ATEM).A 13 percent...

Opening the conference, Markopoulos pointed out that a special reference to scuba diving tourism will be made in the draft law for special forms of tourism, while the National Strategic Reference...

Greek foreign minister and Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) chairperson-in-office Dora Bakoyannis was in Yerevan on Friday, where she met with her Armenian counterpart...

Group of 31 tourists from US and Panama with new flu symptoms A group of 31 tourists from the US and Panama who are visiting northern Greece presented symptoms of the new flu A(H1N1) virus on...