Victims of Worst Tragedy in Greek Football Remembered
Hundreds of people attended a ceremony on Saturday to mark the anniversary of the tragic deaths of 21 football fans on 8 February 1981. The Karaiskakis Stadium disaster is the biggest football tragedy...
View ArticleArchaeologist ‘Cracks Mystery’ of Phaistos Disk
The mystery of the Phaistos Disk has been “solved by 99 percent” says linguist and archaeologist Gareth Owens. Owens, who has devoted 30 years in trying to solve the puzzle, will make an official...
View ArticleFormer NATO Chief Stavridis Weighs In on Macedonia Naming Dispute (video)
Former NATO Chief, Admiral James George Stavridis, talks about the Macedonia naming dispute between Greece and FYROM in an exclusive interview with the Greek Reporter. Speaking to Anastasios...
View ArticleCyprus Heads to the Polls in Presidential Runoff
Cypriots go to the polls for the presidential runoff on Sunday to chose between between incumbent President Nicos Anastasiades and communist-backed independent Stavros Malas. Anastasiades garnered...
View ArticleThousands Gather in Athens for ‘Macedonia is Greece’ Rally (photos, video)
Thousands have descended at Syntagma Square in the center of the Greek capital for the rally on Macedonia. Organizers expect hundreds of thousands to arrive from every corner of Greece. The Greek...
View ArticleMacedonia Rally LIVE: Thousands Gather in Athens to Protest FYROM Claims
Thousands have descended from every corner of Greece at Syntagma Square in the center of Athens for the rally on Macedonia. Rally spokesman Michalis Patsikas told reporters that “it will be majestic....
View Article‘Macedonia Belongs to its Bears’: Counter Protest in Athens
Macedonia belongs to its bears banner, courtesy of Elena Becatoros, Twitter Hundreds of leftist demonstrators gathered less than a mile away from the main ‘Macedonia is Greece’ rally to protest what...
View ArticleGigantic Greek Flag Raised in Athens Macedonia Rally (video)
A huge Greek flag hoisted by a crane appeared at the ‘Macedonia is Greece’ rally at Syntagma square in Athens. Thousands of flag-bearing Greeks descended to the main square vowing not to compromise in...
View ArticleClashes Erupt in Athens after ‘Macedonia is Greece’ Rally
Tear gas is seen at the scene of the clashes Demonstrators clashed with the riot police in the center of Athens following a huge rally in Syntagma Square against the use of the term Macedonia by FYROM....
View ArticleMacedonia will Always be Greek, says Mikis Theodorakis at Huge Athens Rally
Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis made an emotional defense of the Greekness of Macedonia during a speech to hundreds of thousands of Greeks in Athens on Sunday. “Macedonia is and will always be...
View ArticleGreece Slams EU Official for Calling FYROM ‘Macedonia’
The Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs reacted angrily on Sunday to an EU commissioner’s repeated references to FYROM as ‘Macedonia’. Athens called on Johannes Hahn, responsible for EU enlargement to...
View ArticleNicos Anastasiades Wins Cyprus Presidential Election
Official results in Cyprus show the country’s president Nicos Anastasiades has been re-elected to another five-year term, defeating the left-leaning independent Stavros Malas. He has been...
View ArticleAEK Sinks Olympiacos in Greek Derby
Greek Champions Olympiacos suffered a home defeat to rivals AEK and slipped four points behind PAOK who tops the table after securing an emphatic win at PAS Giannina. AEK came from behind to score...
View ArticleAnger as Government Downplays ‘Macedonia is Greece’ Rally (video)
The Greek government has sought to downplay the significance of Sunday’s ‘Macedonia is Greece’ rally in Athens claiming only “several thousand” participated. A statement released from Prime Minister...
View ArticleGreece to Issue 7-Year Bond ‘in Next Few Days’
The Greek Finance Ministry has decided to issue a seven-year bond, aiming to raise €3 billion ($3.7 billion), in the next few days, possibly this week, reports the Athens-Macedonian News Agency...
View ArticleAuthorities Shut Athens’‘Nursing Home from Hell’
Greek authorities have shut down a nursing home in the Agia Paraskevi suburb of northern Athens due to unacceptable living conditions. Fourteen elderly people were moved to other facilities after the...
View ArticleGreek Jets Fly Top Brass over Aegean (video)
Two of Greece’s top generals flew over the Aegean this week in what was described as a training mission. The Chief of Staff of the Greek Armed Forces, Admiral Evangelos Apostolakis, and the Chief of...
View ArticleGreece ‘Postpones’ Launch of 7-Year Bond
Greece’s finance ministry has decided to postpone the issuing of the seven-year bond scheduled for Tuesday due to the turbulence in international money markets. Reports suggest that the ministry was...
View ArticleAlbanian PM Claims Chams Have Right to Lost Property in Greece
Premiers of Albania and Greece during a recent meeting Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said Greece must recognize the rights of Cham Albanians in Greece’s Epirus region, including the right to claim...
View ArticleMan ‘Drugged, Raped’ 2 Teen Girls in Athens
The suspect is led to an Athens prosecutor on Tuesday A Greek man could face multiple criminal charges after police say he drugged and raped two underage girls he met on Facebook in Athens. The...
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