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The Greek National team recorded its first win in six matches seeing off visiting Bosnia 2-1 with a much improved performance at an almost empty Olympic Stadium of Athens late on Tuesday. In this first win under Dutch manager John van’t Schip, Greece played quite entertaining soccer and deserved victory, which came two minutes from…

The Greek Ministry of Culture announced on Tuesday that marine archaeologists have discovered exquisite gold jewelry, cooking pots and other valuable ancient objects in the historic wreck of the “Mentor,” the brig belonging to Lord Elgin which sank off Kythera Island in 1802. The Mentor sank while transporting a portion of the priceless antiquities Lord…

The Greek state budget recorded a primary surplus of 4.479 billion euros in the January-September period over budget targets, for a surplus of €1.467 billion, the country’s Finance Ministry announced on Tuesday. There was a primary surplus of 2.523 billion euros during the same period last year. The surprisingly positive results for Greece’s budget came about…

The population at the Reception and Identification Centre in Moria on the Greek island of Lesvos, with a capacity of 3,000 individuals, reached an all-time record of 13,842 people, authorities announced on Tuesday. Migrants and refugees continue to pour in to the island from neighboring Turkey, at a rate of more than one hundred every…

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis officially opened the largest wind power complex in Greece at Kafireas, on the island of Evia, on Tuesday. The 300-million-euro facility, constructed by Enel Green Power, composed of seven wind farms with a total installed capacity of 154 megawatts, is able to generate approximately 480 GWh of power per year.…

A bombshell revelation from a French book, claiming that the SYRIZA government asked Russia to print drachmas in order to replace the euro in 2015 has opened a new round of political controversy in Greece. The claim, made in the book “Un président ne devrait pas dire ça…” (“The President cannot say something like that…”)…

Several statues of heroes from the Macedonian struggle for union with Greece in the early twentieth century are set to return to a prominent place in a Thessaloniki square, the city’s mayor announced on Monday. The marble busts of Greek fighters such as Tellos Agras, an officer of the Hellenic Army, Georgios Volanis, who traveled…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that his country’s intervention in Syria is as vital to Turkey as its invasion of Cyprus had been in 1974. Speaking in Baku, Azerbaijan on Monday, President Erdogan referred to the Turkish assault in northeastern Syria, saying that his country will not cease its military operations there despite…

Speaking to ANT1 TV and journalist Nikos Chatzinikolaou, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Monday evening that he is ready to compromise on the issue of Greek expats‘ right to vote from their place of residence. ”We are trying to make it easy,” the PM noted, explaining that ”anyone who is on the electoral…

Serious clashes between Afghan migrants and Syrian refugees erupted late at night on Monday and during the early hours of Tuesday in a camp near Vathy, on the island of Samos. A large fire also broke out in the camp where thousands of refugees and migrants are living in cramped conditions, most of them waiting…