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Suspected anarchists attacked a motorcycled police team in Exarchia district of Athens, injuring one policeman on Sunday afternoon. The incident happened in Tositsa and Zaimi streets when the the team of the DIAs section of Greek police ELAS riders were patrolling. At 16:45 police officers made a signal to two …

“If a company, with the agreement of the employees, changes the 5-day work into a 7-day business contract and more earnings and labor rights, that shows that we are in a changing environment. State, enterprises and workers have to adapt to these conditions.” leader of main opposition party New Democracy …

Epic achievement. Greek tennis star Stefanos Tsitsipas beat world number two and five-time champion Rafael Nadal in his home country Spain in the semifinals of the Mutual Madrid Open. The 20-year-old Greek won with sets 6-4, 2-6, 6-3. The Greek tennis star had previously lost three times to the “King …

Greece’s National Meteorology Service issued a warning of weather deterioration with heavy rainfalls and powerful storms that will be locally accompanied by hail falls and strong winds. According to the weather warning issue don Saturday, the weather deterioration will set in the evening hours of Sunday, May 12th 2019, initially …

A spiritual leader with vision and ethos, the Meetropolit of Proussis (Bursa)  Elpidoforos was unanimously elected the new Archbishop of America by the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul on Saturday. The 52-year-old Elpidoforos is considered as one of the people Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew trusts most. He has …

Greece’s unemployment rate fell to 18.5 percent in February from an upwardly revised 18.6 percent in the previous month, data from the country’s statistics service ELSTAT showed on Thursday. February’s unemployment rate was the lowest reading since July 2011, which means that for 8 consecutive years unemployment was more than …

The Greek government survived one more confidence vote on Friday, as expected. Out of 289 present lawmakers 153 voted in favor and 136 against. In favor voted also a lawmaker from the Centrists’ Union. The confidence vote came after main opposition New Democracy filed a censure motion against Alternate Health …

Greece’s main opposition party New Democracy has been playing dirty ahead of European and local elections and on the occasion of the confidence vote in the Parliament. On Wednesday during the debate in Parliament, ND leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis claimed that the deceased father of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and a …

A daily show in English next to the Acropolis Museum offers tourists a unique experience: to be transported to 5th century BC in ancient Athens and have the opportunity to talk with “Medea and other friends” from the ancient Greek world. “During his visit to the Acropolis, an unsuspecting tourist …