8 days ago
Uninhabited Farmakonissi, just off the Turkish coast, is regularly used by human trafficking rings to drop off people who pay them handsomely to be clandestinely taken into Greece.
9 days ago
Greece's left-wing opposition leader Alexis Tsipras said the cuts were prompting the government to take increasingly autocratic measures.
10 days ago
Greece saw the interest rate it has to pay to get investors to lend it money fall further Tuesday, a day after its European creditors backed the release of the country's next batch of rescue loans.
13 days ago
Case of missing NH convicted killer ends in Greece
17 days ago
""While it will yet take some time for the country's situation to fully normalize, the government of Greece has come a long way in its adjustment effort," the report concludes.
22 days ago
Shares in Greece's third largest lender, Alpha Bank, have shot up, a day after the bank announced it had secured enough support from the private sector to avoid coming under state control.
23 days ago
Ferry and train services in Greece have ground to a halt as unions hold a strike for May Day.
68 days ago
Greece's soccer federation said Sunday in a statement that the AEK Athens midfielder's gesture "is a deep insult to all victims of Nazi brutality.
69 days ago
Rehhagel, a German, coached Greece to a stunning victory in the 2004 European Championships, building a team that went on to qualify for two other European tournaments and the 2010 World Cup.
71 days ago
Greece's finance minister says rescue lenders will send inspectors back to Athens in about two weeks after both sides failed to finalize a new round of deficit reduction measures.
73 days ago
Lebanon and Greece have identified the hostages killed by Islamic extremists in Nigeria, though two people remain unaccounted for out of the seven kidnapped.
81 days ago
Greece is the main transit point for illegal immigrants entering the European Union, and most cross into the country through Turkey.
81 days ago
Officials say talks this coming week between crash-strapped Greece and its international creditors will focus heavily on the possibility of public sector layoffs.
88 days ago
European Central Bank governing council member George Provopoulos said Greece's economy would remain stuck in recession in 2013, with unemployment expected to continue rising this year.
88 days ago
The dramatic escape attempt was one of a handful involving helicopters in Greece, and the first time such plans have failed.
92 days ago
Union and independent analysts are worried Greece will face further years of economic struggle and protest as too many demands are placed on a shrinking workforce.
93 days ago
French President Francois Hollande was in Athens on Tuesday to express the "support of France and trust in the actions of (Greece's) government in recent months.
93 days ago
Greece now has the highest unemployment rate in the 17-strong group of European Union countries that use the euro, with 27 percent out of work - 60 percent of those aged under 24.
96 days ago
About 40 masked attackers have raided the facilities of a prospective gold mine in northern Greece overnight, setting machinery and offices alight.
100 days ago
Greece, Italy and Albania signed an agreement Wednesday backing a proposed pipeline to transport natural gas from the Caspian Sea to western Europe, intensifying the rivalry with a competing project.
102 days ago
Mostly in central and northern Greece, the hour-long roadblocks started at 2:00 p.m. (1200GMT), forcing motorists to take lengthy detours or wait the protests out.
107 days ago
Brief clashes broke out with riot police in central Greece Tuesday, when farmers who have lined up some 1,500 tractors near a main highway tried to block the road on foot.
109 days ago
A finance ministry statement Monday said that, not counting the cost of servicing Greece's debt mountain, the government posted a modest budget surplus of (EURO)434 million ($588 million) last year.
112 days ago
Greece's state privatization fund says it has accepted a (EURO)23 million ($31 million) bid from New York-based investors to develop real estate on the western resort island of Corfu.
114 days ago
Transport workers in Greece have ended a two-week protest campaign against new austerity cuts, but public sector unions are planning fresh strikes over steep pay cuts that took effect this year.
