UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday urged leaders of divided Cyprus to return to the negotiating table and clinch a deal on reuniting the island, saying “they must not let this historic opportunity slip”.
Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades blamed this week’s breakdown of United Nations-backed negotiations at the Swiss resort of Mont Pelerin on a lack of “flexibility” by the Turkish-Cypriot delegation but insisted he’s ready to pick up where talks left off.
A 39-year-old Anglo-Sudanese man arrested in Athens last week as part of a joint operation by Greek police and Europol was a member of an international forgery ring that was unraveled in May, authorities said on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Wednesday sought to rally SYRIZA MPs, saying that the government is committed to completing a current bailout review but will not yield to “irrational demands” and warning that the failure of talks could spark snap elections.
A European Commission report shows Greece to be seriously lagging in the area of education, with particular reference made to the need for academics to be evaluated.
Atmospheric pollution remains the biggest environmental threat for Europeans, according to an annual report by the European Environmental Agency (EEA) for 2013-14.
The US Embassy in Athens, its Consular Section in Thessaloniki and all US government offices in Greece will be closed Thursday in observance of Thanksgiving Day, a US national holiday.
Appeals court prosecutor Pantelis Stragalis on Wednesday proposed the indictment of 11 people in connection with kickbacks allegedly pocketed from the acquisition of self-propelled howitzers manufactured by German firm Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW).
A criminal appeals court on Wednesday rejected a third appeal for early release by former defense minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos, who is serving a 20-year sentence for money laundering at Attica’s high-security Korydallos Prison.
Police in Attica said on Wednesday that they had detained three suspected members of a ring believed to have carried out a string of robberies at homes and jewelry stores across Attica since the summer, netting hundreds of thousands of euros’ worth of jewelry and other valuables.
A man was arrested on Wednesday in the district of Galatsi on charges of groping women and girls in various parts of Athens.
Greek PM Alexis Tsipras congratulated US President-elect Donald Trump on his victory over the phone Wednesday, Greek government sources said.
Greece wants to conclude a crucial EU/IMF review of its bailout progress but cannot accept irrational demands on labor reforms or any extra austerity measures, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has reacted to comments Tuesday by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who said that the 1923 Lausanne Treaty, which set the modern borders between Greece and Turkey, was up for debate.
Reports of UN Special Envoy Espen Barth Eide returning to Cyprus after talks in Switzerland to reunify the ethnically split island collapsed were not confirmed by Cyprus’s government on Wednesday.
Conservative opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has attacked Greece’s left-led coalition government saying that its poor performance had invited pity and compassion from the international community.
Cyprus's government spokesman says talks at a Swiss resort to reunify the ethnically split island broke down because the Turkish Cypriot side didn't stick to agreed-upon rules on how negotiations would proceed.
Ferries are expected to stay docked in ports across Greece on Thursday as seamen stage a 24-hour strike in protest at the latest round of cuts to pensions and job insecurity.
Giorgos Koumoutsakos, New Democracy’s shadow minister for foreign affairs and defense, on Wednesday called for a meeting of the National Council on Foreign Policy (NCFP) in a bid to hammer out a unified strategy on Greek-Albanian relations.
The Communist Party-affiliated labor union, PAME, is organizing a rally in central Athens on Thursday.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan still plan to meet and discuss the Cyprus dispute despite the breakdown of peace talks late Monday between Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish-Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci, according to reports on Tuesday.
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has denied his country is following an irredentist foreign policy with its insistence on discussing the issue of claims made by the Cham community to the property they left behind when they were expelled from Greece during World War II.
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