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On Thursday, a vote of censure against Greece’s conservative government will be heard in parliament due to allegations that it attempted to influence an ongoing inquiry into the country’s deadliest train accident. The no-confidence motion will...

On Friday, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis urged the European Union to “seriously consider” offering financial support to help build a steel barrier to keep out immigrants along the country’s border with Turkey. “I think it’s...

Legislative elections will be held in Greece on May 21, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Tuesday. “The country and its citizens need clear horizons,” Mitsotakis told the cabinet. “National elections…will be held on Sunday 21 May,”...

Authorities reported that two trains collided head-on near the Greek city of Larissa, resulting in at least 36 fatalities and 66 injuries. On Wednesday, rescue workers rushed to locate any survivors among the charred debris. Just...

Outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel concluded her final official visit to Athens on Friday by conceding that austerity policies implemented to tackle the country’s debt crisis had cost Greeks dearly. Since 2009, Greece has been mired...

Knee-deep in water on a picture-postcard Lesbos island beach, a team of Greek university students gently deposits a wall-sized PVC frame on the surface before divers moor it at sea. Holding in plastic bags and bottles,...

A gold earring believed to date back more than 2000 years has been unearthed near the site of the ancient Jewish temples in Jerusalem, in what Israeli archaeologists called rare evidence of Hellenistic influence. The 4...

The death toll from a fire which ripped through a Greek coastal town stood at 80 on Wednesday, with dozens of people unaccounted for as forensic experts tried to identify victims who were burned alive. With...

Greece’s opposition New Democracy party will file a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in parliament over a deal to solve a decades-old name dispute with Macedonia, its leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday. Tsipras’s...

News Hour Greece’s top administrative court on Friday approved the forced deportation of two Syrian refugees, setting a precedent for hundreds of similar cases, a justice source said. Over 750 Syrian exiles are likely to be...