Macedonia, Greece News

As Memorial Day makes its annual appearance I've been thinking about what men and women face today as they volunteer for military service.

Hundreds of Jews march in Thessaloniki on March 16th to the railway station where the first train left for the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943.

In this Wednesday, May 22, 2013 photo, a male brown bear Ari peaks out between bars of a cage in western Kosovo town of Prizren where he has spent a decade in captivity.

Hundreds of people gathered in a Flashmob and formed a giant friendship spiral in Monastiraki Square, Athens last Friday at 6pm to celebrate the launch of Pimm's in Greece, writes Annie Hayes .

S7 Airlines, member of oneworld alliance, and Aegean Airlines have signed a code sharing agreement, which assumes the performance of codeshare flights to the most popular resorts of Greece, press-service of S7 Airlines reports.

The process for the submission of expressions of interest in the tender concerning the privatization of regional airports has been extended by 14 days, with the state privatization fund attributing the delay to the interested partiesA' need of additional clarifications.

Teachers wearing tee shirts that read "No to the Civil Mobilization" take part in a protest in central Thessaloniki on Monday, May 13, 2013.

Bulgaria's former ruling GERB party and the Bulgarian Socialist Party have each won Sunday's early general elections in 13 of Bulgaria's 31 election districts, according to preliminary data by election authorities.

Three women from Halkidiki, northern Greece, who were arrested on Sunday following another day of tension between protesters and police at the Skouries gold mine faced a local prosecutor on Monday.

Five Serbs were arrested by police in Kastoria, northern Greece, on Saturday on charges of allegedly stealing fur coats from the premises of the cityA's 38th International Fur Fair.

A 45-year-old Greek citizen who fled the United States more than two decades ago, the day before he was convicted of murdering his 2-year-old stepson, has been retried in his home country and sentenced to 18 years in a Greek jail, U.S. law enforcement officials said on Friday.

The Association of Hellenic Tourism Enterprises is proposing a twin focus in the stateA's strategy to attract more Chinese tourists, ahead of Prime Minister Antonis SamarasA's visit to China next week.

On 30.04.2013, on an official ceremony held at the Buglarian Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism, Minister Asen Vasilev handed the investment certificate Class A to the company "Behr-Hella Thermocontrol" Ltd.

When the Benaki Museum in Athens hosted the expansive exhibition on the architectural history of Thessaloniki in the 1912-2012 period, the catalog that was supposed to accompany it had not made it off the press.

The Mediterranean sea, as a geographical space, in which the current cultural and social reality is researched and studied, although yet vague and still extremely interesting due to the constant dramatic changes in recent years, with its traditional elements along with influence and impact of the global model indicated, will be again this year's ... (more)

In 2001, she was listening to the radio while washing dishes when she first heard the soulful and gritty sound of rebetiko , a Greek music genre.

THESSALONIKI, Greece - Greek authorities have arrested five foreign nationals from Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany on the Greek-Turkish border on charges of illegally entering a restricted border area.

Twenty years after she died and was buried in her homeland of Greece, Queen Alexandra of Yugoslavia's remains are being exhumed so she can be buried with her husband.

Greece is among EuropeA's most corrupt countries, according to a survey by Ernst & Young consultants that was released yesterday.

A'It was midnight on October 5, 1998, when the truck containing the famed art collection amassed by George Costakis arrived at the Lazariston Monastery in Thessaloniki.