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Boy killed, 27 injured in migrant van accident in northern Greece

A 4-year-old boy was killed and 27 people were injured, two seriously, in northern Greece on Friday night when the minivan they were traveling in crashed into a truck on the national highway between Kavala and Thessaloniki. 

Migrant boys selling sex to get by, charity says

Vulnerable refugee boys in Greece are selling sex to get by and some are the using that money to buy sex from women in what was described as a "shocking" cycle of abuse by a charity, according to a reports by the Thomson Reuters Foundation on Friday.

Greek tourism should aim to woo more high-income visitors

Greece still has significant potential for attracting more high-income tourists who bring the biggest added value to the Greek economy, the Institute of the Greek Tourism Confederation (INSETE) argues in its the latest report.

Athens wants clarification on Albanian ban on Greeks

Greece has urged Albania to abstain from actions that fuel tension in bilateral relations after the Foreign Ministry in Tirana labeled 52 Greek nationals personae non gratae and banned them from entering the Balkan country.

The 52 were among hundreds who attended the funeral on Thursday of an ethnic Greek who was fatally shot in a gun battle with Albanian police last month.

FYROM extends state of emergency at borders

The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia has extended the state of emergency at its southern and northern borders until June 2019 in an effort to reduce illegal border crossings by migrants.

Parliament approved the measure for the borders with Greece and Serbia because of increased migratory flows.

Greece's 'red gold': Saffron trade blooming in a wilted economy

Every autumn, Zisis Kyrou is more often found plucking flowers in northern Greece's purple saffron fields than in his office as a civil engineer.

Saffron - the spice so expensive it's called "red gold" - has brought jobs and money to a region better known for coal mines and unemployment. A year ago, its producers began exporting to the United States. Now they're looking to China.

Bank deposits and growth forecasts drop

The prospects of the Greek economy are looking far from rosy this fall, as increased tax obligations culminating this period are eating into the already small deposits of Greek households and the European Commission has revised downward its estimates for the country's growth for this and the coming years.

Discussions continue in FYROM on proposed constitutional reforms

Deliberations continued on Thursday in the parliament of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) on the proposals submitted by Prime Minister Zoran Zaev last Friday to revise the country's constitution in order to ratify the name deal signed with Greece last June. 

Albania declares 52 Greeks 'personae non gratae'

Albania said Friday that 52 Greek nationals who turned out for the funeral of a dual Albanian-Greek citizen who was fatally shot in a gun battle with Albanian police during an annual celebration are considered "personae non gratae" and would not be allowed to enter the country again.

Tradition | Athens | To January 13, 2019

The Benaki Museum presents "Ethos: Another Side of Greece," a collection of photographs by Athens-based photographers George Tatakis and Michael Pappas, taken over the last seven years and capturing customs and traditional events in different parts of Greece - one in wistful black-and-white and the other in harsh color.

IBG gets nod of the European Commission

The European Commission on Thursday offered tangible support to the Interconnector Greece-Bulgaria (IGB) natural gas pipeline project, ruling that Greek and Bulgarian plans for its implementation do not constitute a state subsidy.

Tsitsipas named most improved player of 2018 by ATP World Tour

Greek tennis star Stefanos Tsitsipas was named on Friday as the most improved player of 2018 by the ATP World Tour Awards.

He joins tennis legends Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal who will also be honoured at the ceremony that will be held on Friday evening's award presentations at the Official Launch of the Nitto ATP Finals.

Greece sees surge in migrant crossings from Turkey

Authorities in northern Greece have reported a sharp increase in migrant crossings at the country's land border with Turkey along with a rise in arrests of smuggling suspects.

Greek consumer price inflation picks up to 1.8 pct in October

Greece's annual EU-harmonised inflation rate accelerated in October, statistics service ELSTAT data showed on Friday.

The reading was 1.8 percent from 1.1 percent in September.

The data showed the headline consumer price index rose to 1.8 percent year-on-year, also picking up from 1.1 percent in the previous month.

Greece sees sharp surge in migrant crossings

Authorities in northern Greece have reported a sharp increase in migrant crossings at the country's land border with Turkey along with a rise in arrests of smuggling suspects.

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