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Follow the Greek cultural train on World Museum Day, May 18

Greece, swarming with museums, is definitely the place to be for International Museum Day! Concerts, guided tours and workshops are planned around the country with admission to most cultural institutions free.

Archeological Association of Acharnes

Greek endgame nears for Tsipras as bank collateral hits buffers

By Nikos Chrysoloras & Vassilis Karamanis

Greek banks are running short on the collateral they need to stay alive, a crisis that could help force Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras?s hand after weeks of brinkmanship with creditors.

Greece remains defiant as it seeks creditor deal this week

BY Paul Tugwell & Rebecca Christie

Greece?s government said it won?t back down on election pledges to end austerity even while seeking to agree on a deal with creditors as soon as this week to unblock financing and avert a default.

Operation Ben Needham: Five leads being investigated

Ben Needham, who went missing while on holiday on the isle of Kos on July 24, 1991, would be 25 today. Over the years, his mother Kerry Needham has not stopped searching for the son that vanished after she left him in his grandparents’ care while she went to work at a local hotel. Previous leads have failed to come up with solid information but Ben’s family still keeps hoping.

This week is make-or-break for Greece

An agonizing effort to keep itself afloat and avoid default while continuing to negotiate with its creditors may be coming to an end for Greece. 

Illusion of choice should not fool gov't

 A missed debt payment will indirectly make it impossible to cover pensions and state wages next time

By Dimitris Kontogiannis

US passengers expected to boost cruises

By Stathis Kousounis

The cruise sector in Greece will remain in positive territory this year, according to the estimates of the cruise sector expert at the Association of Hellenic Tourism Enterprises, Andreas Stylianopoulos, who foresees a healthy rise in passengers from the United States.

March drop in supermarket turnover reflects pessimism

By Dimitra Manifava

Supermarket sales nosedived in March, recording the biggest annual decline since September 2014 and reflecting the negative mood among consumers just weeks after the new government was elected to power.

Taxes: The rich refuse to pay

The Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) may have pledged social change but hundreds of large tax evaders continue to dodge the system as though nothing has changed.

Conservative party accuses Tsipras of “sloppiness” in alleged letter to IMF

The main opposition conservative New Democracy (ND) party accused the government of being unreliable following a press report in a Greek newspaper, according to which Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is alleged to have sent a letter to the IMF, warning the Fund of Greece’s likely bankruptcy.

Amazon-styled FEMEN seeks to recruit Greek women

FEMEN Chief Ina Sevtsenko, the woman who posed topless in front of the Caryatid statues in Athens, states that the group is considering starting a chapter in Athens in an effort to get more Greek women involved in topless activism. The 24-year-old activist told Ethnos newspaper that in Greece it is easy to spot all the corrupt elements that make up the European dogma.

Greece warned of cash shortage ahead of deadline: Report

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had warned foreign officials that Athens would not be able to pay the 750 million euros ($845 million) due this month to the International Monetary Fund, Greek newspapers said May 17.

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