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Transparency International has criticized a vote in Turkey's parliament that rejected motions to send four former ministers implicated in a vast corruption scandal to trial by the country's highest court.
     

Wealth accumulated by the richest one percent will exceed that of the other 99 percent in 2016, the Oxfam charity said Jan. 19, ahead of the annual meeting of the world's most powerful at Davos, Switzerland.
      

The Specialized Criminal Court in Sofia has put on remand five of the six members of what authorities say is an organized criminal gang involved in a number of illegal activities.

Two homeless men had to be rushed to hospital after a fire broke out in an abandoned building they were sleeping in in the central Athenian suburb of Votanikos.

One of the men had suffered burns and the other was having breathing problems when emergency medical crews arrived at the scene.

US stocks were slightly slower in opening trade Tuesday, falling with European equity markets on political uncertainty in eurozone member Greece.

Five minutes into trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stood at 18,008.31, down 29.92 points (0.17 percent).

The number of inspectors dispatched by Greece’s Financial Police (SDOE) to check whether businesses are complying with the law over the holiday season has been increased, with the first round of the raids over the week before and during Christmas revealing that the majority of law breakers did not issue sales receipts or employed workers who were uninsured.

The Council of Ministers announced on Monday that the President of the State Agency for Refugees Nikolay Chirpanliev has been dismissed.

Chirpanliev's deputy Vasil Varbanov will take over as acting head until the appointment of a new holder.

Coffee has had a long, yet sometimes controversial, role in the history of this region. After several attempts to ban the bean, the Ottoman Empire gave into its newfound coffee culture The story of coffee drinking is a curious matter. The beverage can be dated to around 800 B.C.

The City of Athens served about 800 people at its free Christmas lunch which took place at an indoor stadium in the district of Rouf, west of the city center.

As of Monday, Greek civil servants are now able to have a say in the public sector evaluation scheme that is currently undergoing fine-tuning by the Ministry of Administrative Reform.