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ANA Students from the Athens University of Economics and Business rally fellow protesters yesterday after riot police were dispatched to prevent them from entering their campus. University deans cited the rapid spread of swine flu as the reason for closing...

The 56 members of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe expressed concern in Athens that force is still seen as an option to end conflicts. European security dubbed the Corfu Process during a ministerial council meeting in Athens....

Greece — An appeals court in Greece has cleared three suspected members of a far-left terrorist group that was blamed for more than 30 attacks on American targets, citing insufficient evidence. The group Revolutionary Popular Struggle, or ELA, is blamed...

Russian-drafted Euro-Atlantic security pact Tuesday, calling instead for existing organisations to be improved. Foreign ministers from 46 of the 56-nation Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which includes the US and Russia, gathered in Athens to look at developing...

The clashes aggravated traffic, causing many roads to become gridlocked. According to police, the suspects had parked their scooters at the side of Poseidonos Avenue and had been waiting to ambush the bus carrying Panathinaikos players. When the youths resisted...

In the center of Thessaloniki, dozens of self-styled anarchists hurled Molotov cocktails and stones at riot police, who responded by firing tear gas. The youths torched a number of parked cars and wrecked the facades of several banks near the...

Greece spends 7 percent of its gross domestic product on defense, the highest percentage in Western Europe after Britain and France...Greek and Turkish forces could play a decisive role in the event of any local dispute but would not be...

TEE, the professional body that advises the government on engineering and technical matters, presented yesterday a program aimed at increasing road safety...The chamber believes that its plan can reduce this number by 40 to 50 percent. Among the measures that...