20/11/2008

ATHENS, Greece -- Hundreds of tobacco producers blocked the main road connecting Athens and Thessaloniki on Wednesday (November 19th), causing seriou...

19/11/2008

Macedonia's lawsuit against Greece for blocking its bid to join NATO has angered Athens. On Tuesday, Greece characterised the suit as an effort to prevent resolution of the two countries' 17-year-old name dispute.

19/11/2008

PRISTINA, Kosovo -- Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis says that although Greece currently does not recognise Kosovo's independence, it should ac...

19/11/2008

ATHENS, Greece -- Parliament on Tuesday (November 18th) started debating a 28 billion-euro aid package to help the banking sector cope with the inter...

19/11/2008

Tennis star Novak Djokovic of Serbia wins the Shanghai Masters Cup. Also in the news: the International Book and Teaching Appliances Fair, Interliber 2008, opens in Zagreb, and a Kosovo documentary wins Best Short Documentary at a Hamburg film festival.

14/11/2008

The banking sector in Greece will receive a 28 billion-euro rescue plan. Also in the news: Croatia's prime minister announces restrictive new economic measures for 2009, and the Serbian government again attempts to privatise the RTB Bor mining complex.

13/11/2008

ATHENS, Greece -- A total of 1,500 foreign prisoners will obtain their release following a proposal by the Greek prison administration, media reporte...

13/11/2008

ATHENS, Greece -- A series of explosions rocked Thessaloniki early Thursday (November 13th). The blasts occurred simultaneously around 4:45am. The at...

12/11/2008

ATHENS, Greece -- Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis met with his Serbian counterpart, Mirko Cvetkovic, in Athens on Tuesday (November 11th) and predic...

12/11/2008

US actor James Belushi visits Albania. Also in cultural and sports news: Athens hosts the International Digital Film Festival, and a reading campaign spreads throughout Bulgaria.