Right wing extremist , Antonios Androutsopoulos, had his jail term for the attempted murder of Dimitris Kousouris reduced on appeal.

A fuel smuggling ring in Aspropirgos, west of Athens, was caught by police.

Extremist group Revolutionary Struggle vow to continue their public bombing campaign in a proclamation published in Greek weekly newspaper, To Pontiki

The Greek Government denies that President Obama’s impending trip to Turkey is a snub.

The European Parliament passed a resolution urging Turkey to reach a comprehensive settlement on Cyprus on the basis of the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council.

A survey found that television in Greece is still by far the most popular medium for news but the Internet is catching up fast.

Marked arsonists attacked a train in Kifissia in which carriages were destroyed but no one was injured.

A 10-centimetre piece of track was removed from the railway line north of the city of Kalamata in the southern Peloponnese in a failed extortion attempt.

Greek tourist buses were vandalised and

Afghani migrants and police clashed in Patras.