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Greek authorities have intercepted a boat with 73 immigrants who were allegedly trying to enter the country illegally.A Merchant Marine Ministry statement said the vessel, which is not in any danger, was spotted 60 miles offshore Monday.Greece and Italy are major entry points for African and Asian migrants seeking a better life in Europe.In the past two weeks, about 400 people have died trying to reach the Italian island of Lampedusa on rickety smuggling ships.The Greek ministry said a merchant ship, escorted by a coast guard patrol boat, was towing the vessel to the southern port of Pylos on the Mediterranean.The migrants, among them 18 children, are expected to be temporarily detained. It was unclear where they are from....
The Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Belgium and Switzerland have clinched berths from Europe for next year's World Cup by winning their qualifying groups and four more ...
Greece's international lenders called a temporary halt to their latest mission to Athens on Sunday, saying they had made good progress and expected to resume talks w...
A Greek cabinet minister says his private office in central Athens was attacked by a group of masked men who removed two employees, doused the premises with gasoline...
A Greek cabinet minister says his private office in central Athens was attacked by a group of masked men who removed two employees, doused the premises with gasoline...
Henk Potts, Barclays Wealth Global Investment strategy director, weighs in on the ongoing debt crisis in Europe , including the EU, ECB and IMF inspectors in Greece pushing for financial reform.
An Athens court has ordered the head of Greece's extremist right-wing Golden Dawn party to be jailed pending trial on charges of running a criminal organization. The...
Hundreds of striking Greek city workers are marching through Athens to protest public sector job cuts that the government must make to continue receiving internation...
The head of Greece's Nazi-inspired Golden Dawn party and one of his lawmakers have been locked up in a maximum-security Athens prison, after judges ordered their det...
Greece's Minister of State Haris Pamboukis and Tsakos Energy Navigation CFO Paul Durham discuss the reasons Greece ’s economy is ready to rebound.
Greek police say they have seized a statuette apparently made more than 7,000 years ago, and arrested two men who were allegedly trying to sell it for 3.5 million eu...
FBN’s Charlie Gasparino on the Greece debt crisis and its impact on Wall Street.
Costa Rican authorities have detained three doctors and a Greek citizen as suspected participants in a ring that trafficked kidneys to foreigners.Attorney General Ca...
A 6.4-magnitude earthquake rattled parts of Greece on Saturday.The 6.4-magnitude earthquake occurred at 4:11 p.m. Saturday local time (9:11 a.m. EDT) west of the Gre...
Bosnian flags and blue-and-yellow hats colored the streets of Sarajevo on Monday as the young nation readies to celebrate World Cup qualification.Bosnia leads its gr...
A nurse’s observation that taking the time to talk to patients about their treatment might be keeping their heart attack patients alive longer led to an important fi...
Charles Schwab Chief Investment Strategist Liz Ann Sonders on the impact of Greece on Europe and the U.S.
Peter Johnson, Jr. gets reaction
FBN’s Liz MacDonald on the downgrade of Greece and Portugal ’s credit rating.
Nobel Prize Winning Economist Michael Spence on why Greece can’t solve its debt crisis on its own without a default or restructuring.