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Families awaited DNA testing results to identify the victims of a train collision that killed almost 60 people in Greece, while workers went on strike Thursday, claiming that the country's rail infrastructure is obsolete, underfunded, and hazardous.

The Greek train crash deaths are the result of social crimes for which every political party of the ruling elite shares responsibility. It is their leaders who should be in the dock facing charges.

It has taken almost 10 years for the construction of the Thessaloniki Holocaust Museum to move forward following a memorandum of cooperation was signed in 2013

"The sovereign debt crisis and economic recession over the past decade in Greece resulted in insufficient..."

A 2,500-year-old olive tree in Vouves village of Hania, Greece. LIU YONGQIU/XINHUA ATHENS－A four-centuries-old olive tree on the outskirts of the port city of Patras in western Greece was facing the axe because it was on the path of a major railway construction project led by Ergose, a subsidiary of the Hellenic Railways Organization. Uprooting an olive tree, which for Greeks has been a symbol of peace, hope, victory and abundance since antiquity, would not go down well with the public. ...