Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Friday told participants at a high-level meeting convened on the refugees issue on that "we are facing a problem beyond our powers."

The omnibus bill on the second set of prior actions Greece needs to fulfil for its bailout loan passed in Parliament early on Friday morning with the votes of the coalition government, while the rest of the parties voted against it.

The critically acclaimed exhibition "Aegean: Creation of an Archipelago" put together by the Natural History Museum of the Lesvos Petrified Forest is to open in Chicago's National Hellenic Museum on November 23, where it will remain until August 31, 2016.