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PM Tsipras to Ask Greek President for Early Election
Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will meet with the President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos on Monday to ask for early national elections by dissolving Parliament. The meeting,...
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British Travel Advice for Greece Warns of Strikes, Wildfires, Mosquitoes
The British Foreign Office updated its travel advice over the weekend, just before the annual summer exodus to a number of countries popular with British tourists, including Greece. Nearly three...
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Supercars and Superstars Galore on Mykonos for Gumball 3000 Rally (video)
The glitzy island paradise of Mykonos served as the starting line for the 2019 version of the Gumball 3000 Rally, an annual supercar road trip which this year will finish in Ibiza, Spain. Dozens of...
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Greece Mulls Purchase of F-35 Fighter Jets from the US
Greece is among the potential buyers for new F-35 fighter jets from the United States, according to Admiral Mathias Winter, head of the Pentagon office for the F-35s. The information was made public...
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Shackled Skeletons from Ancient Greece to Get Underground Display
Greece’s Central Archaeological Council (KAS) on Tuesday announced that they have decided to construct an underground “shell” which will permanently protect and display the 80 skeletons discovered in...
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Greece in the Spotlight Over Alleged Pushbacks of Migrants to Turkey
The European Commission has contacted Greek authorities concerning reports of alleged illegal pushbacks of migrants to Turkey in the Evros region on Greece’s northeastern border. This news was...
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Greek Parliament Officially Dissolved Ahead of Snap Elections
An official posts the presidential decree dissolving Parliament today. The Greek Parliament was officially dissolved on Tuesday evening ahead of the national elections called by PM Alexis Tsipras after...
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Mesmerizing 1926 Photo Portraying Athenian Coffee Culture Goes Viral
A striking image shot by Greek photographer Christos Kaplanis in 1926 at Athens’ Syntagma Square has resurfaced in glorious color and has already gone viral around the globe. The photograph, which has...
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Greece Sinks to New Low in Shocking Defeat to Armenia (video)
Greece slipped to a new low on Tuesday, conceding a shock 2-3 loss to Armenia in Group J of the European Championship qualification process. It was a humiliating defeat as Armenia ranks 106th in the...
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Multinationals See Improved Investment Opportunities in Greece
Greece is gradually becoming an attractive destination for investments, yet challenges remain, according to a survey presented on Tuesday at an investment forum in Athens. According to Bank of Greece...
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Greek Airspace Violations by Turkish Jets Escalate
SF-16C Fighting Falcon. Source: Wikipedia In a major escalation of provocations, Turkish jets violated Greek national airspace a total of 99 separate times on Tuesday, according to the Hellenic...
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Monk Seal Filmed While Passing Through Corinth Canal (video)
A Mediterranean monk seal was filmed as he swum his way through the Corinth Canal recently. The amazing video shows the seal traveling between the Corinthian Gulf and the Gulf of Argosaronikos. As of...
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Unraveling the Mystery of Longevity on Ikaria, Greece (video)
Ikaria, a beautiful island located in the eastern Aegean, may look similar to any number of other Greek islands, but there is one vital difference: people there live much longer than the population on...
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Magnitude 4.1 Earthquake Shakes Central Greece
Αn earthquake measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale hit central Greece early on Thursday. The tremor, which was felt in parts of Athens, struck at 12.54 am on Thursday in Elateia. The focal depth was...
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DNA of Greek Robber Linked to Nov. 17 Terrorist Safehouse
DNA belonging to a man arrested in northern Greece recently for breaking into ATM banking machines was found in evidence collected from a house where convicted November 17 terrorist Christodoulos...
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Chinese Doctors Take Hippocratic Oath on Greek Island of Kos
Chinese doctors participated in a Wednesday ceremony which revived the Hippocratic Oath at its very birthplace, the Asclepeion archaeological site on the Greek island of Kos in the Aegean Sea. The...
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Christiano Ronaldo On Holiday at Favorite Greek Resort
Fresh after lifting the UEFA Nations League trophy for Portugal last weekend, footballer Christiano Ronaldo and his family arrived for a well-deserved holiday at an exclusive resort in the southern...
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Greek Shipowners On Alert After Oman Tanker Attacks
Greek shipowners, who control close to 25 percent of the world tanker fleet, are on alert following the attacks on two tankers belonging to Japanese and Norwegian firms in the Gulf of Oman earlier in...
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First Summer Heatwave Set to Strike Greece
Sweltering temperatures are expected to prevail throughout Greece in the coming days, reaching 37 to 38 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit), the Meteo service of the National Observatory of...
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Young Refugee Teaches Greek Language to Kids Worldwide
Thirteen-year-old Sabri Madi. Source: UNHCR A young Palestinian refugee on the Greek island of Leros, who arrived on a rickety boat from Turkey in December of last year, has set up a page called “Learn...
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