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Greece’s Stefanidi Wins Bronze at World Athletics Championship
Katerina Stefanidi won bronze in the women’s pole vault at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha on Sunday, with a season-best clearance of 4.85 metres. The former world champion and Olympic...
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Shocking Footage Emerges of Elderly Football Fan Murdered in Thessaloniki
Shocking video footage has emerged of an elderly football fan being pushed over and killed by a fellow spectator at a football game in Thessaloniki on Sunday. The footage shows 70-year-old Nikos...
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Thousands Join Race for Breast Cancer Cure in Athens
Thousands of Athenians participated in the 11th annual “Greece Race for the Cure,” a walking and running event which benefits the fight against breast cancer. The race was held in the Greek capital on...
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How a Shipwreck Transformed a Pristine Beach on Greece’s Zakynthos Island...
It is perhaps the most photographed shipwreck in the world. Lying upright on a sandy beach on the northwestern coast of Zakynthos since October of 1980, the wreck of the “Panagiotis” is visited by...
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Several Passengers Injured in Bus Crash in Northern Greece (video)
An intercity bus crashed into a metal barrier along the eastbound lane of the Thessaloniki-Edessa highway on Tuesday, injuring at least 12 people. According to initial reports citing the ambulance...
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More than 200 Migrants Moved From Lesvos to Athens
Greek authorities transferred a total of 215 migrants from the Moria refugee camp on Lesvos to the port of Piraeus early on Tuesday in a drive to reduce overcrowding at the camp, where a fire on...
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UN Refugee Agency Calls on Greece to Move Thousands of Migrants to the Mainland
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, called on Greece on Tuesday to urgently move thousands of refugees and asylum seekers out of dangerously overcrowded reception centers on the Greek Aegean islands....
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US Embassy to Close Immigration Office in Athens
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in Athens will shut down operations on November 15, according to recent announcement released by the US Embassy. The last day the office will accept...
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Greek and North Macedonian Army Chiefs Sign Airspace Patrol Agreement
North Macedonia Defense Force Lieutenant General Vasko Gjurchinovski and General Christos Christodoulou, of the Hellenic National Defense Forces, at the Tuesday signing. A technical agreement for the...
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Official Greek Statistics Show More Deaths Than Births for 2018
The population of Greece experienced a decrease in 2018, with the nation having 33,857 more deaths than the number of births recorded, according to official data released on Tuesday by the Greek...
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Cyprus Marks Independence Day With Military Parade
Celebrations to mark the 59th anniversary of the Cypriot Republic’s declaration of independence on Tuesday included a military parade attended by President Nicos Anastasiades. Cyprus achieved...
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General Strike on Wednesday to Bring Greek Public Transport to a Halt
Greek unions have called for a 24-hour strike on Wednesday in protest at the government’s new labor laws that are included in an omnibus bill tabled by the Development and Investment Ministry. The...
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More Than 240 Migrants Reach Greece’s Lesvos on Wednesday (video)
At least 243 migrants arrived on Wednesday on Greece’s Lesvos more than cancelling out the transfer of 215 migrants from the notorious Moria camp to the port of Piraeus early the same day. Footage...
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Champions League: Ten-Man Olympiacos Crumbles in Belgrade (video)
Olympiacos suffered a disappointing 3-1 defeat against Red Star (Crvena Zvezda) in Belgrade on Tuesday as the Greek crumbled in the second half after Algerian Yassine Benzia was sent off. The sole...
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Greek PM Blasts “Out of Touch” Trade Unionists as General Strike Halts Public...
Trade unionists marching in Athens on Wednesday Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis blasted the country’s trade unionists who had organized Wednesday’s general strike, saying that they represent...
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Greece Boosts Naval Presence in the Aegean to Stem Migrant Flow
Greece has sent dozens of Navy and Coast Guard vessels to the eastern Aegean in a desperate effort to stem the flow of migrants and asylum seekers who continue to cross over from the Turkish coast....
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Greek Hotel Losses from Thomas Cook Collapse Estimated at 315 Million Euros
Hotel losses in Greece caused by the collapse of the Thomas Cook travel conglomerate are estimated to 315 million euros, the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels announced on Tuesday. The Chamber presented the...
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Goulandris Museum of Contemporary Art Opens in Athens
The new Basil and Elise Goulandris Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens was was officially opened by President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos on Tuesday. Pavlopoulos stated in his...
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5.1 Earthquake Shakes Greece’s Rhodes
An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale hit 37 km (23 miles) southeast of the island of Rhodes at 7:44 a.m. local time. According to the Athens Geodynamic Institute its depth was 16.8 km. The...
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Greek Olive Oil Industry Holds Its Breath After US Given Green Light to...
The Greek olive oil industry is waiting anxiously to find out whether its iconic products will be included on the list of items subject to tariffs, after Wednesday’s decision by the World Trade...
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