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Almost 1,300 Migrants Arrived on Northern Aegean Islands in March
A dinghy with 39 migrants and refugees from Afghanistan and Africa arrived early Wednesday along the coast of Kleio on northern Lesvos. The migrants/refugees were sent to a small church outside the...
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Acropolis Flag Flies at Half-Staff for Greek Resistance Hero Manolis Glezos
The Greek flag on the Acropolis is flying at half staff on Wednesday as a mark of respect for the day WWII resistance hero and politician Manolis Glezos is to be laid to rest in Athens. Glezos, who...
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Albanian Seamstress Donates Hundreds of Masks to Greek Hospital
An Albanian seamstress who owns a small sewing workshop in the town of Grevena, northern Greece, has volunteered to manufacture masks for the local hospital, showing that solidarity and philotimo in...
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Greek Camp on Lockdown After 20 Migrants Diagnosed with Coronavirus
File photo A migrant camp near the town of Ritsona, north of Athens, has been put under quarantine for 14 days, starting on Thursday, after health authorities discovered at least 20 infections from...
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Coronavirus Lockdown: Greece Bans Swimming, Fishing, Water Sports
Asteras Beach, in Glyfada, outside Athens, Greece. Photo source: Wikipedia Authorities in Greece have banned swimming, fishing and water sports as the country toughens up its already severe...
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Mykonos Reports First Case of Coronavirus
Photo source: Wikipedia A 69-year-old resident of Mykonos has contracted the novel coronavirus, becoming the first case recorded on the cosmopolitan Greek island, health authorities announced on...
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Greek PM Issues Blunt Rebuff to Brazilian President’s Coronavirus Denials
Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis offered some advice to Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s continual underestimation of the coronavirus threat during an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on...
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At Least 120 Coronavirus Cases Recorded in Quarantined Ship Off Athens
Greek health authorities said on Thursday that at least 120 people, both crew members and passengers, on a on a ship docked off the port of Piraeus south of Athens are infected with the coronavirus....
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Greek Restaurants Around the Globe in Battle to Survive Coronavirus
Photo Credit: Antony McAulay / Shutterstock Shockwaves are rippling through the restaurant industry worldwide amid mandated curfews, closings and other restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of the...
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MSF Says Greece’s Moria Migrant Camp is a Coronavirus “Time Bomb”
The migrant camp at Moria, on the island of Lesvos, the largest in Greece, is a “time bomb” waiting to explode as the coronavirus has spread to the local population, an official from the group Doctors...
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Greece to Celebrate Easter Divine Liturgy at Midnight May 26
The Holy Synod of the Greek Orthodox Church decided on Thursday that the last Divine Liturgy of the Resurrection on May 26, will be celebrated in a way that all the faithful can attend, provided that...
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Greece from Home: Discover Country’s Beauty and Culture From Afar
Greece’s Milos island. Photo Source: Wikipedia Greece’s Tourism Ministry on Thursday presented the new platform “Greece from Home,” a product developed through the joint cooperation of the National...
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Greece’s Coronavirus Death Toll Rises to 76
Photo Credit: AMNA The death toll from the coronavirus rose to 76 on Monday after three more male patients passed away. The three patients were an 82-year-old man being treated at a Patra hospital, a...
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Greece’s Aegean Islands Dread Spread of Coronavirus Over Easter
Photo Source: kallerna/Wikimedia Commons Following the imposition of curfew measures for Santorini and Mykonos on Sunday, mayors of some smaller Greek islands are demanding a ban on all arrivals,...
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Eurozone Accepts Greek Government Bonds as Collateral
Greece welcomed a decision by the European Central Bank on Tuesday to accept Greek government bonds as collateral as a move “that will further boost liquidity in the economy.” “We welcome the ECB’s...
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Family of Bears Roams Deserted Streets of Greek City
File photo A mother bear and at least two cubs were spotted roaming the streets of Kastoria, in northern Greece on Tuesday evening as the town continues nearly deserted after the coronavirus...
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Olympic Flame in Limbo After Tokyo Games Postponed
The Tokyo Olympic flame was taken off public display in Japan on Wednesday after it had arrived from Greece on March 26 in great anticipation for the Olympic Games, which were expected to take place...
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Greek Man Donates Bone Marrow that Could Save Turkish Child
A Greek bone marrow donor will help a Turkish child who is suffering from an undisclosed disease, Greek infectious diseases expert Sotiris Tsiodras disclosed on Monday. Tsiodras, who has become a...
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Greece to Lose At Least Half of Tourism Revenues Due to Coronavirus
Source: Bgabel/Wikimedia Commons The Greek tourist industry is facing an unprecedented crisis in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and is set to lose at least fifty percent of its revenue in 2020,...
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Thousands of Swallows and Other Birds Die in Greece After Migration
Wildlife groups in Greece say that thousands of swallows and other migratory birds have died in Greece in the last few weeks, unable to recover from the exhausting journey from Africa, made even worse...
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