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Greece Condemns Turkey’s “Imperial Fantasies”
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades and Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis at their meeting on Wednesday in Nicosia. Credit: Greek government Greece urged the European...
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Late Goal Gives Olympiacos a Winning Start in Champions League
Credit: Olympiacos F.C./Twitter A stoppage time goal by late substitute Ahmed Hassan gave Olympiacos a 1-0 win over Olympique Marseille in their Champions League Group C match on Wednesday. Hassan, who...
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Owner of Greek Nursing Home With Covid-19 Cases Commits Suicide
Dimitris Kampanaros at his nursing home. Credit: Nea Thalpi The owner of a nursing home in the northern Athens suburb of Agios Stefanos where several people were found to have been infected with the...
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Woman Hangs on For Dear Life as Floods Sweep Through Crete
A woman survived by hanging on an electric power pole in Crete on Wednesday as rushing water swept away her car following torrential rain. The dramatic video was captured near the town of Kartero, in...
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Turkey Threatens to Extend Gas Mission South of Crete
The Oruc Reis research ship accompanied by Turkish navy vessels sailing in the eastern Mediterranean. File photo Turkey announced on Wednesday that its seismic exploration activities in the eastern...
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Greece to Announce New Restrictions as Covid-19 Infections Skyrocket
PM Mitsotakis briefs President Sakellaropoulou on Thursday. Credit: Greek government Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is expected to announce new measures on curbing the spread of the...
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Greek Court Sends Golden Dawn Leaders to Prison
Credit: AMNA A Greek court upheld its ruling to sentence the leaders of the criminal organization Golden Dawn to 13 years in prison, overruling an earlier recommendation by the public prosecutor that...
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Greek Police Fiasco as Convicted Golden Dawn Neo-Nazi Goes AWOL
Pappas (on the left) was regarded as second-in-command after leader Michaloliakos (on the right) Greek police are under fire on Friday for failing to arrest a leading Golden Dawn figure who disappeared...
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Egypt Warns Greece of the Threat Posed by Erdogan’s Islamic Terrorists
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis last week that Turkey may dispatch jihadists to Greece to destabilize the country, a report in Greek daily Ta Nea reveals. According...
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Prince Charles, Emmanuel Macron, Vladimir Putin Invited to Greek Bicentenary...
Greece has extended an invitation to three world leaders to participate in the 200-year anniversary of the War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire in March 2021. Invitations have been extended...
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Greek PM Expresses Solidarity with France After Insults by Erdogan
French President Macron welcomes PM Mitsotakis in Paris in 2019. Credit: AMNA Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis expressed on Sunday his solidarity to French President Emmanuel Macron who was at the...
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The Awe-Inspiring Natural Landscape of Greece’s Zagori
Famous stone arch bridge in Vikos-Aoos National Park. Credit: Erik1980/Wikimedia commons Zagorochoria, is a region and a municipality in the Pindus mountains in Epirus, in northwestern Greece just...
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Russia’s Lavrov Defends Right to 12-Mile Extension on Territorial Waters,...
Greek FM Nikos Dendias welcomes his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Athens. Credit: Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who made an official visit to Greece...
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Thessaloniki Celebrates Patron Saint Demetrios on His Feast Day
St. Demetrios Church, Thessaloniki. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Hundreds of people began gathering early on Monday morning at Thessaloniki’s fifth-century Church of Agios Demetrios, on the annual feast...
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Erdogan Plans to Have Picnic in the Occupied Cypriot Town of Varosha
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that he would visit occupied northern Cyprus on Nov. 15 and expressed the wish to have a picnic in Varosha. “I believe it would be beneficial to...
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Greek Navy Vessel Rammed by Container Ship at Piraeus
The Kallisto vessel. Credit: Hellenic Navy A Hellenic Navy vessel has been badly damaged on Tuesday at the port of Piraeus after it was rammed by a huge container ship. A rescue operation is under way...
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Greece Braces for Hail Storms as Weather Front Circe Closes In
Credit: AMNA Τhe low pressure front responsible for the weather system Circe is already moving east and will begin to affect the southwest of Greece early on Wednesday, with the phenomena gradually...
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Greece Marks OXI Day Without School or Military Parades
Greek army units parade in Athens in March 2020. Credit: Skylax30/Wikimedia commons Greece will mark the 80th anniversary of the heroic OXI Day on Wednesday without the annual military parade which...
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Massive Greek Flag Overlooks Athens For OXI Day
Credit: Giorgos Papanikolaou/Facebook The mayor of the southern Athenian suburb of Glyfada installed a huge Greek flag on the slopes of Mount Hymettus, overlooking the capital city, for the celebration...
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Varoufakis Testifies He Was Under Surveillance For Supporting Assange
Greek former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis claimed on Tuesday he was under surveillance by private company UC Global, which was spying on Julian Assange during his stay in the Embassy of Ecuador in...
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