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Oldest Muslim Temple in Greece’s Lesvos to Be Restored
A dilapidated 17th-century Muslim temple built on Lesvos to honor an Ottoman sultan’s unknown “Queen Mother” will be restored under a 1.2 million euro grant from EU regional development fund for the...
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Greek Triple Jumper Voula Papachristou Gets Silver at European Championships...
Paraskevi (Voula) Papachristou on Sunday won the silver medal in the triple jump event at the European Indoor Championships that are held in Glasgow. Papachristou jumped 14.50 meters in her first...
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Dozens Held for Raising Huge Holy Cross in Greece’s Lesvos
Police on the Greek island of Lesvos arrested 33 people suspected of illegally raising a huge metallic Holly Cross late on Saturday. The group installed the Christian symbol at Apelli, beneath the...
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Cosco’s Investment Plan for Piraeus Under Threat
The Piraeus Port Authority (PPA) will make a last-ditch attempt on March 10 to convince the Greek government to unblock the 580-million-euro ($650 million-dollar) investment program by China’s Cosco...
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Thousands Gather for Spectacular Display at Greece’s Patras Carnival (video)
Thousands of revelers thronged the streets of the western Greek town of Patras on Sunday, joining in on the colorful annual ritual of Carnival time. Patras’ renowned carnival will come to a head next...
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Tsitsipas Becomes First Greek Tennis Player to Break Into Top 10
Despite losing to Roger Federer in the final of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championship tournament on Saturday, Stefanos Tsitsipas climbed up to Number 10 in the the ATP tennis rankings on Monday....
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Greece Launches 10-Year Bond After Moody’s Upgrade
Greece officially launched procedures to issue new 10-year state bonds on Monday by appointing BNP Paribas, Citi, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan as underwriters of the syndicated loan....
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Demand for Greek 10-Year Bond Exceeds 11 Billion Euros
Investors’ bids on a new Greek 10-year bond issue exceeded 11.3 billion euros on Tuesday, with the interest rate of the issue set at 3.9 percent, according to sources quoted by the Athens News Agency....
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Report Warns Greek Population May Shrink to 8.3 Million by 2050
A parliamentary committee released an alarming report on Tuesday which projects that the Greek population may shrink to as low as a total of 8.3 million people by the year 2050. According to the...
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Twenty People Charged in Deadly Fire in Mati, Greece
The Athens Prosecutor’s Office announced on Tuesday that twenty people will be brought up on charges related to the deadly fire at the resort of Mati last July, which claimed the lives of one hundred...
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Venezuela’s Foreign Minister On Board Mystery Flight to Athens
Greek authorities confirmed on Tuesday that Venezuela’s foreign minister Jorge Arreaza was on board a government plane than landed unexpectedly at Athens international airport on Saturday. According...
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Flashback to the Greek Peasants’ Uprising
The statue of the unknown farmer marks the place in Thessaly, central Greece, when more than a century ago poor farmers started a revolt against the powerful landed gentry and demanded the...
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State of Emergency Declared in Halkida, Greece After Flooding
File photo Greek authorities have declared a state of emergency on Wednesday in the town of Halkida on Evia after extensive flooding forced residents to evacuate their homes. The floods wreaked havoc...
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Venezuela Denies Mystery Plane to Greece Was Smuggling Gold
The Venezuelan government plane landed at Athens’ Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport last Saturday The Venezuelan ambassador to Greece on Wednesday dismissed allegations that the plane which...
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US Ambassador Warns of Russian Efforts to Undermine Patriarch Bartholomew...
US Ambassador Pyatt with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at a recent meeting. File photo US Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt said on Tuesday there is evidence of Russian efforts to undermine...
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Greek Unemployment in December Lowest Since July of 2011
Greece’s jobless rate dropped to 18% in December from a downwardly-revised 18.3% in the previous month, data from the country’s statistics service ELSTAT showed on Thursday. December’s unemployment...
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Mikis Theodorakis Treated for Heart Problems in Hospital
Renowned Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis has been hospitalized in Athens for over a week after suffering from heart problems, a hospital source said Thursday. Theodorakis, 93, was transported on...
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North Macedonia Begins Renaming State Institutions, Agencies
The government in Skopje requested on Wednesday that more than 130 institutions and agencies change their signage on the entrances to their premises, as stipulated by the terms of the Prespa Agreement...
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Three Dead in Migrant Boat Sinking off Samos Island, Greece
One man and two children died on Thursday after the vessel they had been on sank in the sea off the east coast of Samos Island. The Greek Coast Guard had picked up eleven migrants in the water,...
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Katerine Duska’s “Better Love” Eurovision Song for Greece Released (video)
Greek-Canadian singer Katerine Duska on Wednesday released the song with which she will participate in the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest, representing the nation of Greece. Duska wrote “Better Love”...
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