Europe

Budapest, the capital city of Hungary, is perhaps not the first place that comes to mind when one thinks of Greek food. However, one Greek culinary export, gyros, has become a popular fast food choice for Hungarians in the...

A court in Albania ruled that ethnic Greek minority leader Fredi Beleri, who won the mayoral elections in the city of Himara recently, should remain in prison until his trial. Beleri was arrested two days before the 14 May local...

Water in the Trevi Fountain turned black when climate change activists released "vegetable charcoal" into Rome's famous landmark. Protesters from Ultima Generazione (Last Generation) standing in the water unfurled anti-fossil fuel banners. The group's website says it is campaigning against...

The EU slapped Meta with a record $1.3 billion privacy fine Monday and ordered it to stop transferring user data across the Atlantic by October. The penalty fine of 1.2 billion euros from Ireland’s Data Protection Commission is the biggest...

Maniots fled to Corsica where they set up their own little Mani, preserving their language, faith and traditions while building a new home.

The US approved the future supply of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine as G7 leaders meeting in Japan welcomed the country's president Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday. Until now US President Joe Biden had effectively vetoed the transfer of F-16s, with...

Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez were seen kissing on Jeff Bezos's newly acquired megayacht, valued at $500 million, near the Spanish island of Mallorca. The Amazon billionaire, aged 59, and his girlfriend, aged 53, warmly embraced each other before continuing...

On Wednesday, two senior Turkish journalists were arrested by German police. Both of the journalists who were detained work for Sabah, a well-known Turkish daily newspaper. The two men who were arrested were identified by a Sabah employee as Ismail Erel...

Turkey's lira and stocks fell on Monday as the presidential election appeared headed for a runoff with incumbent president Tayyip Erdogan in the lead. The lira fell near a two-month low, and the cost of insuring exposure to the country's...

Greece launched a formal protest with Albania on Friday following the arrest of an ethnic Greek politician in Himara, located in southern Albania. Fredi Beleri, a Greek minority candidate running for mayor in Himara, was arrested on charges of vote-buying...

The Western response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues to evolve this week with a series of new developments which may pose new tactical, operational, and strategic consequences. On Thursday, UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace announced that the UK...

Two bronze figurines of Osiris, the ancient Egyptian god of the afterlife and rebirth, were recently discovered by archaeologists in the village of Kluczkowice in Opole Lubelskie County, Poland. The discovery is believed to be a part of a collection...

A groundbreaking in-vitro fertilization (IVF) technique has led to the birth of the first baby in the UK with DNA from three individuals. The baby was conceived using a revolutionary procedure called mitochondrial donation treatment (MDT). This process involves extracting...

On Saturday, May 13, the Acropolis Museum will celebrate the European Night of Museums by staying open from 9 a.m. to midnight. Visitors to the museum will have an opportunity to appreciate the many antiquities on display during the evening...

The ancient Greek and German languages may seem worlds apart, but it was a Greek bishop and Christian missionary named Ulfilas, who played a surprisingly important role in the codification of the early German language into a written system. Ulfilas...