Greek News

Greek firefighters in cooperation with the Hellenic Police are evacuating the village of Viggla on Corfu island. Viggla is a small village at an altitude of 250 meters (820 ft) right opposite to the Albanian coastline. According to local media the firefighters use...

The 24th United States' University Fair will be inaugurated by Greece’s branch of Fulbright Foundation in Athens on Tuesday. 32 colleges and universities will send representatives to the Greek capital in order to provide useful information to students from Greece...

Greek-Americans John and Joanna Kalafatis, along with their team from Spring Scaffolding, recently reached the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, a dormant stratovolcano in Tanzania, conquering the 19,341 ft. mountain, the highest in Africa. John Kalafatis is used to heights, however, both...

  The archaeological site of Assos is located in the north-western part of Turkey in the famous area of Troad, in the province of modern-day Çanakkale. Recently, a 2,300-year-old family grave belonging to 21 individuals has been unearthed by a Turkish...

According to media reports from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), the country’s parliament in Skopje will hold the first out of the three votes required to implement the constitutional changes that are listed in the Prespa agreement...

Greece would be better off if it was still governed by Bavarians, said Germany's Minister of the Interior, Building and Community Horst Seehofer on Monday, according to a Politico report. According to Politico, Seehofer, the Bavarian politician who is also...

Shipping companies must make their vessels accessible and safe for people with disabilities by May 1, 2019, according to a memorandum signed on Wednesday by Greece's Shipping and Island Policy Minister, Fotis Kouvelis. The memorandum was signed after Kouvelis met with...

The turmoil in the Italian economy and the deterioration of Greek state bonds dragged down the Athens Stock Exchange on Monday, with the General Index showing a 2.61 percent loss to 641.79 points. Once again, Greek bank shares led the...

The International Monetary Fund has revised Greece's short-term growth forecasts upward while lowering medium-term forecasts in its October 2018 World Economic Outlook. The report will be published on Tuesday (today) in light of its annual meeting in Bali, Indonesia this...

Greek PM Alexis Tsipras is to visit Russia in December where he will hold talks with the country's President Vladimir Putin, Moscow has confirmed. Preparations for a visit to Russia are underway, the visit may take place in the coming...

Dennis Mehiel, a prominent Greek American Democrat from New York, is funding the "Show Up 2018" campaign whose goal is to convince American voters to register for the midterm elections. The campaign aims at the approximately 140 million Americans who...

A finely carved marble figure of a reclining female typical of the sculpture of the Cyclades is set to be auctioned by Artemis Gallery, based in Boulder, Colorado on October 11. The statue dating to circa 2500-2400 BCE has distinctive...

A new radiation belt of energetic protons between Saturn and its rings was discovered by a team of researchers led by Greek scientist Elias Roussos, a planetary scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen,...

Sometimes, our daily routine prevents us from understanding and admiring the beauty that surrounds us. Stressful jobs, work or family obligations along with the city’s rush all hide the beauty of places we already know or even live. But if we...

Greece's Supreme Court Public Prosecutor, Xeni Dimitriou, ordered the start of a preliminary investigation into press reports about the alleged mismanagement of funds given to Greece by the European Union to cope with the refugee and migration crisis on...