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The Greek Foreign Minister, Nikos Kotzias, will travel to Cairo on Friday afternoon together with his Cypriot counterpart, Nikos Christodoulides. The two ministers will be attending consultations with the Egyptian Foreign Minister, Sameh Shoukry, in the framework of the established trilateral...

Skyros has seen a major increase in its visitors during the last three years at a rate that exceeds 40 percent, compared to 2015. The years when the Central Aegean’s island was not among the most popular Greek destinations are...

  According to the officials of the Ministry of Digital Policy, the General Hospital of Zakynthos (Zante) was mobilized to treat injured tourists who were caught in the landslide at the famous Navagio Beach on Greece's island of Zakynthos. Updated reports say...

The summer weather came to an abrupt end in Crete on Thursday as a severe storm caused flooding along with a significant drop in temperature. Most of the affected areas were near the capital, Heraklion, where roads turned into rivers...

At the first ever speech made by a Prime Minister of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in the plenary of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Zoran Zaev thanked the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras about the Prespa Agreement....

Jane Holl Lute, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Cyprus who visited London on Wednesday, heard that the progress achieved in last year’s Conference on Cyprus, combined with political will, could facilitate a settlement of the long-standing Cyprus issue. Lute was...

The Greek Orthodox Parish and Community of Parramatta Saint Ioannis in Australia’s Sydney successfully organized the Let’s Go Greek Festival. This year’s attendance was tremendous: More than 25,000 Greeks, Australians, and tourists visited the festival that is organized in a...

Rarely seen artifacts outside China are on display at the Acropolis Museum in Athens in an exhibition celebrating Chinese culture and history. The exhibits, including personal items, furniture and works of art belonging to the Qianlong Emperor, the sixth emperor...

Greece and the United States are in deliberations over the establishment of a U.S. Army base on Karpathos island in the Dodecanese. According to an ANT1 television report, discussions are at an advanced stage. The U.S. discusses the use of...

More than 60,000 residential properties in Greece are listed on short-term lease platforms, like Airbnb, the president of the Hellenic Hoteliers Federation said this week. Speaking to the Athens News Agency, the federation president Grigoris Tassios said that the Greek...

A tourist was injured on Thursday following a landslide at the world-renowned beach of Navagio in the Greek island of Zakynthos. He was transferred to the Zakynthos General Hospital, while an emergency team from the local Fire Brigade (EMAK) is...

A criminal court in Piraeus has found eight people guilty of involvement in a drug operation last April that smuggled nearly 1.5 tons of cannabis into Italy by speed boat. The men were each handed jail sentences of up to...

The Constitutional Court of Turkey decided that Hagia Sophia will not be turned into a place of Muslim worship after an appeal made by a private organization called “Authority for Historical Monuments and Environment”. The Temple that was built in...

The European Parliament voted earlier this year on a proposal for the abolition of the measure of Summer Time -- something that every member state of the European Union has observed for decades. Following this vote, the European Commission launched a...

The Constitutional Court of Turkey is due to decide on Thursday whether Hagia Sophia will be turned into a place of Muslim worship after an appeal made by a private organization called "Authority for Historical Monuments and Environment". The Temple that...