Greek News

Greek diplomats appear relieved by the fact that Ankara has not yet submitted an official request for the extradition of eight Turkish army officials who fled to Greece by helicopter following last month’s failed coup. According to Greek diplomats the main...

Ten months after fleeing the Syrian capital of Damascus, Syrian refugee swimmer Yusra Mardini has been selected together with nine fellow refugees to be part of the Refugee Olympic Team (ROT) at the Olympic Games Rio 2016. The 18...

During the opening ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, American TV station NBC referred to FYROM (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) as Macedonia while another TV station in Australia went even further by associating Greek history and Alexander the Great...

Artistic gymnast and Olympian Eleftherios Petrounias put on a stunning performance to make it to the Men's Rings final in Rio. The Greek champion performed an unmistakably impeccable program and is a favorite to win a gold medal in the...

The ancient Greek statue of Zeus, in Olympia, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world was lost in the 5th century. Archaeologists have only found descriptions and illustrations of it on coins. Two 3D printing companies –Stratasys and...

Authorities in Greece have doubled their efforts to catch tax evaders over the last year. The Greek Finance Ministry’s General Secretariat for Public Revenue has issued an official statement asking citizens to help combat tax evasion by exercising their...

The Olympic Games 2016 kicked off on Friday, August 5 with the opening ceremony that took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Following the tradition of past years, the Greek athletes led the athletes’ parade, because of the country’s...

The Greek Culture Ministry is planning on declaring the old Athens Airport (Elliniko) as an archaeological site, as well as the area surrounding it. This would complicate plans to develop the area, only two months after the Hellenic Republic...

A Greek police officer had to be transferred to the local hospital to treat his injuries, when refugees at the Chios hotspot started clashing and throwing stones at each other. The refugees complained about the quality of food in the camp....

Ten refugee athletes made history on Friday evening marching into Maracana Stadium in Brazil during the Opening Ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. For the first time in the history of the modern Olympics a team has been...

Joint teams of Bulgarian and Greek police are to control traffic in the regions of the border between the two countries from August 5 to October 30, 2016, the Bulgarian Interior Ministry said. During this time, the teams will monitor...

One day before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games 2016, in Rio, Brazil, a Greek athlete was banned by the Hellenic National Council for Combating Doping. The swimmer had already travelled to Rio when she was informed that...

The Greek football team Olympiakos will face the Portuguese Arouca in the Europa League playoffs, in order to get the “ticket” for the group stage of the championship, revealed the draw that was held in Nyon, Switzerland. Greece’s Red-Whites...

The word “coup,” referring to the attempted coup in Turkey last month, was by far the most searched word in the Greek Wikipedia in July with 3,523 readings on average per day, according to data. It was followed by the...

Ways to facilitate the export of Greek saffron cultivated in Kozani to Arab countries was the center of a meeting between the Cooperative of Saffron Producers of Kozani, the general secretary of the Arab-Hellenic Chamber Rashad Mabger and the...