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The effort that various analysts are making in order to present Samaras’ visit to the White House as a step that will bring a new start in Greek-American relations and that it indicates the country’s upgrade in US eyes...

Minister of Tourism Olga Kefaloyianni expressed her satisfaction with the reopening of the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion, Crete. The museum was closed for years, but now it will open again to the public with a brand new wing. Kefaloyianni visited...

More and more Italian tourists are discovering northern Greece thanks to the completion of the motorway Egnatia Odos and to the increase of the direct air connections of Thessaloniki with northern and central Italy. Tourism from Italy has been also...

Simon Critchley, a professor of philosophy at The New School in New York City, brought the house down at the 23d World Congress of Philosophy meeting in Athens when he said the Parthenon Marbles stolen from the Acropolis nearly...

The Hellenic Railways Organization (ERGOSE) will sell 17,500 olive trees from olive groves in northern Peloponnese in order to construct the new railway network. The trees are in olive groves which were expropriated along with fields in Korinthia and Achaea,...

The Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras communicated with the President of Cyprus Nikos Anastasiadis and briefed him on the talks he had in Washington with the President of the U.S.A. Barack Obama and the Secretary of State John Kerry. As...

Greece's major opposition party the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), not unexpectedly didn't think much of Greek Prime Minister and New Democracy Conservative leader Antonis Samaras' Aug. 8 White House meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama. SYRIZA stressed that...

It's been an anxious week for Greeks with earthquakes, including an aftershock of 4.9 on Aug. 8, only two days after the area around Athens was hit with 5.1 magnitude tremor. The strongest aftershock took place at 2:49 p.m. near the...

A ceremony marking the last stand of the 300 Spartans and their Greek allies against the Persian hordes of King Xerxes at the Pass of Thermopylae, a gallant battle that helped save Western Civilization, was marked on Aug. 8. Some...

It was a little after 4 in the morning on August 9, when the psalm by the young imam from Xanthi, Greece, was heard from Yeni Mosque in Thessaloniki, inviting all Muslims living or visiting as tourists the city...

Greece's busiest-ever tourist season continues to get better with news that there was a 9.28 percent rise in air arrivals, mirroring that of arrivals via ship. Some 6,887,532 people have flown into Greece so far this season with the...

The first feature film of Michalis Konstantatos, Luton, will premiere at the 61st edition of San Sebastian Film Festival, in Spain, which will take place from Sept. 20-28. The plot of the film Luton is the following:  Jimmy is a...

With Greece's unemployment at a record 27.6 percent and 64.9 percent for those under 25, the British newspaper the Telegraph has likened the economic catastrophe to what Kosovo was like, comparing Greece to its northern neighbor. The Telegraph opened its...

Τhe Japanese Peace Boat is expected to sail into the port of Limassol on August 15. The peace boat had sailed on July 18 from Yokohama for a 85 day-trip around the earth to pass the message of a...

Krinio Marouda, a student from Lechaina, a town in Elis, West Greece, won the bronze medal at the 7th International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA), which took place for the first time in Greece. This is the second medal...