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The 21st annual Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People will take place from December 1-8 in the cities of Pyrgos and Amaliada, Greece. This unique event draws enthusiastic filmmakers and film buffs -- many of whom are...

Greek director Costa-Gavras will receive an award for lifetime achievement at this year's European Film Awards. The legendary filmmaker who directed classics such as "Missing", "Z", "Music Box" and "Betrayed", will be honored by the European Film Academy at the...

Almost 400 runners joined the 2018 Castle Run in the town of Nafplio on Sunday, considered one of the toughest races in Greece. The 5 km race includes a steep climb on the historic castle of Palamidi, overlooking the town,...

Crete has all the potential to be a great cosmonaut rehabilitation centre, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev said on Friday during a meeting with Crete Regional governor Stavros Arnaoutakis. Artemyev is the seventh cosmonaut to visit Crete since 2015 when a...

Daisy Mavraki, crowned as Greece's 1952 "Star Hellas" died on Thursday in Athens aged 83. Mavraki, born in Crete, was voted the most beautiful Greek woman in the the first beauty contest held in the Greek capital after the end...

The European Parliament on Wednesday approved an economic aid package worth €2,308,500 to 550 redundant media workers in Greece. In a statement, the parliament said "550 media workers dismissed by three publishing companies will receive EU aid worth €2,308,500 ...

Stamos Zoulas, the former editor-in-chief of Kathimerini, one of Greece's most respected daily newspapers, died in Athens on Tuesday aged 81. Zoulas was born in 1937 and studied political science at the Panteion University in Athens. He began his career...

The Hellenic Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (HACCI) celebrated the best and brightest of the Hellenic-Australian community at its annual Gala Ball, on Friday, November 16 in Sydney. The HACCI Excellence Awards acknowledge and reward organizations and individuals which...

Eighteen-year-olds Xenophon Koukoutas and Giannis Svoros accepted the inaugural John McCain Prize for Leadership in Public Service last Saturday on behalf of the residents of the entire island of Lesvos, for their "heroic support of refugees fleeing mayhem throughout...

Giannis Antetokounmpo, the ''Greek Freak'' of the National Basketball Association's Milwaukee Bucks recently prepared and served food worth $50,000 to homeless people in Wisconsin. Antetokounmpo, along with his mother and his partner, recently prepared and served food at the St....

ELEPAP-Rehabilitation for The Disabled will hold its first annual reception in New York on December 3 to raise funds for disabled children across Greece. The event will take place at the Kyma Restaurant in the Flatiron, New York City, and...

The Lonsdale Street Greek Festival and the Greek Festival of Sydney have announced that one of Greece’s most popular singing sensations - Eleonora Zouganeli - will be headlining the biggest Greek festivals of 2019. It will be her first-ever Australian...

Corfu is a finalist in a European Film Commissions Network (EUFCN) competition for the best European shooting location for television and film. The island was proposed by the Hellenic Film Commission and the Greek Film Center, which announced that Corfu is...

The Lemnos Gallipoli Commemorative Committee participated in a service by the Oakleigh-Carnegie RSL Sub-Branch on Sunday in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day in 1918. The celebration featured the Oakleigh Band, a wreath laying and a Catafalque procession,...

All wineries across Greece will be open to the public on Sunday in celebration of Wine Tourism Day, giving visitors the opportunity to see how wine is made and to taste different varieties of the beverage. "European Wine Tourism Day"...