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A Marathon Race will be taking place in Ottawa this year, as the highlight of the annual races. The marathon’s organization is under the initiative of the Greek Ambassador in Otawwa, Eleftherios Aggelopoulos. The Tamarack Ottawa Race will be held...

A solidarity concert under the title Cyprus Aid is scheduled for April 1 at Tafros Costanza in Nicosia with 50 artists from Greece and Cyprus participating in an eight-hour even that will begin at 4 p.m. and end at...

Greek filmmaker Dimitris Kollatos was arrested, on March 27 at his house in Kolonaki, Athens on the charge of insulting the national emblem. Kollatos raised on the balcony of his house, which is situated almost opposite the German Embassy, a...

Greek-American politician Aravella Simotas has been named Woman of the Year by the Association of Greek American Professional Women  for the help and care she provides to young women. Simotas was awarded during an event held to celebrate The...

George Venizelos, FBI Assistant Director in Charge (New York Division) will be the Grand Marshal of this year’s Greek Independence Day Parade, on April 7 in Manhattan, an affair that will be the culmination of months of hard work...

The unknown aspects of the Battle of Crete’s aftermath, especially for the Australians and the New Zealanders, will be presented by Ian Frazer at the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, on March 28. Ian Frazer is a historian, former Lecturer...

Munich's Higher Regional Court prohibited Turkish media from being in the court to report on the trial of German neo-Nazis, members of the National Socialist Underground (NSU), accused of murdering eight Turks and one Greek. “It is a scandal, it...

How rock was Alexander the Great? The Rock Opera entitled Alexander is a theatrical-musical production of a play created by the Greek composer Constantine Athirides and the English lyricist Penny Turner. The story begins on the island of Samothrace, one year...

BBC is going to replace Merlin in the schedules with a Greek myth family adventure show, Atlantis, written by Misfits’ Howard Overman. This new fantasy drama, that will travel us to the legendary island of Atlantis, featuring Mark Addy...

The winners of the 2013 European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage/Europa Nostra Awards were unveiled today by the European Commission and Europa Nostra. The 30 winners, selected from nearly 200 nominated projects, are honored for their achievements in four...

The meeting of the Pan-Orthodox ecclesiastic choirs took place in Bavaria’s capital for the ninth consecutive year, with the initiative of the Orthodox Theological Faculty of the University of Munich. The Pan-Orthodox concert was hosted by the All Saints Court...

INTRALOT’s subsidiary in Peru, INTRALOT de Peru continued the enrichment of its product portfolio with the introduction of the Mobile Web version of its online gaming platform for both Smartphones and Tablets. Through this new initiative, INTRALOT de Peru...

Steve Hoover’s Blood Brother (pictured), Nikos Dayandas’s Little Land, and Katherine Fairfax Wright and Malika Zouhali-Worrall’s Call Me Kuchu were among the winners at the 15th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. The Greek festival, which ran from March 15-24, also gave prizes...

Brothers Evangelos and George Giovanis have finally settled into Los Angeles. After moving around as kids - from Rhode Island to Greece (their parents are from Ioannina and Nafplio), and then back to the States - the two Greek-Americans...

Greeks who live in Austria came together on March 25 for Independence Day celebrations with a doxology sung at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity on Fleischmarkt in the 1st district of Vienna. The celebrations continued...