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Europe
New Bridge Between Turkey and Greece
Ankara and Athens have initiated efforts to build a new bridge between Turkey and Greece to ease traffic, Anatolia news agency reported quoting Turkish Deputy Minister of Customs and Trade, Fatih Metin.
Metin examined the border gate of Ipsala on...
Greece
Free Physical Exercise by MCH Training
When you hear about workout, you probably think of a gym, a group class or a stadium. Have you ever thought that you might be forgetting the simplest choice of all? OUTDOOR WORKOUT!
This was the innovative idea of the...
Australia
Greek-Australian Sisters Organize Penny Marathon 2013
The Penny Marathon is an initiative aiming at raising awareness of the plight of stray, neglected and abused companion animals, at sensitizing people on stray animals’ adoption and neutering programs.
The initiative began in July 2012 by a small group...
Europe
Shisha Drug Grows Popular in Debt-Stricken Athens
While the economic crisis is still taking its toll on Greece, the capital city of Athens is at the center of the whirlwind. Poverty and unemployment, hunger and homelessness have increased in Greece the last few years bringing new...
Greece
Turkish Airlines Promote Greek Tourism
Travel agents from Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran, and Azerbaijan traveled to Athens via Istanbul and visited Mykonos.
Turkish Airlines, in cooperation with the travel agency MidEast International tours, who celebrated 30 years of operation, invited tourist agents...
Canada
Toronto Film Festival to Focus on Athens for 2013 City to City Programme
Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of the Toronto International Film Festival, and Dimitri Eipides, International Programmer for the Festival, announced today that the city of Athens, Greece will be the focus of the 2013 City to City programme at the...
Economy
Kefalogianni Met Visit Sweden Chief
The Greek Minister of Culture and Tourism, Olga Kefalogianni, visited Sweden and among others, met Thomas Bruhl, the chief of Visit Sweden, a Swedish tourist organization.
They discussed about the development of common activities as well as the exchange of...
Europe
BBC’s Tribute to the Evzones
Mark Lowen from the BBC News visited Athens to make a tribute video to the Greek Presidential Guard. As he states in the video, Greece’s tradition wouldn’t be the same without its Presidential Guard. Sunday morning and the soldiers...
Celebrities
Supermodel Irina Shayk 'Adores' Greece and Its 'Amazing People'
Supermodel Irina Shayk visited Greece this week, attending events in Athens while also doing a little bit of sightseeing. During her stay, she took to Twitter and Facebook to express her love for Greece, saying it was her "best...
Art
Students Create Art Against Modern Slavery
While the incident of exploitation of immigrants in Manolada, Ilia, shocks the Greek public opinion, students of the schools of Attica send their own message against modern slavery with their works of art for the exhibition, Step2Freedom, which will...