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The owner of a nursing home in the northern Athens suburb of Agios Stefanos, where several people were found to have been infected with the coronavirus, committed suicide early Wednesday. According to police investigators, Dimitris Kampanaros, 41, founder of the...

A stoppage time goal by late substitute Ahmed Hassan gave Olympiacos a 1-0 win over Olympique Marseille in their Champions League Group C match on Wednesday. Hassan, who came on for Giorgos Masouras in the 84th minute, headed home an...

Saudi supermarkets are pulling down Turkish products and replacing them with products from Greece, Egypt and Morocco as the Kingdom's authorities have called for a sweeping boycott of “everything Turkish.” Social media users are posting photographs from supermarkets where products...

A shocking 865 cases of Covid-19 were diagnosed in the country on Wednesday, along with six deaths in those who had suffered with the virus. This is by far the highest number of Covid-19 cases recorded in Greece in a...

Greece urged the European Union on Wednesday to reconsider its customs union with Turkey in response to Ankara’s continued gas explorations in the eastern Mediterranean, deploring what it termed Ankara’s “imperial fantasies.” After meeting with President Nicos Anastasiades and Egypt’s...

Just days after Greece announced that it would complete a new border fence along the Evros River, which forms the border with Turkey, Citizen Protection Minister Mihalis Chrisochoidis stated on Wednesday that the country would hire an additional 800 border...

Heavy rains, waterspouts and other extreme weather phenomena, including flooding on Crete, were recorded around the Greek islands in the Aegean on Wednesday as much of the country experienced severe storms. Just past noon on Wednesday, a waterspout, also called...

The well-regarded publication Condé Nast has published the names of the winners in its competition "Top 30 Resorts in Europe: Readers' Choice Awards 2020," featuring six world-class hotels and resorts in Greece. Long considered a top travel destination for luxury travel...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis hailed the recent accord with Egypt on maritime boundaries on Wednesday, stressing that the agreement is a good illustration of how other regional problems can be solved. Mitsotakis met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi...

King Willem-Alexander and his consort, Queen Maxima, apologized to the Dutch people today after it came to light that the family had taken a trip to Greece in the middle of the second wave of the coronavirus in Holland,...