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As of Saturday evening, there were signs of a gradual de-escalation in the Aegean, with military sources saying some Turkish Navy ships are returning to their base instead of moving towards Greece's continental shelf. Early in the week, Turkey had...

While Greece's Covid-19 statistics are far below the global average, epidemiologists are worried about the increase in the number of people infected, especially since many of the new cases have been "imported." On Saturday, 31 new cases of Covid-19 were...

Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson met with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his wife Mareva Grabowski while vacationing on the Greek island of Antiparos. The two actors have been vacationing in their summer home on the Greek island since...

Shipowner Panagiotis Laimos passed away at the age of 88, after being hospitalized at Evangelismos Hospital in Athens. His funeral took place on Friday at the First Cemetery of Athens, among a very close  family circle. Laimos was born on Oinousses...

International travelers from Greece and Cyprus are no longer required to quarantine for 14 days upon entering Ireland, due to the country recently reviewing its travel mandates. This new move has now put the two nations in Ireland's "green" list,...

Turkish foreign ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy on Saturday called Greece "the spoiled child of Europe" that "must remember what happened to those who disrespected the Turkish flag in the Aegean." "Greece showed once again its enmity towards Islam and Turkey...

Greek health authorities have decided that travelers from Romania and Bulgaria arriving to Greece must present negative Covid-19 test results otherwise they will not be allowed to enter the country. The measure will apply from the morning of Tuesday, July...

Nearly all historical events have both heroes as well as villains. In the Battle of Thermopylae, Leonidas and his brave 300 were the heroes — and Ephialtes of Trachis, the vile traitor who betrayed the Spartan army, served as...

    The diplomatic marathon initiated by Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias, by which he keeps in constant contact with regional and European officials regarding the troubling situation in the Eastern Mediterranean, continued on Friday. Earlier in the day, Dendias had a phone...

President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou attended an event held on Friday for the heroes of the anti-dictatorship struggle, which was held in the former detention centres of a Greek military police interrogation unit that operated during the...