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A Greek sailing coach admitted on Friday that he had had what he called a "relationship" with an 11-year-old athlete in the latest twist in sexual abuse in sport. Speaking anonymously to MEGA's LiveNews show, the coach -- who now lives...

A total of 585 new cases of Covid-19 were diagnosed in Greece over the past 24 hours, and 288 people are now intubated in the country's ICUs, while 28 new deaths occurred in those with the coronavirus in the...

Philhellene Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) was named the new chairman of the US Senate's powerful Foreign Relations Committee after Democrats took control of both houses of Congress in the November elections. Menendez, a tireless defender of Greece, had chaired the...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis had no idea that his bare-chested photograph while taking his second vaccine shot against Covid-19 would soon go viral. But it did. The Greek Prime Minister received the second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine on...

Traveling to Greece directives calling for a seven-day quarantine of airline passengers from abroad and a restriction of international flights have been extended until Monday, February 8, 2021. Also, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on Friday announced a new directive...

Greece announced on Thursday that is extending the mandatory military service in the land forces to twelve months, from the current nine. The duration of military service in the Greek Army, the Navy and the Air Force has now been...

Greek-American Nicholas Logothetis, Co-Founder and Chairman of Concordia and executive board member at the Libra Group, says he will extend an invitation to President Biden to visit Greece. Logothetis was instrumental in bringing President Biden to Greece in 2017 to...

Greece remains the only "green" country on the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control's (ECDC) coronavirus map showing each European country's Covid-19 status. The ECDC releases a series of maps each Thursday that indicate the epidemiological circumstances across Europe,...

A total of 509 Covid-19 cases were diagnosed in Greece on Thursday, seven fewer than the 516 cases that were recorded in the country one day earlier, on Wednesday. Tragically, 25 people with the virus passed away in the country...

A moderate earthquake rocked the Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus on Thursday afternoon. According to the Cypriot Department of Geological Survey, the earthquake measured 5.4 on the Richter scale. The quake, felt across the entire island, delayed the Cypriot Parliament's vote...