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The redesigned lighting for all the major Athenian monuments is now complete, with the new lighting for the temple of Hephaestus and the monument to Philopappos shown for the first time on Tuesday evening in the Greek capital. The lighting...

Greeks who will choose to share their Christmas day or New Year’s lunch with family or friends should send an SMS with the number 6 to leave their home, government spokesman Stelios Petsas said on Tuesday. According to the lockdown...

The German foreign minister on Monday expressed his country's opposition to Greece’s demand to impose an arms embargo on Turkey. Speaking to the Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa), Heiko Maas said: “I do not find the demand of an arms embargo against...

More than 100 top level speakers, from the Greek and international government, business and financial communities, offered to a global audience an authoritative and insightful blueprint of the state of the Greek economy during the “22nd Capital Link Invest in...

The Acropolis Museum launched a new website on Monday that brings the museum's collection to life through digital exhibitions and an extensive virtual catalogue of its ancient artifacts. The new website includes not just information about the museum's history, future...

In a press conference on Monday, Maria Theodoridou, president of Greece's National Vaccinations Committee, announced that the country would receive over 1.2 million doses of the Pfizer Covid vaccine by the end of March. The first inoculations in the country...

After many weeks of high covid-19 case numbers in the country, the number of daily cases recorded in Greece has finally fallen for the past two days. The country recorded a total of 526 new cases of Covid-19 on Monday,...

Greece received a number of specialty vaccine refrigerator/freezers, designed to keep the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine at a frigid -70 degrees Celsius (-94 degrees Fahrenheit), on Sunday. The refrigerator/freezers -- which are currently being stored at an undisclosed location -- have...

The Greek and Turkish foreign ministers exchanged tweets over the future of their countries' bilateral relations in an unusual case of diplomacy through social media over the weekend. Turkish FM Mevlut Cavusoglu started the surreal exchange by providing unsolicited advice...

The beautiful and evocative music of Asia Minor took the audience at the Sydney Opera House on an historic, emotional journey in two performances recently, showcasing the melodies and rhythms of its rich, ancient cultures. The band members say that...