The death of former Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou on November 1, 1968, became the crucible for Greece’s first major act of defiance against the military junta. This event allowed an estimated 300,000 Greeks to pour into the streets and...
Alois Brunner, one of the most ruthless figures of the Holocaust and a key collaborator of Adolf Eichmann, was directly responsible for the systematic deportation and murder of tens of thousands of Jews across Europe, with his actions in...
Greece's national weather service has issued an extraordinary bulletin warning of heavy rain and thunderstorms across much of the country on Sunday, November 1, and Monday, November 2, with a chance of heavy hail.
The Hellenic National Meteorological Service, known...
Several European Union countries blocked a plan to grant Canada "associate membership," removing the proposed status from a joint summit declaration while agreeing to pursue closer political and economic ties with Ottawa.
A revised declaration approved Wednesday replaces the term...
On October 28, 1940, Greece refused an Italian ultimatum, a moment the country still marks every year as OXI Day. Eighteen months earlier, Britain had publicly promised to stand behind exactly that kind of refusal.
On April 13, 1939, Prime...
In April 1941, German troops invaded Athens. The next morning, Nazi officers went to the National Archaeological Museum to inspect the antiquities and assess which ones they would steal to transport them to Germany.
However, to their surprise, the museum...
Greek resistance to the Axis powers during the Second World War was the longest of all the nations of Western Europe, with the exception of the U.K., which was never occupied outside of the Channel Islands.
According to historical records,...
It was a few minutes after 5:00 AM on October 28, 1940. The Italian military forces were ordered to launch their first attack in the Greco-Italian War at the Greek-Albanian border in the Pindos Mountains.
Vassilios Tsiavaliaris, a 28-year-old Greek...
Greece's contribution to World War II was far greater than simply defeating the Italian army and shaming fascist leader Benito Mussolini by saying "OXI," or "no" to his demand to allow Italian troops into the country.
The Greek army fought...
Three Arab nations, Egypt, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, joined Greece in the Turkey-Libya maritime dispute on Monday, opposing a contested sea boundary agreement after Libya's eastern parliament approved it.
Greek Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis delivered the joint declaration...
