Greece
Greece
Moses Constantinis, Central Board of Jewish Communities Fmr. President, Passes Away
The Embassy of Israel in Greece announced the death of Moses Constantinis, former President of the Central Jewish Council of Greece (KIS), on Thursday. He was 86 years old.
The embassy statement stresses that Constantinis worked to promote the issues...
Diplomacy
Greece's Tsipras to Meet with Erdogan in New York
The Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will visit New York to participate in the proceedings of the UN General Assembly.
Tsipras will also meet there the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
The bilateral relations along with the Cyprus issue and the...
Diplomacy
FYROM's Zaev Retracts 'One Macedonia' Comment
In an interview with the MKD portal, the Prime Minister of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Zoran Zaev, said that ''there is no other Macedonia but ours.''
More specifically, Zaev said: ''The northern part of Greece is Greece, the western...
Diplomacy
FYROM's Opposition to Support Constitutional Changes If Referendum Approved
Hristijan Mickoski, the leader of the main opposition VMRO-DPMNE party in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, speaking with journalists of broadcaster TV21, said that "we will respect the decision," referring to a possible positive outcome in the upcoming...
Australia
Haris Stamboulidis: From Melbourne City Youths to Top of Greece’s Super League
The soccer career of Haris Stamboulidis is the stuff that sports movies are made of: After winning the 2013 title with Melbourne City's youth, he went to study at Columbia University in New York, then ended up signing a professional...
Greece
CNN Amazed by Greece's Patmos, the Island of Revelation
John Malathronas, CNN's travel editor was amazed by all he saw on his recent visit to the Greek island of Patmos which he reffered to as: The island where the end of the world begun. The island of the Apocalypse.
The...
Greece
Ashura Festival in Athens Climaxes with Bloody Self-Flagellation
Hundreds of Shia Muslims gathered in Piraeus, south of Athens, to mark the day of Ashura, the tenth day of in the Islamic calendar.
The ritual involved self-flagellation, hitting oneself with a whip as part of a religious ritual, as is common in...
Greece
First 100 Migrants Removed from Overcrowded Lesvos Camp (video)
The first 100 out of a total of 2,000 asylum seekers scheduled to be removed from the Moria refugee camp on Lesvos departed by ferry on Friday for Kavala in Northern Greece.
The move came after Medecins Sans Frontieres warned...
entertainment
40 Years of Greek Popular Music at Margaritis' Concert
A host of Greek singers and composers will gather on Monday September 28 at Athens's Theatro Vraxon to pay tribute to Giogros Margaritis, one of the few remaining authentic voices of Greek popular music, ta laika.
Composers Mimis Plessas, Christos...
Cyprus
Turkey: We Will Protect Our Rights by Any Means Necessary
Turkey warned Greece and Cyprus by announcing that it will protect its rights by any means necessary during Thursday's National Security Council chaired by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The council discussed issues regarding the latest developments in the Aegean and...