Greece

Career diplomat Gregory W. Pfleger, Jr. has arrived in Thessaloniki to assume the office of US Consul General in Greece's second largest city. Ambassador to Athens Geoffrey Pyatt hailed his arrival at "a crucial time for U.S. engagement in northern...

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras hailed Greece's exit from its bailout program on Tuesday in a televised address from the island of Ithaca. "Today a new day is dawning in our country, a historic day. The bailouts of recession, austerity, recession...

Greek Culture Minister Lydia Koniordou has formally requested the resumption of talks for the return of the Parthenon Marbles by the British Museum. According to a ministry statement on Monday, Koniordou made the request through a letter to her British...

July 20 and August 14, 1974 – mark a day of remembrance and a morbid recollection of Attila’s military invasion of Cyprus. This is the time when the shrieking sound of sirens blasting across the island wake up ghosts...

Dramatic footage emerged of the moment the fire that claimed at least 96 lives in eastern Attica on July 23 erupted in a plot of land in the area of Daou Pentelis. The footage, currently under examination by police experts,...

The first burned-out buildings from the fires that devastated the Greek resort of Mati in July were demolished by bulldozers on Monday. Almost a month since the deadly fire of July 23, that claimed the lives of at least 96...

This is the touching moment when a group of volunteers rescued a puppy that got trapped inside a storm sewer in an Athenian suburb. The Star-Special Team Animal Rescue were called by residents of Psychiko who could hear the cries...

Greece turned a page on eight years of spending cuts and three straight international bailouts on Monday as experts warned that the country's economic challenges are far from over. The European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary...

Bathers and volunteers gathered at a beach in Greece's Mykonos to assist new born sea turtles reach the sea in their first and most important journey in their life. The footage by Mykonos TV, shows dozens of little caretta-caretta turtles...

Greece has made the World Health Organization's (WHO) list as being one out of seven countries reporting over 1,000 cases of measles outbreak since the beginning of 2018. During the first six months of the year, the country saw a...