Greece

  Greece has honored the first cosmonaut of Greek origin, Fyodor Yurchikhin Grammatikopoulos, who sent a message to the country's children to "not be afraid to have big dreams". Sunday's ceremony took place at the northern city's Royal Theater with several...

The numbers of people in migrant reception camps must be decreased, Greek Migration Policy Minister Dimitris Vitsas said on Monday, referring to the northern Aegean islands bearing the brunt of the migrant influx. Vitsas, speaking to the Athens News Agency radio...

Greece's main opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has called on the SYRIZA-led government to legislate for the Greek diaspora to vote in general elections. In an interview to Sunday's edition of the To Vima newspaper, the leader of conservative New Democracy party...

Greece's president, Prokopis Pavlopoulos, on Monday criticized the prolonged detention of two Greek soldiers in a Turkish prison since early March. During a visit to Alexandroupoli, in Thrace, where he attended the celebration of the 98th anniversary of its liberation, Pavlopoulos...

A 19-year-old woman and her 54-year-old mother have been arrested in connection with the dead infant found dead in a garbage bin in Petroupoli, an outlying northwestern suburb of Athens. The infant was found in the rubbish, wrapped in a...

Brother and sister Dionysis (19) and Anna Korakaki (22) won bronze for Greece at the final competition day the World Pistol Cup in the U.S. It was the first time that the two athletes from Drama in northern Greece appeared...

Members of Greece's anarchist group Rouvikonas (Rubicon) carried out a protest outside the residence of the Austrian ambassador in Athens on Sunday. A group of anarchists riding motorbikes approached the ambassador’s residence and threw flyers at the building in what...

It is something of a running joke that you can't dig anywhere in Greece without stumbling across some relic of the country's ancient past. Wartime is apparently no exception to this rule, as an exhibition dedicated to the sites and...

As elderly Greeks face losing up to €350 ($416) per month when new pension cuts are implemented as of Jan. 1, 2019 a government minister has confirmed that pensions under €1,000 will also be included. Deputy Minister for Social Security Tasos Petropoulos...

Greek contemporary music enthusiasts are preparing for a double dose of entertainment this coming weekend, with popular Greek singers from Greece Michalis Haztigiannis and Giorgos Mazonakis, who will be performing back to back on two separate nights, in Vancouver. Greek...