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Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos‘ film The Favourite, which had ten Academy Award nominations, will make its Netflix debut on January 23rd. The Favourite is a 2018 historical black comedy film co-produced and directed by Yorgos Lanthimos from a screenplay by...

Greece is heading for a new record year in tourism in 2024, industry officials say, pointing to early bookings. The current trajectory of airline reservations, encompassing both sold tickets and seats allocated by airlines for the upcoming season, indicates a...

Foreign tourists entering the former Orthodox Christian cathedral of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul will have to pay an entrance fee of 25 euros ($27) starting on Monday. Turkish nationals visiting for religious worship will continue to enter for free from...

Vangelis Tsapas, the creator of the first Greek cryptocurrency, is currently hospitalized at Evangelismos Hospital after attempting suicide. The Greek businessman consumed chlorine as well as Aqua Forte, a cleaning solution containing hydrochloric acid. He was admitted to the on-call...

They call it the "Parthenon of the Peloponnese." The columned temple of Apollo Epicurius is as beautiful as the Parthenon in Athens, as it rises within the sanctuary of Bassae in the mountains of Arcadia. Near the border of Messinia prefecture, the...

Boehringer Ingelheim, a leading research-driven biopharmaceutical company, announced a further expansion and upgrade of its plant in Koropi, Greece on Thursday. With an investment of 120 million euros, the company will increase the manufacturing capacity of new and existing medications. The...

An elderly Greek Australian woman has donated tens of thousands of euros to the hospital in Argostoli, Kefalonia, the place where she was born ninety-three years ago. Rubina Liosatou, who left Kefalonia for Australia sixty-five years ago, never forgot her...

The Greek shipowner of the St. Nikolas oil tanker seized by Iran on Thursday said it is seeking any help from the US government in regaining control of its vessel in a US court filing, Reuters reports. “While defendants hope...

Greece will offer aid to Armenia's refugees of Nagorno-Karabakh who were displaced by Azerbaijan, Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis said on Wednesday in Yerevan. Greece “will soon support a program that will fund the forcibly displaced persons of Nagorno-Karabakh, to meet...

Iran claims it has seized Greek-owned oil tanker St. Nikolas off the coast of Oman, sparking fears that the Islamic republic may increase attacks on ships in the Middle East's waterways. According to The Financial Times, Tasnim News Agency, which...