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Greek Alternate Minister for Culture Nikos Xydakis expressed Greece’s full support for the UNESCO directives on the national policies to combat illicit trading of cultural goods, during his speech at the Third Meeting of States Parties to the 1970 Convention...

Greece's Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias will be in Brussels on Monday, May 18, to participate in an EU Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) meeting, according to a Greek Foreign Ministry announcement. The FAC proceedings will begin with a joint working breakfast of...

The geopolitical changes in the Eastern Mediterranean have become like shifting sand; land is gained and lands are lost; souls vanquish and lives perish at each day’s passing. With the Assad "regime change” and Jihad atrocities in Syria and...

Greece expressed its abhorrence of the destruction of antiquities in Mosul’s Museum and Public Library in Iraq by ISIS. "We express our abhorrence of the base and barbaric destruction of the ancient and cultural treasures of inestimable historical value in Iraq...

Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias underlined the geopolitical importance of Greece in the meeting of Med Group diplomats. Mr. Kotzias underlined that a possible Greek economic collapse would have negative results in the entire region. As he argued, Greece’s destabilization at...

Pope Francis wrapped up his visit to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on Sunday by attending a Divine Liturgy at the Patriarchal Church of St. George in Istanbul and signing a joint declaration of the two Churches. Pope Francis was enthusiastically greeted...

No one seems to hear the bellowing echoes for justice in Cyprus. Ever since the Turkish military invasion of the island in 1974, trapped citizens keep asking why and what is happening to their country. Why has this elusive...

AP - Greece 's top security official says his government has accepted a request from the United States to step up screening at the country's ports and airports for suspected volunteers traveling from Europe to fight with Islamic State...

Greek State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki has confirmed press reports that the US government has demanded that the Greek government arrest jihadi fighters traveling through the country en route from Albania and Bosnia to Syria and Iraq. “We’ve of course...

Iraq has announced it filed a lawsuit against Greek shipping firm Marine Management Services (MMS) for exporting crude oil from the Kurdistan region. The Iraqi Oil Ministry said on Thursday that the Greek company operated five vessels which had transported oil on behalf of...