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President Biden sent a letter to four senior members of Congress on Wednesday urging them to quickly approve a $20 billion sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey, following the vote one day earlier by Turkey’s Parliament to allow...

The bill on postal voting for Greeks living abroad was approved for the European elections but rejected for national elections during a parliamentary vote on Wednesday. It was supported by the governing New Democracy party (ND) but was opposed...

On Thursday, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) is introducing a new display on Cycladic Art featuring some 161 works made in the Early Bronze Age (3200 to 2000 BCE) from The Leonard N. Stern Collection, which is owned...

Greece has achieved a significant increase in the number of organ donations in 2023 but still lags far behind other European countries. According to data released on Wednesday by the National Transplantation Organization (EOM), organ donation and transplants have shown...

The Parliament in Turkey passed a bill on the approval of the ratification of the protocol on Sweden's accession to NATO on Tuesday. After a parliamentary session that lasted about four hours, the bill was approved by 287 out of...

The Holy Synod, the highest governing body of the Church of Greece, expressed its opposition to the government's expected bill on same-sex marriage and vowed to campaign against it. Top clerics unanimously decided to launch a campaign to prevent the...

On Monday, the Greek government introduced an amendment to a bill that would include postal voting in the national elections and European elections scheduled for later this year. The amendment establishes postal voting as the exclusive method of voting for...

Atlanta's Emory University returned three stolen artifacts from the Michael C. Carlos Museum collection to Greece on Monday after confirming that the antiquities were illegally acquired or trafficked. The agreement for repatriation, signed by the Emory University Provost Ravi V....

Greece announced a package of measures for new parents aimed at helping families cope with the rising cost of living and tackling the demographic problem facing the country. Minister of National Economy and Finance Kostis Hatzidakis and Minister of Social...

Keros, the small, uninhabited Cycladic island south of Naxos, Greece, had one of the most important Cycladic settlements during the Bronze Age, reaching the peak of its civilization around 2,500 BC. The islet of Daskalio, a pyramid-shaped islet located just off...