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A spike in Covid-19 infections has been recorded in Greece over the festive season with experts warning that the peak of the current outbreak will be the end of January. On January 1st, the National Organization for Public Health (EODY)...

This week, after years of restoration work, Greece is set to open the Palace of Aigai, where Alexander the Great was sworn in as king. Culture Minister Lina Mendoni announced that the official opening of the place, which the scholar...

Japan has issued a major tsunami warning after a series of strong earthquakes. The quakes hit Ishikawa and nearby prefectures, with one having a preliminary magnitude of 7.6, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. It issued a major tsunami warning...

Weather extremes including heatwaves, wildfires, and floods as well as the rail disaster at Tempi have defined 2023 in Greece. However, there was also some good news including the improvement in relations with Turkey and the resurgence of the Greek...

The population of Greece has experienced a decrease in 2023 compared to the previous year. In 2022, the population was 10,461,627, according to the Greek Statistical Authority. The 0.5 percent decrease can be attributed to a low birth rate...

  On the newly released annual catalog of the best new Luxury Hotels by Luxury Travel Intelligence (LTI), two hotels in Greece ranked in the top 15. The Mandarin Oriental, Costa Navarino, and the Dolli in Athens are among the...

An adult female bear was freed from an illegal trap after the successful collaboration of Greek and Albanian authorities and wildlife organizations, it was reported on Thursday. Weighing almost two hundred pounds (approximately ninety kilograms), the five-year-old bear managed to...

Greek humanitarian aid arrived at Egypt's El Arish airport with the Gaza Strip as its final destination. The cargo of humanitarian aid, which was provided by the non-governmental organizations Médecins du Monde Greece and International Humanitarian Aid Foundation, includes a...

The government of Tony Blair in the UK backed loaning the Parthenon Marbles to Greece in 2004, declassified documents reveal. In the early 2000s, progress on resolving the thorn in bilateral ties appeared imminent. Greece proposed a then-novel solution, suggesting...

A Greek police officer was killed in the early hours of Thursday in an altercation at a bar in the northern port city of Thessaloniki. The unnamed police officer, aged 32, died after being stabbed with a knife for reprimanding...