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Low-cost airline Norse Atlantic Airways will launch its first flight to Athens, Greece from New York City this coming spring. The upcoming JFK-Athens International Airport (ATH) flight is a summer seasonal route that will run between May 30 and Oct....

Archbishop Elpidophoros, head of the Greek Orthodox Church in America, has announced a visit to Mount Athos, the most important center of Eastern Orthodox monasticism, despite  some monasteries who expressed concern about his views on same-sex marriage. According to a...

The first successful liver transplant from a living donor, specifically from a father to his daughter, took place in Greece this week. The operation took place at Athens’s Laiko Hospital, as announced by Deputy Health Minister Irene Agapidaki in a...

An American teenager from Oklahoma has become the first human player to beat Nintendo's classic video game Tetris, thirty-four years after its release. Willis Gibson posted a video on his YouTube channel of the moment he reached level 157, causing...

Greek director George Siougas' latest movie, The One Note Man, was shortlisted for the Oscars in the category "Live Action Short Film." Written, produced, and directed by Siougas, it stars Jason Watkins, Louisa Clein, Crystal Yu, and Paul Barber and...

Greece's culture minister announced on Tuesday the building of a museum at Faliro, south of Athens that will exhibit a group of 78 shackled skeletons, believed to have been executed in the 7th century BC. These remains, known as "Desmotes...

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...