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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...

On December 28, the Greek Orthodox Church commemorates the death of the 20,000 Martyrs of Nicomedia, modern Izmit in Turkey, who were burned to death at the order of the Roman Emperor Maximian in the year 303. At the turn...

Greece is prepared to periodically send ancient artifacts to the British Museum in return for the Parthenon Marbles, the Culture Minister told The Guardian. Lina Mendoni promised that the London institution’s revered Greek galleries would not go empty. “Our position...

A Greek Air Force pilot was killed on Wednesday when his training jet crashed in the countryside near the southern town of Kalamata, Greece. The crash occurred outside an air base. The two-seater T-2 aircraft was carrying only one crew...

A Greek police officer has succumbed to injuries caused by a flare shot during an attack by hooligans on riot police outside a volleyball stadium in Rentis near Piraeus on December 7th. The 31-year-old officer had been hospitalized at Nikaia...