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The Greek axiom by Socrates, ΓΝΩΘΙ ΣΑΥΤΟΝ ("Know thyself"), inscribed on the Hiroshima Peace Bell, remains relevant today, 74 years after the first nuclear attack on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.  Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park, in the center of Hiroshima,...

The Rhodes International Jazz Festival in Greece and the Bodrum Jazz Festival in Turkey have announced a collaboration as sister festivals in order to send a message of friendship and goodwill between the two countries. Founder Oktar Varoglu and Tugce...

A giant inflatable Monopoly Man has been seen floating off Psarou Beach on Mykonos since Sunday, making vacationers scratch their heads over what could have attracted him there. "Rich Uncle Pennybags," the mascot of the classic board game Monopoly, has...

Three Greek university students swept the medals, winning one gold and two silver, in this year's International Mathematics Competition (IMC), which took place in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria between July 28 and August 3. The team from the National and Kapodistrian University...

The draw for the UEFA Champions League play-offs was held on Monday, revealing the potential rivals for PAOK and Olympiacos on their way to securing a position in this year's top European football championship. Greece's champion team PAOK, from Thessaloniki, will have...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu spoke to the 11th ''Ambassadors Conference'' in Ankara on Monday, where he presented a map depicting what Turkey considers to be the extent of its own continental shelf in the Mediterranean Sea. The map Cavusoglu...

Famous Italian actress and model Monica Bellucci was spotted on the Greek island of Paros a few days ago, where she was seen spending some relaxing moments during her summer holidays. Bellucci has been known to visit the island for quite...

A tragic incident took place on Sunday night on Greece's Chios Island, when a steel and glass basketball hoop and pole fell over onto a 19-year old man from Athens, killing him. The young man had been spending his summer...

The first underwater archaeological research period of the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities off the island of Levitha has yielded some important discoveries, according to the  Ministry of Culture and Sports. The research was conducted from June 15 to 29, 2019,...

Tom Hanks' son, Chet, shot a video recently of an off-duty police officer beating up a man on Antiparos Island, following a brawl between two groups. Chet Hanks, 29, the son of Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, has vacationed on Antiparos...

Greek-Australian tennis player Nick Kyrgios won it all at the Washington Open, sponsored by Citibank, on Sunday. Kyrgios, playing in the final against Russia's Daniil Medvedev, won with a score of 2-0, going 8-6 and 7-4, earning a second title for...

The Ancient Greek Theater Festival of Carnuntum, featuring Melina Mercouri, began on Saturday, at the amphitheater of the ancient Roman city of Carnuntum, today's Austrian city of Petronell. Mercouri was described at the festival as the ''most important Greek woman of...

American actor Kevin Spacey recited a poem about a battered boxer as he stood next to an iconic statue of a fighter during a surprise performance at a Rome museum on Friday night, according to an Associated Press report. Spacey’s...

Dozens of black and white photographs of 1936 Greece are included in a German travelogue published in 1941 in Berlin. The rare book "Griechenland im auto Erlebt" (Travelling through Greece by car), has recently resurfaced thanks to Liza's Photographic Archive...

Lichadonisia or Lichades (Λιχαδονήσια) is a beautiful island complex in Northeast Evia which resembles the exotic Seychelles. This truly paradisal place consists of seven islands and islets. Manolia is the largest one and it is a major tourist attraction in...