Greek News

The director of the Moria migrant camp on Lesvos has accused U.S. magazine Newsweek of reporting "fake news" regarding the situation at the camp which has been labelled as the worst migrant camp in Europe. Following the recent report in...

Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and leader of the junior governing coalition party Panos Kammenos met on Monday in order to tone down their differences over the Prespa agreement with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). Government sources say...

Four police officers were injured when a police station in central Athens was attacked with Molotov cocktails on Monday evening. A group of about 50 self-styled anarchists firebombed the station near Omonia Square that also damaged several vehicles. The assailants hurled...

A member of FYROM's parliament has thanked the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in Greek during the debate on constitutional changes foreseen in the historic Prespa agreement. “There can be no better agreement than this one,” Samka Ibraimovski said at...

The President of the Hellenic Republic, Prokopis Pavlopoulos, will visit Cyprus on Tuesday. A press release by the Greek Embassy in Nicosia says that the Greek President will visit Cyprus at the invitation of President of the House of Representatives...

Top scientists from around the world will gather this week in the Cypriot capital of Nicosia for an International Space Summit. The International Space Summit is organized by the Cyprus Space Exploration Organisation (CSEO) as part of CSEO's ongoing efforts...

According to a survey conducted by Greece’s IELKA institute of research, during the last 8 years due greatly to the financial crisis that hit the country, Greeks have shifted significantly from what they used to eat a decade ago. As...

The Federation of Greece's Enterprises (SEV) published its monthly bulletin for economic activity on Monday. In the report the Federation stresses the lack of a cohesive plan in Greece's recovering economy and points out the consolidation of the ''inadequate'', as...

The $7 million Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE Finalists deep-sea competition is set to take place off the shores of Kalamata, Greece. “We are excited to be bringing this XPRIZE to Greece, an amazing country with a long history of scientific and...

Vandals desecrated the Jewish cemetery in Trikala, central Greece destroying eight tombstones, including two that belong to the parents of the president of the Jewish Community of Trikala. The incident took place last week but was made known after the...

Christos Doulkeridis is a 40-years-old politician who lives in the capital of Belgium, Brussels. Doulkeridis, the son of two Greek-Pontian migrants in Belgium, was the head of "Ecolos" political formation that came first in the municipality of Ixelles of Brussels. His...

Migrant arrivals in Greece for September have spiked, according to the latest data released by the UN High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR). On this month, 5,400 migrants and refugees passed through the Aegean Sea and from the land border with...

In the largest schism in Orthodox Christianity for over a century, the Russian Orthodox Church has cut all ties with the Constantinople Patriarchate over a "historic" decision to recognize the Ukrainian Orthodox Church as independent. Metropolitan Hilarion, a bishop in...

More and more parrots are being spotted in the center of the Greek capital as the exotic birds have established ever-growing colonies, scientists say. At the National Garden, a green oasis situated next to the Greek Parliament, dozens of these...

Members of the crew of the bulk carrier St Elias, managed by a Greek company based in Piraeus, say that they are running out of food and water as the vessel is anchored off the coast of Crete for...