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Greece's Communications Control Council has asked Coca Cola Hellas to cease its promotional campaign featuring depictions of the Parthenon, the Hellenic Parliament building and the White Tower of Thessaloniki within 30 days. The Communications Control Council has taken the decision...

The illegal immigration from Turkey to the Greek islands of the eastern Aegean continued unabated this week, with 694 people arriving on the shores of Lesvos, Samos and Chios between early Monday morning and Tuesday afternoon. According to data from...

A marble stele from Greece which was given as a wedding gift in 1958, has been returned to a museum in Munich, Germany after an investigation by an Oxford scholar and antiquities dealers. The marble stele, from the first half...

Greece's national team of professional butchers, dubbed "Meating Greece," will compete in a competition called the "World Butcher's Challenge 2020," which will take place in Sacramento, California on September 5, 2020. The World Butchers' Challenge is a global competition in...

Greek fashion designer Mary Katrantzou will soon stage a fashion show at the Temple of Poseidon in Greece. The event, which will take place on October 3, will be a showcase for Katrantzou's Spring/Summer 2020 fashion collection, making her...

US Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt sent a clear warning on Monday regarding the "malign" influence of Russia and China in Greece. Addressing a conference on energy developments in the Eastern Mediterranean, co-organized by the Hellenic Foundation for European and...

Cyprus has protested what they term “the continuing violations of the national airspace and the territorial waters of Cyprus by Turkey" at the New York headquarters of the United Nations. The protest is included in a letter to UN Secretary-General...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will meet with American President Donald Trump in New York City on September 24, concurrent with a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, government spokesman Stelios Petsas confirmed on Monday evening. In a Hellas...

The Greek Ministry of Education announced on Tuesday that from now on, all diplomas issued by the country's secondary schools will include neither the citizenship nor the religious affiliation of the students. This comes as a result of a recent...

Christine Lagarde was voted by a majority of members of the European Parliament to become the next president of the European Central Bank (ECB) on Tuesday. Lagarde, who currently serves as chief of the International Monetary Fund, will replace Mario...

K2 18b is the only exoplanet beyond our solar system known to have water vapor and temperatures that may be able to support life. This little-known planet is about 110 light-years away from our solar system, according to a recently...

The central Athens headquarters of the Greek neo-Nazi ''Golden Dawn'' political party were completely cleared out by the organization on Monday. The officials of the racist and xenophobic group recently decided to empty out their premises following the electoral collapse...

Ursula von der Leyen, the President-elect of the European Commission, sent an open letter to Europe's largest newspapers on Monday in which she defended her decision to name incoming Vice President Margaritis Schinas' portfolio as ''Protecting the European Way of Life.'' https://twitter.com/vonderleyen/status/1173592048873758722 Von...

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas expressed his "great respect" for Greece on Monday, for the heavy burden placed for years upon her during the refugee crisis. Maas' remarks were made during a joint press conference he held along with his...

Aegean Airlines, Greece's flagship carrier, announced on Monday that the number of its passengers grew by 20 percent and its net profits saw an enormous increase of 30 percent during the second quarter of 2019. In an announcement issued on...