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Two prisoners from Athens' Korydallos high-security prison of broke out in the early hours of Wednesday, forcing the Greek capital's police authorities to launch an extensive manhunt to locate and arrest the inmates, who are Albanian nationals. The two Albanians were...

The Municipality of Athens welcomed the New Year at the Thisio Pedestrian Walkway with great music, dancing, and a shining star which lit up the Parthenon in the background. "We Welcome the New Year with Angels Enlightening our Hearts"...

Athenians will be the ones to decide on the color of the new tram, as the company operating the Athens tram network will conduct an online survey running from January 1 to 13. Attiko Metro announced on Thursday that commuters...

Greek politicians condemned Thursday's bombing outside the Greek Orthodox Church of St. Dionysios in Kolonaki, central Athens, which slightly wounded a policeman and the caretaker of the church. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, which occurred early in the...

A policeman and a church employee were injured in a bomb blast that rocked the Athenian neighborhood of Kolonaki on Thursday. According to Skai TV, the explosion occurred outside the historic Agios Dionysios church at 07:10 in the morning, local time....

  Suburbs encircling the city of Athens remain shrouded in snow from the Christmas Day storms, and scenic Mount Parnitha on the outskirts of the Greek capital remains covered in many inches of snow. Temperatures still remain low; however, in a great...

Alexis Tsipras Following a longstanding tradition, children from schools all over Athens sang Christmas carols to Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his wife Betty Baziana at the Maximos mansion on Monday morning, Christmas Eve day. https://twitter.com/PrimeministerGR/status/1077185717980270594?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1077185717980270594&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amna.gr%2Fen%2Farticle%2F320604%2FChristmas-carols-to-President-Pavlopoulos Tsipras sat with the children at...

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel is expected to visit Greece during the second week of January. Merkel will be in the Greek capital Athens on a two-day official visit on January 10 and 11, meeting with the Greek President Prokopios...

Greece foresees an even greater number of tourist arrivals from China in 2019, on top of the huge number of tourists already counted in the first eight months of this year, which represented a 22 percent increase over last...

The Costas Kotsanas Museum of Ancient Greek Technology in Athens was nominated as the  "European Museum of 2019" by the European Museum Forum (EMF) on Thursday. The results of the prestigious competition will be announced in May of 2019. The Kostas Kotsanas...