Greece

The 23-year-old student Irene Triantafyllou from Messolonghi, Greece, was one of two passengers tragically killed yesterday when a KTEL bus collided with a truck. Irene was studying at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and was traveling with other students to Thessaloniki...

The sad list of suicides lengthens. A young mother committed suicide in the quarry of the village in Lepenou, Agrinio, Greece. The 35-year old woman ended her life by hanging herself. As it was reported, the young woman disappeared last...

Greece’s Prime Minister Antonis Samaras will meet with the President and Managing Consultant of the tobacco company Papastratos, Nikos Theofilopoulos, to talk about plans for a new central warehouse for all of Europe, to be built in the western...

An old German woman, resident of Agrinio, converted to Christian Orthodoxy on Palm Sunday at St. George's Church. The old woman, who lives in the Nursing House of Agrinio, expressed her wish to become  Christian Orthodox. Sofia Seilbord lived in...

Lakes in Greece go under-appreciated because of the country's wealth of beaches and islands, but Greek lakes are surely enchanting and worth a visit!

If you're in a crowd in Greece and shout "Mr. Papadopoulos," the most common surname in Greece, chances are that at least one man will turn his head.

Open Air -- or "summer" cinemas as Greeks call them are a tradition across Greece with many of the most historic being in downtown Athens. 

Greeks aged 25 to 29 will soon be eligible to receive the Covid-19 vaccine.

A woman was fined 300 euros ($355.96) by Greek police on Tuesday after she left a flower at the site of the uprising at the Athens Polytechnic. In 1974, 24 young people resisting the right-wing military dictatorship in Greece...

Orthodox Churches throughout Greece on Friday marked  the conversion of Constantinople's Hagia Sophia to a mosque by mournfully tolling their bells. Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, Ieronymos called the conversion of the cradle of the Greek Orthodoxy as "an...

Greece went under lockdown at 6:00 a.m. on Monday to prevent further spreading of the coronavirus in the country. All unnecessary movement outside one's own home is now banned. The government has issued strict guidelines on exactly who and how...

The EVOO World Ranking (EVOOWR) for 2019 reported that Greeks earned 447 awards at 21 international olive oil competitions, capturing 34 classifications as “EVOOs of the Year.”

Olympiacos and PAOK continued their unbeaten run in the Greek Super League on Sunday with impressive away from home performances against Asteras Tripoli and Panetolikos respectively. The two giants share top spot with 34 points in 14 games, ten more...

Panathinaikos and Olympiacos shared an 1-1 draw in the Greek version of el clasico on Sunday at the Athens' Olympic Stadium, whereas PAOK saved a point equalizing against Aris deep in injury rime in the Thessaloniki derby. Panathinaikos left it...

A 4.7 magnitude earthquake hit the region of Aetolia-Acarnania in central Greece on Saturday evening at 18:08. According to the Geodynamic Institute of the National Observatory of Athens, the tremor’s epicenter was 28 kilometers northwest of Agrinio, near Amfilochia, with a...