Greece

Two suspicious packages were discovered at the Athens Airport and are to be detonated by police. Ιt's not clear if these were found as cargo or if they were deposited at the airport. Police have confirmed that the devices contained...

Born in Mournies, Chania on August 23, 1864, Eleftherios Venizelos served seven times as Greece's prime minister. For most people, he was viewed as the country's most important politician because he expanded Greek borders and brought Constitutional reforms that...

Greek-American opera diva Maria Callas had a volatile relationship with the Athens intellectual establishment, but this was never more evident than during her 1957 comeback concert in the Theater of Herod Atticus at the foot of the Acropolis. In 1957,...

Greece extended the restrictions on domestic and international flights on Sunday, with the aim of limiting the spread of Covid-19.

A British Airways flight from London to Athens was forced to make an emergency landing in Zurich on Saturday after the co-pilot fell unconscious at his controls. Passengers arrived in the Greek capital nearly nine hours after they departed from...

From the scene at Athens' Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport this afternoon, it appears to be almost a normal August this year, with summer in full swing -- or as close that as we are going to come to that,...

Greek health authorities announced on Monday that twenty-one Covid-19 cases were detected among 9,349 airline passengers from abroad between June 15, when the country opened to tourism, and June 21. Over the first week, more than 120 flights have arrived...

American Airlines has announced it will resume direct flights to Athens, Greece on August 5. No flights from the United States are allowed to land in the country currently due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The first direct flights to Athens...

Officials from the Greek Financial Crimes Squad have seized 850,000 substandard face masks at Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport, according to an announced made on Monday. Speaking at the airport, authorities said the masks not only did not meet the...

Passenger traffic in Greek airports grew by a significant 5.4 percent in January 2020 in comparison to January 2019, the Civil Aviation Authority of Greece said in a report on Monday. Total passenger traffic came to 2,250,000 passengers, up from...

2019 was yet another record-breaking year for the Greek capital's international airport in regard to the increase in passenger traffic numbers over the previous year. According to official data released recently by the airport's authorities, passenger traffic through Athens' Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport represented...

The story of a dog which was lost at Athens' Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport in October has moved animal rights organizations who are desperately seeking to find her owner. Airport officials had apparently refused entry to the dog, which had...

Greece’s privatization agency announced on Tuesday that ten investment consortia have submitted expressions of interest for a 30 percent stake in Athens' Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (AIA). The nation of Greece holds a 55 percent stake in the airport. Germany-based...

Greek police arrested a group of ten illegal immigrants from Syria at Athens' International Airport on Saturday. The men, who were posing as a volleyball team, were attempting to travel with illegally-obtained passports. Police said on Sunday that the refugees, who...

The sale of a 30 percent stake in Athens' Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport was decided at a meeting of the Greece's Government Council on Economic Policy, held at the Finance Ministry on Wednesday. Greek Finance Minister Christos Staikouras noted that "it is our...