Greece

Philistines were very likely of Greek origin, as a new DNA study traces the origins of the ancient villains in the Eastern Mediterranean

According to the Academy of Athens, scientists have recently decoded the DNA of the famous Greek Feta cheese. Scientists from the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens studied a wide variety of feta cheese produced all across the nation...

Two men from Bulgaria have been taken into custody after allegedly attempting to kidnap a fourteen-year-old boy in Pyrgos. The crime occurred on Thursday, June 25. The men were arrested on Friday after the potential kidnapping target recognized one of...

A Greek sailor who was kidnapped by pirates off the Western African Republic of Togo 40 days ago, emotionally reunited with his family on Saturday night when he arrived at Athens Eleftherios Venizelos Airport. 20-year-old Dimitris Giatis was reunited with...

According to an official statement issued by the Navy of Togo, a Greek oil tanker was attacked by pirates off the shores of the west African nation in the early hours of Monday. The criminals who went aboard the Greek...

DNA belonging to a man arrested in northern Greece recently for breaking into ATM banking machines was found in evidence collected from a house where convicted November 17 terrorist Christodoulos Xiros was hiding for a year, police said on...

The Greek police have launched a desperate manhunt for at least four men suspected of kidnapping a businessman in Piraeus on Thursday. TV station Skai reported that the suspects grabbed the victim and pushed him forcefully inside a black Volkswagen...

Cyprus' Sigma Channel published a video showing the two 11-year-old boys being kidnapped by a Cypriot man in Larnaca, early morning on Tuesday. The video shows the 35-year-old man leading and the two boys following without knowing where they were heading. An order...

Themistoklis Doglis and Filippos Stamatakis, the two 11-year-old boys from Greece who live in Cyprus and were abducted on Tuesday morning, were found safe and sound, according to Cyprus' State TV RIK and the Cypriot Police. Their kidnapper, a 35-year-old Cypriot,...

The only way some of the relatives and friends of missing persons of the deadly fires in East Attica can find information is to go to the mortuary to see if their loved ones are among the 81 confirmed...

Greece's military is setting up a DNA database to help identify the remains of Greek WWII soldiers who died and were buried in Albania. The Hellenic National Defence General Staff announced on Wednesday the establishment of the database with samples...

A group of Greek Olympians have decided to protest Britain's refusal to return the Parthenon sculptures to Greece by protesting inside the British Museum; where the marbles are kept, while dressed as Caryatids. According to a Kathimerini newspaper report, the protest...

This is the moment when four-year-old Marie Eleni Grimsrud jumps into her mother’s arms for the warmest hug of all. Marie Eleni was reunited with her Cypriot mother after she was abducted by her Norwegian father last April in Nicosia,...

Greek authorities say that most of the suspects in the case of the kidnapping of Greek businessman Michalis Lempidakis have been arrested. Lempidakis was held hostage for six months by a gang that demanded ransom for his release. He was...

A 16 year old girl arrested by police in connection to the kidnapping of Michalis Lempidakis in Crete, was released on bail by a prosecutor. The girl testified that she was ordered by her father; one of the main suspects...