Greece

Greece has called for restraint after dozens of Palestinian protesters were killed and over 2,000 were injured in clashes with Israeli soldiers along the border of Gaza, following the move by the U.S. to transfer its embassy to Jerusalem. "We...

It reads like a romantic novel. A British couple vacationing in Greece's Rhodes Island threw a bottle containing a message in the sea in July this year and that bottle found its way to a Gaza fisherman. The British couple,...

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos announced on Monday that Greece will offer one million euros for the reconstruction of Gaza. Speaking at the International Gaza Reconstruction Conference in Cairo on Sunday, the Greek minister noted that the country would add its share to the...

On Thursday, Greece announced the disbursement of 500,000 euros (669,000 U.S. dollars) to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to deal with the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza Strip after the ceasefire. Debt-laden Greece also expressed via UNRWA and...

My heart bleeds for the innocent. Seeing the brutality and utter barbarity of war that spares no-one from being blown to smithereens infuriates my deep sense of decency and respect for humanity. Those corpses carried away on stretchers or...

A bicommunal medical mission, consisting of Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot doctors, is expected to travel to Gaza to help the Palestinian people, Cypriot MEP Eleni Theocharous has told CNA. This is the first time Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot...

Angeliki is a Greek woman living in Gaza with her five children and her Palestinian husband, whom she met when he was studying in Greece. They fell in love and she moved with him in his country of origin....

Israeli troops on Saturday boarded a boat carrying pro-Palestinian MPs and activists seeking to run its naval blockade on the Gaza Strip, blocking the latest attempt to reach the enclave by sea, the military said. The operation, which the military...

A sailing ship with pro-Palestinian activists that is planning to break an Israeli blockade of Gaza took on food and passengers off the southern Greek coast, a spokesman said on Wednesday. The Estelle, which first set off from Sweden and...

Greek expert Helias Konofagos talked with Fileleftheros newspaper.  He stated that Cyprus and Greece should make  financial and technical planning concerning the gas fields situated in the boarder area of Cyprus. He added that Greece should not stay inert concerning what...

The second Flotilla for Gaza which will include eight to ten ships with humanitarian aid, will anchor by the end of the year. This was announced in a press conference in Athens by members of the Free Gaza Movement. The participants...

A ship loaded with with food and medical supplies for Palestinians in Gaza has set sail for the Egyptian port of el-Arish. The "Amalthea," (photo) commissioned by a Libyan charity, will not attempt to break the Israeli blockade. A ship,...

A Moldavian-flagged vessel loaded with 2,000 tons humanitarian aide will attempt to transport the cargo to Gaza, according to reports here on Saturday. The vessel, identified as the "Amalthia", was docked at the small port of Lavrio, east of Athens. The...

Between the 14th and 15th centuries, a wave of Greek scholars left their beleaguered homeland in the Byzantine Empire for the Italian Peninsula, where their work would play an important role in the flowering of the Renaissance. The Renaissance, which...

A unique Byzantine inscription from the fourteenth century was recently discovered on Giresun Island in the Black Sea; inscribed on a terra cotta tablet, it is considered to be one of a kind because it is written regional alphabet...