Greece

Athens Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis posted a picture on social media with his father, Pavlos, who was murdered 31 years ago today by the November 17 terrorist group. "You may have flew away thirty-one years ago, but every day I touch...

The mayor-elect of Athens, Kostas Bakoyannis, was sworn into office on Sunday evening at Plato's Academy in Athens. The new mayor of the Greek capital decided to hold the official ceremony in this open space as an important symbolic gesture. He chose the...

Kostas Bakoyannis, the candidate officially supported by Greek opposition party New Democracy, won the race to become Athens' new mayor in the second round of the local and regional elections which took place on Sunday. According to preliminary results and...

According to official results published on Sunday night, Kostas Bakoyannis has a clear lead in the race for Athens' mayoral office. With almost all votes counted, the New Democracy-backed candidate received 42.6 percent of the vote and is a clear...

On the morning of September 26, 1989, journalist and New Democracy MP Pavlos Bakoyannis was assassinated in his office building by the November 17 terrorist organization, the act becoming the most talked-about event of the year. At the time, Bakoyannis...

The family of  slain politician Pavlos Bakoyannis, marked the 28th anniversary of his assassination, with appeals to national reconciliation. His widow; prominent New Democracy politician, Dora Bakoyannis, wrote on Facebook: "28 years have passed. It was also a Tuesday. Yet your...

It was shortly before 8 a.m. on the morning of September 26, 1989 when two 45 shotguns aimed at and open-fired against New Democracy deputy Pavlos Bakoyannis. News of his assassination sent shockwaves through Greek society as the liberal politician was a...

Kostas Bakoyannis, the mayor of Athens, paid a joint visit, with Mayor Ekrem Imamoğlu, to the city's Greek Orthodox Patriarchate on Friday.

The City of Athens has entered the holiday season early this year, as Greece’s capital celebrated the lighting of the Syntagma Square Christmas Tree on the evening of Tuesday, November 23. “Athens’ neighborhoods have been decorated early this year, offering...

AHEPA, the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association is holding its 99th-anniversary supreme convention in Athens.

The Hellenic Initiative is working with the Athens Partnership to scrub off the graffiti found in Athens' oldest neighborhood, Plaka.

Athens' redesigned Omonoia Square, with its signature fountain now restored, was handed over to Athenians in May of 2020.

Α spectacular ancient Greek sculpture was unearthed in the downtown Agia Irini (St Irene) Square of Athens on Saturday during construction work. The news was shared by Kostas Bakoyannis, the mayor of the city of Athens, through a Facebook post. There...

A Greek Air Force pilot, flying with his F-16 on Wednesday morning, sent a message to all Greeks for the celebration of the 28th of October. "Greeks, from Orestiada to Gavdos and from Othonoi to Kastellorizo, remember that the most...

A video posted on Youtube on Saturday shows hundreds of Greeks defying the midnight curfew and crowding measures and partying until dawn as if the Covid-19 pandemic never happened. The video that was shot at a nightclub with live music...