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UK Prime Minister Theresa May has praised the efforts made by British troops in the battle against Daesh, and in trying to maintain stability in the wider region of the Middle East. May on Friday paid a brief visit to...

The International Conference on "Religious and Cultural Pluralism and Peaceful Coexistence in the Middle East" organized by the Foreign Affairs Ministry, opened its doors on Monday with the participation of high political and religious officials. The initiative gives the opportunity...

The drugs seized during a raid on an illegal Captagon lab in Attica last week were destined to be sent to countries in the Middle East, including Syria, based on information regarding the case presented at the SDOE financial...

An estimated 3,000 couples from the Middle East travel to Cyprus each year to get married in a civil ceremony, according to the bbc.com. Michaelakis Mallas, Larnaca's civil marriage officer told bbc.com that the majority of those who travel to Cyprus...

During WW2 as the German and Italian troops occupied Greece, tens of thousands of Greeks chose to flee their homeland in search of refugee camps in the Middle East. Conditions for the Greeks who made the difficult decision to sell...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Athens on Monday afternoon. The two men addressed the Israeli- Palestinian conflict as well as the state of the wider region. During their conversation, the two leaders discussed how...

A century has passed since Greek battleship “G. Averof” sailed into the Faliro bay and was appointed as the flagship of the Hellenic Navy, heading the martial efforts of the Hellenic Nation for self determination and restoration of Hellenism in...

On August 10, the Middle East Friendship Camping event will open in Kalandra in Chalikidiki, Northern Greece. The camping event will go till August 19th, The event is organized by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki under the scope of...

Middle Greek, also known as Medieval Greek, is the phase of the Greek language that bridges the Classical with the Modern Greek variety spoken today. Middle Greek flourished and developed during the Eastern Roman Empire from the fourth to the...

With temperatures expected to rise to around 75°F (24°C) this week, Greece will be in the midst of the unique phenomenon known as the Halcyon Days, or Alkyonides Days, allowing for a feel of summer in the midst of...

Tsoureki (τσουρέκι in Greek) is the traditional sweet yeast bread Greeks make every year on Holy Thursday, which is then consumed on Easter Sunday. Early in the morning on Holy Thursday throughout Greece, women start kneading the dough for the...

Warm air masses moving north from Africa are now bringing unseasonably high temperatures and sunny weather to Greece and most parts of Central and Eastern Europe. Central and southern parts of Greece have already been experiencing temperatures higher than 19 and...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras described Greece as a "bridge," and not a border, between the West and the East at his address to the "Belt and Road Initiative" forum in Beijing on Friday. The three-day forum, in which thirty-seven...

The President of Greece Prokopios Pavlopoulos met with his counterpart, General Michel Aoun in Beirut on Thursday as part of his two-day official visit to Lebanon. "Our great European family has not assumed the part of its responsibilities, based on its...

The Leaders of Greece, Cyprus and Israel met in Jerusalem on Wednesday evening, during the sixth Trilateral Greece-Cyprus-Israel Summit, which was also attended by the US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo. The Prime Ministers of Greece and Israel, Alexis Tsipras...