Greece

Greek-born antinuclear campaigner and longtime MIT professor Kostas Tsipas passed away on Monday, according to an announcement by former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou. The longtime fixture in the antinuclear movement was a retired principal research scientist and former director...

Cyprus will make the necessary representations and protests towards every direction against the construction and operation of the nuclear power plant in Akkuyu, in southern Turkey, Government Spokesman Prodromos Prodromou has told the Cyprus News Agency (CNA). Prodromou said that...

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts said Greece has significantly strengthened its regulatory framework for nuclear and radiation safety since 2012, and suggested an additional legislative measure for its further enhancement. The Integrated Regulatory Review Service (IRRS)...

On Wednesday activists formed a human chain across the 70-meter UN-controlled buffer zone in protest to Turkey's plans to build a nuclear power plant only 56 miles (90 kilometers) from Cyprus's northern shoreline, the AP has reported. The planned Russian-made...

Greece's Foreign Ministry expressed "extreme concern" over the nuclear test carried out by North Korea. "We express our extreme concern at the nuclear test carried out on January 6 in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. This test constitutes a...

Greek nuclear scientist, Grigoris Lambrou, can interfere with natural phenomena through his computer and turn hail into rain. Mr. Lambrou left Greece at the age of 17 to study nuclear physics in Italy. His interest in employing the rapidly developing information...

An innovative Greek documentary will present the Greek hackers that managed to get into the Institute for Nuclear Research CERN, and pause one of the biggest experiments in the world! The "white01black" documentary by Spyros Capsiles presents the access to...

Greek President Karolos Papoulias urged neighboring Turkey to reconsider plans to build atomic power stations after a March 11 earthquake and tsunami damaged Japan’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant. “It’s impossible at this time, when we have this disaster at the...

The Delfin ("Dolphin") was a Greek submarine in service with the Hellenic Navy during the Balkan Wars (1912-13) and the First World War (1914-18). As well as representing a notable part of Greek maritime history, being the second submarine ever...

The outcome of Helen's relationship with Paris hardly needs to be repeated: the ten-year Trojan war and the destruction of the city.

Socrates, famous for his wise and inspiring quotes, died as he lived—hated by most Athenians but much beloved by his students. He was condemned to prison and death by poison in 399 BC for corrupting Athenian youth and rejecting...

On a recent visit to India, Lt Gen Themistoklis Bourolias, Chief of the Hellenic Air Force General Staff (Greece) paid homage to Indian fallen soldiers at the National War Memorial. He also met with India's military top brass and discussed...

Iran took control of two Greek ships in the Persian Gulf on Friday one day after Greece aided the US in seizing a cargo of crude oil from an Iranian oil tanker in the Mediterranean. The country's Revolutionary Guard announced...

During a panel at the Delphi Economic Forum on Saturday, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis discussed the economic impacts of the war in Ukraine on both Greece and Europe as a whole. Mathias Cormann, Secretary-General of the Organization for Economic...

Greek Navy Captain Marinos Ritsoudis became famous internationally after he refused to participate in a NATO mission as the organization conducted bombings in Yugoslavia in 1999. In that year, NATO countries, including the US, conducted an aerial bombing campaign on...