Greece

Usko, the first bear in Greece to use a wheelchair and the only bear in the world to use mechanical assistance to walk for more than four years, died recently at his home at the  ''Arcturos'' bear facility in...

Greece’s Panos Triantafyllou claimed gold on the final day of individual competition at the International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation’s (IWAS) Wheelchair Fencing World Cup in Amsterdam on Saturday. Triantafyllou, who was paralyzed after a car accident north of Athens...

The case of the parents who had to carry their mobility-impaired 12-year-old son up on the Acropolis Hill because the lift is out of order for months has caused outrage in Greece. Parthenon, one of the most important monuments of...

  The Greek ministry of Culture apologized on Friday for problems associated with the wheelchair lift to the most famous, iconic Greek monument in the entire country, the Athens Acropolis. The ministry explained in a statement that the lift is "old"...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday defended his minister Pavlos Polakis, who had earlier launched a crude verbal attack on social media against an opposition politician who uses a wheelchair. Polakis accused the 34-year-old New Democracy candidate Stelios Kymbouropoulos, who...

The Greek model Georgia Kaltsi stunned the audience of Athens Exclusive Designers Week on Saturday by wheeling down the catwalk. The 25-year old woman, from Greece's Nafpaktos, was wearing a red dress and participated in the show, sparking waves of...

A young disabled man stole the limelight at a recent basketball match in western Greece when he took to the court to perform a thrilling dance routine from his wheelchair. Thirty-year-old Andreas Stratoudakis, who has been confined to a wheelchair...

On Monday Greece clinched its eighth medal at the Rio Paralympics as Panagiotis Triantafyllou took silver in Wheelchair Fencing Men's Individual Sabre - Category B. Panagiotis fought for gold, in the end losing to Ukraine's Anton Datsko with a final...

Khaldoun is a Syrian refugee from Damascus who came to Greece searching for a better future, a route many of his compatriots chose to finally reach Northern Europe. They have to walk for miles crossing borders to Turkey and then...

Police said four home invaders in Corinthia set on fire a 78-year-old man in a wheelchair to make him reveal where he had his money and got away with 4,000 euros. He was reported in serious condition in the...

In 2019, 92-year-old Melpomeni Dina, from the town of Veria in northern Greece, met for the first time in Jerusalem the descendants of a Jewish family she helped save during the Holocaust. One by one, the 40 descendants of the...

The Greek boccia team won the bronze medal at the Tokyo Paralympics on Saturday in what is the tenth medal for the country during the Games in Japan. Boccia is a precision ball sport similar to bocce, and related to...

Greek swimmer Alexandra Stamatopoulou took home the bronze medal at the Tokyo Paralympics on Friday in the women's 50m backstroke swimming S4 event. Stamatopoulou, who has a rare neurological disorder called Stiff Person Syndrome, finished the race with a time...

Efstratios Nikolaidis, representing Greece in the Tokyo Paralympics, won the bronze medal in the shot put on Tuesday. The Greek athlete, who was fourth at both the London and Rio de Janeiro Paralympic Games, took third place with 15.93 meters...

The Athens Acropolis, the symbol of Western civilization, is now more easily accessible to people with disabilities after a new elevator was put into service there on Thursday. The wheelchair lift will facilitate access to the monuments of the Acropolis...