Greek News

Fifteen years ago, a 5.9 magnitude earthquake shook the Parnitha region in Attica, Greece. It was one of the largest and deadliest earthquakes to hit Greece in the last 50 years. According to authorities, almost 150 people were killed, 700 injured and 40,000 lost their homes. Damages...

A bride’s dress is an article of clothing that every woman desires and is likely to never forget. Wedding dresses usually take a lot of effort and time to make, in order for women to feel content and comfortable on...

Hydra is one of the most picturesque Greek islands. It is located very close to Athens, just off the coast of Peloponnese in the Aegean Sea, between the Saronic and Argolic Gulfs. The island is easily accessible by boat or hydrofoil,...

Even though the Animal Welfare movement's win against the man who fatally wounded a small dog in Nea Styra, Euboea, cannot bring the dog back, it was a great feat. Regional authorities in central Greece ratified the administrative 30,000-euro fine to a...

The police chief of Hydra island in Greece was photographed giving the Nazi salute while on a trip to Germany. Greek newspaper "Ethnos" published the picture of Lt. Yiorgos Kagkalos, which it reported was taken in 2011 during a visit to...

Rural Development Minister Giorgos Karasmanis inaugurated on Sunday an exhibition on the oriental tobacco in Greece. The event took place at Piraeus Bank's Congress Center in Thessaloniki. The exhibition entitled "Tobacco/101 notes on oriental tobacco" presents the history of Greek tobacco...

The Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises (SETE) warned of the danger from further Russian tour operators bankruptcies threatening the Greek tourism market, after the bankruptcy of major Russian tour operator Solvex Tour. St. Petersburg-based Solvex Tour has shut down, leaving 9,000 customers stranded...

The Eurogroup meeting to be held on Friday in Milan will discuss the progress in the implementation of the Greek program following the Paris discussions. It takes place ahead of the Troika's arrival in Greece, later in September, a senior...

The 40th International Conference on Computer Music (ICMC) will be hosted for the first time in Athens along with the 11th European Sound and Music on Computer Conference (SMC) from September 14 to 20. Both conferences have the form...

The Greek Communist Party (KKE) has commemorated its late wartime leader Nikos Zachariadis, whom it had denounced in 1957. During a ceremony in Surgut, in Russia's Siberia region, where Zachariadis had spent the last years of his life, a KKE delegation headed by the...

Nearly three years after it was first brought to parliament, Greek MPs are poised to pass an anti-racism bill which human rights groups say still falls far short of dealing with an epidemic of racist and homophobic violence in the...

The glories of the ancient past remain perhaps the greatest source of national pride in Greece. And in the past, the government could support archaeological research and digs. But the debt crisis and subsequent austerity budget has slashed the...

Nick Cassavetes' next project behind the camera will be directing the film "Expiration." The Greek-American is helming the action-thriller for Corsan Films, CEO Paul Breuls announced today at the Toronto Film Festival. The story centers on an ex-CIA operative-turned-assassin who fails his...

Canadian "Ottawa Magazine" (September 2014 issue, an insert in the "Ottawa Citizen" newspaper) praised Greek wines. Leading Canadian wine journalist and educator David Lawrason, who had in the past expressed many doubts about the quality of wines from Greece, finally...

The Hellenic Museum of Melbourne will host the exhibition "Gods, Myths and Mortals: Greek Treasures Across the Millennia" which opens on Wednesday, September 10. The inauguration of the exhibition, which comes from the renowned Benaki Museum in Athens, will be attended...