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After hundreds of years of lying still, the theater of Ancient Messini re-opened on Aug. 3, with an opera gala, organized by the Athens & Epidaurus Festival 2013 and the Municipality of Messini and the Region of Peloponnese, among...

A nightclub in Kallithea area of Athens, Chalkidiki, where the popular Greek singer Panos Kiamos was performing, was ordered shut for 48 hours after inspectors from Greece's Financial Crimes Squad (SDOE) in Theassaloniki found a number of tax evasion...

Despite a lingering economic crisis, the coalition government led by Prime Minister and New Democracy Conservative leader Antonis Samaras wants to lift a ban on repossession of homes of people who can't afford to pay mortgages with their pay...

As part of the celebrations of Marseille as European Capital of Culture for the year 2013, the Municipality of Piraeus, which has been its sister city since 1984, participated in the events that were held on July 28-31. There was...

According to the Turkish newspaper Akşam, eight Greeks currently living in the USA are descendants of Giorgos Panagiotidis, who was a Turkish national and lived in Istanbul. Now they are asking  for a plot of 45,000 square meters located in...

Muslims in Greece who've long awaited an official mosque to be built in Athens at the expense of the government are going to have to wait longer because so far no Greek construction company wants the job. A fourth attempt...

A couple of elderly Greek-Australians died within a few minutes of each other, provoking grief and emotion in the community. When the beloved wife of Christos Markogiannakis, Maria, passed away, he pressed her in his arms tenderly, it was said,...

While topless sunbathing can be found almost everywhere in Greece, true nude beaches are a little harder to find. Greece has an abundance of bare sand beaches, some much barer and better than others. Nude swimming, otherwise known as “skinny...

A 72-year-old German man was arrested on Aug. 2 by the police on the Greek island of Chios and charged with spying. It came days after six men, three Greeks and three Turks, were arrested after a speedboat off...

A 47-year-old Greek female singer dressed herself in blackface and pretended to be blind in an impersonation of the American singer Stevie Wonder during an appearance on a reality show called Your Face Sounds Familiar, drawing criticism from some...

The cataloguing of documents included in the Dardalis Archive of the Hellenic Diaspora, which will be accessible to the academic community, has begun. The valuable archives, donations by the Greek-Australia Community, are in 5,500 boxes that were subjected to the...

With Turkish Airlines reportedly set to snap up Greece's beleaguered former national carrier Olympic, the Turkish Ministry of Economy is advising businessmen to invest in Greece fast, citing "bargain" opportunities with businesses wracked by a deep recession and the...

Paulo Nogueira Batista, Brazil's representative to the International Monetary Fund, who abstained from a vote granting more aid to Greece after he said the idea it could be paid back was "delusional," was recalled by Finance Minister Guido Mantegna...

The monks living at the Holy Mount Athos have decided not to allow the participation of any political person in the festive events for the 100th anniversary celebration in the autumn of the Athos Peninsula's attachment to Greece. The monks...

With Greeks fleeing to their villages and vacations for August, the coalition government headed by New Democracy Conservative leader and Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is gearing up for trouble when they return next month and expected protests against the...