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French President Emmanuel Macron has tested positive for COVID-19, the presidential Elysee Palace announced on Thursday. It said the president took a test “as soon as the first symptoms appeared.” The brief statement did not say what symptoms Macron experienced. It...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan continued to provoke French President Emmanuel Macron, calling him a "burden" and a "problem," that he hopes France will "get rid of" soon, Reuters reports. In reference to recent protests in France over a controversial...

Greek military forces joined forces from Egypt and Cyprus on Tuesday for a naval and aerial drill that will last for several days in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Egypt. The forces participating in the “Medusa 10” exercise...

The Naval forces of Greece and Cyprus will join those of Egypt, France, and the United Arab Emirates in conducting a large-scale sea and air exercise off the Mediterranean coast of Alexandria, Egypt starting Monday, November 30. The joint exercise...

The Greek Orthodox priest shot earlier this month in the French city of Lyon was the victim of a jealous husband rather than an Islamic terrorist, French prosecutors said on Saturday. Nikolaos Kakavelakis, 52, was shot twice with a sawed-off...

People in several European countries have rushed for their last convivial drink or shopping spree before the second coronavirus lockdown as the numbers of Covid-19 cases and deaths increase exponentially. Warnings from epidemiologists that there would be a resurgence of...

Greek child piano prodigy Stelios Kerasidis excelled in his entrance exams for the famous music academy Schola Cantorum Paris and, at eight years of age, has become the youngest Greek to begin his studies at the institution. La Schola was...

The Greek Ministry of Education asked all schools in the country to observe a minute of silence on Monday in memory of French teacher Samuel Paty, who was beheaded by a radical Islamist in Paris in October. The request was...

Police in the French city of Lyon released on Sunday an initial suspect in the shooting of a Nikolaos Kakavelakis, a Greek Orthodox priest, and are now questioning a Greek Orthodox parishioner who was recently caught on video scuffling...

Police are hunting a gunman who shot and seriously injured a Greek Orthodox priest in the  city of Lyon, France, French media have reported. Father Nikolaos Kakavelakis, a Greek citizen, was fired on twice at around 4pm local time as...