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Ancient City of Messene to Get Museum Worthy of Its Illustrious Past

Ancient Messene, the large classical city-state on the Peloponnese, will get a new museum that will showcase a curated selection of 19,000 movable artifacts discovered over the last decades. The new museum will be positioned between the old museum and...

Four Dead in Shooting Spree at Greek Shipping Company

Four people died during a shooting incident at a Greek shipping company in the southern Athens suburb of Glyfada on Monday. The gunman, allegedly a former employee of the company, entered the building and opened fire on employees, resulting in...

Angry Farmers Blockade Roads in Greece Demanding Compensation, Aid

Farmers in Greece have been blockading roads throughout the country in the last weeks demanding state assistance to combat rising production costs. Roadblocks have been set up on many roads and highways in Macedonia and Thessaly, while the main Athens-Thessaloniki...

Greece in Diplomatic Drive to Win UN Security Council Seat

Greece is intensifying its efforts to win a seat as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for the 2025-2026 term. To this effect, Foreign Affairs Minister George Gerapetritis is visiting New York on Monday and Tuesday, the Ministry...

Greek Ship Targeted by Missiles off Yemen

Another Greek-owned ship was targeted by missiles off the coast of Yemen on Monday, British maritime security firm Ambrey reported. The Marshall Islands-flagged bulk carrier was targeted by missiles in two separate incidents within two minutes while transiting through the...

George Karlaftis Wins Second Super Bowl with the Kansas City Chiefs

Greek-born George Karlaftis won his second Super Bowl in as many seasons as a defensive end for the Kansas City Chiefs who beat the San Francisco 49ers 25-22 on Sunday. The win cements the Chiefs' legacy as the NFL's next...

Greece Plans to Increase Golden Visa Requirement to €800,000

Greece will increase the threshold of the minimum investments for third-country nationals to acquire the Golden Visa, PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced in parliament on Friday. Speaking at a debate on the housing crisis affecting hundreds of thousands of Greeks, Mitsotakis...

Ukraine Confiscates Assets of Russian-Greek Businessman Ivan Savvidis

Ukraine's High Anti-Corruption Court upheld the claim of the Justice Ministry to confiscate the assets of Russian-Greek businessman Ivan Savvidis. In the summer of 2023, the Trap Aggressor project of the StateWatch think tank listed Savvidi among 25 oligarchs whose...

Mieza: The School Where Aristotle Tutored Alexander the Great

Greek archeologists are keen to excavate further the archeological site of Mieza located in the northeastern region of Macedonia where Aristotle is believed to have tutored Alexander the Great. After Greece opened the Palace of Aigai, where Alexander the Great...

The Parthenon Marbles are Not a Bilateral Dispute, Says Greek MEP Georgoulis

Greek MEP Alexis Georgoulis has launched a campaign for the return of the Parthenon Marbles to Athens through the Culture Committee of the European Parliament. The popular Greek actor turned politician is at the forefront of efforts in the Parliament...