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Greek Doctors Offered Tempting Salaries by Saudi Arabia

The Saudi Arabian state is offering huge salaries and tempting benefits to Greek doctors in order to staff hospital units in the country. A leading medical group in Saudi Arabia recently offered 100 positions to Greek physicians of all specializations. The...

More Greek Doctors Head For Dubai

Amid the economic crisis, Greek doctors choose to work not only in Europe but also in some more exotic and certainly more profitable places such as the United Arab Emirates, in order to make their living. This immigration trend...

Greek Doctors Working at Kabul Military Hospital in Good Health

The 16 Greek doctors working at the military hospital in Kabul, where at least three people were killed on Saturday morning by an explosion whose causes were not yet known, were reported in good health. According to an announcement by...

Greek rescuers and doctors to leave for Port-au-Prince

A special direct flight carrying a group of volunteer doctors and rescuers and a dispatch of medicines and pharmaceutical material is poised to leave for Haiti on Tuesday morning, provided the conditions in the earthquake-devastated country allow it, Greece's...

How Ancient Greek Knowledge Was Saved by the Islamic Golden Age

The Islamic Golden Age was a period during which science, literature, geometry, astronomy, and other fields of knowledge flourished from the eighth to the thirteenth century. Without the scholars of this period, who translated the works of the Ancient...

Mexican Doctors Confirm ‘Alien Corpses’ are Distinct Skeletons

Doctors say that mummified "alien corpses" in Mexico are not composed of human and animal bones but are distinct skeletons. This discovery contradicts earlier claims that they were collected artificially. According to media reports, this dispels skepticism among scientists...

Greeks of Sudan: A Tumultuous History

The Greeks of Sudan who are now living through agonizing moments due to the civil strife in Khartoum are small in number (estimated at around 150), but still a very prominent community in the country. "The Greek heartland in Khartoum...

Greek Youth Choir to Perform in Solidarity with Turkey and Syria

A Greek youth choir is set to perform in solidarity with Turkey and Syria after both countries were devastated by two earthquakes last week. The youth choir is named after the late Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis and is led by...

Turkey’s Doctors Are Leaving the Country Because of Inflation

Turkish doctors are emigrating from Turkey in unprecedented numbers due to the effects of inflation on the country. While inflation has severely impacted Turkey's economy, it has also had profound effects on the country's culture, ramping up violence and instability. Doctors...

Greek Man Charged with Kidney Trafficking in Costa Rica

A Greek man is to be tried in Costa Rica as member of a criminal ring that was buying kidneys from poor people and selling them to foreign recipients. The Greek man was arrested in 2013, when police also apprehended...

Rock Star Turned Greek Priest Fights Ebola In Sierra Leone

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnDlim3mYds Former existential atheist and Australian rock star Themi Adams (Adamopoulos) today is a Greek Orthodox priest who has spearheaded the Orthodox Church's apostolic mission in Ebola-hit Sierra Leone, Africa. Although Father Themi could flee the country to avoid a possible...