Two Greek government officials said on Monday they had sued fringe newspaper Makeleio over a homophobic front-page article which equated homosexuality with pedophilia and attempting to link them with an alleged trafficking ring involving Dimitris Lignadis, a prominent stage actor and director who was convicted last week of raping two men when they were minors.
For decades, Antonis Disios’ workshop was abuzz with the sound of sewing machines stitching fur coats for his wealthy Russian buyers.
Three major wildfires that were burning for days near the regions of western Greece, Achaia and Rethymno, Crete, had been largely brought under control by Monday afternoon, the Fire Service said.
Children draw in the courtyard of Alekos Fassianos’ studio on Kea. The island getaway of the renowned artist and stage designer, who died in January this year, has been opened to the public by the Alekos Fassianos Estate.
Greece will lodge a demarche with Serbia to protest the country’s failure to brief Athens about the dangerous cargo carried by the Antonov plane that crashed in northern Greece last Saturday, killing its eight crew members.
Romanian and Greek firefighters conduct a drill at the 6th Athens Fire Station, in Acharnes, north of the capital, in a photograph released on Saturday.
The recent passing by the US House of Representatives of an amendment sponsored by Representative Chris Pappas posing conditions to the sale of F-16 fighters and upgrade kits to Turkey was the latest in a string of successes for the Greek lobby in Washington.
Amid the controversy over the remodeling of Eleftherias (Freedom) Square in the northern port city of Thessaloniki, Giorgos Ioannou’s short story “The Elimination of the Jews,” from the collection “Our Own Blood” (Kedros Editions, 1980), is a must.
Greek Defense Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos is on official visit to the United States where he will meet his American counterpart, Lloyd Austin, and other high-ranking Pentagon officials.
There has been a marked strain in Greek-Russian relations ever since Athens signed the Prespes Agreement with North Macedonia in 2018. In the meantime, Russia came to terms with the fact that Greece belongs in the Western camp since the 2014 Crimean War and adjusted accordingly.