Conservation work inside a monastery near the town of Aigio in the Peloponnese has revealed a mural of Constantine XI Palaiologos (1405-1453) that an expert says is the only known living portrait of the last Byzantine emperor.
The European Commission is not considering changing Europe’s policies to cut CO2 emissions from cars, despite a push from the EU’s biggest political group to weaken the laws, the bloc’s climate policy chief told Reuters on Thursday.
In honor of the centenary of Franz Kafka’s death, the Keratsini-Drapetsona Arts School presents “Metamorphosis,” an art exhibition at the Piraeus Municipal Gallery (29 Filonos).
Some European Union countries have doubled down on their decision to rapidly halt asylum procedures for Syrian migrants in Europe, but said that it was too early to consider sending any of the hundreds of thousands of people who have fled since 2011 back home.
The American Hellenic Institute (AHI) celebrated its 50th anniversary and the 50th year since Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus at its 20th Annual Athens Awards Dinner on Tuesday at the Grande Bretagne Hotel in Syntagma Square.
More than a decade after three employees died of asphyxiation in a firebomb attack on a downtown Athens branch of Marfin Bank during an anti-austerity riot, a section of the Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a 2020 ruling that had acquitted the bank of responsibility for failing to ensure the safety of its staff.
The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a preliminary investigation into allegations by a 16-year-old Egyptian boy who said he was tortured and raped by a group of fellow inmates at a migrant camp in Malakasa, north of Athens.
After a decade or so of backing elements of Syria’s armed opposition, is this about to pay off for President Erdogan? Henri Barkey joins Thanos Davelis to answer this question, look at Turkey’s role in Syria, and break down what’s at stake for Syria’s Kurds, refugees, and for the United States.
Soccer icons Giorgos Karagounis, Theodoros Zagorakis and Angelos Charisteas were the guest stars of a special event in the Australian capital on Tuesday celebrating the 20th anniversary of Greece’s stunning victory at the European Soccer Championship in 2004.