The local authority in Xanthi, in northeastern Greece, has announced its intention to unleash specially trained falcons into the city center in a bid to tackle what it claims is an infestation of pigeons.
As if navigating downtown Athens weren’t already difficult enough, the growing use of electric scooters as a cheap and fast mode of transportation is raising concerns over public safety.
Tom Ellis, the editor in chief of Kathimerini’s English Edition, joins Thanos Davelis as we look back at the Imia crisis of 1996, the role of American diplomats like Thomas Niles – the US ambassador in Athens at the time who passed away this week – in preventing a confrontation, and its lasting legacy today.
Alkistis Protopsalti, one of Greece’s top vocalists, will be heading to Montreal this fall for a fundraising concert organized by The Hellenic Initiative Canada.
The recent blackouts in Spain and Portugal have highlighted the pressing need for advanced energy system management, a challenge that is becoming increasingly relevant in Greece.
A late 19th-century residential complex uncovered during excavations for the new metro station at downtown Athens’ Exarchia Square is offering a fresh glimpse into life in the Greek capital during good and bad times.
Gale-force winds continued to batter eastern mainland Greece and the Aegean, with gusts exceeding 90 km/h in parts of Attica, leading to over 10 incidents of fallen trees on Tuesday.
Unions and associations representing workers across every sector of the economy are taking to the streets of Athens, Thessaloniki and dozens of other Greek cities on Thursday to mark international Labor Day.
The looting of Iraq’s antiquities in the wake of the 2003 US invasion, the destruction of Mosul by ISIS in 2015 and the consequences of colonialism and migration are some of the key themes running through the work of Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz.
Cyprus will receive free-of-charge portable desalination plants from the United Arab Emirates to cover the tourism-reliant island nation’s water needs this summer as reservoir deposits are nearly depleted, officials have said.