Egypt has reaffirmed its commitment to protecting St. Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai Peninsula, amid speculation over the monastery’s future and a leadership dispute involving Archbishop Damianos.
Nick Malkoutzis, the co-founder and editor of Macropolis.gr, joins Thanos Davelis as we dig into what’s keeping Greek politicians busy in the summer heat – from the fallout over an EU farm subsidy scandal to speculation that former prime minister Antonis Samaras could form his own party.
A 32-year-old Algerian woman appeared before an investigative judge in Athens on Wednesday to face charges of murdering her three-year-old daughter, whose body was found floating off Edem beach in the coastal suburb of Palaio Faliro on July 27.
The open tender to create Greece’s new tourism campaign has seen local firms brushed aside in favor of multinational groups without a local presence.
Decades-old property disputes from Cyprus’ unresolved division are threatening UN-led reconciliation efforts, according to a Reuters report published Tuesday.
Authorities cordoned off a residential area in the southern Athens suburb of Palaio Faliro on Wednesday morning after an unexploded military shell, believed to date back to World War II, was discovered in a streambed.
Authorities on the southeastern Aegean island of Rhodes have detained 47 undocumented migrants after a sailing boat was spotted disembarking people near the coastal area of Lardos, officials said on Wednesday.
Turkey has arrested an LGBTQ+ youth activist over criticism he made abroad at Europe’s main rights body about the repression of opponents by President Tayyip Erdogan’s government.
Bookings from abroad for passenger ships from Piraeus to Santorini have declined 7% this year, while bookings for Mykonos are steady, but follow two years of significant decline.
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