Pope Leo XIV is embarking on his first foreign trip, a pilgrimage to Turkey and Lebanon that would be delicate under any circumstances but is even more fraught given Mideast tensions and the media glare that will document history’s first American pope on the road.
Despite investigations and asset freezes, not a single euro has returned to the accounts of the national agency responsible for distributing EU aid to farmers (OPEKEPE), five months after authorities began efforts to reclaim falsely obtained agricultural subsidies.
After the release of Alexis Tsipras’ political memoir “Ithaki” (Ithaca), the pressing question is how parallel – and for how long – the paths of the former prime minister, his former party SYRIZA, and the splinter group New Left can remain. Party officials note that current SYRIZA leader Sokratis Famellos is not mentioned in the…
Greg Kinnear, the Oscar-nominated actor and one of ACS Athens’ most prominent alumni, returned to his former school on Friday while in Greece filming a new feature project.
Bill Papastergiadis, Greek Community of Melbourne president, and Major General Anastasios Polychronos, superintendent of the Hellenic Army Academy, held talks focused on strengthening cooperation between Greece and Australia in Melbourne, the organization said in a press release.
An explosion caused by a homemade device at the entrance of an apartment building in Thessaloniki’s Kalamaria district early on Wednesday caused extensive damage but no injuries, authorities said.
After 26 years in a Turkish prison, Abdullah Ocalan is carving out a key role for himself as Ankara tries to end his outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party’s four-decade insurgency.
The sheep and goat pox disease that broke out in August 2024 has devastated flocks across the country, especially in the central region of Thessaly, still recovering from the great storm of 2023.
More than seven in 10 respondents (71%) in an opinion poll published exclusively by Kathimerini believe that it is unlikely or impossible that the next national election will produce a viable government.
Two decades after Greece basked in the euphoria of the 2004 Athens Olympics and its surprise Euro 2004 soccer triumph, Greek households today have less real disposable income than they did then, despite the country’s exit from austerity programs in 2018 and a recent period of rising wages and falling unemployment.