Eleven members of the 27-strong Greek delegation participating in the Global Sumud Flotilla have announced that they are beginning a hunger strike to protest what they call their “illegal detention” by Israeli authorities.
The 40 boats carrying aid and foreign activists to Gaza intercepted by Israeli forces are expected to be taken initially to the Israeli port of Ashdod, then to a prison, before being deported.
Two men suspected of illegal treasure hunting have been taken into custody in connection with the death on Tuesday of a 53-year-old man in a makeshift tunnel near Larissa.
The imposing Venetian Walls of Iraklio in Crete lit up with digital projections on September 7 as the cultural group Branding Heritage unveiled its “Digital Minoans” project during the city’s 2nd Candia Walls Festival.
As rainstorms swept across many parts of Greece on Thursday, Mount Olympus in the north saw its first flurries of snow in the early hours of the day.
A 43-year-old German man has been arrested on suspicion of secretly recording people in the toilets of Thessaloniki’s Makedonia airport, authorities said Thursday.
Thousands of fans are expected to get their wet gear on and defy the rainy weather for Thursday night’s much-anticipated performance by British pop star Robbie Williams at the Panathenaic (Kallimarmaro) Stadium.
The Greek Foreign Ministry on Thursday confirmed that 27 Greeks taking part in the Global Sumud Flotilla mission bound for war-torn Gaza are in “good health and there is no indication that violence has been used against them,” after Israeli forces intercepted several vessels.
Aaron Stein, the President of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, joins Thanos Davelis today as we explore whether Turkey’s KAAN fighter – and its defense industry at large – is hostage to CAATSA sanctions.
Urban planning experts commissioned by the Environment Ministry propose sharp increases in minimum land plot sizes required for construction, new zoning protections and limits on large-scale tourism projects for the Aegean islands of Ios, Sikinos and Folegandros in an effort to curb scattered development and rein in unregulated tourism growth.