The partly restored Palace of Aigai, in northern Greece, was much more than the palace where Philip II of Macedon resided and where his son, Alexander, was proclaimed king in 336 BC before embarking on his now legendary conquests.
Since President Erdogan agreed in principle to enlargement at the NATO summit in Vilnius last July, we have witnessed a political back-and-forth on the Swedish issue reminiscent of the hustle and bustle of an oriental bazaar.
All crew members of the Greek-owned oil tanker St Nikolas, which was seized on Thursday by the Iranian navy, anchored in Bandar Abbas, Iran, are reported to be in good health and safe, as was announced by the vessel’s management company Empire Navigation.
Foreign tourists entering the former Orthodox Christian cathedral of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul will have to pay an entrance fee from Monday, as announced by Turkey’s Culture and Tourism Ministry.
Renowned guitarist and living Chicago blues legend John Primer returns to the Half Note Jazz Club after 14 years for four exclusive performances.
Friday’s sweeping overhaul of Greece’s military leadership is indicative of a radical shift in the dogma governing how the armed forces are run, Defense Minister Nikos Dendias tells Kathimerini in an exclusive interview. Dogmas must be revised, he says, noting that the new leadership needs to speak its mind and to […]
A man holding an umbrella walks along the promenade in the seaside Athens suburb of Alimos Saturday. He wears a mask for protection amid a resurgence of Covid cases.
A 16-year-old allegedly stabbed a 42-year-old after a dispute in a nightclub in the early hours of Sunday in the city of Kalamata, southern Peloponnese.
The legislation on postal voting will be discussed in parliament on Monday, as announced by Interior Minister Niki Kerameus on Sunday.
Why politics fails and what share of responsibility do citizens bear in a failed political system? These are the overarching questions that Ben Ansell, professor of comparative democratic institutions at the University of Oxford, tries to answer in his new book