The 1973 Athens Polytechnic student uprising marked the “beginning of the end” of the seven-year military dictatorship that ruled Greece with an iron fist from 1967 to 1974 and was a “foundation stone” in the Metapolitefsi.
An international conference opened in Delphi on Thursday to address the challenges of protecting cultural landmarks from increased tourism and other forms of pressure on vulnerable sites and monuments.
In her first show at the Skoufa Gallery, artist Lena Schmidt takes an interest in the environment and studies climate change and natural disasters.
Cult British cabaret act the Tiger Lillies take the stage at the Half Note with a program paying tribute to Cole Porter and Edith Piaf.
One man has been confirmed dead and several passengers were rescued by patrol boats responding to their distress signal in the latest migrant boat wreck in the Aegean Sea, Agence-France Presse reported on Thursday.
A meeting between Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias and the chairman of the Libyan Presidential Council, Mohamed Menfi, in Tripoli was canceled at the last minute on Thursday. A few minutes after his airplane landed in Tripoli, the Greek official instructed it to take off for Benghazi, without disembarking.
On the last day of October, lawyer Andreas Akaras kept refreshing the United States Supreme Court website trying to confirm the information he had been hearing since that morning: that the ruling he had been waiting for had been published. Indeed, the long-awaited ruling had been published online that afternoon.
Ahead of a parliamentary debate, government and opposition clashed Wednesday over whether the provisions of a draft bill on wiretapping address privacy concerns raised by recent revelations that the cellphones of political leaders, ministers, journalists and others were tapped using spyware. With elections looming in the first half of next year, the government would like…
A well-known children’s charity has been put under investigation for abuse following the findings of an inquiry by the Greek Ombudsman, Kathimerini has learned.
John Psaropoulos, an independent journalist based in Athens and Al Jazeera’s southeast Europe correspondent, joins Thanos Davelis to look at how a nexus of electricity cables, renewables, and possible pipelines are transforming Greece into an important production and import-export energy hub in the region.