A 7-year-old boy was killed and two family members injured in a house fire early on Friday in Rizoma, a village in the Rhodope region of northern Greece, local authorities said.
Young thoughts and dreams, seemingly disparate types of music, a love of jazz, trips between Greece and London, and a band that carries the tunes of the Balkans and the East: These are the elements that comprise “Reflections,” Sofia Roubati’s first full album, released just a few weeks ago.
Greece received 35.261 million visitors from abroad, against 33.788 million in the same period last year.
Nikos Plakias, who lost his twin daughters and a niece in Greece’s deadliest rail disaster, has criticized railway operator Hellenic Train over a Christmas greetings card he said showed a lack of sensitivity toward victims’ families.
Farmers protesting delays in European Union subsidies and other grievances maintained roadblocks across Greece on Friday, lining up thousands of tractors on major highways as they weighed whether to escalate their actions.
Istanbul police launched scores of simultaneous raids on Thursday, detaining over a hundred suspected members of the militant Islamic State group who were allegedly planning attacks against Christmas and New Year’s celebrations, authorities said.
The archaeological site of the Palace of Pella, the birthplace and childhood home of Alexander the Great, has officially opened to the public, marking a major milestone in the long-term effort to make one of ancient Macedonia’s most important monuments accessible and understandable to visitors.
Experts have started analyzing the black boxes recovered from a jet crash in Turkey that killed eight people, including western Libya’s military chief , the Turkish defense ministry said Thursday. The probe was being done in coordination with Libyan officials. The private jet with Gen. Muhammad Ali Ahmad al-Haddad, four other military officers and three…
Early Christian church pioneers would gasp at Artificial Intelligence’s twisting Jesus’ image and, from it, growing the popularity of the religion of sports.
Turkey’s Defense Ministry said Thursday that a trilateral initiative involving Israel, Greece and Cyprus does not constitute a military threat to Turkey, stressing Ankara’s commitment to regional stability and dialogue.