Organizers in Ancient Olympia held an emergency rehearsal Monday to light the flame for the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Games, seizing on a brief break in Greece’s stormy weather.
The Academy of Athens, Greece’s leading intellectual institution, has elected Professor John O. Iatrides, a US-based political scientist, as a corresponding member among Greek scholars abroad. He was appointed to the Academy’s Third Section of Ethical and Social Sciences in the field of Political Science and International Politics.
A team from OLAF, the European Union’s anti-fraud office, has visited Greece in recent days, asking for data from the General Secretariat of Information Systems.
The memoirs of former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, titled Ithaca, are released on Monday. According to Gutenberg, the publishing house, it is already a publishing success; the fourth edition began before sales even started.
Recently, a book arrived in my hands, sent by my good colleague and friend Robert Goro, an ethnic Greek from the Himare region of southern Albania.
As Pope Leo XIV prepares to embark on his first trip abroad with a visit to Turkey to mark a key event that shaped the foundations of Catholic and Orthodox Christianity, there has been a surge of renewed optimism over the possible reopening of a Greek Orthodox religious seminary that has been closed since 1971.
Vangelis, a worker at the Christmas Factory, waits for people to board the train he drives around Technopolis City of Athens, Sunday.
A fire broke out on a city bus in central Thessaloniki on Sunday evening, forcing the evacuation of passengers. No injuries were reported.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will join an 11.30 a.m. videoconference of EU leaders on Monday to discuss the latest developments in the Ukraine crisis.
Legally, much can be said about the refusal of Giorgos Xylouris – known as “Frapes” in the case file – to testify before Parliament’s investigative committee examining alleged irregularities in agricultural subsidies.