A decision earlier this year by authorities in the occupied northern part of Cyprus to allow headscarves in schools has led to mass protests against what many see as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s increasing authoritarianism and a creeping Islamification from Ankara.
Final exams in high schools across Greece began on Monday.
A 25-year-old man died after falling from the 24th floor of a residential high-rise in the central Athens district of Ambelokipi, in what authorities believe was a suicide, police said on Monday.
The only pediatrician serving the Greek island of Ios has resigned, citing chronic understaffing, inadequate infrastructure, and institutional neglect that he said compromised both patient care and his own health.
More than 260 athletes from 44 countries and over 100 national federation delegates are converging at the capital’s OAKA stadium through May 25 for the World Indoor Freediving Championship.
When then-President-elect Donald Trump nominated Kimberly Guilfoyle as the new US ambassador to Greece in December 2024, his action was described, rather flippantly, as a sop for her recent breakup with Donald Trump Jr.
A 4.5-magnitude earthquake struck at 3:23 a.m. local time (0023 GMT) Monday on the Greek island of Evia, north/northwest of Athens, the Athens Institute of Geodynamics has reported.
The Board of Directors of the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) is set to review potential electricity tariff adjustments this week.
Greece’s parliamentary committee on defense and foreign affairs approved a bill ratifying a memorandum of understanding with Egypt on aeronautical and maritime search and rescue cooperation.
Pope Leo XIV was elected recently to succeed the late Francis. The name he chose is an allusion to Pope Leo XIII, who introduced the notions of human labor, social justice and Christian ethics as an indelible part of the Catholic Church’s doctrine.