Tag: Greece
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Rubio to urge West to restore founding values
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to call for the nations of the West to return to their civilizational roots and restore the values that ... -
Greek island kids have to catch a boat to school as Europe ages
Before the sun rises over the Ionian Sea, teenagers from the tiny Greek island of Kalamos file into a sea taxi, backpacks slung over their shoulders, ... -
Athens is cleaning its all-marble Olympic stadium for the first time in more than a century
It has welcomed marathon runners, rock stars and the first modern Olympic athletes. Now it’s time for a monumental scrub. Athens’ U-shaped Panathenaic Stadium — made ... -
UNESCO adds France’s D-Day landing beaches, Greece’s Mount Olympus to World Heritage List
World War II’s D-Day landing beaches in northern France and the iconic Mount Olympus in Greece were among the sites added to the World Heritage List on Sunday at a U.N. ... -
Greek finals suspended after rivalry turns ugly again
The Greek basketball league finals between Panathinaikos and Olympiakos were suspended by the government on Monday following on-court scuffles involving rival security teams. The best-of-five series ... -
Meet the Mount Athos monks living at Simonos Petra monastery
Mount Athos, a verdant peninsula in northern Greece, has been a center of Christian Orthodox monasticism for more than 1,000 years. The all-male autonomous community, known ... -
Heat wave returns as Greece grapples with more wildfire evacuations
A third successive heat wave in Greece pushed temperatures back above 40 C across parts of the country yesterday following more nighttime evacuations from fires that ... -
Greece: 59 migrants dead, dozens feared missing after fishing vessel capsizes
At least 59 people have died and dozens are feared missing off the coast of southern Greece after a fishing boat carrying migrants capsized and sank, ... -
After rail disaster, trains gradually restart
Train services in Greece resumed yesterday for the first time since a deadly rail disaster three weeks ago, and just a day after the embattled conservative ... -
Assault on archaeologist triggers protests in Greece
State-employed archaeologists in Greece launched strike action yesterday [Macau time] to protest an assault on an archaeologist responsible for the resort island of Mykonos, an attack ... -
Head-on train crash kills 36, injures at least 85
A passenger train carrying hundreds of people, including many university students returning home from holiday, collided at high speed with an oncoming freight train in a ... -
Migrant boat had sailed from Libya with 483 people
Greek authorities say a dilapidated fishing boat crammed with migrants that was towed to port after losing steering in rough seas south of Crete was carrying ... -
Greek court rules Golden Dawn party criminal organization
A Greek court ruled today (Wednesday) that the far-right Golden Dawn party was operating as a criminal organization, following a politically charged five-year trial against dozens ... -
Greece | Tsipras tamps down rhetoric, vows to pay off debts
A day after Greece appeared on a collision course with its creditors, new radical left Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has tamped down the rhetoric by vowing ... -
Greece | Syriza to form gov’t after election victory
Greece’s Syriza party gained the key backing needed to form a government yesterday, creating a surprise alliance with a small right-wing party that signals possible confrontation ... -
Greece | Anti-bailout party the favorite as citizens cast critical vote
Greece voted yesterday in an early general election that could alter the course of the country’s struggle with crippling debts, with a radical left party poised to ...
