Tag: Greece
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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 ...
