ATHENS - Police in Greece have arrested a rap artist accused of using explosives to rob cash machines and finance his music videos, authorities said Monday.
ATHENS - The government will continue the bold reforms in its effort to fight for a better life, for everyone, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Monday during a conference of people with disabilities.
When it comes to scoundrels most despised by Greeks, the late Scottish diplomat Lord Elgin, who stripped half the friezes off the Parthenon in the early 19th Century ranks near the top, but his wife played a role too.
While Greece’s economy is coming back by leaps and bounds, now rated investment grade status which entices foreign businesses, it hasn’t trickled down to Greeks who have a minus savings rate, the lowest in the European Union.
LONDON - With polls showing a majority of Britons believing the stolen Parthenon Marbles housed in the British Museum should be sent to Greece, the arguments are growing in the media too, a columnist for The Guardian adding his voice.
THESSALONIKI — A father and son duo in Greece were arrested for selling adulterated sunflower oil marketed as olive oil, police said Saturday.
Greece is further looking to upgrade its air fleet with the acquisition of new American-made C-130J Super Hercules transport craft and is reportedly in talks with the United States to get them.
He wasn’t the first one to think about it but a humor columnist for POLITICO suggested - ironically, of course - that if Greeks want back the stolen Parthenon Marbles in the British Museum that they should just steal them back, old boy.
ATHENS - Workers especially skilled in Information Technology and able to use computers to work anywhere in the world for their company and who want to do it in Greece as of Jan.
LONDON - The British Museum can continue to explore solutions with Greece regarding the Parthenon Sculptures "whether or not [British Prime Minister] Rishi Sunak meets the Greek prime minister or not," British Museum Chair George Osborne said in his latest Political Currency podcast, following a "diplomatic spat" caused by Sunak's last-minute cancellation of a meeting with his Greek counterpart.
ATHENS – Internationally acclaimed and widely translated Greek author Vassilis Vassilikos, a former MP and Ambassador of Greece to UNESCO, died on Thursday at the age of 90.
ATHENS - Fed up with long hours at low pay and conditions in public hospitals so bad that some don’t have toilet paper - or seats - and critical care equipment, Greek doctors said they would go on 8-hour strikes on Nov.
ATHENS - You wouldn’t imagine it from the busy streets of Athens and Greek cities buzzing with activity, people out dining, having coffee and socializing but large numbers of elderly in the country spend their days alone in remote areas.
ATHENS - With Greece and Britain in a row over the stolen Parthenon Marbles in the British Museum, the National Museum of Denmark said it will not return three fragments it has kept there for centuries, claiming them as part of Danish history.