VAMVAKOU - A high-altitude summer festival with more than twenty events, activities and programs for everyone, and three days full of experiences: that’s what’s waiting for us at this year’s Vamvakou Experience Festival! From July 14 to 16, the Vamvakou Revival invites us along on the journey to bring new life to the village, a project implemented with support from SNF, at its huge summer celebration.

ATHENS - Rebetiko is a traditional form of music with a storied past in Greece, but what is its future? REDU (Rebetiko Educational Online Platform) is the first online educational platform for this influential style of Greek urban folk music, the vision of Dimitris Mistakidis, a folk guitar virtuoso and expert in the Rebetiko repertoire, realized with support from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).

OSLO - Foreign Minister Vassilis Kaskarelis will be in Oslo on Wednesday on behalf of Greece's caretaker government to take part in the informal meeting of the foreign ministers of NATO on May 31 and June 1, with the participation of Sweden.

WASHINGTON — Ron DeSantis plans to kick off his presidential campaign in Iowa on Tuesday, the start of a busy week that will take him to 12 cities in three states as he tests his pitch as the most formidable Republican challenger to former President Donald Trump.

NICOSIA - It's already been rejected by the occupying Turkish-Cypriot side, but Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides said the European Union should help broker attempts to bring together the island split by unlawful 1974 Turkish invasions.

ATHENS - A resolution of support and solidarity for the elected ethnic Greek Mayor of Himare Fredi Beleri, who remains detained by Albanian authorities since May 12, was adopted on Monday by Athens City municipal council, following a proposal by Mayor of Athens Kostas Bakoyannis.

ATHENS – High school examinations in Greece were interrupted two days running by cyberattacks in sites around the country as officials scrambled to deal with them and set up defenses.

ATHENS – A nationalist, religious-based party, Niki (Victory) just missed getting enough of the vote in the May 21 first round of Greek elections and is close to the 3 percent needed to win seats in the June 25 second ballot.

LONDON — The big cheese of extreme U.

ATHENS – The long-running saga of the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis allegedly bribing politicians and paying doctors to prescribe its medications brought convictions only against 15 physicians.