A 2,000-year-old statue is found abandoned in a garbage bag in Greece
A marble statue of a woman believed to be more than 2,000 years old was found abandoned in a garbage bag near the Greek city of Thessaloniki, police said Wednesday. Residents discovered an 80 centimeter (31 inch) headless statue next to a trash can in Neoi Epibates, a suburb of Greece's second-largest city. The men […]
Former Greek prime minister Costas Simitis dies aged 88 | Greece
Kostas Simitis, the socialist and former prime minister who was the driving force behind Greece's entry into the euro, has died at the age of 88. Simitis was taken from his villa west of Athens early Sunday to a hospital in the city of Corinth, unconscious and without a pulse, the hospital director told Greek […]
Pregnant California teacher Clara Thomann dies after falling during hike in Greece
A pregnant California teacher who was months away from giving birth to her first child died last month after falling during a hiking trip in Greece. Clara Thoman, 33, a science teacher at Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, was vacationing in the Greek Islands when she slipped and fell approximately 54 feet into a […]
Illegal Immigration to Greece Surges by 35 Per Cent over Last Year
ATHENS, Greece (AP) – Greek authorities said Tuesday that 23 migrants were rescued from a dinghy near the eastern Aegean island of Lesbos. Rescue teams have recovered two more bodies after a boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of Gavdos over the weekend, bringing the death toll to seven. The Greek government has announced […]
Trump Nominates Kimberly Guilfoyle Ambassador to Greece
President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he will nominate Kimberly Guilfoyle as ambassador to Greece. The president-elect made the announcement from his Truth Social account on Tuesday. “Today, I am very pleased to announce the appointment of Kimberly Guilfoyle as U.S. Ambassador to Greece,” he said. “For many years, Kimberly has been a close friend […]
‘A blend of ancient and modern’: inside Thessaloniki’s new €3bn metro system | Greece
IIt caused untold chaos, decades of confusion, and sparked controversy and despair among historians and archaeologists. But at noon on Saturday, the long-awaited opening of the metro will open Thessaloniki's antique-rich underground world to a world of driverless trains and high-tech automation. The excitement on the streets of the northern Greek port city is almost […]
Over 300,000 ancient finds were unearthed in Greece during construction of a new subway system
A multi-year construction project for a new metro system in Thessaloniki, Greece, has unveiled thousands of ancient artifacts, many of which have been incorporated into the metro station design in unique ways. Construction of the Agias Sophias metro station in Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest city after the capital Athens, began in 2003. Since construction began […]
‘Best in the class’: Greek man in his 80s starts night school after life of toil | Greece
“Everything I learn is interesting,” says Vasilis Panayiotapoulos. “Being here opens my heart.” It's 7:45 p.m. A bell rings in another class, and the world of classical Greece beckons to the pensioner, whose pencil case and textbooks are neatly arranged on a small wooden desk. Wearing a dark suit and polished loafers, Panayiotalopoulos is not […]
Stefanos Kasselakis, ousted leader of Greece’s Syriza, leaves party to launch new movement | Greece
Stefanos Kasselakis, a Greek-American shipping investor and former banker who broke into Greek politics more than a year ago, left the country's main opposition party, the leftist Serias party, to form his own announced the formation of a political party. Mr Kaserakis announced his withdrawal from Syria on Friday after a two-day party conference refused […]
‘He saw how architecture and sculpture could coexist’: why Greece fell in love with Henry Moore | Henry Moore
TA monumental sculpture by Henry Moore stands like a modern-day sentinel through the massive windows of an Art Deco villa flooded with natural light on a slope in central Athens. This is a setting that the great British sculptors of the 20th century would no doubt have approved of. Against the backdrop of trees and […]