When a missile fired by Yemen’s Houthi Islamists landed near his ship in the Red Sea, Costas Rassias vowed to stop sailing through the perilous waters. “I froze,” said the Greek 34-year-old second class marine engineer, describing the close call. “I weighed what was more important – my life, or a better income?”
On a stifling summer evening, the actors took to the stage: a grassy courtyard enclosed by towering prison walls, topped with barbed wire and lit by a floodlight.
You won’t see Giorgos sleeping rough but he is still at risk of finding himself back on the streets, homeless and alone, as he was four years ago.
The African Voices Festival, held on June 6 at Panteion University, was a vibrant celebration of the African diaspora in Greece and a poignant revelation of the community’s struggles.
Demonstrators were due to rally in Athens on Friday to mark the anniversary of a shipwreck that killed hundreds of migrants off Greece and demand answers about the causes of the disaster and the fate of relatives.
Thousands of high-school students had to suffer through June’s early heatwave with no air conditioning or fans as they sat the nationwide university entrance exams this week.
Desperate hands clutched at Ali Elwan’s arms, legs and neck, and screams misted his ears, as he spat out saltwater and fought for three hours to keep afloat in the night, dozens of miles from land.
The roadside above Limanakia in the southern Athenian suburb of Vouliagmeni was lined with parked cars on Sunday. People began flocking to the coastal coves early in the afternoon and stayed until late in the evening.
Egyptian electrician Mahmoud Shalabi was the only person from his hometown to survive when a fishing trawler crammed with migrants capsized off Greece a year ago, killing hundreds in one of the deadliest recorded boat disasters in the Mediterranean.
Syrna is not an island you can just go to. It lies practically alone in the north Karpathian Sea, southeast of Astypalaia, with just five tiny islets to keep it company.
The furor over their wedding in Albania was just the latest stage in what Alba Ahmetaj and Edlira Mara say has been a long struggle to get the same rights as heterosexual couples.
Alexandra Stasinopoulou, member of the Board of Directors of the Michael N. Stassinopoulos-Viohalco Public Benefit Foundation, and Antonis Politis, professor of psychiatry at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, stand outside the Mentor Healthy Ageing Center in Tegea, in southern Greece.
Dogs rush over and greet Nilgul Sayar when she arrives by car to feed them in the countryside near Istanbul, one of many Turks with affection for Turkey’s estimated four million stray dogs, whose fate now lies in the government’s hands.
Fifteen million fewer deaths per year, a 29% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, a 51% reduction in land use, and 5 trillion in annual benefits from the economic, health and environmental outcomes of food production and consumption systems would be the minimal benefits if all countries adopted a planetary health diet resembling the traditional Mediterranean diet.
The fate of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople based in Istanbul was discussed by more than 290 archons from 22 different countries during the 4th International Conference on Religious Freedom, in Athens this week.
A cargo ship that sank in 1976 with the loss of nine lives after colliding with another vessel as it exited the Corinth Canal has been found in the Megara Gulf.
Refugee Week Greece is back for a third year, running June 14-23. Marking World Refugee Day, the initiative seeks to celebrate the “resilience, diversity and creativity” of refugees and migrants across the world.
Eighteen civilians who were executed on Crete by the Nazis during World War II have been identified 83 years later via DNA analysis by the Comparative Genomics Lab at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH).
A new seminar developed by two Greek psychologists with significant professional experience abroad could be described in three words: “Awakening in Delphi.” This five-day program combines meditation and Greek philosophy with modern psychology and movement.
Ozempic is not for Hollywood stars alone as demand for the drug is spreading like wildfire due to its weight-loss reputation. Greece is no exception, with demand skyrocketing since last year, especially in the run-up to summer.
The journey from central Athens to Korydallos is a daily routine for Aikaterini Papageorgiou. As the director and facilitator at the Korydallos Prison Theater Workshop, she and 26 inmates are now preparing Sophocles’ “Antigone,” following last year’s presentation of “The Persians.” The performance is scheduled for June 11 and 12 in […]
Climate change is being considered by specialists as a factor that may be responsible for the occurrence of more intense migraines.
