Global celebrations and protests mark International Women’s Day
From Istanbul and Warsaw to Athens and Madrid, activists demand equality and the end of gender-based violence Women took to the streets of cities across...
Category : Greece
Athens: protesters clash with police during demonstration over 2023 train crash – video report
Protesters launched burning projectiles and fireworks in clashes with police outside Greece’s parliament on 7 March in renewed nationwide protests calling for politicians to be...
Greek PM vows to upgrade railways as government faces confidence vote
Kyriakos Mitsotakis says protests over train disaster emphasise the need for ‘safe and modern’ transport system The Greek prime minister has vowed to upgrade the...
Athens resists as investors swoop on the city’s ‘neighbourhood of the gods’
The district of Plaka dates to neolithic times but a new wave of development is luring more tourists – and local people are fighting back...
‘Everyone is on tenterhooks’: Santorini streets empty after days of tremors
Thousands of locals and tourists have fled Greek island amid fears of bigger earthquake or volcanic eruption On the second day of feeling the ground...
Greece sends rescue teams to Santorini amid fears of big earthquake
Schools shut as precautionary measure and people told to avoid shoreline after hundreds of seismic tremors Greek authorities have dispatched special forces, rescue teams, tents...
Carl Bloch’s lost masterpiece Prometheus Unbound finds fame again in Athens
Work that made its creator a superstar then mysteriously disappeared is mesmerising art lovers once more It was commissioned by a Greek king, made its...
Former Greek prime minister Costas Simitis dies aged 88
Four days of mourning decreed after death of Pasok party co-founder Simitis, architect of country’s entry into euro Costas Simitis, the former socialist prime minister...
Greece’s former royal family seeks to regain citizenship 50 years after end of monarchy
Ministry says ‘historically pending matter’ is being resolved as late king’s relatives acknowledge government – but choice of surname ruffles feathers Members of Greece’s former...
