“It’s Go Time, It’s My Time, It’s Ferocious Time.” After being postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, George ‘Ferocious’ Kambosos Jr is ready, willing, prepared to fight former IBF Featherweight champ Lee Selby.…
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Focusing on passengers’ safety and aiming for air travel to remain amongst the safest travel means, Aegean Airlines recently introduced ‘Hygiene Attendants’. The Hygiene Attendants will assist passengers to follow all safety…
A procession of vehicles drove through the streets of Patras on Wednesday to commemorate OXI Day. Patras is Greece’s third-largest city and the regional capital of Western Greece, in the northern Peloponnese.…
An estimated 229,000 tonnes (229,000,000 kilograms) of plastic is dumped into the Mediterranean Sea every year, a figure which could double by 2040 unless ‘ambitious steps’ are taken as soon as possible. The…
The European Commission announced an additional set of actions to contain the coronavirus pandemic which has hit the EU in a second wave more severe than the first one. “Concretely, the measures…
Two British teens have died and a third is fighting for their life, after a parasailing accident on the Greek island of Rhodes on Wednesday. According to reports, the three teens were…
Greece’s Migration and Asylum Minister Notis Mitarachi reiterated that “Greece does not participate in so called push-backs.” His post on twitter was made following the announcement by the European Union’s border agency, Frontex,…
Joe Biden- former vice president of the United States, now the Democratic presidential nominee- posted a message on social media on the occasion of OXI Day. “Today we celebrate the 80th anniversary…
Even though Greece’s young tennis star had to switch his shoe in the third set of his first-round match at the Erste Bank Open, Tsitsipas still managed to defeat German Jan-Lennard Struff.…
To commemorate the Greek National Holiday of October 28th, a huge Greek flag last night ‘waved’ on a building wall in Kavala, one of the regional units of Greece. The video projection…
The European Union’s border agency, Frontex, on Tuesday announced that it is conducting an investigation into media reports of alleged illegal pushbacks of migrants and refugees in the Aegean. It is noted…
On the 28th October, 2018, Konstantinos Katsifas, a 35-year-old man belonging to the native Greek community of Northern Epirus in today’s Southern Albania, was shot dead by Albanian police near Vouliaratis, around…
According to a global survey on the pandemic, a large majority of Greeks trust the government in managing the pandemic. The results which were published on The Guardian on Monday, also found…
The Municipality of Athens illuminated the Omonia Square fountain in blue and white to commemorate commemorate 28 October 1940, OXI Day. The Mayor of Athens, Kostas Bakoyannis, posted a photo and a…
Greece’s Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister and representative for Greeks Abroad, Kostas Vlasis, issued a message to the diaspora on the occasion of OXI Day, October 28. “Today Hellenism everywhere celebrates. It is…
His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America gave an update on the construction works at the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church. “We are approaching – for the first time – an integrated and…
Greece recorded a new daily peak of 1,259 confirmed coronavirus infections on Tuesday. Infectious diseases expert Sotiris Tsiodras called on citizens to avoid mass gatherings and wear face coverings at all times.…
OXI Day on October 28, 1940, commemorates the anniversary when former military general and Prime Minister of Greece, Ioannis Metaxas said “OXI” (NO) to an ultimatum made by Italian Prime Minister Benito…
Athens is on the list of the top ten friendliest cities in Europe, published by Condé Nast Traveller (CNT) travel magazine. “While Europe’s best cities are often judged on their ancient history,…
The first phase of the neutralisation of munition in the harbour of Monemvasia, Laconia, was carried out last week. As announced by the Hellenic Navy General Staff, the neutralisation concerns a large number of…