US Vice President J.D. Vance is scheduled to visit Athens in upcoming February in order to attend the 1st Breitbart Europe Summit. Athens is reportedly set to host the inaugural Breitbart Europe Summit in February, focusing on Europe-US relations. J.D. Vance is expected to be the keynote guest, alongside other senior U.S. officials. The American […]

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With a modest ceremony, Athens marked on Monday 82 years of Liberation from the Nazi occupation (1941-1944) during the WWII. The ceremony to commemorate the Liberation of Athens started with the hoist of the Greek flag on the Acropolis at 11 o’ clock in the morning in the presence of President of the Republic Constantine […]

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With the Acropolis as a backdrop, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio Rubio lavishly praised the Ancient Greece with the usual clichés, all of them except the most important one: Greece is the cradle of Democracy. How could he talk about “democracy”? On the contrary. Rubio chose to rolled out the MAGA agenda as if […]

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Traffic bans, closed metro stations and a ban of gatherings and protest rallies are being imposed in the entire center of Greek capital Athens during the visit of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday, October 7, 2026. Following a decision of by the head of the Athens Police Directorate, all outdoor public gatherings […]

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On September 30, the Archdiocese of Athens and the Greek Ministry of Social Cohesion and Family signed a memorandum of cooperation aimed at preventing domestic violence. The document was signed by Bishop Varnavas of Christoupolis—Protosyncellus of the Archdiocese of Athens and representative of Archbishop Ieronymos—and Deputy Minister Elena Rapti. This new agreement expands the existing […]

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will visit Athens next week as head of an American delegation to the 6th US-Greece Strategic Dialogue. According to a statement by the State Department, his visit is part of a series of stops at Rekjavik, Athens, and Lisbon from October 5 to 8, 2026. “In Greece, Secretary Rubio […]

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Devastated relatives who arrived from abroad visited the site of the collapsed building where four tourists and an elderly couple lost their lives on Friday morning, September 25, 2026. With tears in their eyes and broken voice they told media reporters that they came for the identification of the victims adding that the recognition was […]

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The spokesman of Greek Fire Service confirmed at 3 p.m. on Saturday, that all six bodies of missing persons have been retrieved from the rubble of the building that collapsed early Friday morning following a powerful explosion in Plaka, the historical and touristic center of Athens. The process of identification is due. At the time […]

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Search works for the missing people in the rubble of the building that collapsed after an explosion in historical center of Athens, Plaka continue until late Friday night. According to latest information, the number of the missing people has risen to six from five as initially thought. The number was officially announced by the Mayor […]

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A powerful explosion in an old building in historical center of Athens, Plaka, occurred at 7:30 on Friday morning. Three people injured. Building collapsed. It is unknown whether the elderly couple living there managed to survive the disaster. Injured have been two women: a 50-year-old who was trapped under the debris and another one who […]

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Α 50-year-old high school principal suffered a cardiac arrest outside the school in Ilioupoli suburb of eastern Athens during the heavy rain- and thunderstorm hitting the area on Tuesday. Initial reports suggest the cardiac arrest was caused by lightning. Passersby who saw the woman collapsing on the street outside the school immediately called for help […]

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A 82-year-old man was reportedly beaten to death by a 76-year-old man during a argument over a sunbed in a popular organized beach in Vouliagmeni in Athens Riviera on Sunday. According to initial information, the 76-year-old who was accompanied with a 21-year-old woman argued with the victim over the sunbed. Quickly the situation went out […]

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A decision by the Ministry of Infrastructure & Transport has raised the fixed taxi fares from the airports in Athens and Thessaloniki Taxi: New fares €50 for a trip from the ATH International Airport to downtown Athens. The fares change concerns, among others, the predetermined fares for routes from the airports of Athens and Thessaloniki, […]

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Athens Mayor Haris Doukas on Wednesday delivered a report by experts on the damage sustained by buildings in Athens’ Kypseli district by the works to open up Athens Metro Line 4 to the head of the First-Instance Court Public Prosecutors, Aristides Koreas. The expert report compiled by independent consultants as part of the municipality’s support […]

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Human remains hidden in a plastic bag were discovered near a sports stadium in Kypseli district of central Athens at noon on Tuesday, September 8, 2026. According to initial information, it was a child who found a human skull and bones near the Alepotrypa (Fox Hole) stadium. The children of a local football club were […]

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i have been struggling in the last couple of days to get the facts right and make an update on that horror story of the dead infant found in a deep freezer at an Airbrb apartment in Kypseli district of Athens on August 31. The more I delay to write down and post the update, […]

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Greek Police is set to mobilize all possible modern means in order to solve the one problem that torments not only commuters twice per day but anyone trying to move within the 4-million-people capital Athens: the endless traffic jams. The new “integrated operational system for traffic management”, developed by the Hellenic Police and termed “Traffic […]

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Authorities made shocking findings in an Airbnb apartment in Kypseli district of Athens on Monday:the “frozen” body of an infant inside a container stuck in a suitcase. Three minors aged 9, 12 and 15 with the latter to be pregnant. At least one of the minors, a boy, and the pregnant girl were found positive […]

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A study published in the journal Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies proposes a radically new reading of the Parthenon frieze, the famous 160-meter-long sculpture that surrounded the temple dedicated to Athena on the Acropolis of Athens. According to its author, Ellie Mackin Roberts, of the universities of Bristol and Leeds, the frieze was […]

Italian police officers are patrolling on the streets of Athens together with their Greek colleagues. The new policing program following an agreement between Greece and Italy in 2025. Greece and Italy have launched joint police patrols in Athens and Rome in August 2026, implementing the 2025 agreement to strengthen public security, prevent crime and better […]

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