This small port for boats in Athens Riviera is certainly one of the kind. The port between Floisvos and Batis in Palaio Faliro is closed from all sides, including the one to the sea. A literally “safe refuge” for small, hobby fishing boats. When a team of UpDrones/Good Droning sent …

Very morning when Giorgos Kourelis leaves his home for his daily walk and errands, young lamb Elpida is ready to go with him. Giorgos and Elpida stroll through the narrow streets of Adamantas on the island of Milos for the joy of locals and visitors. Before they leave home, lamb …

With an ambitious plan to bring a new era in the 182-year-old “National Garden” the mayor of Athens is pouring concrete on the natural paths throughout the historic park next to the Parliament in the center of the Greek capital. Obviously inspired by the concrete paths on the Acropolis, the …

UK national on vacations on the island of Samos, ARCHIBALD GREEN, 73 years old, went missing on May 26, 2022. He went missing On Thursday morning in the area of Marina by Pythagorio, Greece’s Silver Alter service said in a Missing bulletin. Green has blue eyes, is 1.90 m tall and …

A 5-year-old girl was found drowning in the sea inside the port of Piraeus with the mother to not have even noticed the incident. A tragedy was averted only because the captain of a ferry readying to dock at the biggest port of the country saw the little girl’s hands …

The European Commission has prepared an emergency plan for the case of an energy blackout. According to Spanish daily El Pais the Commission intends to present the plan on May 18. The plan contains several actions to be taken by EU member states for the worst case scenario  in which …

Legendary Greek porn star Kostas Gousgounis passed away at the age of 92. He died last Friday at an Athens hospital after suffering a heart attack a few days previously, media reported. His burial took place on Monday in Artemida, in eastern Attika. Gousgounis, who was born in Larissa on …

A tax driver pulled out a gun and shot a Pakistani migrant in the head in the center of Athens on May 2. The bullet hit the man just a few centimeters away from his eye. He was taken with the ambulance to hospital where doctors removed the bullet and …

The owner of a jewelry shop and of a real estate office were found guilty of causing fatal bodily harm in the killing of gay rights activist 33-year-old Zak Kostopoulos in downtown Athens on September 21, 2018. The two men were sentenced to 10 years imprisonment each, without parole. The …

The Athens Culture Net of the Municipality of Athens offers the “Athenian Routes” a program with historical tours, artistic experiences and walks in the month of May. The aim of the program is that participants get to know through the routes special parts of the city, invisible corners, but also …

The Central Council of Architecture (KESA) has approved a plan submitted by the Athens Municipality for the renovation of the lower part of Ermou Street in the historical center of the Greek capital that stretches from Kapnikarea Church to Thiseio train station . The plan reportedly includes the widening of …

“The pandemic seems to be under control, we have fewer confirmed cases and fewer hospitalizations” Alternate Health Minister Mina Gaga said at the now rare live briefing on the course of the coronavirus in the country on Friday as Greece is ready to lift further protection measures on May 1, …

Wearing a bulletproof vest and his handcuffed hands on his back, Babis Anagnostopoulos crossed the door of the Mixed Jury Court of Athens short before 8:30 Friday morning. The trial for the murder of his 20-year-old wife Caroline Crouch, a UK national, started almost a year after the heinous murder …

Residents of Chania on the island of Crete took to the streets demanding proper behavior by foreign visitors including NATO forces and US Navy soldiers and their punishment. The protest protest took place after an incident on Sunday, where a group of drunken US sailors from the USS aircraft carrier …

On the occasion of the International Women’s Day, the President of the Hellenic Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou honored the women of Ukraine. She expressed her support for the women of Ukraine, those who stayed behind defending their homeland and those who took the path of fleeing as refugees. Wearing a blue …

Three buses carrying refugees from Ukraine arrived in Greece on Monday morning. On board women and children and elderly men, as those aged 18-60 are not allowed to leave the country. One buss with 36 people onboard arrived at Omonoia square in downtown Athens. The families were welcomed by relatives …

“We are flies, have no worth, the powerful don’t care about us, the people,” says my neighbor Eva, an economic migrant from Ukraine. She has been weeping since Russia launched the military operations on Thursday morning, she is devastated about her family back home, her relatives and friends, the future …

The parents of Bakari Henderson were back to the courtroom in Patras on Monday where the trial at Second Instance for the men accused of killing their 22-year-old four years ago was set to begin today. The couple that had traveled for one more time from Austin, Texas, to Greece …

An elderly woman was caught in a big supermarket chain in Athens to have stolen food items worth some 40 euros. The store manager called the police, had the granny arrested and filed a lawsuit. Despite pleads by other customers and even police officers as well as a public outcry, …

A video showing the suspects fleeing the scene where a 19-year-old man was stabbed and killed was made public by a news website in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, where the heinus murder took place in the early morning hours of Tuesday. The video obtained by local news website thestival.gr and by …