Greece announced on Monday that it makes mandatory a negative molecular PCR test for flight passengers from 5 EU countries as well as for all travelers entering the country from Promachonas border crossing with Bulgaria. The decision has been taken following  recommendations by epidemiologists monitoring epidemiological data, deputy government spokeswoman …

Greece announced on Monday a series of additional measures and restrictions to contain the spread of the coronavirus, after a steady increase of infections in the month of August. The measures mainly affect traveling from certain countries, operations hours in the catering sector in several regional units, as well as …

An scandalous issue that has recently shaken government, opposition parties and media in Greece may soon come to an end. State Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis said on Tuesday said that all the amounts concerning the allocation of 20 million euros in funds to the media will be probably made public this …

Turkey’s Council of State is to decide on the status of Hagia Sophia and whether it can be converted into a mosque on July 2, 2020. The country’s highest court will examine the request for annulment of the presidential decree of 1934 that turned the Hagia Sophia from a mosque …

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan insists to convert Hagia Sophia into a mosque and has asked his aides to conduct a comprehensive study on how to do this. According to Turkish daily Hurriyet, during a top party meeting earlier this week, Erdogan noted that Hagia Sophia was reopened as a …

A woman was killed by a lightning during a rainstorm on the island of Skopelos on Tuesday, local media report. The woman was reportedly doing agricultural works on the fields together with her husband, when she was hit but the lightning. She died immediately in front of her husbands’ eyes, …

Two bear cubs have been found dead and buried in a farm plot in the lakeside area between Polykarpis and Fotini, by Kastoria, northern Greece. The cubs were killed by a car. But who buried them? Most likely it was the mama bear, say members of emergency response team of …

Two scholars at Stanford University have joined forces to recreate what a Christian choir might have sounded like inside Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia before it became a mosque in the 1400s. Bissera Pentcheva, Professor of Art History, and Jonathan Abel is Consulting Professor at the Center for Computer Research in Music …

Greece has decided to accelerate the recruitment of health personnel as one of the alert measures of the country to deal with possible infections of coronavirus. This was decided at the meeting of the National Public Health Council on Monday with the aim to shield Greece against the disease.. Recruited …

Greek seismologists are on alert and closely monitor the seismic activity in Crete with a total of 100 small and medium-size earthquakes to have occurred during the last six days The scientists are still not in position to determine whether the series of tremors are the pre-seismic activity of a …

An earthquake measuring 6.1 R stroke in the sea area between the islands of Crete and Kythera at 9:23 a.m. on Wednesday. No tsunami risk, say Greek seismologists. The tremor was so powerful that it was felt also in half of Greece, including the far away mainland. Preliminary reports about …

A decision by Turkey’s Supreme Administrative Court may open the way to convert the symbol of Greek Orthodoxy, the Hagia Sophia into a mosque. This is a permanent demand by local nationalists, supported also by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The court has ruled that the historic Monastery of Chora in …

One tourist died and two others were injured, one of them seriously, when an all-terrain vehicle ATV collided with a private car on the island of Mykonos on early afternoon Thursday. The fatal accident occurred on the road between Chora and the Airport. According to local media, dead is a …

Yeah, I have to admit that this extraordinary Greek island is not the first place in your list to visit during Christmas. It makes sense in a way. Why would anybody on Earth choose an isle as a Christmas holiday destination? Well, the truth is that everybody has more than …

“There is no official request from the Iranian tanker for mooring,” Greek Shipping Minister Giannis Plakiotakis said on Tuesday implying that Athens will not officially express its position on the issue, not before tanker Adrian Darya 1 declares its intentions. The ministires of Merchant Shipping and Foreign Affairs are monitoring …

Greeks and tourists have the opportunity to visit 28 lighthouses across Greece and be briefed on their contribution in safe navigation and the development of the lighthouses network. the lighthouses are open to public on Sunday, August 18th 2019 as part of the cultural heritage and in the context of …

A partially preserved inscription linking the ancient Greek goddess Artemis with the ancient town of Amarynthos was found in Paleochoria, Evia, 2 km east of the modern-day town with the same name, the Ministry of Culture said in a press release. The fragmentary inscription, “… of Artemis in Amarynthos”, was …

Spotlights are again on the island of Mykonos, after a Greek visitor denounced that that a local grill sells the famous Greek snack Souvlaki at two different prices: one for Greeks, the cheaper, and one for tourists, the more expensive one. The denouncement comes just a few weeks after a …

An exact replica of the iconic marble sculpture of Nike of Samothrace, one of the most spectacular exhibits in the Museum of the Louvre, has been temporarily placed in the city of Alexandroupolis, NE Greece, before it can be transferred to its home island in the North Aegean Sea.   …

For the first time, the Greek Geodynamic Institute will install six seismological stations to monitor the volcano of Methana in the Saronic Gulf, just 50 km away from capital Athens. ” A source of concern is the volcano close distance to the [Greek] capital,” says a researcher at the Institute …