August 8, 2026
On August 5, 1824, Greek revolutionary forces shattered Ottoman naval dominance in the Aegean in a battle off the coast ...
On August 5, 1824, Greek revolutionary forces shattered Ottoman naval dominance in the Aegean in a battle off the coast of Samos that changed the course of the Greek War of Independence. The Ottomans had made capturing Samos their top military priority following the devastating destruction of Psara
August 7, 2026
Every year on August 6, the Orthodox Christian world marks the Feast of the Transfiguration of Christ, the moment the Go...
Every year on August 6, the Orthodox Christian world marks the Feast of the Transfiguration of Christ, the moment the Gospels describe Jesus revealing his divine glory to his disciples on Mount Tabor. For Greeks, the day carries weight far beyond the liturgical calendar. The Hagia Sophia of Trebizo
August 7, 2026
Around 70,000 people crossed from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in the span of 48 hours, triggering an emerg...
Around 70,000 people crossed from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in the span of 48 hours, triggering an emergency meeting of EU interior ministers on August 4, 2026. The mass crossing is one of the largest single border events in European history, overwhelming Spanish authorities and reig
August 7, 2026
A British advocacy group is set to release a point-by-point rebuttal of the British Museum's own visitor pamphlet on the...
A British advocacy group is set to release a point-by-point rebuttal of the British Museum's own visitor pamphlet on the Parthenon Marbles, with red-printed annotations challenging what it calls inaccuracies and omissions about how Lord Elgin removed the sculptures in the early 19th century. The Br
August 7, 2026
Low water levels in the Danube River have exposed the foundations of a bridge built by Emperor Constantine the Great, gi...
Low water levels in the Danube River have exposed the foundations of a bridge built by Emperor Constantine the Great, giving archaeologists their first close look at the structure in nearly two years. The bridge, commissioned by Constantine I and inaugurated in 328 AD, sat submerged for most of its
August 7, 2026
Low water levels in the Danube River have exposed the foundations of a bridge built by Emperor Constantine the Great, gi...
Low water levels in the Danube River have exposed the foundations of a bridge built by Emperor Constantine the Great, giving archaeologists their first close look at the structure in nearly two years. The bridge, commissioned by Constantine I and inaugurated in 328 AD, sat submerged for most of its
August 7, 2026
A Greek official told Breitbart News that Donald Trump could secure a place in history stretching thousands of years int...
A Greek official told Breitbart News that Donald Trump could secure a place in history stretching thousands of years into the future if he uses his influence to help return the Parthenon Marbles to Greece. The comments reflect a deliberate effort by Greek officials to appeal directly to Trump's sen
August 7, 2026
Home prices in Greece have surged roughly 85% since 2017, while average household income grew only about 47%, according ...
Home prices in Greece have surged roughly 85% since 2017, while average household income grew only about 47%, according to a recent IMF report. Two in five Greek households now spend more than 40% of their income on housing, and another 20% spend between 30% and 40%. The crisis is real, and the poli
August 7, 2026
Christopher Nolan's Odyssey has done something no classical scholar managed to pull off. In the four weeks after the fil...
Christopher Nolan's Odyssey has done something no classical scholar managed to pull off. In the four weeks after the film opened in mid-July, UK sales of Homer's Odyssey jumped 1,400% compared to the same period last year, according to NielsenIQ data. The ripple effect is large enough to push Briti
August 7, 2026
The Red Cross has quietly deleted a sympathetic film it made about Sharif Ahmadzai, the 26-year-old Afghan migrant now a...
The Red Cross has quietly deleted a sympathetic film it made about Sharif Ahmadzai, the 26-year-old Afghan migrant now accused of killing Scottish woman Elisabeth-Jane Ross and stuffing her body into a suitcase in Athens. Ahmadzai was arrested Monday over the murder of Ross, 38, whose body was foun
August 7, 2026
Turkey's ruling coalition submitted a draft law to parliament on Wednesday that would protect thousands of former PKK mi...
Turkey's ruling coalition submitted a draft law to parliament on Wednesday that would protect thousands of former PKK militants from prosecution and suspend prison sentences for others, marking the most concrete legislative step yet toward ending a conflict that has killed more than 40,000 people si
August 7, 2026
A French infrastructure giant just took a majority stake in the project designed to end Cyprus' energy isolation. Meridi...
A French infrastructure giant just took a majority stake in the project designed to end Cyprus' energy isolation. Meridiam, a Paris-based investment group with close ties to the French state, signed an agreement today at the Maximos Mansion in Athens to acquire more than 50% of Great Sea Interconnec
August 6, 2026
Demis Hassabis, the Greek-Cypriot co-founder of Google DeepMind, has been elevated to one of the most powerful roles in ...
Demis Hassabis, the Greek-Cypriot co-founder of Google DeepMind, has been elevated to one of the most powerful roles in artificial intelligence. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced Thursday that Hassabis is taking on the dual title of Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, while
August 6, 2026
Turkey is telling Brussels it has exactly one job on the Cyprus issue: fulfill a 2004 EU pledge to end the isolation of ...
Turkey is telling Brussels it has exactly one job on the Cyprus issue: fulfill a 2004 EU pledge to end the isolation of the Turkish Cypriot community, and nothing more. Ankara has conveyed this position directly to European Commission Executive Vice President Rafael Fitto and other senior EU officia
August 6, 2026
A 26-year-old Afghan professional boxer has been arrested in Athens and charged with the murder of a 38-year-old British...
A 26-year-old Afghan professional boxer has been arrested in Athens and charged with the murder of a 38-year-old British volunteer whose body was found stuffed inside a suitcase in an abandoned parking lot in the Kypseli neighborhood. The victim, Elizabeth-Jane Ross from Edinburgh, had been volunte
August 6, 2026
Greece and Cyprus have officially signed the agreement to build the Great Sea Interconnector, a subsea electricity cable...
Greece and Cyprus have officially signed the agreement to build the Great Sea Interconnector, a subsea electricity cable that will end Cyprus' complete dependence on its own isolated power grid. French infrastructure giant Meridiam has acquired a majority stake of more than 50% in the special-purpos
August 6, 2026
A man accused of murdering Scottish aid worker Elisabeth Jane Ross and stuffing her body into a suitcase appeared in a G...
A man accused of murdering Scottish aid worker Elisabeth Jane Ross and stuffing her body into a suitcase appeared in a Greek court Wednesday, charged with murder and robbery. Ross, 38, arrived in Athens on July 18 to visit friends and was never seen again. Her body was found days later inside a lar
August 5, 2026
A 26-year-old Afghan national has been arrested in Athens and has admitted to placing the body of Scottish volunteer Eli...
A 26-year-old Afghan national has been arrested in Athens and has admitted to placing the body of Scottish volunteer Elisabeth-Jane Ross inside a suitcase and transporting it to an abandoned car park in the Kypseli district of the city. Greek police confirmed he faces charges of intentional homicide
August 4, 2026
An Afghan migrant and professional boxer has been arrested in Athens over the murder of a British charity worker whose b...
An Afghan migrant and professional boxer has been arrested in Athens over the murder of a British charity worker whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase inside an abandoned building. Sharif Ahmadzai, 26, is accused of killing Elisabeth-Jane Ross, 38, a Scottish volunteer known as Lisa, and dumpin
August 4, 2026
The wildfires that burned through Paros and Crete this summer were not accidents waiting to happen, they were accidents ...
The wildfires that burned through Paros and Crete this summer were not accidents waiting to happen, they were accidents waiting to be reported. A Financial Times investigation by Athens correspondent Eleni Varvitsiotis confirms what local officials already knew: both fires were entirely predictable,
August 4, 2026
Greece is burning again this summer, and a top fire meteorologist says the country is caught in one of its worst scenari...
Greece is burning again this summer, and a top fire meteorologist says the country is caught in one of its worst scenarios yet. Thodoris Giannaros, fire meteorologist at the National Observatory of Athens, warned this week that firefighting forces are already exhausted after battling multiple simult
August 4, 2026
Greece has a growing domestic drone industry, but the Hellenic Armed Forces are not buying from it. That is the central ...
Greece has a growing domestic drone industry, but the Hellenic Armed Forces are not buying from it. That is the central finding of a detailed investigation by Greek aviation outlet PTISI, which describes the situation as a paradox that is actively undermining the country's own defense manufacturers.
August 4, 2026
Greece has a functioning domestic drone industry and its own armed forces refuse to buy from it. That is the contradicti...
Greece has a functioning domestic drone industry and its own armed forces refuse to buy from it. That is the contradiction at the heart of Greek defense policy right now, and it is costing the country more than anyone in the Ministry of Defense wants to admit. Companies like Altus LSA, SAS Technolo
August 4, 2026
A wildfire burning across Boeotia and Attica has surpassed 100,000 stremma of burned land, with fire meteorologist Thodo...
A wildfire burning across Boeotia and Attica has surpassed 100,000 stremma of burned land, with fire meteorologist Thodoris Giannaros now calling it almost certain to be classified as a "megafire," a term reserved for fires of extreme scale. Giannaros posted an analysis of heat signatures recorded