When libraries across the country temporarily closed in the early days of the pandemic, the Internet Archive, an organization that digitizes and archives materials like webpages and music, had the idea to make its library of scanned books free to read in an online database.

With ruling New Democracy emitting a sense of fatigue and registering a significant drop in the polls – the result of wrong political choices but also of the arrogant behavior of some of its officials – and SYRIZA experiencing never-ending self-destructive infighting and sinking into an existential rut, PASOK is celebrating its 50th anniversary at a crucial time for its and the country’s future.

The imposition of rules and inspections on the use of Greek beaches showed that where there is the political will, the state can effectively protect the public interest. 

Not only did the benchmark of the Greek bourse recover all its Wednesday losses on Thursday, but it also did it on increased turnover.

Halkidiki in northern Greece was the area with the most complaints filed by citizens regarding illegal beach occupations by businesses, according to data released by the Economy and Finance Ministry. 

Five people have drowned while swimming in the last 24 hours, the coast guard has said.

Students who openly use their cell phone at school will face suspension of one day, while those who use their devices to make video recordings could be expelled, Education Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis has said.

Opposition party PASOK will hold two debates as part of its leadership contest, both before the first round and before the second round of the elections.

Doctors who chose to work in remote or understaffed areas will earn an additional bonus ranging from 200 to 600 euros, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has announced.

In the wake of President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race and Vice President Kamala Harris’ ascension into the role of Democratic nominee, a crucial question emerges: How would Harris’ foreign policy depart from Biden’s?

Chevron and its partners, Shell and NewMed Energy, have put forward a new $4 billion plan to develop the Aphrodite gas field off Cyprus.

Athens is reemerging as a center of innovative democratic processes.

Police in Attica conducted around 52,500 traffic inspections and issued almost 18,000 fines for various motoring offenses over the summer.

There was another spike in arrivals of migrants and refugees in Greece in August as the points of entry and trafficking routes have changed. 

Any move against him as party leader would hurt and 'liquidate' the party, SYRIZA chief Stefanos Kasselakis has said, after outspoken MP Pavlos Polakis called for a new leadership contest in the main opposition party through a grassroots vote.

Firefighters in southeastern Attica freed an injured man from a well on Thursday. The rescue operation, which involved 15 firefighters and four vehicles,  took place in Markati, in Lavreotiki municipality. The man was subsequently transferred to hospital.

A Russian court on Thursday suspended the corporate rights of Rusagro’s Cypriot parent company in its main Russian subsidiary, paving the way for the farming conglomerate to effectively redomicile from Cyprus to Russia.

Recent reports indicating that the United States has resumed talks with Ankara for the sale of F-35 fighter jets in exchange for putting the Russian S-400 missile system on ice have caused a stir in Greece.

Former Istanbul street dogs Dali and Deezi now live in the Netherlands, enjoying a pampered home life after years in a shelter in the Turkish city, and as other strays face being rounded up under a new law to clear them from the streets.