In a move of great significance for Cyprus, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has appointed Cyprus Ambassador Julie S. Davis as US chargé d’affaires to Ukraine, effective immediately. Davis will hold this position concurrently with her ambassadorship in Cyprus.

Evangelos Marinakis has stepped back from his ownership duties at English Premier League soccer club Nottingham Forest.

Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology of the United Arab Emirates Dr. Sultan Bin Ahmed Al Jaber will visit Greece on Friday for a series of high-level meetings.

Artichokes go by all sorts of different names on the Ionian island of Corfu – from the regular Greek “agginares” to “koukoutses” – while “mores” refers to a variety of small, dark artichokes.

Beth Gibbons, the voice of Portishead, brings her haunting sound to Athens’ Lycabettus Theater, supported by the Release Athens Festival.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday said that “historical problems” in Cyprus can be left behind with a two-state solution for the island.

Greece on Wednesday launched an international tender for hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation rights in offshore areas south of the Peloponnese and Crete.

Twelve European Union countries have requested activation of the “national escape clause” from EU deficit rules in order to boost their defence spending, the European Commission said on Wednesday.

Ticket prices for conventional ferries in Greece will remain unchanged this summer after the Greek shipping ministry reduced port fees by 50%, easing the pressure on the shipping industry as new, stricter emissions regulations come into force.

A man was arrested for drug trafficking in Thessaloniki on Wednesday after police discovered a large quantity of cocaine in his home.

Taxable property rates (known as “objective values”) will remain unchanged until 2027, even though their last adjustment took place in 2021.

Turkey is determined to construct a canal project intended to relieve pressure on the busy Bosphorus Strait, when financing is secured, a government minister said on Thursday, despite widespread criticism over its possible environmental impact.

Several countries were sending firefighting aircraft to Israel on Thursday as crews battled for a second day to extinguish a wildfire that had shut down a major highway linking Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

Dozens of protest rallies commemorating Labor Day started wrapping up without incident on Thursday afternoon, with streets being given back to traffic in Patra, Thessaloniki and, gradually, in downtown Athens.

Tom Ellis, the editor in chief of Kathimerini’s English Edition, joins Thanos Davelis as we look back at the Imia crisis of 1996, the role of American diplomats like Thomas Niles – the US ambassador in Athens at the time who passed away this week – in preventing a confrontation, and its lasting legacy today.

As if navigating downtown Athens weren’t already difficult enough, the growing use of electric scooters as a cheap and fast mode of transportation is raising concerns over public safety.

The local authority in Xanthi, in northeastern Greece, has announced its intention to unleash specially trained falcons into the city center in a bid to tackle what it claims is an infestation of pigeons.

Greece is facing a sharp increase in students requiring special classroom support, with approved requests rising from about 5,000 in 2016 to nearly 27,000 this school year, education officials said.

Alkistis Protopsalti, one of Greece’s top vocalists, will be heading to Montreal this fall for a fundraising concert organized by The Hellenic Initiative Canada.

A late 19th-century residential complex uncovered during excavations for the new metro station at downtown Athens’ Exarchia Square is offering a fresh glimpse into life in the Greek capital during good and bad times.