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An army field hospital has been set up outside the 424 Military Hospital in Thessaloniki in order to tend to Covid-19 patients as the city's hospitals reach overflow. Works are expected to be completed and the field hospital will be...

Greece marked Armed Forces Day on Saturday with a spectacular video projected onto the Hellenic Parliament facade highlighting the history and struggles for the protection of the homeland since ancient times. The video brought back to life special moments and...

Greece's National Public Health Organization (EODY) announced a record number of 108 deaths on Saturday and 2,311 new Covid-19 infections, while 522 patients are intubated. Of the 2,311 new cases, 18 were detected after checks at the country's gateways. The...

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis thanked the 18 nurses who voluntarily went to Thessaloniki from other parts of Greece to help the city's hospitals deal with increased coronavirus hospitalizations, in a video conference he held with them on Saturday. The Prime...

Greek tourism took a giant plunge in the third quarter due to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) figures released on Friday. In the accommodation sector, the turnover in the third quarter amounted to only 1.55 billion...

European Union officials had the opportunity to watch a Greek Air Force aircraft chasing away Turkish F-16 fighter jets that had violated Greek airspace live. The presentation took place during the European Security and Defence College (ESDC) conference of the...

On Saturday, Ankara extended the current illegal NAVTEX that has a seismic vessel called Oruc Reis, researching inside Greek territorial waters south of Kastellorizo and accompanied by Turkish Navy ships. The NAVTEX that has the Turkish ships moving south and...

On World Children's Day, UNICEF announced that it was opening an office in Greece, marking what it said was a "major milestone in the ongoing cooperation between the Greek State and the United Nations agency to place children’s rights...

As Greece is currently in the middle of the second, stricter lockdown to curb the Covid-19 spread, populist voices are becoming louder and louder -- and they are echoing from all sides of the political spectrum. While Greece's performance in...

A record-breaking 519 Covid-19 patients are now intubated in Greece and 75 people suffering from the virus died on Friday. These are the highest numbers of intubations and deaths among patients with the virus in a one-day period since the...