Europe

A substantial trial begins today in Hague concerning the Massacre at Distomo. It took place on the 10th of June in 1944 and it was one of the largest massacres of civilians during the Second World War with 218...

The International Court of Justice in Hague announced that the public hearing on the proceedings of FYROM against Greece will be held from the 21st until the 31st of March 2011. In the relevant announcement made by the ICJ it...

One person has died and dozens have been injured, many seriously, after a passenger train derailed in the south of the Netherlands in the early hours of Tuesday. Emergency services say the overnight crash happened after the train transporting about...

A Russian Orthodox church in Holland said on Saturday it is cutting ties with the patriarchate in Russia and has requested to join the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. In a statement posted to its website it said that after a...

UNESCO, the UN's Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, says it is "gravely concerned" over its listed sites in Ukraine which are threatened by the Russian invasion of the country. Sites of supreme Ukrainian importance have already sustained damage, including one...

Foreign ministers of nations belonging to the European Union are meeting today on whether or not to join in the diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics amid increasing calls for them to take action. The foreign minister of Lithuania...

Riots in Holland raged for three nights due to the general public chafing under Covid-19 restrictions as Dutch caretaker Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Monday condemned rioters, calling them “idiots,” and promising that they would be brought to justice. There were...

King Willem-Alexander and his consort, Queen Maxima, apologized to the Dutch people today after it came to light that the family had taken a trip to Greece in the middle of the second wave of the coronavirus in Holland,...

The Dutch government is willing to help Greece to move unaccompanied refugee children from Greek islands to the mainland — however, it insists on refusing to take any of them into its own territory. The Hague is under pressure both...

A group of approximately fifteen anarchists stormed the premises of the Consular office of the Greek Embassy in Berlin on Monday. The group squatted in the office in a show of solidarity for their comrades who had been evacuated from...

French-Greek Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron are in the lead of the Audi Cup China after the short dance leg of the ice dance competition, delivering a personal best score of 81.10 points in the ISU Figure Skating Grand...

Emmy Storms, a young Dutch violinist proved that music has no boundaries, playing a song by the Greek composer Vasilis Tsitsanis, during a classical music concert, in Rotterdam. The song she chose is called "Apopse stis akrogialies," (tonight on...

On October 6 in Athens the International Conference of committees will be held, which is a very important moment for the effort to return the Parthenon Marbles. After the meeting of the Greek Minister of Culture and Sports with the...

The government of the Netherlands decided to give back to the Church of Cyprus four portable Byzantine icons that date back to the 16th century, from the Antifonitis Church in occupied Kyrenia in Cyprus, which were stolen after the...

The Conservative MP, Matthew Offord, wrote a letter of request to the British Foreign Secretary to help in order for the Cypriot government to accept the proposal for the return of Ammochostos to its rightful inhabitants. In his capacity as...