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The Lion Gate, the iconic stone archway that serves as the main entrance of the citadel of Mycenae in the Peloponnese, has not been damaged by the wildfire that broke out on Sunday, and there is no damage to...

The body of a British tourist was found by swimmers in the sea region of Avlaki, off northeastern Corfu, on Monday morning. According to sources, the woman, who was spending her holidays on Corfu, had been hit by a vessel's...

After the recitation of the Marian Prayer during his Sunday Angelus at St. Peter's Square, Pope Francis prayed for a resolution of the "instability" in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. "I follow with concern the tensions in the eastern Mediterranean," he...

A whale was spotted off the coast of the town of Gerolimenas in Mani, Peloponnese on Friday. The rare sighting of what was reportedly a sperm whale was pictured by passengers on board a yacht, just a few nautical miles...

A flotilla of Greek fishing boats loaded with fresh home-made food, vegetables and other supplies set sail recently from the town of Myrtos, near Ierapetra, Crete to the Hellenic Navy frigate "Limnos" as a  token gesture of gratitude to...

There were 157 new cases of coronavirus detected in Greece on Sunday, of which 41 were detected during checks on travellers entering the country, the National Organisation for Public Health said. This brings the total number of confirmed cases in...

The Greek government is drafting a bill that aims to ban all single-use plastics in the country by July 2021. The draft law to reduce the impact of certain plastics on the environment, with the incorporation of the relevant EU...

A group of volunteer divers cleaned the sea bed in front of the iconic Little Venice quarter at the capital of Mykonos on Sunday. The volunteers of the environmental group "All For Blue" managed to locate and pull out dozens...

Sections of the archaeological site of Mycenae, the bronze age kingdom of Agamemnon, were damaged by a wildfire on Sunday. Visitors and staff at the archaeological site were earlier evacuated as a precaution. In an announcement the Ministry of Culture attempts to...

Police checks to prevent the spread of coronavirus carried out throughout Greece on Friday led to the confirmation of 373 violations for not using a mask and not maintaining the required minimum distance, as well as for 20 other...