Greece

President Katerina Sakellaropoulou extended holiday greetings to Greeks abroad, recognizing their vital role in preserving Greece's ideals and promoting its cultural heritage worldwide.

As his term in Greece nears its end, US Ambassador George Tsunis reflects on his tenure in an interview with Kathimerini. He highlights what he sees as his most significant accomplishments and underscores the robust US-Greece relationship, expressing confidence that it will remain strong under a Trump administration.

The weather will worsen today and tomorrow, with locally heavy rainfall, thunderstorms mainly in maritime and coastal areas, locally gale-force winds over the seas, snowfalls in mountainous regions, and temporarily in semi-mountainous areas of central and northern Greece, especially in the northwest.

The National Weather Service (EMY) issued an emergency weather bulletin on Sunday, warning of deteriorating conditions on Monday and Tuesday.

EMY forecasts locally heavy rain, thunderstorms primarily in coastal areas, strong winds at sea and snowfall in the mountains and semi-mountainous regions of central and northern Greece, especially in the northwest.

Members of Greece's former royal family have applied for Greek citizenship and formally acknowledged the country's republican system of government, in a landmark move 50 years after the monarchy was abolished.

This year’s Christmas will come with the right kind of weather, meaning cold temperatures, rain in the lowlands, and snow in the mountains of the north and even at lower elevations.

Members of Greece's former royal family have regained Greek citizenship and formally acknowledged the country's republican system of government, in a landmark move 50 years after the monarchy was abolished.

Ankara has returned to its familiar tactic of contesting Greece’s Search and Rescue (SAR) area of responsibility which coincides with the FIR of Athens, on the occasion of the attempt to rescue illegal immigrants in the recent tragic shipwreck off Rhodes.

A deep social divide in life and death has emerged in Athens, a study by the Institute of Demographic Research and Studies (IDEM) reveals. 

Mortality rates are significantly higher in the working-class districts of western Athens, central Athens, and Piraeus than in the wealthier northern and southern suburbs.