admin A motorist who subsequently failed a breathalyser test was arrested early Sunday in the northern city of Thessaloniki after accidentally driving his car into a local restaurant, knocking over tables and sending diners flying. Source link
Twenty-two years after standing on the brink of collapse, South Melbourne Hellas have delivered one of the most significant moments in the club’s history, winning the Australia Cup and reigniting the passion of a community that has stood by the club through its darkest days. For Greek Melbourne, this is about far more than football. …
Police in western Athens have arrested a suspected key member of a gang that smuggled migrants into Greece, and raided a workshop where he allegedly produced fake identity papers. Source link
In September 1922, Metropolitan Chrysostomos Kalafatis of Smyrna was brutally murdered during the Asia Minor Catastrophe, becoming one of the most enduring symbols of the destruction of Greek Christian life in Anatolia. He was 55 years old. As Turkish forces entered Smyrna, Chrysostomos was urged by Allied representatives to flee and save his life. American …
More than a million euros worth of marijuana that was being smuggled into Greece on a sailboat has been seized in the eastern Aegean Sea, authorities said Sunday. Source link
Fifty-three precious ecclesiastical treasures taken from monasteries in Macedonia have gone on display in Thessaloniki after 109 years in Bulgaria. They include an impressive wooden door inlaid with ivory and bone, a silver cover for an icon of Saint John the Baptist, two ornate processional crosses and several reliquaries, one of which bears the date …
Respiratory infections this season appear milder than last year, driven by the dominant influenza A(H3) subclade K strain, according to Greece’s National Public Health Organization (EODY). Source link
Greece’s embassy in Skopje has lodged a formal protest with North Macedonia’s Foreign Ministry over a banner displayed by MZT Skopje fans showing a “North Macedonia” stretching as far as Thessaloniki and Halkidiki. The banner was raised during MZT’s basketball game against Greek club Heraklis in Skopje on 6 October, in the qualifiers of the …
At Lake Orestiada in northern Greece, an extraordinary Neolithic settlement offers a glimpse of everyday life some 7,500 years ago. Source link
MELBOURNE, October 2026 — Ticket sales for the Australian Open 2027 are running at a record early pace, up more than 20 per cent on last year, Tennis Australia said on Sunday. Even allowing for an earlier on-sale date in August, sales for Australian Open 2027 are surging, the organisation said. Three-quarters of the AO …