Greece Is The Word

20/01/2024

18/12/2023

https://www.foxnews.com/world/us-returns-greece-30-ancient-artifacts-worth-3-7-million-marble-statues

Some of the artifacts in question were voluntarily surrendered by galleries, while others were confiscated from dealers and storage units.

12/12/2023

https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/39095500/greece-orders-clubs-play-fans-two-months

Greece must play all its top division football matches without fans for two months after the severe injuring of a police officer during a volleyball match last week.

12/12/2023

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0gy1ww6/callas-at-100-this-is-the-stuff-legends-are-made-of-

Zeinab Badawi heads to Athens to celebrate the centenary of the birth of opera soprano Maria Callas.

06/12/2023

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/6/greece-turkey-try-to-reset-their-relationship-after-years-of-hostility

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is set to visit Greece and sign a series of agreements, but differences remain.

02/12/2023

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/01/style/king-charles-elgin-marbles-tie-intl-scli/index.html

King Charles has worn a tie emblazoned with the Greek flag, just days after the British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak canceled a meeting with his Greek counterpart in a diplomatic dispute over the Parthenon Sculptures, also known as the Elgin Marbles.

29/11/2023

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/greece-britain-sunak-mitsotakis-parthenon-dispute-rcna127133

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called off a meeting with his Greek counterpart over his call for the return of the 2,500-year-old Parthenon Sculptures from the British Museum.

29/11/2023

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25/11/2023

https://news.artnet.com/news/a-greek-vase-from-the-british-museum-heads-to-athens-amid-parthenon-marbles-debate-2398962

The British Museum is lending an ancient Greek vase to a museum in Athens amid hopes for a loan agreement over the Parthenon marbles.

23/11/2023

https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/38957560/rowing-champion-stefanos-ntouskos-start-paris-torch-relay

Greek Olympic rowing champion Stefanos Ntouskos will be the first torchbearer of the Paris 2024 Olympic relay after next year's lighting ceremony in ancient Olympia.

21/11/2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/20/t-magazine/patmos-greece-home-design.html

Two designers returned a historic dwelling to its roots, removing everything contemporary — then adding an internationally inflected spirit of their own.

19/11/2023

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-12754291/california-woman-quit-job-moved-greece-ikaria-blue-zone.html

Anna Katsas left West Hollywood, California, for the Aegean Sea island of Ikaria, where her 90-year-old grandma lives, in 2022. There, she explained, 'I'd feel safe enough to say hello to everyone.'

17/11/2023

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/thousands-march-athens-mark-50-years-student-uprising-104978287

More than 25,000 people have marched peacefully through central Athens to mark the 50th anniversary of a pro-democracy student uprising that was violently put down by the military dictatorship ruling Greece in 1973

16/11/2023

https://www.brooklynpaper.com/bay-ridge-designer-my-big-fat-greek-wedding/

A young Greek-American designer from Bay Ridge got her big break earlier this year when her designs were featured on in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3."

15/11/2023

https://gr.usembassy.gov/open-doors-2023/

Greece moved up in the global rankings and is now the 8th top study abroad destination for U.S. students, with 4,484 U.S. students studying in Greece for the 2021/22 academic year. Greece ranked 9th in 2022 and 17th in 2018, showing Greece’s trajectory to become a top destination for U.S. students...

13/11/2023

https://variety.com/2023/film/global/animal-thessaloniki-film-festival-awards-1235788495/

The Greek director's sophomore feature was the first film from the host country to win the festival's Golden Alexander in 30 years.

10/11/2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/world/europe/greece-stefanos-kasselakis-syriza.html

The rapid ascent of Stefanos Kasselakis, a former Goldman Sachs trader and Greece’s first openly gay party leader, has gripped the nation. But his leadership is dividing the country’s main opposition party.

30/10/2023

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/salamis-greece-ancient-building-treasures-sunken-city-discovered-underwater/

A massive, years-long underwater archeology project on an island off the Athenian coast of Greece has unveiled the remains of an ancient sunken city.