Arts & Culture
-
Music
1/19/2023 1:51:28 PM
Renowned Greek singer and songwriter Alkistis Protopsalti has inspired many singers and artists worldwide with her outstanding voice and unique performances.
|
World
-
Region
1/16/2023 1:35:53 PM
With occasional renditions of the Greek national anthem, thousands of people began lining up long before dawn Monday outside Athens' cathedral to pay their final respects to Greece's former and last king, Constantine, who died last week at the age of 82.
|
World
-
International
1/14/2023 8:42:57 PM
Police wouldn't confirm the reports, but announced that a figure was finalized at a meeting of top security officials on Saturday.
|
Business
-
Energy
1/8/2023 11:48:04 AM
Electricity Minister Mohamed Shaker said on Sunday coordination is under way with the Greek side to agree on the international consultancy office that will conduct the technical and economic feasibility study of the power connection project between the two countries.
|
Sports
-
Egyptian Football
1/4/2023 10:39:45 PM
Pyramids FC dismissed Greek coach Takis Gonias a few days following a bitter 3-0 loss to Ahly in the Egyptian Premier League, the big-spending club announced on Wednesday.
|
World
-
International
12/22/2022 2:04:57 PM
A Greek MEP at the center of a graft scandal rocking the European Parliament and linked to Qatar protested her innocence in a Belgian court on Thursday and asked to be released from detention.
|
World
-
Region
12/12/2022 2:57:17 PM
Greece's foreign minister has lashed out at Turkey after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to hit Athens with ballistic missiles.
|
World
-
International
12/11/2022 3:40:13 PM
Four suspects have been charged and remanded in custody in a Belgian investigation into alleged corruption at the European Parliament tied to Qatar, prosecutors said Sunday.
|
World
-
International
12/9/2022 3:47:47 PM
A Greek police officer accused of shooting and seriously wounding a Roma teenager during a police chase over an allegedly unpaid gas station bill will remain under house arrest, after a prosecutor and an investigating judge disagreed Friday on whether he should be jailed until his trial.
|
Antiquities
-
Greco-Roman
12/3/2022 6:44:35 PM
The British Museum and the Greek prime minister are in the "advanced stage" of "secret talks" over the "possible return" of the Parthenon Marbles, local media reported on Saturday.
|
Egypt
-
Defence
11/30/2022 5:22:38 PM
Egyptian and Greek air forces held a joint air exercise, MENA-II, with their multi-role fighter aircraft, Egypt's Military Spokesman Gharib Abdel-Hafez said on Wednesday.
|
World
-
Region
11/22/2022 7:11:02 PM
A dilapidated fishing boat crammed with hundreds of migrants that lost its steering and had been drifting in the Mediterranean Sea south of the Greek island of Crete has been successfully towed to port, Greek authorities said Tuesday.
|
World
-
Region
11/22/2022 2:58:00 PM
A boat believed to be carrying hundreds of migrants was towed to safety Tuesday to the Greek island of Crete after a dramatic rescue complicated by near gale-force winds, the coastguard said.
|
Egypt
-
Society
11/21/2022 10:57:15 AM
Many residents in northern Egypt, including in Delta cities and Greater Cairo felt tremors early on Monday as a strong 5.6 magnitude earthquake struck off the Greek island of Crete with no reports of casualties or damage.
|
World
-
Region
11/17/2022 4:05:53 PM
Greece's foreign minister called off the first leg of a visit to Libya on Thursday, refusing to disembark from his plane after landing in the capital of Tripoli, Greek authorities said. Instead, he flew to the city of Benghazi, in the country's east.
|
Antiquities
-
Ancient Egypt
11/3/2022 4:34:40 PM
The Dominican-Egyptian expedition led by Kathleen Martinez unearthed a monumental tunnel-aqueduct system and various royal busts and statues, potentially dating to the Graeco-Roman period, near the Ptolemaic-period Taposiris Magna temple in Borg El-Arab, west of the city of Alexandria on the Mediterranean.
|
World
-
International
11/1/2022 7:50:55 PM
A major search and rescue operation was underway Tuesday for dozens of migrants reported missing after the overloaded sailing boat they were on capsized and sank in stormy weather overnight off an island near the Greek capital, authorities said.
|
Antiquities
-
Ancient Egypt
10/23/2022 2:41:24 PM
The Nuweiba port’s archaeological unit on Saturday successfully foiled an attempt to smuggle a 15 centimetre tall bronze statue of Greek deity Aphrodite and a collection of 1,752 coins and weights.
|
World
-
Region
10/22/2022 11:28:48 AM
Yemen's Iran-backed rebels said they targeted a cargo ship Friday off an oil terminal in the war-wrecked Arab country's south to prevent pro-government forces from using it for oil exports.
|
Al-Ahram Weekly
-
Opinion
10/19/2022 8:27:04 PM
Tarek Osman writes on the transformation of education under the 19th-century ruler Mohamed Ali in his series of articles on the foundations of modern Egypt
|