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Royal who reigned for barely three years before being exiled is laid to rest six days after death was announcedHe was a king without a crown, a monarch without a kingdom, for longer than most can remember. But for a few hours in Athens on Monday, Const…
The State Department has contacted Congress about major arms deals for Turkey and Greece, but a prominent senator is strongly opposed to the Ankara sale.
An Olympic medalist, he was popular when he took the throne in 1964. But his efforts to intervene in Greek politics led to a coup and his ouster.
Case dismissed as being ‘overly vague’, but the 24 defendants still face separate felony investigationA Greek appeals court has dropped espionage charges against 24 activists involved in rescuing people from migrant boats in the Mediterranean after rec…
Trial of Sarah Mardini and fellow defendants lifts lid on ‘farcical’ treatment of humanitarians, say campaignersSarah Mardini, the refugee immortalised in the recent Netflix movie, The Swimmers, was the talk of Lesbos this week as the long-awaited tri…
Constantine was forced into exile in 1967 after clashing with military rulers, who later abolished monarchyGreece’s former King Constantine II, whose nine-year reign coincided with one of the most turbulent periods in the country’s political history, h…
Sara Mardini, a Syrian refugee turned activist, is among 24 people facing charges. Amnesty International has called the case “farcical.”
David Crouch says incarcerated son-in-law Babis Anagnostopoulos wrote him a letter about Athens killingThe father of Caroline Crouch, the British woman who was murdered by her Greek helicopter pilot husband as she lay asleep in their Athens home, has c…
Removing sculptures from Greece was like ‘removing Eiffel Tower from Paris’, says actorThe removal of the Parthenon sculptures from Athens was akin to removing the Eiffel Tower from Paris or Stonehenge from Salisbury, Stephen Fry has said, as he called…
Greek ministers say secret talks have been under way for more than a year The British Museum has confirmed for the first time that it is involved in “constructive discussions” with Greece over the return of some of the Parthenon marbles.Speculation has…