Pope Francis called for an end to the "sinking of civilization" in a moving speech at a migrant camp in Lesbos, five years after his first visit to the Greek island.
Pope Francis visited the migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, Sunday, to (...)
قاطع كاهن أرثوذكسى مراسم وصول البابا فرنسيس للقاء راعى الكنيسة الأرثوذكسية اليونانية رئيس الأساقفة إيرونيموس، وصاح فيه ثلاث مرات "أنت مهرطق!"، حسبما ذكرت "روسيا اليوم"، وصاح الكاهن المسن قائلا "أيها البابا، أنت مهرطق!"، ثلاث مرات على الأقل قبل أن (...)
Cooperation is the key to addressing several significant natural disaster threats Europe is faced with, European Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarcic stressed on Monday during a visit to Athens.
The commissioner addressed a European (...)
نشر موقع وكالة "شينخوا" الصينية، مقطع فيديو ومجموعة صور تبرز مشاهد للحظة تسليم الشعلة الأولمبية إلى منظمى دورة الألعاب الأولمبية بكين 2022، اليوم الثلاثاء، فى العاصمة اليونانية، أثينا، وتسلم أعضاء اللجنة الصينية المنظمة للدورة الأولمبية الشتوية (...)
Egypt, Greece, and Cyprus further strengthened energy cooperation with the signing of two memoranda of cooperation on the interconnection for the transmission of electric power, in Athens, on Tuesday. President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi asserted Egypt's (...)
Greece and Egypt signed on Thursday an agreement that sets the stage for an undersea cable that will transmit power produced by renewables from North Africa to Europe, to become the first such infrastructure in the Mediterranean.
The deal was signed (...)
The top U.S. military officer met with his Russian counterpart Wednesday, against the backdrop of U.S. struggles to get military basing rights and other counterterrorism support in countries bordering Afghanistan, a move Moscow has flatly (...)
Fire Service officials in Greece said Tuesday they have contained a wildfire that threatened homes and prompted overnight evacuations at a resort northeast of Athens.
More than 150 firefighters and volunteers battled through the night, using hoses (...)
Libyan Foreign Minister Najla al-Mangoush will visit Athens on Monday for talks with her Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias.
Talks will tackle preparations for Libya's general elections, due on December 24, in addition to ways of boosting cooperation (...)
By 30 August Egypt had collected six medals in the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics - four silver and two bronze - and all in powerlifting.
Fatma Omar won the silver medal in the women's -67kg powerlifting event having lifted 120kg, second behind China's (...)
Paralympic weightlifters Mahmoud Attia and Fatma Omar took Egypt's tally to four medals at the Tokyo Paralympics on Saturday after both won the silver medals in powerlifting.
Attia and Omar won the silver medal in the Men's 72kg and Women's 67Kg (...)
A major wildfire northwest of the Greek capital devoured large tracts of pine forest for a third day Wednesday and threatened a large village as hundreds of firefighters, assisted by water-dropping planes and helicopters, battled the flames.
The (...)
Yet more wildfires broke out in Greece Monday, with two blazes triggering evacuation alerts for settlements to the southeast and northwest of the Greek capital.
Fanned by strong winds, the first blaze, which broke out Monday morning in the Keratea (...)
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Thursday that the devastating wildfires that burned across the country for more than a week were the greatest ecological catastrophe Greece had seen in decades.
The fires broke out as the country roasted (...)
Hundreds of firefighters from across Europe and the Mideast worked alongside their Greek colleagues in rugged terrain Wednesday, trying to contain flareups of the huge wildfires that have ravaged Greece's forests for a week, destroying homes and (...)
Egypt and Greece often face similar challenges related to the environment and the security of their states and populations. Cooperation between the two countries against geophysical and geopolitical challenges is proof of the deeply rooted ties (...)
Just as it was Egypt's largest delegation ever in an Olympic Games, so was its harvest of medals. The Egyptians had participated in the 17-day 2020 Tokyo Olympics with a country-record contingent of 134 athletes who competed in 23 sports. After it (...)
Firefighters and residents battled a massive forest fire on Greece's second largest island for a seventh day Monday, fighting to save what they can from flames that have decimated vast tracts of pristine forest, destroyed homes and businesses and (...)
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi decided to name some of the new axes and bridges after Egyptian Olympic medalists, in appreciation of their achievements at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Al-Sisi congratulates gold medalist Feryal Abdel Aziz (...)
Sue Bird capped off her unblemished 17-year Olympics run with a record fifth gold medal.
All she and longtime U.S. teammate Diana Taurasi have done on the international stage is win and now stand alone with five gold medals _ the first basketball (...)
Wildfires rampaged through some of Greece's last remaining forests for yet another day Saturday, encroaching on more inhabited areas after burning scores of homes, businesses and farms during the country's worst heat wave in three decades.
One of (...)
Egypt has recorded its biggest medal haul at a single Olympic Games after karateka Feryal Abdelaziz gave the country its sixth medal on Saturday.
Abdelaziz became the first Egyptian female Olympian to win gold after beating Azerbaijan's Irina (...)
The General Command of the Armed Forces sent two Chinook helicopters to Greece to take part in efforts of extinguishing fire in Greek forests, which enters its fifth day in a row.
The two helicopters are equipped with all equipment and advanced (...)
The Egyptian Armed Forces sent, on Saturday, two Chinook helicopters carrying advanced equipment, to help in controlling the wildfire in Greece, under the directives of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, Armed Forces spokesperson Gharib Abdel Hafez (...)
