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STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to three scientists working on the mechanisms the brain uses to switch on, or off, the activity of individual nerve cells. Karl Deisseroth, 54, Peter Hegemann, 71, and Georg Nagel, 73, have carried out research into light-gated ion channels and…
Kyriakos Mitsotakis has warned that Turkey cannot access European defence programmes without conditions protecting the security interests of EU member states.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Air Force has brought home its bombers stationed at a U.S.-run military air base in England used to strike Iran following an investigation into a planned terror attack at the RAF Fairford base. The bombers were redeployed to their home bases in the United States, according to a Pentagon…
Pedro Sánchez has called a snap Spanish election for November 29 as a housing crisis, corruption scandals and strong polling for the conservative PP put his Socialist government under growing pressure.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is heading to Athens for high-level talks with Kyriakos Mitsotakis, with F-35s, new weapons, energy projects and tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean high on the agenda.
Donald Trump shared an interview in which Nikos Christodoulides said Cyprus–US ties are at their highest level, with Washington the island’s closest ally in defence and energy.
Archaeologists uncovered a 250-metre Hellenistic wall around the North Temple at Blaundos in Uşak. The ancient Greek city is also known for 400 rock-cut family tombs.
Nikolaos (Lakis) Dailakis, a prominent Slavophone Greek revolutionary and hero of the Macedonian Struggle, was killed on October 5, 1941, during the Axis occupation of Greece in World War II
Aegean Airlines has rejected reports that it plans to take control of Volotea, despite holding more than 20 per cent of the Spanish low cost carrier.
The Ecumenical Patriarchate has welcomed an agreement between Greece and Bulgaria for the return of historic Greek religious artifacts, saying the deal could provide an example for the repatriation of cultural treasures held abroad. The agreement marks the beginning of the return of valuable religious and cultural…
BOSTON – Greece’s Consul General in Boston, Ambassador Symeon Tegos, who is departing after four years of service to assume his next post at Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ Diplomatic Office, bids farewell to New England’s Greek-American community in an exclusive interview with The National Herald. “Certainly…
VIENNA, Ga. (AP) — Law enforcement officials are still working to determine just what happened when a chaotic homecoming party spanning a four-block radius of a southern Georgia town erupted in gunfire early Sunday, leaving two people dead and nearly three dozen others injured. Dooly County Sheriff Craig Peavy…
NICOSIA – The Republic of Cyprus marked the 66th anniversary of its independence on October with the traditional military parade in Nicosia and a series of events, and Turkey expressed its annoyance. In a statement by the Ministry of Defense, Ankara maintains that Nicosia’s armaments and military cooperation with…
Gonçalo Ramos is helping Portugal to forget all about Cristiano Ronaldo, while Greece took more points off Jürgen Klopp and Germany in the Nations League. Ramos fired Portugal to a 2-1 win over Norway on Sunday to keep the Portuguese perfect in Group A4 with four wins – enough to book their place in the quarterfinals…
KALAMOS, Greece (AP) — Chryssa Ntalaka's classroom has become an object lesson in subtraction. The sole teacher in the last school on the idyllic Greek island of Kalamos has a shorter list of students every fall. This year, just two. On Sept. 23, the sixth graders sat at Ntalaka’s table beneath the whiteboard, in…
Sean and Heidi Cripe will never forget the call from their son’s high school saying Davis was being taken to the emergency room. “He chugged an energy drink — like, just trying to be cool,” said Sean Cripe, recounting the day nearly a decade ago. The teen’s heart soon fell out of rhythm and he...