United States embassy in Athens. Greece

French-headquartered homeware and DIY chain Leroy Merlin is opening a new store near the US Embassy on Vassilissis Sofias Avenue in central Athens on Friday, hoping to balance its financial figures in Greece in 2018 after several loss-making years. The new three-story, 5,300-square meter outlet ...

Protesters affiliated with the Communist Party-affiliated labor union PAME shout slogans as they pass the US Embassy near the center of Athens Tuesday evening during a demonstration against recent air strikes on Syria by the United States, Britain and France. Some of the protesters threw eggs at both ...

The U.S. Embassy in Algiers expressed its “deepest condolences” to “our partners and colleagues in the Algerian military,” and their families. The previous deadliest crash on Algerian soil occurred in 2003, when 102 people were killed after a civilian airliner crashed at the end of the runway in Tamanrasset.

The project of renovating the building of the US Embassy in Athens, on Vassilissis Sofias Avenue, is underway, the embassy announced on Tuesday. The US administration has contracted US-based Caddell Construction company to renovate and rehabilitate the historic “Chancery” building, designed by ...

ATHENS, Greece — Greek police say they have arrested two Pakistani teenagers on suspicion of robbing tourists and passers-by at knifepoint near Greece's top tourist attraction, ... A protester stands to oppose the United States' policies against North Korea near U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, March 9, 2018.

And although Israel's government is overjoyed by Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital — with a U.S. embassy set to open in the holy city in May — misgivings are percolating under the surface over Iran, where Israel sees Trump's efforts to date to crack down on Israel's arch-enemy as lacking.

The goal, as agreed by all participants at the Athens Energy Forum, as gas demand will increase steadily in the coming years, is transnational ... This is what Steven Bitner, the Economic Officer of the U.S. embassy in Athens said, using the words by Wess Mitchell, the European and Eurasian Affairs at the ...

U.S. State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert said in a tweet: “We condemn the release of Dimitris Koufodinas, a convicted terrorist responsible for killing 11 civilians. We fundamentally believe that convicted terrorists do not deserve a vacation from prison. The US Embassy in Athens has conveyed ...

The U.S. Embassy in Athens warns American citizens to “exercise caution” around Exarchia Square, and it's a good idea to check that protests aren't brewing when you're there (such as during the annual commemoration of the 1973 student uprising on Nov. 17), but you should visit if you can. This is a ...

Today, he is taking a course titled “English for Academic Purposes” at Deree College at the American College of Greece under a program funded by the U.S. Embassy in Athens. The program, called Education Unites: From Camp to Campus, gives 200 scholarships to refugees so they can attend classes at ...

In simultaneous raids in Athens, Greek police detained Doğan and eight other DHKP-C suspects on Nov. ... In addition to attacks against Turkish security forces, the DHKP-C is also responsible for the suicide bombing at the U.S. Embassy in the capital Ankara that killed a Turkish security guard and injured ...

Members of 43 nongovernmental organizations from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) recently spent four days in Greece learning from colleagues here how to maximize their use of digital media. The series of seminars, titled “Tech Camp: Tools in Civil ...

The possibility of an 'accident' happening between Greece and Turkey in the Aegean is a matter of concern for the US Ambassador to Athens, Geoffrey Pyatt. In a television interview broadcast last Tuesday, the head of the American diplomatic mission in Greece expressed his worries, regarding the recent ...

University students and schoolchildren on Monday staged a protest in central Athens expressing their opposition to US-led strikes on Syria. Protesters carried banners calling for the closure of NATO bases in the Mediterranean and calling for funds to be channeled towards education rather than the alliance ...

Protests erupted in parts of the world, including U.S. and Britain, against the U.S.-led missile attack against Syria. The U.S., Britain and France launched joint airstrikes in Syria earlier Saturday in response to a suspected chemical attack on civilians by Syrian President Bashar Assad's government.

Demonstrators shout slogans during a rally against military intervention in Syria, outside the U.S. Embassy in Athens, Greece, on April 13, 2018. More than 4,000 people took part in rallies in Athens on Friday. (Xinhua/Marios Lolos) ...

Thousands turned up at a rally and march on Saturday in central Athens organized by the Communist Party to protest the US-led airstrikes against Syria. The protesters gathered at Athens's central Syntagma Square before marching to the US Embassy, chanting anti-US slogans and carrying banners.

Supporters of the Greek Communist party chant slogans during an anti-war rally in front of the parliament, in Athens, Saturday, April 14, 2018. Thousands of supporters of the party marched to the U.S. embassy opposing the military strikes by western countries in Syria. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

A protester stands to oppose the United States' policies against North Korea near U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, March 9, 2018. After months of trading insults and threats of nuclear annihilation, Trump agreed to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jung Un by the end of May to negotiate an ...

The competition, held at the Orange Grove, the embassy's startup incubator in central Athens, was organized with the support of the US Embassy in Athens. It was attended by Dutch Ambassador Caspar Veldkamp and his US counterpart Geoffrey Pyatt. H.E. Mr. Geoffrey R. Pyatt, Ambassador of the USA to ...

In this May 23, 2017, file photo, Sheldon Adelson arrives for President Donald Trump's speech at the Israel museum in Jerusalem. Adelson has proposed paying for at least part of the new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, four U.S. officials told The Associated Press, and the Trump administration is considering ...