The abandoned leper colony of Chios is to be renovated and become a focal point in the history of the Greek island.

Haiti's recognition was made through a powerful letter by President Jean-Pierre Boyer to renowned Greek scholar Adamantios Korais, dated 15 January 1822.It ...

The Haitian flag. Credit: Abdallahh/Wikimedia Commons/CC-BY-2.0 On January 15, 1822, Haiti located over 9,000 km (5,592 miles) away from Greece, was the first country in the world to recognize Greek ...

The holiday is now blended in with the Feast of the Annunciation, and although no one really knows if 25 March was the exact date in 1821 when the Greek revolt against Ottoman rule began, it did at ...

Ten years ago, Jean-François Lisée predicted that Quebec's independence movement would be reborn. "It could rise again given the right circumstances," he said in 2015. "What could trigger it ...

More than 6,000 prisoners have been released in Myanmar as part of an amnesty to mark the 77th anniversary of the country's independence from Britain. The head of Myanmar's military government has ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Myanmar’s military government has released more than 6,000 prisoners and has reduced other inmates ...

Haiti was the first nation to recognise Greece’s War of Independence in 1822, That year, Haitian President Jean-Pierre Boyer sent a letter to a committee of Greeks in Paris, extending warm wishes for ...

Greenland Prime Minister Múte Egede announced a desire to obtain independence from Denmark in the wake of President-elect Trump’s comments about buying the island territory. “The Greenlandic ...

However, Copenhagen continues to enact control over its foreign and defence policy. Calls for independence in Greenland have grown in recent decades, partly due to revelations of misconduct by ...