Three women injured after car crashes into bus stop in Chalandri
Three women were injured on Saturday afternoon after a car ploughed into a bus stop in Chalandri, a northern suburb of Athens.
The driver fled the scene immediately after the ...
Greek court charges 17 coast guard officers over 2023 migrant shipwreck
A Greek naval court has charged 17 coast guard officers over one of the Mediterranean’s worst shipwrecks two years ago, in which hundreds of people are believed to have drowned, ...
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Greek fire brigade on high alert after 6.1 magnitude quake strikes off Crete
Emergency services were on high alert in Crete on Thursday after a 6.1 magnitude quake hit off the Greek island, causing tremors felt across Turkey and Israel.
The fire brigade said ...
Many Greeks feel insecure about their financial future, research finds
Just under half of Greeks feel insecure about their financial future, according to new research released by fintech firm Plum.
The survey found that 26 per cent of Greeks feel very ...
Rare migratory birds lure watchers to Greece’s Lesbos island
Black-winged white stilts wade through a salt pan, plunging their beaks into the water in search for food at the Kalloni bay on the Greek island of Lesbos, as bird-lovers ...
The volunteer firefighters warding off Greece’s blazes
In summer 2023, Dimitris Marinelis spent days on the frontline of Europe’s biggest wildfire in northern Greece, protecting homes and setting up anti-fire zones as flames engulfed a forest.
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Earthquake of magnitude 6.3 strikes off Crete, also felt in Cyprus
An earthquake of magnitude 5.9 struck off the island of Crete in Greece and was felt as far away as Cyprus and Egypt in the early morning hours on Wednesday, but ...
Admie denies plans to build interconnector to Dodecanese instead of Cyprus
Greece’s independent transmission system operator Admie on Sunday denied that it has plans to build an electricity interconnector to the country’s Dodecanese islands rather than to Cyprus.
The ...
Greek man found guilty of policeman’s death in volleyball riots
A Greek court found a 20-year old man guilty of manslaughter on Wednesday over the 2023 death of a policeman hit by a flare during clashes with hooligans at a volleyball ...
Greek urban guerrilla group claims attack on Hellenic Train
Greek police said on Monday the anti-terrorism unit was investigating what appeared to be a previously unknown guerrilla group, after a group claimed responsibility for a bomb blast last week ...
Greece to repay first bailout loans by 2031, ten years early
Greece will pay off loans granted under the first of three debt-crisis bailouts by 2031, two government officials told Reuters, as the country seeks to lose its label as the most ...
Bomb goes off outside Hellenic Train offices in Athens, no injuries
An explosion occurred outside the offices of Hellenic Train in Athens, Greek police said on Friday, adding there were no immediate reports of injuries.
Police cordoned off the area after ...
UAE renewable energy firm acquires Greece’s Terna Energy
United Arab Emirates’ renewable energy company Masdar said on Thursday it had fully acquired Greece’s Terna Energy (TENr.AT), after buying a majority stake last year, a further step ...
Lead investigator of 2023 deadly Greek train crash resigns
The supervisor of Greece’s national investigation into a 2023 train crash resigned on Wednesday, a move expected to further complicate efforts to shed light on the country’s worst rail ...
Nationwide strike halts Greece as workers demand higher wages amid soaring costs
A strike by Greek workers on Wednesday left ferries docked at ports, flights to and from the country grounded and trains at a standstill, with Greece’s largest trade unions ...
Greece praises Unficyp’s ‘invaluable contribution’ in Cyprus
Greece’s permanent representative to the United Nations Evangelos Sekeris on Tuesday praised the UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus (Unfcyp)’s “invaluable contribution to maintaining peace and security” on the ...
Greek feta producers fret over exports after US tariffs
A small cooperative of 1,200 stock breeders producing feta, Greece’s trademark white soft cheese, in the southern Peloponnese peninsula had one big target this year: a market foray in the ...
Migrants
At least seven die after migrant boat sinks off Greek island of Lesbos
At least seven migrants died, including one boy, one girl and two women, when their boat sank on Thursday off the Greek island of Lesbos, Greece’s coastguard said.
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Greece to spend 25 billion euros as part of multi-year defence plan
Greece aims to spend 25 billion euros as part of a multi-year defence plan, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told parliament on Wednesday.
The move is part of Greece’s bid to ...
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Schools shut on Greek islands, Mykonos and Paros, after heavy rainstorms flood roads
Schools and kindergartens were closed on several Greek islands including Paros and Mykonos on Tuesday after severe weather brought torrential rain, flooding and hailstorms to the Aegean Sea.
Authorities in ...
Bribery scandals in Greece’s public sector show persistence of corruption
When Greek police raided the apartment of a 49-year-old planning officer suspected of bribery on the tourist island of Rhodes last week, they found thousands of euros stashed in her ...
Greek PM to meet Israel’s Netanyahu in Jerusalem
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet in Jerusalem on Sunday, two Greek sources told Reuters on Wednesday.
The agenda of the talks was ...
Chevron interested in gas exploration off Crete
Chevron (CVX.N) has expressed an interest in hydrocarbon exploration off the island of Crete in the Mediterranean Sea, the second such expression for Greek energy by the US oil ...
Greece arrests state employees on Rhodes as concerns over bribery grow
Greece has charged more than 20 people and arrested five managers and employees at the state town planning service on the tourist island of Rhodes, for violations ranging from breach of ...