Greece

A significant number of Greeks are keeping financial secrets from their partners, according to a new survey conducted by fintech app Plum. The survey explored how Greek couples manage their ...

Greece has arrested a Georgian woman suspected of discarding a cigarette that helped trigger one of several wildfires razing land and threatening homes on the island of Chios. Blazes broke ...

Hundreds of firefighters battled for a third day to contain wildfires on the Greek island of Chios on Tuesday that have torn through swathes of forest and farmland and forced ...

A man described as ‘Azeri’ was still being held by authorities here on Monday on suspicion of espionage and terrorism, although the Cyprus Mail understands the man has not been ...

Dozens of firefighters battled to tame wildfires fanned by strong winds on the Greek island of Chios in the northeastern Aegean Sea for a second day on Monday as authorities ...

Greek lawmakers voted on Thursday to set up a committee to conduct a preliminary investigation into a former transport minister who oversaw the railways prior to the country’s worst-ever ...

Dozens of Greek firefighters struggled on Monday to tame a wildfire that raged through a thick forest near a village northeast of Athens that has forced authorities to order evacuations. ...

Greek police have arrested at least 12 people during an operation to break up two gangs whose members they said were sports fans involved in drug trafficking, beatings, robberies and arson, ...

A Greek court has stripped three far-right lawmakers of their seats in parliament on accusations they deceived voters in a June 2023 national vote, the semi-official Athens News Agency and a ...

Greece and Egypt have agreed to safeguard the status of one of the world’s oldest sites of Christian worship, foreign ministers of both countries said late on Wednesday, after ...

A Greek appeals court found 10 people guilty on Tuesday of misdemeanour charges over a wildfire in 2018 that killed 104 people, a ruling that angered relatives of those who died in the ...

UniCredit has signed a derivatives agreement that paves the way for it to nearly double its stake in Greece’s Alpha Bank, increasing its shareholding to close to 20 per cent. ...

Greece has prepared legislation that will introduce tougher penalties for rejected asylum seekers and speed up returns to their home countries, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday. The Mediterranean ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. Like ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 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 ...