Greece

Greece is in shock on Wednesday following the death of a 36-year-old man who was pushed by crew members while trying to board a ship that was leaving the port ...

A collision between two commercial ships occurred in the early hours of Wednesday off Kefalonia, as a result of which one of them was engulfed in flames. There was no ...

Torrential rains have flooded homes and roads in Greece and a man died after a wall collapsed in the bad weather, the fire brigade said on Tuesday. Storm Daniel has ...

Cyprus and Greece are likely to face increased migration activity from Turkey in the period 2023-2024, although a drop was noted in the first months of the year, the EU ...

Greece’s prime minister said on Thursday it would launch drones and install forest temperature sensors to improve preventive firefighting after criticism from climate activists over a devastating wildfire burning ...

The wildfire burning in northeastern Greece for 11 days has destroyed an area larger than New York City, the European Union-backed Copernicus Climate Change Service said, as firefighters from five countries ...

Four migrant children drowned off the Greek island of Lesbos and one woman drowned in a separate incident off the island of Samos on Monday, all while trying to cross ...

The Cypriot firefighting mission in Greece relocated to a “large and dangerous” front in Evros on Sunday. The 31-member team travelled to Alexandroupolis on Sunday together with the Special Forest ...

The Cypriot firefighting mission in Greece has been moved to a different area after battling fires in Parnitha until late at night on Friday. The 31-member team is now operating ...

In the charred Greek landscape close to the border with Turkey, a group of blackened corpses lay amid the ashes of what was once a lush forest that offered migrants ...

A Cypriot mission arrived in Greece on Friday to aid in firefighting efforts in the mount Parnitha area near Athens, as Greece burned for a seventh day. The flames have ...

More searing temperatures fuelled wildfires and prompted health warnings across Europe on Wednesday, as a blaze in Turkey forced the closure of the Dardanelles shipping lane and winds fanned the ...

Eighteen charred bodies were found in a remote village in northern Greece on Tuesday where wildfires have been raging for days, the fire brigade said, as a heatwave that has ...

Hospital patients were evacuated onto a ferry in the Greek port city of Alexandroupolis on Tuesday away from a wildfire raging uncontrolled for a fourth day as a new heatwave ...

The next meeting within the ‘3+1’ framework, that is Cyprus, Greece, Israel and the United States has been agreed, it was reported on Friday. The news comes following the postponement of ...

A 29-year old man died on Tuesday after being seriously injured in violent clashes between fans of the AEK Athens and Dinamo Zagreb football clubs before a scheduled match in ...

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch on Thursday called for a “credible” probe into a migrant shipwreck off Greece in June in which hundreds died, saying that contrasting accounts by ...

Greece said on Wednesday it will offer a week-long free stay on Rhodes in 2024 to tourists whose vacation was cut short by wildfires that burned for days on the island ...

Sailing coaches at the Youth World Championships in Volos, Greece have been lauded for helping rescue 130 people stranded on a beach after fires blocked exits from the area to the ...

Wildfires in Greece abated on Friday after burning for nearly two weeks but emergency services worked to prevent new flare-ups in the central part of the country, where people had ...

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday said Greece needed to take more steps to combat the effects of climate change as wildfires on the mainland burned farms and factories overnight ...

Firefighters in Greece battled flames burning for the 10th day on the island of Rhodes, while new blazes erupted on the mainland that destroyed farms and factories overnight and left ...

Wildfires that have been supercharged by strong winds and temperatures exceeding 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) killed two people in central Greece on Wednesday and forced a new wave of evacuations. In the ...

Wildfires raging across Greece for more than a week abated on Wednesday, though firefighters still battled on several fronts to contain blazes that have killed three people and caused thousands ...