Greece

Two wildfires swept uncontrolled through forestlandand towns northwest of Athens for a second day on Tuesday, forcing more residents to flee their homes as authorities fought to stop the flames ...

Two wildfires, fanned by strong winds, raged uncontrolled through coastal towns near Athens on Monday forcing residents to flee their homes and prompting the evacuation of hundreds of children from ...

Greece closed the ancient Acropolis during the hottest part of the day on Friday to protect tourists as southern Europe suffered in a fierce heatwave, while more than 100 million Americans ...

The creation of an oversight mechanism that will be able to ensure that Turkey will not use the new F-16 fighters to violate Greek sovereignty in the Aegean has been ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will discuss the Cyprus issue with the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the upcoming Nato summit despite it not being on the official agenda, ...

Since Matloob Hussain from Pakistan went missing during a deadly shipwreck off Greece last month, his brother Adil has left the door of his Athens home open in the hope ...

Alexis Tsipras, the one-time leftist firebrand who stormed to power on an anti-austerity agenda in Greece in 2015, stepped down from the helm of the Syriza party after 15 years on Thursday, ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will meet on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Vilnius next month, Mitsotakis’ office said on Monday, a day ...

Kyriakos Mitsotakis promised to rebuild Greece’s credit rating, create jobs, raise wages and boost state revenues after he was sworn in for a second term as prime minister on ...

President Nikos Christodoulides has congratulated New Democracy President Kyriakos Mitsotakis for his win in the Greek elections. In a post on Twitter, Christodoulides said that he communicated with Mitsotakis and ...

Greece’s conservative New Democracy party stormed to victory in a parliamentary election on Sunday, early official results showed, with voters giving reformist Kyriakos Mitsotakis another four-year term as prime ...

There was slightly reduced interest by Greek nationals living in Cyprus to cast their vote for the Greek Parliamentary repeat elections on Sunday compared with May’s elections. Of the 1,543 ...

Greeks went to the polls on Sunday for the second time in little over a month to elect a new parliament, with voters expected to give former Prime Minister Kyriakos ...

In a move that seeks to transform the real estate industry in Greece and Cyprus, CGSoft, a leading provider of property software solutions, and Cypriot fintech firm Ask Wire, joined ...

Greece is heading into an election weekend with its public debt trading near the levels enjoyed by first-class peripheral countries, a decade after a debt crisis forced a dramatic reshaping ...

Former Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ conservatives appear set to win a repeat election in Greece on Sunday after an inconclusive vote on May 21, putting him back in office. Mitsotakis’s ...

There were at least 209 Pakistani “victims” on an overloaded boat that capsized and sank in open seas off Greece last week, according to data shared by a Pakistani investigative agency ...

Nine men charged over the worst shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea this year that killed at least 82 people were detained pending trial, the coastguard said on Wednesday, while the European ...

The suspected smugglers of scores of migrants who drowned in a Mediterranean Sea shipwreck last week are expected to face manslaughter charges in a Greek court this week, while Pakistan ...

Inside a fenced migrant camp near Athens, relatives hugged survivors on Monday while others refused to abandon hope of finding loved ones who were among the scores missing after one ...

Pakistani authorities have arrested 14 people in connection with the alleged trafficking of several migrants who drowned last week after their overloaded boat capsized in the sea off Greece, police said. ...

A Russian warship and cargo ship rescued 68 people overnight from a boat in the Mediterranean Sea, Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Monday. It said in a statement that the ...

Italy on Friday alerted Greece to a vessel holding dozens of migrants sailing off the southern coastal town of Pylos, two sources said, just two days after an overcrowded fishing ...

A Syrian teenager who survived a shipwreck that killed at least 78 people off Greece was emotionally reunited with his elder brother on Friday, but there was no news for other ...