Sources: WAtoday
Four people are killed and 25 others are rescued after human traffickers force them from their boat into the water off the coast of Rhodes, Greece, and abandon them. 2024-11-6
Greece reports a record for the second consecutive day of 21,657 new cases of COVID-19, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 1,105,885. 2021-12-28
The Greek government announces a closure of its border crossing with Albania in Krystallopigi beginning tomorrow morning and will also test all people entering the country through its land borders as part of efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19. 2020-11-19
Greek Minister of Health Vasilis Kikilias announces that the country's schools and universities will remain closed for two weeks. 2020-03-10
A Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone (also known as a "Medicane") strikes Greece near Kalamata, causing power outages and gale force winds near the capital Athens. In the storm's formative stages, heavy rains killed four people in Tunisia. 2018-09-29
Police in northern Greece move more than 400 Syrians and Iraqis by bus from a makeshift camp near the Macedonian border to a shelter near the northern city of Thessaloniki. More than 50,000 migrants remain stranded in Greece following European border closures, and the European Union's agreement with Turkey. 2016-06-13
The Euro zone tells Greece that it must stay with its reform package or risk being forced out of the euro zone by cash-flow problems. 2015-03-19
Shots are fired at the German ambassador's residence in Athens, Greece; no casualties are reported. 2013-12-30
Pastafarian "Elder Pastitsios" arrested for blasphemy in Greece. 2012-09-21
Greek leftist politician Alexis Tsipras, head of the Coalition of the Radical Left, begins a tour of European capitals. 2012-05-21