Sources: WAtoday
The Houthis release footage showing their fighters boarding and placing explosives on the Greek-flagged MT "Sounion" oil tanker, causing explosions that put the tanker at risk of causing a major oil spill in the Red Sea. 2024-08-29
Greek firefighters rescue a group of 25 migrants trapped in a forest in the Evros region as flames from a wildfire approached. 2023-09-2
Greek patrol boats rescue nearly 80 migrants in the eastern Aegean Sea who were trying to cross from Turkey in inflatable dinghies in two separate incidents. 2023-08-21
In Greece, nine people are rescued after wildfires burn on the island of Lesbos and threaten the resort town of Vatera amid a heat wave in the country. 2022-07-23
Brazil, Greece and Ghana report their first cases of monkeypox. 2022-06-8
Macedonian police fire tear gas at refugees as they attempted to break through a fence at the Greece-Macedonia border near Idomeni, sparking clashes that injured 200 people. 2016-04-10
Balkan and European leaders agree to work together implementing a 17-point action plan that includes United Nations-aided accommodation for 100,000 places in reception centers along the route from Greece towards Germany, half in Greece and half in the countries to the north. Some of the other measures: within a week, deploy 400 police officers to Slovenia; step up efforts to return migrants not needing international protection; and, reinforce support of the bloc’s border agency, Frontex', role in securing external borders between Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Macedonia, and Albania. 2015-10-25
Moody's Investor Services cuts Greece's credit rating to C claiming that there is a still a significant risk of default despite the Eurozone bailout. 2012-03-2
The EU activates its Rapid Border Intervention Teams for the first time since its creation in 2007 to stem illegal immigration at the Greek border. 2010-10-25