Sources: WAtoday
At least 78 people die and 100 others are rescued after a boat carrying refugees and migrants from Libya to Italy capsizes near Pylos, Messenia, Greece. 2023-06-14
Two people are killed by flash flooding in Agia Pelagia, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. 2022-10-15
Greek Minister of Health Vasilis Kikilias announces that the country's schools and universities will remain closed for two weeks. 2020-03-10
The death toll from the fires in Greece rises to 91 while 25 other people are still missing. 2018-07-29
According to Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, talks with Greece on Macedonia's name are in a final phase. Zaev says that if a compromise name for the country is agreed upon, it will be put to a referendum. 2018-05-30
An extensive search is underway in the northeastern Aegean Sea off the Greek island of Lesbos for at least 34 people missing from a boat that sank yesterday. Some 242 people were rescued but eight died, five children, two men and a woman. 2015-10-29
The European Union gives Greece a deadline of Thursday to develop new proposals for discussion at an emergency summit on Sunday. 2015-07-7
Unions in Greece call a general strike over new austerity measures. 2013-07-16
The Israeli Foreign Ministry says 527 of the captured activists, as well as the bodies of those killed, have been placed on flights bound for Turkey and Greece: seven more are still in hospital: three other captured activists β one man and two women from Australia, Ireland and Italy β remain in Israel "for technical reasons". 2010-06-3
More than 50,000 Greeks with diabetes are left without insulin after Novo Nordisk, the world's leading supplier of the drug, withdraws from Greece in a "brutal capitalist blackmail" after being asked to reduce the cost of its medicine by the Greek government. 2010-05-29