Sources: WAtoday
Nine migrants, including six children, are killed and 39 others are rescued from a shipwreck off the coast of Samos, Greece. 2024-11-25
Thousands of tourists flee their hotels in Rhodes, Greece, in what officials say is the largest evacuation in the country's history. 2023-07-23
A large wildfire breaks out on the Hymettus mountain range near Athens, Greece. A number of homes are damaged in the fire. 2022-06-5
Greece and Norway report their first suspected cases of monkeypox. 2022-05-21
Macedonians go to the polls to elect the next President of North Macedonia in an election dominated by divisions over the Prespa agreement, which resolved the naming dispute between North Macedonia and Greece. 2019-04-21
A Mediterranean hurricane forms, threatening Libya, Italy, Tunisia, and Greece. 2018-09-27
A Syrian passport is found near the body of one of the gunmen who died in Friday's attacks in Paris. The holder passed through the Greek island of Leros on October 3 as a refugee, according to Greek officials. A Greek police source said the passport's owner was a young man who had arrived in Leros with a group of 69 refugees and had his fingerprints taken by authorities there. Police declined to give his name. 2015-11-14
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
Eight people are arrested in Greece for allegedly trying to smuggle weapons into Turkey. 2013-08-1
Eurozone finance ministers agree to seek a voluntary rollover of Greek debt by private bondholders in order to meet a substantial part of Greek funding needs. 2011-06-20