Sources: AP
Five people are injured in a shooting spree between a social security office and a courthouse in Athens, Greece. The 89-year-old suspect fled the scene, but was arrested at a bus stop in Patras. 2026-04-28
Greece tightens its guidelines by requiring that no more than one person per nine square meters of floor space be allowed to enter into supermarkets. This new policy was implemented after a proposed policy that would require unvaccinated people to provide a mandatory rapid COVID-19 test in order to enter supermarkets was deemed too difficult to implement. 2021-11-13
Greece reports 13 new deaths taking the nationwide total to 449, a new record since the beginning of the pandemic. 2020-10-11
A rare Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone (medicane), with winds up to 120 km-h (75 mph), kills three people as it passes over Greece heading toward the island of Crete. About 5,000 homes in Karditsa, Greece, were affected by flooding and heavy winds. One person is still reported missing. 2020-09-19
Macedonia's Army begins erecting a metal fence on its southern border with Greece. Around 250 migrants later clash with Macedonian police on the border. 2015-11-28
Thirty-four refugees, including four babies and 11 children, drown in the Aegean Sea when their wooden boat sinks off the Greek island of Farmakonissi, close to Turkey's coast. 2015-09-13
Greece and its creditors harden their stances after the collapse of talks aimed at preventing a default. 2015-06-15
61 people, illegal immigrants traveling below deck, die after a fishing boat capsizes fifty meters off the Izmir Province coast of Turkey, near the Greek Aegean islands. 2012-09-6
Greek authorities prevented a US-flagged vessel, "The Audacity of Hope", carrying dozens of U.S. activists, from departing for the Gaza Strip, towing it back to the port of Perama after commandos, reportedly carrying weapons, intercept it. 2011-07-1
The European Union and the International Monetary Fund agree to a bailout package for Greece that will provide approximately €120 billion to end the sovereign debt crisis in that country. 2010-05-2