Sources: AP
Greeks organize a 24-hour nationwide general strike on the second anniversary of the Tempi train crash, Greece's deadliest railway disaster. 2025-02-28
Greece reports a record for the third consecutive day of 28,828 new cases of COVID-19, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 1,134,713. 2021-12-29
Wildfires in Attica, Greece, prompt the evacuation of several villages and monasteries as the fires spread throughout the Geraneia mountain range. 2021-05-20
An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 hits Greece and Turkey, with an epicentre in the Aegean Sea. Flooding and destruction of houses is reported in Samos, where two people have died, and Izmir, where 20 people have died and 786 injured. 2020-10-30
Germany agrees to take 1,500 migrants from Greece following a devastating fire at the Moria Refugee Camp on the island of Lesbos. 2020-09-15
EU ministers discuss suspending the Schengen passport-free travel zone for two years, on the basis that the migrant crisis has exposed “serious deficiencies” at the Greek border that endanger the overall area. 2015-12-3
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
Eurozone finance ministers reject a request by Greece to extend debt negotiations past Tuesday's deadline. 2015-06-27
Eleven inmates are missing and two guards injured after gunmen attacked a prison in Trikala, Greece, less than a week after a hostage siege at a different jail. 2013-03-23
Two men are charged with terrorism following parcel bomb attacks in Greece, as a 14 th bomb addressed to the French embassy in Athens is detonated by police. 2010-11-4