Sources: AP
At least 18 people are killed and two others are critically injured when a dinghy carrying migrants sinks off Crete, Greece. 2025-12-6
A series of over 200 earthquakes in a 48-hour period causes widespread evacuations from the Greek island of Santorini. 2025-02-3
Israeli police forcibly removes and arrests a guard of the Greek consulate inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in East Jerusalem, during Holy Saturday. 2024-05-4
The Greek government announces that fully vaccinated people who have not received a COVID-19 vaccine booster dose seven months after receiving their second dose will be banned from entering most indoor venues and participating in many types of activities beginning on February 1. 2022-01-9
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
A Mediterranean hurricane forms, threatening Libya, Italy, Tunisia, and Greece. 2018-09-27
The Greek-owned oil tanker "MT Smyrni" is released along with its 26 crew members for a reported ransom of $9.5 million after being held hostage for 10 months. 2013-03-8
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
The Euro falls to near year-low levels amid concerns about Greece's debt crisis. 2010-04-22