Sources: Reuters
Nine migrants, including six children, are killed and 39 others are rescued from a shipwreck off the coast of Samos, Greece. 2024-11-25
At least 10 more nations, including Australia and Greece, join the United States-led Operation Prosperity Guardian task force to counter Houthi attacks in the Red Sea. 2023-12-21
Greece imposes a curfew and a full ban on music in entertainment venues on the islands of Crete and Zakynthos in order to reduce the spread of COVID-19. These measures will be in effect until August 13. 2021-08-6
Greece reports its first case of the Lineage P.1 Gamma variant that originated in Brazil. 2021-06-11
Greece reports 2,353 new cases in the past 24 hours, which is the highest single-day total this year, bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 194,582. 2021-03-2
Greece extends their full lockdown to Achaia and the island of Euboea beginning February 13 in an attempt to reduce the spread of COVID-19. 2021-02-12
Greece extends their nationwide lockdown until January 18 but will allow kindergartens, elementary schools and nurseries to reopen on January 11. 2021-01-8
The EU plans to boost aid to Greece and declare the route north through the Balkans closed. Presently, about 13,000 people are stranded at the Greece-Macedonia border. 2016-03-7
Vassilis Rapanos, chairman of Greece's largest private bank, is named finance minister. 2012-06-21
In Greece, Evangelos Venizelos of the Pasok party makes a third effort to create a coalition government, amid increasing political and economic turmoil in the country. 2012-05-10