Sources: Reuters
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
One person is killed and 12 others are injured after a bridge collapses in Patras, Greece. 2023-07-23
Greece reports a record for the second consecutive day of 8,613 new casea of COVID-19, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 801,208. 2021-11-9
Hair salons, health centers, car inspection stations, and non-essential shops in Greece reopen for the first time since November after the government eased a nationwide lockdown in order to revitalize the retail sectors. 2021-01-18
The number of new confirmed cases in Greece hits a record high of 882 in the past 24 hours, making it the highest number in a single day since the pandemic began, bringing the cumulative total to 28,216. 2020-10-22
At least three people are dead after a boat carrying dozens of migrants runs aground on the Greek island of Rhodes. 2015-04-20
Vassilis Rapanos, chairman of Greece's largest private bank, is named finance minister. 2012-06-21
Lucas Papademos is appointed interim prime minister of Greece's new unity government, and pledges to implement a European bailout package to help resolve the Greek government debt crisis. 2011-11-10
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
A second Danish pharmaceutical company, Leo Pharma, suspends sales of medical products in Greece over the government's decision to reduce the cost of medicine there. The government condemns these acts as "unfair". 2010-05-30