Sources: Reuters
A bomb explodes outside the offices of Greece's main railway company Hellenic Train in Athens, Greece. No casualties were reported. 2025-04-11
One hundred tons of dead freshwater fish wash up in and around the port of Volos in Greece as a result of severe flooding followed by a prolonged drought in Lake Karla caused by "extreme climate fluctuations". 2024-08-29
The European Union Operation Aspides task force warns of a likely significant and ongoing oil spill in the Red Sea following Houthi demolition of the Greek-flagged "Sounion" oil tanker carrying 150,000 tons of petroleum, with Houthi footage showing flaming oil leaking into the sea. 2024-08-24
Two people are killed when a boat carrying around 30 migrants capsizes near the coast of Kos, Greece. 2023-03-1
Greece reports a record 7,335 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 792,239. 2021-11-8
Greece reports 865 new cases in the past 24 hours, a new record high, raising the number of confirmed cases to 27,334, according to data from the National Public Health Organization 2020-10-21
Greek Minister of Health Vasilis Kikilias announces that the country's schools and universities will remain closed for two weeks. 2020-03-10
A boat carrying Iraqi Kurd migrants sinks off the Greek island of Samos in the Aegean Sea off Turkey's Anatolian coast, killing at least 24 people, including several children, with 11 others missing. 2016-01-28
The government of Greece shuts down the public radio and television broadcaster ERT, calling it a "haven of waste". 2013-06-12
Vassilis Rapanos, chairman of Greece's largest private bank, is named finance minister. 2012-06-21