Sources: Reuters
In Greece, nine people are rescued after wildfires burn on the island of Lesbos and threaten the resort town of Vatera amid a heat wave in the country. 2022-07-23
Brazil, Greece and Ghana report their first cases of monkeypox. 2022-06-8
Greece begins to implement measures that ban people who are unvaccinated or who have not recovered from COVID-19 from entering indoor public places and also mandates the wearing of masks in all workplaces in order to reduce the spread of COVID-19. 2021-11-22
Greece tightens its guidelines by requiring that no more than one person per nine square meters of floor space be allowed to enter into supermarkets. This new policy was implemented after a proposed policy that would require unvaccinated people to provide a mandatory rapid COVID-19 test in order to enter supermarkets was deemed too difficult to implement. 2021-11-13
Greece imposes new restrictions that require unvaccinated people to show a negative rapid or PCR test in order to enter retail stores, banks, public offices, mixed entertainment venues and hairdressers and also require unvaccinated children to show a negative self-test in order to enter any establishments that cater to a mixed clientele. 2021-11-6
The death toll of the earthquake that struck Greece and Turkey yesterday rises to 39, as 17 more people are found dead in Izmir. Rescue teams in the city are hunting through the rubble of collapsed buildings for survivors. 2020-10-31
An extensive search is underway in the northeastern Aegean Sea off the Greek island of Lesbos for at least 34 people missing from a boat that sank yesterday. Some 242 people were rescued but eight died, five children, two men and a woman. 2015-10-29
A boat carrying Syrian migrants sinks in the Aegean Sea between Turkey and Greece with seventeen people on board. 2015-09-27
Vassilis Rapanos, chairman of Greece's largest private bank, is named finance minister. 2012-06-21
Greece's budget deficit for 2010 is 10.5% of gross domestic product, significantly higher than expected. 2011-04-26