Sources: Reuters
Four people are killed, including a girl, after a boat carrying migrants sinks off the coast of Lesbos, Greece. Police find the 34 survivors at shore. 2025-10-7
A woman is killed in Thessaloniki, Greece, after a bomb she was carrying explodes in her hands, also damaging several nearby storefronts and vehicles. The bomb was possibly intended to be placed outside a nearby bank. 2025-05-3
Paleoanthropologists announce, through the "Nature" journal, that a human skull (Apidima 1) discovered inside a cave in Greece, is dated to 210,000 years ago, making it the oldest known "Homo sapiens" individual found outside of Africa. 2019-07-10
Pope Francis, while honoring Christians killed under Nazism, communism, dictatorships, and terrorism at Rome's Basilica of St. Bartholomew, adds to those named the wife of a Muslim he met in Lesbos, Greece, who was killed by terrorists because she wouldn't throw down her crucifix. Francis referred to the Lesbos camp as a 'concentration camp' noting, despite the good will of local communities, many refugee camps are overcrowded and little more than prisons. 2017-04-22
EgyptAir Flight 804 between Paris and Cairo disappears with 56 passengers and 10 crew onboard. The plane was at 37,000 feet when it disappeared ten minutes before entering Egyptian airspace over the Mediterranean Sea. It is later reported to have crashed off the Greek island of Karpathos. Locals reported seeing a fireball. 2016-05-19
A Syrian passport is found near the body of one of the gunmen who died in Friday's attacks in Paris. The holder passed through the Greek island of Leros on October 3 as a refugee, according to Greek officials. A Greek police source said the passport's owner was a young man who had arrived in Leros with a group of 69 refugees and had his fingerprints taken by authorities there. Police declined to give his name. 2015-11-14
A boat carrying Syrian migrants sinks in the Aegean Sea between Turkey and Greece with seventeen people on board. 2015-09-27
Officials of the ruling Syriza party in Greece say that they cannot accept a last-minute deal proposed by the country's creditors: default deadline looms. 2015-06-4
Vassilis Rapanos, chairman of Greece's largest private bank, is named finance minister. 2012-06-21
A European Union summit takes place to discuss a possible bailout for Greece's economy. 2010-02-11