Sources: Reuters
Greece passes a law to allow a six-day work week for industries that operate on a 24-hour basis. Workers have the option of working an additional eight hours for 40% additional pay. 2024-07-5
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
Six people are killed in a mass shooting against a vehicle in Artemida, East Attica, Greece. The six men, believed to be Turkish, were gunned down in an isolated cul-de-sac. 2023-09-11
An evacuation is ordered due to an explosion of an ammunition dump of an air force base in Nea Anchialos, Magnesia, Greece, due to the ongoing wildfires. 2023-07-27
One person is killed and 12 others are injured after a bridge collapses in Patras, Greece. 2023-07-23
The Greek government announces new measures that would require COVID-19 testing for all unvaccinated employees and university students at their own expense with the exception of school students and also restrict access to restaurants, bars, cafés, and indoor entertainment and sport venues to only those who have been vaccinated or who have recovered from COVID-19. The new rules will be in effect from September 13 until March 31, 2022. 2021-08-24
Eleven people are killed after their vehicle and a lorry collide head-on in Thessaloniki, Greece. 2018-10-13
Over 70,000 people are evacuated from Thessaloniki, Greece, as authorities attempt to defuse a World War II-era unexploded ordnance, which was discovered last week. 2017-02-11
Macedonian police fire tear gas at refugees as they attempted to break through a fence at the Greece-Macedonia border near Idomeni, sparking clashes that injured 200 people. 2016-04-10
Vassilis Rapanos, chairman of Greece's largest private bank, is named finance minister. 2012-06-21