Sources: Reuters
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
Greece imposes a curfew and bans music at bars, cafés and restaurants in Thessaloniki, Larissa, Chalkidiki and Kilkis due to an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in the region. 2021-10-1
Citizens of Greece go to the polls to vote for the next members of the Hellenic Parliament. 2019-07-7
A Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone (also known as a "Medicane") strikes Greece near Kalamata, causing power outages and gale force winds near the capital Athens. In the storm's formative stages, heavy rains killed four people in Tunisia. 2018-09-29
Mayor Yiannis Boutaris of Greece's second largest city, Thessaloniki, is hospitalized after being assaulted by a group of nationalists at a Greek genocide remembrance event. 2018-05-20
Greece faces suspension or expulsion from the European Union's Schengen Area if it can not prevent waves of migrants from crossing over the country into Macedonia. 2016-01-25
Vassilis Rapanos, chairman of Greece's largest private bank, is named finance minister. 2012-06-21
Israel's navy confiscates a French yacht bound for Gaza, which departed from Greece and attempted to run the blockade after repeated warnings to make for Ashdod instead. No casualties are reported. 2011-07-19
Computer security company McAfee says hackers based in the People's Republic of China have targeted computer networks of global oil companies and individuals in Kazakhstan, Taiwan, Greece, and the United States, to steal information starting in 2009. 2011-02-11
Greece is considering the construction of a fence along its border with Turkey to fend off an ongoing flood of economic migrants from the Middle East and North Africa. 2011-01-2