Greece cancels all public Christmas and New Year's Eve celebrations, as well as mandates mask wearing outdoors and requiring people to wear two masks or a high-protection mask in order to use public transport and enter supermarkets due to the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant. 2021-12-24
A Greek court rules that far-right political party Golden Dawn operated as a criminal organization in connection with the murder of anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas in 2013 and other crimes. 2020-10-7
A ship carrying 635 mostly Afghan migrants from the crowded refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos arrives in the mainland port city of Thessaloniki. A second ship carrying 800 more is expected to arrive tomorrow. They are to be housed in Nea Kavala Καβάλα Κιλκίς, where a camp already houses 1,000 migrants. 2019-09-2
A Mediterranean hurricane forms, threatening Libya, Italy, Tunisia, and Greece. 2018-09-27
The coalition government of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras survives a vote of no-confidence brought by the opposition party over a deal to end the dispute. 2018-06-16
Thousands of Indonesians protest in Jakarta for tolerance after a large protest rally against blasphemy on Friday. 2016-12-4
Greece becomes the first advanced economy to miss a payment to the International Monetary Fund in the 71-year history of the IMF, unwinding decades of precedent and affecting consequences for the fund's future rescues. 2015-07-1
The President of Greece, Karolos Papoulias, fails to broker a coalition deal between Greece's major political parties. 2012-05-13
The three Royal Netherlands Navy personnel captured 12 days ago by armed men loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi are released after negotiations after Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Dimitris Dollis secured their release and oversaw their evacuation to Athens, Greece. The crew was trying to rescue a Dutch citizen from Libya when armed men captured them. [https:--www.npr.org-templates-story-story.php?storyId=134423178 (NPR)]date=August 2019 2011-03-12
Israel summons the ambassadors of Cyprus, Greece, Ireland, Sweden and Turkey to protest the expedition as an unnecessary provocation after eight ships, including four cargo vessels and a Turkish passenger ferry carrying 600 people, including a Nobel peace laureate and former U.S. congresswoman, set sail for Gaza with 10,000 tons of humanitarian aid to break a three-year Israeli blockade on the territory. 2010-05-27