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Cafés, restaurants, and bars in Greece reopen for the first time in six months as the government begins to ease its COVID-19 restrictions. A nightly 9:00 p.m. curfew is also changed to 11:00 p.m.
2021-05-3

High schools in Greece reopen after five months of closure, with precautions such as wearing masks and COVID-19 testing for all teachers and students twice per week.
2021-04-12

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

Police clash with KKE protestors in Athens, Greece, firing tear gas as the crowd uses angle grinders in an attempt to topple a statue of former U.S. President Harry Truman in response to the United States' airstrikes in Syria. Three protestors are injured.
2018-04-16

A TrainOSE passenger train derails near the Greek village of Adendro, leaving at least four people dead and five seriously injured.
2017-05-13

Almost 40 people are killed and 75 are rescued after a boat carrying migrants sinks between Turkey and Greece.
2016-01-30

A boat carrying Syrian migrants sinks in the Aegean Sea between Turkey and Greece with seventeen people on board.
2015-09-27

The Prime Minister of Greece Alexis Tsipras says that Greece will hold a referendum on a bailout deal with creditors on July 5.
2015-06-26

An estimated 25,000 protest in Athens as German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Greece.
2012-10-9

The Hellenic Parliament gives approval in principle to further austerity measures, as street protests in Athens turn violent amid Greece's worsening economic crisis.
2011-10-19