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Fire department officials in Greece arrest two men on suspicion of setting fires amid ongoing wildfires.
2023-08-26

Eighteen people are found dead amid wildfires in the Dadia Forest in Greece.
2023-08-22

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

Thousands of tourists flee their hotels in Rhodes, Greece, in what officials say is the largest evacuation in the country's history.
2023-07-23

Two wildfires near the Greek seaside towns of Lagonisi, East Attica, and Loutraki, Corinthia, cause significant property damage and prompt the evacuation of thousands. The Athens urban area and most of southern Greece are on the second highest level of wildfire alert.
2023-07-17

Eighty migrants cross to Aegean Islands Lesbos and Samos overnight after Turkey opens its border with Greece.
2020-02-29

Greece recalls its ambassador to Austria in response to Austria's hosting of a meeting with Balkan states, to which Greece was not invited, about European migrant crisis policies that would make it harder for migrants to head north across Europe. Greece's foreign ministry called the move an "unfriendly act." More than 100,000 migrants have entered the EU illegally so far in 2016, nearly all of them arriving in Greece.
2016-02-25

Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency reports 11 migrants, including three children, drowned, and the Turkish coast guard rescued seven Syrians from a capsized boat headed to the Greek island of Samos.
2015-12-22

The BBC reports that the European Central Bank will cap lending to Greece's struggling banks, causing the run on the nation's banks to become even worse. Next week a referendum will be held about leaving the Euro currency.
2015-06-28

Two men are charged with terrorism following parcel bomb attacks in Greece, as a 14 th bomb addressed to the French embassy in Athens is detonated by police.
2010-11-4