The Greek government has relented and allowed limited attendance at churches celebrating the feast of the Epiphany

The center-right government in Greece has named the country’s first openly gay minister in a cabinet reshuffle

The bulk of Greece’s lockdown measures will remain in place over the Christmas period although bookshops and hairdressers can reopen next week and the quarantine on people entering the country will be relaxed

Greece’s prime minister and his main political rival are involved in a spat over competing claims that they broke the spirit of pandemic restrictions that have renewed financial hardship for many voters

A city in northern Greece hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic says it will scrap plans to set up Christmas decorations and a nativity scene this year to donate the money to the local hospital's intensive care ward

Greece’s coast guard says the body of a woman has been recovered on the island of Lesbos and has been identified as that of a woman reported missing after a migrant boat sank the previous day

Greece’s coast guard says a speedboat that appeared to have been smuggling migrants to the island of Rhodes from nearby Turkey partially sank before reaching land, leaving one person dead

A fire has burnt through tents and some structures in a refugee camp on the eastern Greek island of Samos

Greek authorities say they have broken up a migrant smuggling ring that had been operating on the eastern Aegean island of Kos, bringing people from the nearby Turkish coast to the island and facilitating their movement to the Greek mainland

Greek authorities say a small brush fire that started at a refugee center on the eastern Aegean island of Samos has burned about 15 tents but caused no injuries

Greece's coast guard says a Greek navy minesweeper and a Portuguese-flagged cargo ship have collided outside the country's main port of Piraeus, leaving two navy crew slightly injured and prompting the evacuation of the severely damaged military vessel

Greek authorities are hunting for one of the leading members and former lawmakers of the extreme right-wing Golden Dawn party after he refused to turn himself in following a court decision ordering his imprisonment

Greece’s government says it has finalized plans to build a wall along its northeast border with Turkey, over concerns that migrants may try to stage mass crossings into the European Union country

Greek civil servants have walked off the job in a 24-hour strike with demands including better pay for health and education workers and more hirings during the coronavirus pandemic

A 28-year-old man has been convicted in Greece  of raping and murdering American scientist Suzanne Eaton, who was killed on the island of Crete while attending a conference last year

Police in Greece have found 102 kilograms (225 pounds) of heroin in a vacation-rental apartment in central Athens

The European Union has appointed Ireland's Mairead McGuinness as the new commissioner in charge of financial services

A Greek court has ruled the far-right Golden Dawn party was operating as a criminal organization, following a politically charged five-year trial against dozens of defendants, including former lawmakers of what had once been Greece’s third-largest party

Greece unveiled a new lighting system for the iconic Acropolis.

Student protesters were targeted with tear gas during a rally outside the parliament building in Athens.

Police on the Greek island of Lesbos on Friday relocated over a thousand more migrants who had been homeless since fires ravaged the country’s largest refugee camp last week amid a local COVID-19 outbreak

Authorities are striving to find shelter for thousands of refugees and migrants on the Greek island of Lesbos after fires destroyed the squalid and overcrowded Moria camp that for years symbolized Europe’s biggest migration policy failings

One official has called it a "humanitarian catastrophe."

Greece’s coast guard says a rescue operation was launched overnight after a yacht carrying more than 150 migrants was found in distress in bad weather northeast of the Aegean island of Amorgos

The European Union is urging Turkey to stop drilling in contested waters in the Mediterranean and is ordering EU officials to speed up work on sanctions

Greece's coast guard says it is extending a broad search and rescue operation into Wednesday night in the eastern Aegean after a yacht smuggling migrants partially sank in the eastern Aegean the previous day

Flash floods sparked by a storm on the island of Evia left seven people dead.

Authorities say a small training aircraft has crashed into a shut village coffee shop in northern Greece, injuring the teenage pilot and causing minor damage

Abandoned fishing nets are known as "ghost nets" and often turn into death traps for marine life.

German authorities say 18 children with medical needs and their close relatives have arrived in Germany from Greece, where they have been living in overcrowded migrant camps

A high court in Greece has ruled in favor of pensioners in a class action case in which they demanded the reimbursement of money cut from their income during international bailouts

Violence broke out in Athens during a mass demonstration against a new law to curb public protests, leaving six police officers injured

Greek authorities say they are evacuating hundreds of children from a summer camp after a forest fire broke out in the area and was being fanned by strong winds

Business owners and local officials on the Greek island of Mykonos, a popular draw for celebrities, club-goers, and high rollers, say they are keen to reopen for business despite the threat of COVID-19 posed by international travel

Greek government looks to mitigate some of the financial damage from the virus.

Greece's long-awaited tourist season will begin June 15 with the opening of seasonal hotels and the arrival of the first foreign visitors to Athens

Greek counterterrorism police have detained more than 20 people in raids in Athens and seized heavy weaponry including anti-tank arms. A police statement said Thursday's raids in two Athens locations followed cooperation with Greece's secret service

Authorities say almost 600 migrants arrested while crossing to three Greek islands from the Turkish coast opposite have arrived at a facility in northern Greece where they will be required to remain pending deportation

A group of European Union countries has agreed to take in at least 1,600 migrant children in Greece who have been traveling without their parents

A fire broke out at a refugee center on the Greek island of Lesbos, causing considerable damage to a warehouse but no injuries

Greek villagers who live near the border with Turkey are helping to locate migrants who manage to slip across despite the expanded police force guarding the divide

Thousands of migrants are searching for ways to cross Greece's winding land border from Turkey

A child has died when a boat full of migrants heading to a Greek island capsized, the first death in a new migrant push seeking to enter from Turkey

Greece's government says it is planning to use emergency legal powers to create detention centers for migrants on five Greek islands to try and speed up deportations back to Turkey

Timelapse footage shows a full moon rising Sunday morning over Acropolis Hill in Athens, Greece.

Greek officials say they are stepping up security on the land border with Turkey through which thousands of migrants clandestinely enter Europe every year, with extra guards backed by a network of powerful surveillance cameras

Greek police say they seized nearly 1.2 tons of cocaine and arrested 8 alleged members of an international drug trafficking gang

The head of Greece's top administrative court has been overwhelmingly elected as the country's first female president in a parliamentary vote

Heavy police presence prevented escalation of clashes with anarchists, leftists.

Greek authorities say a child has been found dead and one person is missing after a coast guard patrol boat collided with a dinghy carrying migrants