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January 6, 2021, 9:25 PM
Greek churches open on Epiphany feast despite tight lockdown
The Greek government has relented and allowed limited attendance at churches celebrating the feast of the Epiphany
January 6, 2021, 9:25 PM
January 4, 2021, 11:39 AM
Greece names first openly gay minister
The center-right government in Greece has named the country’s first openly gay minister in a cabinet reshuffle
January 4, 2021, 11:39 AM
1 month ago
Greeks face lockdown Christmas, but with books and tidy hair
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
1 month ago
2 months ago
In Greece, political spat over lockdown turns personal
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
2 months ago
2 months ago
Greek city to use Christmas money for more ICU beds
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
2 months ago
2 months ago
2nd body recovered off Greek island after migrant boat sank
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
2 months ago
2 months ago
Speedboat taking migrants to Greece partially sinks; 1 dead
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
2 months ago
2 months ago
Fire burns tents, structures in Greek refugee camp
A fire has burnt through tents and some structures in a refugee camp on the eastern Greek island of Samos
2 months ago
3 months ago
Greek authorities break up migrant smuggling ring
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
3 months ago
3 months ago
Small fire burns tents in squalid Greek island refugee camp
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
3 months ago
3 months ago
Greek navy minesweeper damaged after cargo ship collision
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
3 months ago
3 months ago
Greece: Convicted former Golden Dawn lawmaker on the run
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
3 months ago
3 months ago
Greece finalizes plan to build wall on border with Turkey
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
3 months ago
3 months ago
Greek civil servants walk off job in 24-hour strike
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
3 months ago
3 months ago
Greek man convicted of murdering US scientist on Crete
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
3 months ago
3 months ago
Greece: 225-pound heroin stash found in vacation home
Police in Greece have found 102 kilograms (225 pounds) of heroin in a vacation-rental apartment in central Athens
3 months ago
3 months ago
EU appoints McGuinness as new financial services chief
The European Union has appointed Ireland's Mairead McGuinness as the new commissioner in charge of financial services
3 months ago
4 months ago
Greek court rules that Golden Dawn party is a criminal group
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
4 months ago
4 months ago
Acropolis gets new lights
Greece unveiled a new lighting system for the iconic Acropolis.
4 months ago
4 months ago
Greek police fire tear gas at demonstrators
Student protesters were targeted with tear gas during a rally outside the parliament building in Athens.
4 months ago
4 months ago
Greece: Police move more homeless migrants to new tent camp
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
4 months ago
4 months ago
Greece seeks shelter for thousands after refugee camp fire
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
4 months ago
5 months ago
Largest refugee camp in Europe gutted by fire
One official has called it a "humanitarian catastrophe."
5 months ago
5 months ago
Greece: 151 migrants rescued from yacht in gale force winds
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
5 months ago
5 months ago
EU urges Turkey to stop drilling in Med, ponders sanctions
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
5 months ago
5 months ago
Greek coast guard: 96 rescued from yacht carrying migrants
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
5 months ago
5 months ago
Greece: Missing man's body found after deadly storm; 8 dead
Flash floods sparked by a storm on the island of Evia left seven people dead.
5 months ago
6 months ago
Greece: 1 hurt as small plane hits shut village coffee shop
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
6 months ago
6 months ago
Divers remove lost fishing nets from submarine wreck in Greece
Abandoned fishing nets are known as "ghost nets" and often turn into death traps for marine life.
6 months ago
6 months ago
Greece sends 18 migrant kids with medical needs to Germany
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
6 months ago
6 months ago
Pensioners in Greece win court battle for bailout refund
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
6 months ago
7 months ago
Violence erupts at rally in Greece against new protest law
Violence broke out in Athens during a mass demonstration against a new law to curb public protests, leaving six police officers injured
7 months ago
7 months ago
Greece: Forest fire leads to evacuation of children's camp
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
7 months ago
7 months ago
Despite risks, Greek islands keen to reopen to tourists
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
7 months ago
8 months ago
Greece: Tourists from 29 countries can fly in as of June 15
Greek government looks to mitigate some of the financial damage from the virus.
8 months ago
8 months ago
Direct flights to Greek tourist destinations to begin July 1
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
8 months ago
10 months ago
Greek counterterror police seize arms, detain more than 20
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
10 months ago
10 months ago
Greece sends nearly 600 migrants to locked camp
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
10 months ago
10 months ago
EU states to take in 1,600 migrant children in Greece
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
10 months ago
1 year ago
Amid tensions, fire damages Greek island refugee center
A fire broke out at a refugee center on the Greek island of Lesbos, causing considerable damage to a warehouse but no injuries
1 year ago
1 year ago
Greek villagers enlisted to catch migrants at Turkey border
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
1 year ago
1 year ago
Thousands of migrants look for way around shut Greek border
Thousands of migrants are searching for ways to cross Greece's winding land border from Turkey
1 year ago
1 year ago
Child dies as migrants rush to cross Greek-Turkish border
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
1 year ago
1 year ago
Greece: Emergency powers to build migrant detention camps
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
1 year ago
1 year ago
Full snow moon rises over Acropolis Hill in Greece
Timelapse footage shows a full moon rising Sunday morning over Acropolis Hill in Athens, Greece.
1 year ago
1 year ago
Greece boosts border patrols, plans cameras to stop migrants
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
1 year ago
1 year ago
Greek police report seizure of nearly 1.2 tons of cocaine
Greek police say they seized nearly 1.2 tons of cocaine and arrested 8 alleged members of an international drug trafficking gang
1 year ago
1 year ago
Top judge elected as Greece's first female president
The head of Greece's top administrative court has been overwhelmingly elected as the country's first female president in a parliamentary vote
1 year ago
1 year ago
Greece marks 1973 student uprising anniversary; 28 arrested
Heavy police presence prevented escalation of clashes with anarchists, leftists.
1 year ago
1 year ago
Greece: Migrant child killed in boat collision
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
1 year ago