OREN (Turkey): Turkish coastguards evacuated hundreds of villagers away from a smouldering power plant Thursday and Greek firefighters battled a major blaze near an ancient Olympic site as a historic heatwave…
STOCKHOLM: The continuation of the cooperation between Turkey and Finland in the UN has disappointed Greece, the Greek ambassador to Finland said Tuesday. Finland and Turkey currently share the chairmanship…
ATHENS: Greece announced on Saturday (14th of Novmeber, 2020) the closure of its primary schools, kindergartens and daycare centers amid a surge in coronavirus cases that has saturated the national health…
ATHENS: Greece will re-enter a lockdown from Saturday for three weeks to battle a second wave of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced. "It was a difficult decision" but…
VIENNA: Austria and Greece on Tuesday will become the latest European nations to impose spirit-crushing curbs to combat the coronavirus surge, with a deadly terrorist attack in Vienna ahead of…
ATHENS: Greece became the latest country to announce a partial lockdown Saturday to combat soaring coronavirus infections, and news reports suggested England may soon follow as other countries faced growing…
ATHENS: Greece on Tuesday said it was reopening a 15-year bond issued in January, seeking to capitalise on historically low interest rates to shore up its finances during the coronavirus…
BRUSSELS: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will visit senior government figures in Turkey and Greece next week, as the alliance tries to defuse a dangerous stand-off between the two member…
PARIS: The UN secretary-general urged European Union members on Saturday to take in thousands of migrants and asylum seekers who have been left homeless and destitute in Greece after a…
ATHENS: Greece's health minister on Tuesday said he expects a first batch of COVID-19 vaccines in December under an EU deal for some three million doses overall. "If all goes…
ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for dialogue on Monday while still pushing ahead with a contentious Mediterranean gas development plan that has outraged Greece and alarmed NATO and…
ALONNISOS: Greece on Saturday (1st of August, 2020) inaugurated its first underwater museum, a trove of 5th century BC amphorae labelled the "Parthenon of shipwrecks", off the coast of Alonissos…
CHIOS: Greece on Saturday announced another extension of a coronavirus lockdown in its teeming migrant camps, despite allegations that it has used the pandemic to limit the movement of migrants.…
ISTANBUL: The grandson of South Africa’s first black president Nelson Mandela is continuing his grandfather’s legacy by working to raise awareness of Syrian women and children imprisoned by the Bashar…
ATHENS: The Greek parliament is expected to vote Thursday on a deal to change Macedonia's name to the Republic of North Macedonia amid deep social division and a crisis in…
ATHENS: Greece's defence minister, who is head of the main coalition partner of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, announced his resignation on Sunday ahead of an upcoming parliamentary vote to end…
MYTILENE: Some 12 people were wounded badly on Thursday in a clash between Pakistani and Afghan refugees in the main detention camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. According to media…
ATHENS: Greece has started the ‘clearance operation’ to evacuate thousands of stranded migrants from the makeshift Idomeni camp on Greece's northern border with Macedonia on Tuesday. The Greek-Macedonia border was…
ATHENS: Following the closing of borders along the Balkan route to Central Europe, refugees stranded in Greece staged a demonstration in Athens on Wednesday. The refugees requested authorities to open the borders…
AYVACIK: At least ten migrants, including five children, drowned on Saturday when their boat sank in the Aegean Sea while trying to cross from Turkey to Greece, the Turkish coastguard…
STOCKHOLM: Sweden intends to expel up to 80,000 failed asylum seekers, the interior minister said Wednesday, the latest move by EU states to tighten their borders in the face of…
ATHENS: At least 21 people including eight children died after their boats sank off the Greek islands of Farmakonisi and Kalolimnos early Friday, with dozens of other migrants reported missing,…
