Skimming over miles of hills blackened by wildfires west of Athens, Fire Lt. Col. Ioannis Kolovos readies his elite fire crew crouched inside a helicopter.
This April, high maximum daily temperatures were widespread across Greece, according to data from the network of 53 meteorological stations operated by meteo.gr of the National Observatory of Athens.
Hundreds of Greek workers marched through central Athens on Wednesday to demand pay rises that would bring their salaries close to the European average and to protest over the war in Gaza.
The center of Athens will be mostly closed to traffic on Wednesday (May 1) due to announced rallies related to Labor Day.
A truck driver is expected to appear before a prosecutor after coast guard officers found 209 kilograms of cannabis in his vehicle as it arrived on a passenger ferry at the port of Igoumenitsa from Italy.
The world’s biggest live music event, Eurovision Song Contest, will take place in Sweden in the second week of May with 37 participating countries, including Greece’s Marina Satti, who will perform “Zari,” an uplifting fusion of traditional, modern, and ethnographic elements.
Authorities have dropped criminal charges against dozens of international aid workers, ranging from spying to facilitating what authorities had called illegal entry into the country through the island of Lesvos, court documents showed on Tuesday.
Police in Crete are investigating a shooting in which assailants riddled a car with a Kalashnikov assault rifle, injuring a man inside.
An Egypt-bound flight from Scotland had to make an emergency landing in Crete on Monday evening due to unruly conduct by a pair of passengers.
Twenty years after joining the European Union, Poland is still not ready to adopt the euro currency, the finance minister in the pro-European Union government has said.
A Turkish national on Tuesday stabbed an Israeli border policeman in Jerusalem and was then shot dead by officers at the scene, Israeli police said.
The Athens metro will operate from 9.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. and buses and tram from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on May Day, operators have said.
Four individuals were arrested on Tuesday in connection to explosions at a gas station in the southern district of Piraeus and a liquor store in Kallithea, occurring three days apart last March in the ongoing conflict of the so-called Greek Mafia.
The landslide on Saturday morning on Thirasia next to Santorini has highlighted the need to map the slopes of the caldera on both isles to identify the most dangerous points.
In a violent incident at a school courtyard in western Thessaloniki, a 12-year-old threatened a fellow student with a knife following a dispute.
Prosecutor Georgia Adelini of the Supreme Court instructed the Prosecutor of the Athens Appeals Court to explore the possibility of appealing the court’s decision on the Mati wildfire case.
A missile attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels damaged the Cyclades, a Malta-flagged, Greece-owned bulk carrier in the Red Sea on Monday, authorities said, the latest assault in their campaign against shipping in the crucial maritime route.
The first round of the judicial investigation into the tragedy at Mati in eastern Attica in 2018 concluded on Monday with the court finding only five former high-ranking officials of the state apparatus guilty, mainly from the Fire Service, while acquitting those responsible for Civil Protection and local government officials, in a decision denounced as too lenient by victims’ relatives and public opinion.
The deadline for registration on the postal voting platform expired at midnight on Monday, with the final number of registrants surpassing 200,000 from Greece and 127 other countries.
Public transportation in Greece, particularly in Athens, will cease on May 1 as unions and associations stage Labor Day strikes.
Private doctors will be allowed to perform medical procedures in National Health System (ESY) hospitals, including surgeries, according to a Health Ministry amendment to a bill of the Ministry of Social Cohesion and Family.
A fatal car accident occurred early Tuesday morning in the eastern Athenian suburb of Pikermi.
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