Greece
'I'm lost': Greek farmer overcome after fire burns goat herd
The 44-year-old farmer survived miraculously by spending hours under an irrigation water pipe, surrounded by flames.
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Greece fires under control as reconstruction begins
Rain and falling temperatures helped the fire-dousing effort, but crews remain on alert for possible flare-ups in hard-to-access ravines on the island of Evia and in the region of Arcadia in the Peloponnese, the fire department's spokesperson said.
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Greeks battle to protect town from ferocious blaze
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced a package of 500 million euros ($586 million) in emergency help to those affected by what he has dubbed a "natural fury without precedent", as well as for reconstruction of devastated areas.
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Mass evacuations as Greece fires rage on
At least 1,450 Greek firefighters were battling the infernos along with 15 aircraft, with reinforcements arriving from other countries, the fire service said.
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Turkey and Greece reel from raging wildfires during heatwave
Greece deployed large forces near Olympia to protect archaeological sites where the first Olympic Games were held in antiquity.
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Greece hopes to bring wildfires under control 'in coming hours'
More than 500 firefighters, a dozen water-bombing planes and five helicopters have been battling the blazes outside the capital since Tuesday afternoon.
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Greece recovers Picasso stolen in 2012: police
'Head of a Woman', gifted by Pablo Picasso to Greece in 1949, was recovered in the rural area of Keratea, some 45 kilometres (28 miles) southeast of Athens, state agency ANA said.
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Greek firefighters begin to control forest fire near Athens
No injuries have been reported so far in Greece's first big forest fire of the summer, but around a dozen houses have been destroyed or damaged and villages and hamlets evacuated.
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Greek villages evacuated as forest fire rages
Six villages and two monasteries were evacuated after the fire broke out on Wednesday evening near the village of Schinos on the Gulf of Corinth, some 90 kilometres (56 miles) west of Athens, a spokesman told AFP.
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Greece reopens shops despite high infection rate
Customers must pre-book appointments before visiting shops, and up to 20 people will be allowed inside at a time.
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Greece to reopen shops despite high COVID-19 rate
Civil protection deputy minister Nikos Hardalias said all retail outlets except department stores and malls would reopen from Monday.
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Greek government under fire after #MeToo shock arrest
It is the latest in a series of scandals involving allegations of sexual abuse in the fields of arts, sport and education that have rocked the country in recent weeks.
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Lebanon returns two stolen 18th-century icons to Greece
The paintings were stolen from an exhibition in Athens in 2016, and Greece put out an international notice calling for their return.
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Greece shuts down all schools as hospitals are overwhelmed
Most European countries have kept schools open during the second waves of cases that have hit the continent since September, unlike in March and April when they were shuttered during the first lockdowns.
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WHO warns of 'explosion' of virus cases in Europe
"We do see an explosion.... in the sense it only takes a couple of days to have over the European region an increase of one million cases," WHO's regional director for Europe Hans Kluge said.
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Greece latest to renew virus lockdown, England may follow
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis declared a partial coronavirus lockdown in a televised address Saturday.
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Greece races to shelter migrants after Lesbos camp fire
The migration ministry on Thursday said a ferry had been sent to temporarily accommodate hundreds of people, ahead of the expected arrival of European Commission vice-president Margaritis Schinas to inspect conditions on the island.
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Thousands homeless as blaze guts Greece's main migrant camp
Over 12,000 men, women and children had overnight fled in panic out of their containers and tents into nearby olive groves and fields as the fire destroyed most of the overcrowded, squalid camp.
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Greece delays school reopening to 14 September
Masks will be compulsory in class and on-board school buses, in addition to outdoors in congested areas, and will be provided for free.
