Greece

Fireman Asterios Tsiourvas put a cross on a Mount Penteli chapel that was damaged by last Monday's devastating East Attica fires. The chapel is located on Mount Penteli, near the point that the first fire started and close to Lyreio...

"I saved my child, but I lost my husband," said Flora Papaioannou, one of the hundreds of victims of the deadly East Attica fires. The woman who is hospitalized at Thriasio Hospital with severe burn wounds, spoke on Alpha television, barely...

Dimitris Alexopoulos, the 13-year-old boy reported missing after the deadly East Attica fires was identified on Saturday as one of the fatalities. The teenager whose pictures were on Amber Alert issued by the Smile of the Child Foundation was confirmed...

A report from the Hellenic Fire Department Arson Agency (DAEE) suggests that the cause of fires that started north of Mati, was negligence, despite claims of arson by government officials. The report followed comments on Thursday by Deputy Citizen Protection Minister Nikos Toskas,...

Two Turkish Air Force F-16s illegally entered the Athens Flight Information Region (FIR) and flew over the Greek islets Levitha and Mavria west of Kalymnos on Friday, the Hellenic National Defence General Staff announced. The pair of Turkish F-16s entered...

Six Turkish fighter jets entered Athens FIR on Wednesday without submitting a flight plan, the National Defense General Staff (HNDGS) said. The first pair of Turkish F-16's entered the Greek capital's FIR at 15:14 and at 15:27 flew over the...

Four F-16 Turkish aircraft flew over Kalogeri islets, northeast of the island of Andros, at 29,000 feet at 11:56 a.m. on Wednesday. According to General Staff's announcement, the four Turkish aircraft violated Athens FIR without submitting a flight plan. The...

There were multiple infringements of the Athens Flight information Region (FIR) and violations of Greece's airspace by Turkish military aircraft on Monday, according to an announcement by the Hellenic National Defense General Staff (HNDGS). Two Turkish F-4 fighter aircraft and...

A pair of Turkish fighter planes on Friday entered the Athens Flight Information Region (FIR), in the first infringement of the Athens FIR since a failed coup attempt in the neighbouring country. According the Hellenic National Defence General Staff...

Several hours after the A320 EgyptAir incident took place close to Karpathos, a new incident took place on Thursday night in the Athens FIR. As Alpha TV station reports, an American Airbus that had departed from France and was headed to...

Two Turkish F-16 entered Athens’ FIR this afternoon (08.02 local time) between the islands of Lesvos and Chios without having submitted a flight plan for a second consecutive day, Greece’s National Defense General Staff said on Tuesday. The fighter jets...

The Turkish Air Force has proceeded to yet another provocation earlier this morning, by repeatedly violating the Athens FIR. A formation of six Turkish F-16 fighter jets entered the Athens FIR at 11:04 a.m. The aircraft flew over Anthropophagi island...

According to Ethnos daily, an extreme Greek-Turkish dogfight  emerged three times yesterday afternoon over the North and Central Aegean Sea, with the Turkish pilots violating Athens FIR despite Greek pilots’ warnings. In total, 12 Turkish F-16 fighter jets violated North...

The first car appeared in Athens in 1897, more than a decade after its invention in 1886 by German inventor Carl Benz, who patented his Benz Patent-Motorwagen. Athenians were astounded and amazed by the sight of a self-propelled vehicle. The...

Last week's massive wildfire that started in densely-forested Mount Penteli just outside of Athens burned over 2,750 hectares or about 6,800 acres. New damage totals are in from the blaze, which took hundreds of firefighters two days to contain and...