Greece

The first car accident officially recorded in Greece occurred on a Sunday in March, 1907, at about 11:30 in the morning. Tragically, the country's very first car accident was a fatal one, as a pedestrian was struck by the vehicle...

A volunteer fireman who rushed out to fight the fires in Ippokrateios Politeia, a northern suburb of Athens, has died on Friday.

According to NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, the countries of Greece and Turkey have now agreed upon a mechanism that would allow them to avoid any accidental incidents in the Eastern Mediterranean, like the one which occurred between a Greek...

An underwater fiber optic cable from Bulgaria owned by Vodafone was accidentally severed around noon Wednesday, leaving most of the country without internet service. Many business dealings came to a screeching halt at the time since most of Greece uses...

A young sergeant in Greece's Special Forces was fatally injured during a nighttime free-fall exercise out of a helicopter late Thursday night. Strong winds are thought to have violently pulled the paratrooper outside of the exercise's designated airdrop zone, causing...

Stefanos Tsitsipas completely lost his head during this week’s ATP Cup encounter with Nick Kyrgios, and even managed to injure his father during an angry racquet-smashing incident. The Greek world No. 6, accidentally hit his father Apostolos – who is...

A family tragedy took place on the Greek island of Skiathos, in the Northern Sporades, in the early hours of Wednesday. A British couple who own a house on Skiathos and spend most of their time in Greece, returned home at...

A 14-year-old girl was killed on Friday at a horrific accident in an amusement park near the Greek sea-side city of Volos. The accident happened at the town of Almyros when the teenager fell from a spinning wheel and was...

A tragic incident took place on Sunday night on Greece's Chios Island, when a steel and glass basketball hoop and pole fell over onto a 19-year old man from Athens, killing him. The young man had been spending his summer...

Two British citizens were killed and one seriously injured in a road accident near the coastal resort of Malia in northern Crete in the early hours of Monday. The rented jeep they were driving crashed into a parked motorcycle and...

The US envoy to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt was involved in a cycling accident in Mani, Peloponnese, and he has been transferred to Athens after receiving first aid at a local hospital. In a message on Twitter on Friday, Pyatt sent...

The nation of Greece has managed to reduce the number of fatal road accidents by 45 percent between 2010 and 2018, according to the latest figures published recently by the European Transport Safety Council. This puts the country in first...

The British Foreign Office confirmed on Wednesday that the couple who were killed in a road accident on Santorini on Sunday were British citizens. A man and a woman, said to be in their 20s, fell into a nearly-700ft ravine...

A 40-year-old climber from the US was found dead near Leonidio on the Peloponnesian Peninsula on Sunday. The man was found unconscious by firefighters at the “Crash of the Titans” climbing field at 1 PM on Saturday afternoon, the Fire...

After 13 years of inactivity, Greece's National Center of First-Aid ''EKAB'' service will reactivate its division dedicated to road traffic accident prevention, Kathimerini newspaper reported on Sunday. This decision was taken due to Greece's high numbers of road traffic accidents. The...