Greece

One man and two children died on Thursday after the vessel they had been on sank in the sea off the east coast of Samos Island. The Greek Coast Guard had picked up eleven migrants in the water, including three...

Firemen rescued a dozen passengers from a bus that was travelling from Athens to Corinth, when the vehicle was swept away by river of water, due to extreme storm conditions. According to eye witnesses, the passengers were saved in the...

Bewildered Shipping Minster Panagiotis Kouroumblis admitted that, during the first crucial hours after the sinking of the Greek tanker near Salamis, he got into a plane and flew to London. Kouroumblis is under intense pressure from the opposition to resign following...

August 15, 1940, just after 8 am. At the waterfront of Tinos thousands of believers were preparing to attend the holly mass at the Church of the Dormition of Virgin Mary near the port. The vendors had set up their...

Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Ieronymos said on Tuesday that the country is like a ship that is sinking and hinted that the administration is partly to blame. Archbishop Ieronymos spoke in parliament, after he was invited to participate...

Greek main opposition New Democracy spokesman Giorgos Koumoutsakos accused the country's government on Thursday of "sinking the economy" and "crushing businesses and households" with its policies. "The government’s incompetence and unreliability is fueling the excessive demands made by the IMF. Because of...

Greek Coast Guard rescued a 18-year old woman with paraplegia along with 42 other refugees, on Friday, mostly from Syria, in the sea region off the coasts of Mytilene, Lesvos island, Greece. The rescuers also managed to collect the girl's...

According to a group of Turkish fishermen, the Greek Coast Guard allegedly tried to sink a boat carrying Syrian immigrants on Thursday, Hürriyet daily reported. The boat, trying to cross into Greek waters, started its journey from the coast of...

A woman from Cameroon who gave birth to twins inside a sinking boat carrying illegal migrants to Greece was transferred to an Athens hospital for precautionary reasons. The woman was among 36 migrants in a dinghy boat rescued by the...

Greek photographer Giorgos Skrafnakis recorded a stunning video that shows the before and after state of Sfendyli, a Greek village which is slowly sinking due to the rise of water in Aposelemis Dam. Skrafnakis’ video shows shots of Sfendyli from 2013...

On the night of December 7 to 8, 1966, Greek ship "Heraklion," en route from Chania, Crete, to Piraeus, capsized and sank near the island of Falkonera. The sinking resulted in the death of hundreds of people onboard and still remains one...

The fifteen remaining residents of the village Sfendili, Crete in Greece live without electricity and water as their village is slowly being covered by water because of a dam built in the area 14 years ago. The village is located in...

Just a day after Greece's World Press Freedom Index ranking fell to 99th, a judge has ordered a TV show not to show a documentary investigating the sinking of a migrant boat in which a dozen lives were lost,...

International organizations are continuing their calls for an investigation into a January 20th incident off a Greek island near the coast of Turkey in which a boat full of illegal immigrants being towed by the Greek Coast Guard capsized,...

Merchant Marine Minister Militadis Varvitsiotis has denied accusations by migrants who survived the capsizing of a boat full of immigrants that it was being dragged back to Turkey at full speed, not to safety, and that Coast Guard officials...