Greece

Firefighters attempt to take control of fires that have broken out in the forest areas of Kefalonia. 7 vehicles, 14 firemen and 4 aircrafts were sent to the area. As of now, no residencies have been threatened. Simultaneously, another...

Barbarian invasions in Greece during the Byzantine era were common, with mostly Albanian and Slav tribes settling in the fertile plains of Thessaly

At least two people died and two are missing on Saturday in Thessaly, central Greece, as the Mediterranean hurricane (medicane) Ianos batters Greece for the third day. In the town of Farsala in Thessaly, one elderly woman was found dead...

Coronavirus cases in Greece rose above 2,000 on Friday as a Roma settlement in central Greece has been placed under quarantined after dozens of people tested positive for Covid-19. The Health Ministry’s coronavirus spokesman and infectious diseases professor Sotiris Tsiodras...

Greece's minister of agriculture urged striking farmers on Thursday to lift the roadblocks they had set across several highways and proceed to the negotiating table. "I am inviting the farmers at the roadblocks to meet and discuss... so we can take...

Greek farmers are planning to begin protest action next week as they were not satisfied, they said, with the results of their meeting with Rural Development Minister Stavros Arachovitis on Friday. The protests will start on Monday from the region...

The Cultural Association of the village of Skopia in the Thessaly town of Farsala have published their new calendar for 2019 -- and it has already gone viral. The calendar features local farmers from the village showing their sexy side...

Greek traffic police closed roads and the fire service responded to calls to pump out flooded homes and basements following heavy rains on Sunday that hit the greater Athens region and central Greece. The fire service was called upon to...

Greek farmers throughout the country took to the roads with their tractors on Wednesday and made preparations to escalate protest action in the coming days. Among others, farmers are demanding that the government roll back new measures increasing their...

The temperatures in Greece plummeted once again over the weekend, causing snow and frost throughout the country, including some of the islands. Temperatures as low as -12 degrees Celsius were recorded in central Greece in the mountainous regions of Fthiotida...

More than 15,000 tractors are lined up along central points of Greece's national highway system with thousands of farmers taking it to the streets asking the government to withdraw the pension fund plan. Farmers all over Greece have made symbolic...

Authorities in the Greek island of Rhodes came across a case that is very similar to that of Little Maria from Farsala, northern Greece, which was heavily covered by all Greek media a few months ago. A Roma woman who used...

The First Instance Court in the city of Larissa, in central Greece, issued Friday its final decision on the guardianship of the little blond girl Maria, who was found living with a Roma family last October in Larissa, Greece,...

A 59-year-old man and a 58-year-old woman have been temporarily imprisoned after entering their plea to the magistrate of Katerini, Greece. The Roma couple was accused and arrested for falsely presenting an infant as their own. After a DNA...

Maria is a young girl between the age of 5 and 6 that was found living with a Roma family in Farsala, Central Greece, in October 2013. She was found by a prosecutor who was investigating another police related...