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Greece Delivers Aid to Quake-Struck Croatia

Greece delivered humanitarian aid to Croatia on Wednesday in response to the country's request for assistance after Tuesday's earthquake.

Forty-one Migrants Found Crammed in Truck in Xanthi, Greece in Routine Inspection

A tragedy similar to what happened a few days ago in Essex, England, where 39 migrants from Asia were found dead in a truck, was avoided at the last minute in Xanthi, Greece on Monday morning. Following a routine police...

Driver Dead After Being Run Over By His Own Truck in Athens

A tragic accident took place in Ilioupolis, Athens on Tuesday morning. A truck driver who had parked his vehicle outside a supermarket to unload its shipment of food was killed, after an extremely unfortunate chain of events. After the truck was...

One Dead, Two Injured When Train Collides With Truck in Kiklis, Central Macedonia

One woman was killed and two others were seriously injured after a freight train collided with a pickup truck in the area of Myriofyto in Central Macedonia's Kilkis region. The crash occurred at 11:00 in the morning local time. According...

Catamaran in Mykonos Leaves Bystanders Awestruck

The 40 Open Sunreef Power cruiser stands out for its design, as it is 13.1 meters in length, it is navigated through a touchscreen for better control of all systems, it can develop 60 miles and this year it...

A 24-Year Old is Greece's Youngest Female Truck Driver

Daniela, a 24-year old professional truck driver, is the youngest woman truck driver in Greece. The young driver, who is based in Germany, comes from the Greek city of Drama. For the purposes of this story she would like to be...

One Child Killed, 27 Injured, as Migrant Van Collides with Truck (video)

A 4-year-old boy was killed and 27 people were injured on Friday night when a van carrying migrants collided with a truck on a side road of the Thessaloniki-Kavala national highway. The van that was carrying migrants collided head-on with...

11 Migrants Dead as a Bus Crashes Into a Truck in Northern Greece

According to local news portal ''Xanthi Times'', eleven people, all of which were migrants, were burned alive on Saturday morning after the bus that was transferring them to Greece's city of Thessaloniki crashed into a truck, near the city of...

New Heartbreaking Drone View of Greece's Wildfire Struck Region of Kineta (video)

The 23rd of July 2018 will be remembered for the devastating wildfires in Eastern Attica region and especially the seaside town of Mati, where dozens of innocent people died trying to escape from the fire. The very same day though,...

EU's Moscovici Says Greek Deal Will be Struck at June 21 Eurogroup

European Commissioner Pierre Moscovici has said a final agreement covering Greece's post-programme period, surveillance and debt relief will be reached at the June 21 Eurogroup meeting. In an interview with the newspaper Kathimerini on Tuesday, Moscovici said: "I am certain...

Two Killed as Garbage Truck Falls Off Cliff in Greece's Tinos

Two municipal workers were killed when a garbage truck fell off a cliff in the Greek island of Tinos on Monday. Reports say the vehicle fell from a height of at least 300 feet in the Potamia area of the...

Young, Pretty, Mother of Two Truck Driver

Sofia Koutsoukou has defied all stereotypes that want a married Greek woman with children to have a cushy job, or no job at all, and decided to become a truck driver. The Rhodes woman has a college degree, speaks three...

Greek Police Arrest Trafficker with 90 Migrants in Truck

Greek police say they have arrested a trafficker outside the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki carrying 90 migrants in his truck container. Police said on Saturday that the suspect is a 55-year-old truck driver from Greece. The migrants included 21 minors,...

Police Find 14 Migrants Entering Greece Hidden Inside Truck

Greek police found on Wednesday 14 migrants hidden in a specially built crypt at the ceiling of a truck that entered the country from Bulgaria. The two 48-year-old Bulgarian traffickers were arrested after the inspection of the vehicle which stopped...

Truck Drivers Smuggling Migrants Detained by Greek Police

Greek police say they have arrested a Turkish truck driver and a Bulgarian truck driver who were carrying a total of 20 migrants near Greece's northeastern land border with Turkey. Among the migrants that were being smuggled across the land...