# greece - Sunday 20 February, 2022
# Corfu
# Corfu
The 58-year-old Greek victim was one of 11 truck drivers who are missing.
# greece - Friday 18 February, 2022
# Ionian Sea
# Ionian Sea
Several people are still unaccounted for.
# greece - Wednesday 2 February, 2022
# Human Rights
# Human Rights
The woman says she suffered abuse and witnessed the beating of children and a pregnant woman.
# greece - Wednesday 26 January, 2022
# Snowstorm
# Snowstorm
The army was brought in to help police, fire and state crews extricate some 3,500 stranded motorists.
# greece - Saturday 25 December, 2021
# Greece
# Greece
The incidents have happened near the island of Paros.
# greece - Sunday 5 December, 2021
# Greece
# Greece
The pontiff said Europe was “torn by nationalist egoism”.
# greece - Thursday 18 November, 2021
# Sean Binder
Human rights organisations have accused Greece of attempting to criminalise aid work for migrants, Michelle Hennessy reports. A protest in Brussels this week called for authorities to drop the charges.
# greece - Wednesday 10 November, 2021
# Fourth Wave
# Fourth Wave
The country notched up a record 8,613 new Covid-19 cases in 24 hours.
# greece - Wednesday 3 November, 2021
# Greece Protests
# Greece Protests
The country yesterday reported a record number of new daily Covid-19 cases
# greece - Tuesday 2 November, 2021
# Greece
# Greece
The new measures come in this weekend.
# greece - Monday 18 October, 2021
# Winter Olympics
# Winter Olympics
Three activists were restrained by police after holding a banner saying: ‘No genocide games’.
# greece - Friday 1 October, 2021
# Greece
# Greece
Migrant entries into Greece have fallen by about 90% compared with those of 2019, the prime minister noted.
# greece - Monday 27 September, 2021
# Greece
# Greece
The quake struck at 7.17am Irish time and measured a magnitude of 5.8.
# greece - Monday 13 September, 2021
# Greece
# Greece
Minister for Children Roderic O’Gorman said their arrival had taken ‘longer than hoped’ due to Covid-19.
# greece - Wednesday 1 September, 2021
# Niall O'Brien
# Niall O'Brien
The 20-year-old Irish suspect may be sent to jail before a trial.
# greece - Tuesday 31 August, 2021
# Castletroy
# Castletroy
Niall O’Brien died on the Greek island of Ios after being struck by another male, police said.
# greece - Monday 30 August, 2021
Niall O’Brien, aged in his 20s, died after sustaining serious head injuries.
# greece - Wednesday 18 August, 2021
# Extreme Weather
# Extreme Weather
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis described the blazes as an “ecological disaster”.
# greece - Monday 16 August, 2021
# Athens
# Athens
A number of villages near Athens have been evacuated.
# greece - Friday 13 August, 2021
# Greece
# Greece
Four water-dropping aircraft and six helicopters have been sent to control the new fire.
# greece - Wednesday 11 August, 2021
# Greece
# Greece
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mistotakis described the 586 fires as “a natural disaster of exceptional magnitude”.
# greece - Tuesday 10 August, 2021
# Greek Fires
# Greek Fires
Almost 900 firefighters, backed up by international reinforcements, are battling the blaze.
# greece - Monday 9 August, 2021
# Wildfire
# Wildfire
Greece and neighbouring Turkey have been battling devastating blazes for nearly two weeks.
# greece - Sunday 8 August, 2021
# Burning
# Burning
One volunteer firefighter died after suffering a head injury from a falling electricity pole.
# greece - Saturday 7 August, 2021
# Heat Wave
# Heat Wave
Thousands of residents and vacationers have fled approaching flames by land and by sea.
# greece - Friday 6 August, 2021
# Athens
# Athens
Firefighters are battling 56 active wildfires, Civil Protection chief Nikos Hardalias said.
# greece - Sunday 1 August, 2021
# Wildfires
# Wildfires
This year’s fire season has been significantly more destructive than previously, according to EU data.
# greece - Tuesday 13 July, 2021
# Controversy
From The42
# Controversy
The visitors were due to play against Greek champions Olympiakos on Tuesday.
# greece - Tuesday 15 June, 2021
# The Name Game
From The42
# The Name Game
The initials ‘cannot be accepted’ by Greece , according to Nikos Dendias, the country’s Foreign Minister.
# greece - Saturday 22 May, 2021
# Geraneia Mountains
# Geraneia Mountains
The fire is “one of the biggest in the past 20 to 30 years”.
# greece - Tuesday 11 May, 2021
# Rhodes To Freedom
# Rhodes To Freedom
The Greek Prime Minister said: “My message is clear. We are open again.”
# greece - Monday 8 March, 2021
# Greece
# Greece
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis tweeted “the grief is unbearable”.
# greece - Tuesday 16 February, 2021
# Medea
# Medea
The ‘Medea’ cold front brought gale force winds, resulting in power outages and a delay to Athens’ vaccine rollout.
# greece - Saturday 14 November, 2020
# Shutdown
# Shutdown
Schools, kindergartens and daycare centres have all been shut in Greece as cases surge.
# greece - Saturday 31 October, 2020
# Earthquake
# Earthquake
The quake toppled buildings in Izmir, Turkey’s third largest city.
# greece - Friday 30 October, 2020
# Izmir
# Izmir
On Samos, two teenagers died after being struck by a wall that collapsed.
# greece - Friday 9 October, 2020
# Election
# Election
The move threatened to further inflame tensions in the eastern Mediterranean, where Turkey has been engaged in bitter maritime disputes with Greece and Cyprus.
# greece - Wednesday 7 October, 2020
# Neo-Nazi
# Neo-Nazi
The judgement came to a background of clashes between police and anti-fascist demonstrators.
# greece - Thursday 1 October, 2020
# Moria
# Moria
Justice Minister Helen McEntee said today that Ireland will welcome refugee families from Greece under the Irish Refugee Protection Programme.
# greece - Saturday 12 September, 2020
# Moira Camp
# Moira Camp
Asylum seekers have been sleeping rough since Wednesday, when the Moria camp was gutted in apparent arson attacks.
Cooler with a couple of thundershowers
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