An officer dabs the sweat off the face of a presidential guard standing stoic sentry in front of Parliament in Athens on Friday, as temperatures in the Greek capital soared to 40 degrees Celsius on the fifth day of a scorching heatwave that is expected to persist through the weekend.
A wildfire injured three people and forced the evacuation of about 2,000 residents near the southern Albanian town of Delvina on Friday.
A heavy-duty crane vehicle has collapsed onto a two-story house on Arcadia Street in Peristeri, western Athens.
The police’s Organized Crime Directorate are investigating a powerful explosion that occurred shortly after 2 a.m. at the entrance to an apartment building in Thessaloniki’s eastern Sykies suburb.
The region of Messinia in the southwest Peloponnese is demonstrating the economic benefits of cracking down on illegal commercial activities on its beaches after raking in 200,000 euros in fines.
Greece achieved a primary surplus of 4.519 billion euros in the first half of 2025, according to figures on the execution of the state budget released by the Economy and Finance Ministry on Friday.
Six workers at the country’s largest port Piraeus, arrested for allegedly participating in a gang smuggling cocaine hidden in shipping containers from Latin America, were jailed pending trial on Friday, legal sources said.
Firefighters have been placed on high alert in several parts of the country, as authorities warn of an extreme risk of wildfires on Saturday, placing several regions under a red Category 5 alert, the highest on the national scale, due to hot and dry conditions.
The Athens Stock Exchange Group on Friday welcomed an announcement by the rating agency S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) proposing a reclassification of the Greek exchange as a developed market in September 2026, upgraded from its current emerging market status.
As of Monday, a unified digital app for recording incoming and outgoing trucks and coaches at all customs offices at Greek land border checkpoints will be fully operational.