The Ministry of Citizen Protection has rejected a BBC report claiming that police in Greece have been recruiting migrants to violently push other migrants back across its land border with Turkey.
Two Greek tourists – a man and a woman – have been remanded in custody in Istanbul after allegedly unfurling a Greek flag inside Hagia Sophia and recording the act on video, according to Turkish media reports.
Greek Finance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis has delivered a stark warning about the scale of the ongoing energy disruption triggered by the war in Iran, describing it as potentially the most severe energy crisis in modern history.
Authorities in Athens have broken a well-organized migrant smuggling ring that used Greece as an entry point to the European Union and had its own hi-tech workshop to churn out fake passports, police said Tuesday.
Just one in 200 motorists stopped in the Greater Athens region over the past five days was caught above the legal alcohol limit, police said Tuesday and pledged to persist with a months-long strict road safety campaign.
Three people were arrested Tuesday over the mystery death of a young woman on the western island of Kefalonia, police said.
Farmers on the eastern Aegean Sea island of Lesvos, who are struggling to cope with a deadly livestock disease, on Tuesday prevented hundreds of travelers from boarding an outward-bound ferry to protest the government’s handling of the epidemic.
Two arms brokers, one of whom is Greek, arranged illegal deals to supply ex-Soviet surface-to-air missile systems to South Sudan and fighter jets to Libya during its civil war, British prosecutors have told a London court.
About one in 15 motorcyclists stopped during Easter week traffic police checks was fined for not wearing a crash helmet, authorities said Tuesday amid continued implementation of an unprecedented road safety drive.
Southerly winds carrying desert dust across the Mediterranean from Africa contributed to murky, yellowish-orange skies across much of southern Greece Tuesday.