Some 5,000 holidaymakers leave southeast Crete as wildfire rages
Thousands of tourists have been fleeing southeastern Crete as a major wildfire in the region of Lasithi forced evacuations from hotels and homes.
Thousands of tourists have been fleeing southeastern Crete as a major wildfire in the region of Lasithi forced evacuations from hotels and homes.
Greece’s Armed Forces are moving forward with plans to acquire domestically designed and manufactured loitering munitions, with the Hellenic Center for Defense Innovation (HCDI) launching a tender for the program.
Environmental group WWF Hellas has launched a new awareness campaign highlighting the dangers of cigarette butts, which continue to litter Greece’s beaches every summer.
Average grocery prices in Greek supermarket chains posted a 1.78% increase in June compared to June 2024.
Greek diplomacy is making moves to keep the treatment of Syria’s Christian Orthodox minority at the forefront of international policy.
Ankara on Thursday reiterated its frustration with European opposition to the maritime delimitation agreement between Turkey and Libya in the Mediterranean Sea, which violates the sovereign rights of Greece and Cyprus.
One hundred and twenty five years after sponge divers discovered a shipwreck off the the island of Antikythera, southern Greece, the ship has never ceased to yield treasures.
An ongoing operation by a special police squad tasked with cracking down on organized crime has dismantled an international cocaine smuggling racket that used a method to get the drugs into Greece that is relatively new for this country.
A fast-moving wildfire whipped by gale-force winds burned through the night and into Thursday on Greece’s southern island of Crete, prompting the evacuation of more than 1,500 people from hotels and homes.
The government will postpone updating property tax assessments until 2028, seven years after the last adjustment, as the government grapples with an acute housing crisis that officials say leaves no room for interventions.