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By Associated Press ATHENS: This weekend's top-level football matches in Greece have been postponed following serious clashes involving sports fans that left a police officer in critical condition after he was hit by…

4/4 © Reuters. People try to make their way to an apartment block amid storm Elias in the city of Volos, Greece, September 28, 2023. REUTERS/Louisa Gouliamaki 2/4 By STAMOS PROUSALIS and Lefteris Papadimas VOLOS, Greece (Reuters)…

By ELENA BECATOROS and ABBY SEWELL - Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Nearly two months after a dilapidated fishing trawler crammed with people heading from Libya to Italy sank in the…

Cypriot leaders on Friday urged members of their rival communities to come forward with information on hundreds of victims from conflicts which swept their island half a century ago, during a symbolic visit to the lab of the…

Destructive fires, temperatures topping 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) and tourists dodging possible catastrophe by staying home. Will climate change end up transforming tourism – not least in the Mediterranean?…

A Greek air force water-dropping plane crashed while diving into a wildfire in southern Greece on Tuesday, killing both pilots, as authorities battled blazes that have been raging for days across the country amid a return of…

The design of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic torch was unveiled on Tuesday, imitating the reflection of the Eiffel Tower on the ruffled surface of the Seine river and conveying a peaceful energy, its designer said.…

The fires that have ravaged Greece and its idyllic islands for over a week are dredging up painful memories of previous catastrophes, like the Mati fire in 2018 that killed more than 100 people. Drawing from first-hand…

A plane fighting wildfires in Greece crashed on Tuesday as large areas of the Mediterranean sweltered under an intense summer heatwave, with Algeria battling to control an inferno that has killed at least 34 people.…

Receive free Greece updatesWe’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Greecenews every morning. Greece mounted its largest-ever island evacuation this weekend, moving close to 19,000 people on Rhodes to escape…