The 82nd Venice Film Festival opens Wednesday with all eyes on Greece’s Yorgos Lanthimos, whose new sci-fi Bugonia reunites him with Emma Stone after their Oscar-winning triumph in Poor Things. …

On Thursday Greece began beating back a blaze threatening its third-largest city while Spain mourned its third wildfire death this week as an unrelenting heatwave stoked tinderbox conditions in southern …

A powerful offshore earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale struck the Eastern Mediterranean in the early hours of Wednesday, 15 kilometres south of the Greek island of Kasos, according …