Stelios Petsas, Greece’s government spokesperson, said that a second lockdown is a possibility if the daily number of new cases keeps rising. This comes as Greek authorities announced 240 new …

A return to working from home for both private and public companies, stricter crowd control measures, and the quarantine of asymptomatic vulnerable groups such as migrants who have tested positive …

Ianos storms on Friday left damage in their wake. Authorities were trying to prevent destruction at the artificial reservoir of Xirias in central Greece, which would flood the nearby city …

Doctors, lawyers and charities are criticising the tent city newly erected on Lesvos for refugees made shelterless by the fire that incinerated the vastly overcrowded Moria camp. A German doctor, …

Greece’s new COVID-19 cases climbed to 359 on Thursday, with 36 of them identified at the country’s entry points. All cases since the pandemic reached Greece total 14,400. Of these, …

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her interior minister Horst Seehofer have agreed that Germany will take more than 1,500 migrants from five Greek islands; they are families and children recognised …

Greece is bracing for Cyclone Ianos which is expected to hit the southern Ionian islands of Zakynthos, Kefalonia and Ithaca and the Peloponnese from the west on Thursday afternoon, local …

1. Kithara While modern Greeks have used the word “kithara” to describe the guitar of today, the ancients would have used the word to describe the seven-stringed instrument of the …

Greek police on the island of Lesbos have arrested six migrants suspected of setting fire to Moria, Europe’s largest migrant detention camp which burnt to the ground last week. On …

Greece confirmed another 310 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, with 30 of these linked to known clusters and 12 identified at entry points to the country. There were also six …