ATHENS - In summer 2023, Dimitris Marinelis spent days on the frontline of Europe's biggest wildfire in northern Greece, protecting homes and setting up anti-fire zones as flames engulfed a forest.

A powerful 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Greece early this morning, prompting urgent warnings for residents and tourists to evacuate coastal areas as a precaution against a ...

But hulking Yedi Kule castle was a prison where Communist sympathizers were tortured and executed during Greece's 1946–49 Civil War. Tens of thousands died in the early Cold War-era battles ...

Israel asked Greece, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Italy and Croatia to help extinguish major wildfires that broke out Wednesday morning in several locations near Jerusalem and along Highway 1 leading to the city ...

The tremor occurred at approximately 1:51 a.m. Eastern European Time, with its epicenter located about 14 miles southeast of Fry, Greece, at a depth of 62.5 kilometers, according to the U.S ...

Last August, during Greece's hottest summer on record, a woman died and 10,000 hectares of land were burnt in a wildfire that barrelled from a forest into Athens' northern suburbs. Some 18,000 ...

sometimes accompanied by devastating wildfire have become a far more frequent features of summers in Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal and southern France in recent years. Research after last summer ...