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The government of Greece is planning to put illegal migrants to work on public works projects to update the nation’s infrastructure.

At least 2,000 fatalities have been reported in Libya’s eastern city of Derna after dams burst in a torrential rainstorm.

A Greek shipping company has pleaded guilty to smuggling sanctioned Iranian crude oil and agreed to pay a $2.4 million fine.

A Greek captain and three of his crew faced homicide charges Wednesday over the death of a tardy passenger who was pushed into the sea.

Greek fire department officials arrested two men on Saturday for allegedly deliberately starting wildfires blamed for 21 deaths.

Greek authorities said Sunday they had safely rescued 48 migrants from a rudderless inflatable boat off the island of Lesbos.

Amidst apocalyptic news coverage, Greece’s climate change minister admitted that the majority of the wildfires were a result of arson.

A blaze burning on the Greek island of Rhodes forced authorities to order an evacuation of four locations, including two resorts.

Greece’s conservative New Democracy party won a landslide victory on Sunday, likely gaining enough seats to form a government.

Greeks headed to the polls for the second time in less than two months on Sunday, with the Conservatives a favorite to win a wide majority.

Former President Barack Obama scrutinized the media’s “obscene inequality” in its coverage of the missing Titanic sub and the sinking of a migrant ship off the coast of Greece last week.

Greeks return to the polls Sunday for a second general election in five weeks, with the conservative front-runners eyeing a landslide.

Pakistan widens manhunt for human traffickers after a tragedy off the Greek coast last week that left more than 500 migrants feared drowned.

Anastazja Rubinska was found dead after a search for the missing Polish citizen, with a 32-year-old Bangladeshi citizen arrested.

The Greek coast guard said that a ship that went down off the country’s south coast left more than 500 migrants presumed drowned.

Nine Egyptian men, alleged to be people smugglers, have been arrested after a migrant boat capsized off Greece, leaving hundreds feared dead.

When they have larger boats, Med smugglers are staying in international waters as they pass by Greece to try to avoid coast guard patrols.

Five police officers accused of assisting human traffickers to facilitate the entry of at least 100 migrants into Greece have been arrested.

The death toll from a migrant boat sinking off the Greek resort island of Mykonos has tripled to nine after another six bodies were found.

Conservative Mitsotakis scored landslide victory but short of outright majority, indicated he will seek a second election to consolidate.

Ukraine wants more air defence missiles, warning if they lose control of the skies the country will be pounded into the ground.

Greece’s prime minister promised Friday to extend an existing wall across all of the country’s land border with Turkey as he campaigned for the country’s general election.

Greek police arrested two Pakistani nationals accused of planning a terror attack against a synagogue in Athens Tuesday, following a tip from the Israeli intelligence agency.

Only seven of the thirty members met the two per cent of GDP military spending floor according to a NATO annual report.

A recent report claims that an American citizen working for Facebook was spied on by the Greek national intelligence service for over a year.

Striking labor unions disrupted mass transit in Greece on Wednesday to protest the deaths of 57 people in the country’s worst train disaster.

Transport Minister Kostas Karamanlis resigned, saying it was his “duty” to step down “as a basic indication of respect” for those who died.

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias has called for an immediate end to the war in Ukraine without any conditions. 

A train in Greece carrying hundreds of people, including many university students, collided at high speed with an oncoming freight train, killing 36.

Mitsotakis said sending missiles to Ukraine would leave home undefended and they wanted new American systems before sending old to the front.

Police found 43 migrants hidden in a van just days after authorities found the bodies of 18 migrants concealed in a lumber truck.

Three migrants died and 16 others were rescued after a dinghy transporting them from the nearby coast of Turkey hit rocks in high winds.

Rescuers have located the body of a second airman missing in a deadly training accident in southwestern Greece.

Deaths of migrants along the Eastern Mediterranean route to Greece surged in 2022 according to the United Nations Refugee Agency UNHCR. 

In 2022, Germany attempted to send nearly 70,000 migrants back to other European Union countries where they first arrived under the Dublin Agreement, but was only successful in just over six per cent of the cases. Germany attempted to return 68,709

The trial for 24 NGO workers in Greece began this week as they face allegations of aiding human trafficking and people smuggling that took place between 2016 and 2018.