Greek police arrest Lebanese suspect in 1985 hijacking of Trans World Airlines plane
Greek police have arrested a 65-year-old man suspected of an aircraft hijacking and kidnapping, crimes committed in 1985 and 1987, they said Saturday. Greek media said the man was thought to be involved in the 1985 hijacking of a Trans World Airlines (TWA) flight in ...
Acropolis Museum opens ancient Athens neighborhood site below its base
Greece's Acropolis Museum has opened an excavation site underneath its modern building, allowing visitors for the first time to walk through an ancient Athenian neighborhood that survived from the classical era to Byzantine times. The museum, which sits at the foot of the Acropolis hill ...
Wildfire kills at least 50 near Athens, families flee to beaches
A wildfire killed at least 50 people and injured more than 150 as it swept through a small resort town near Athens, with huge flames trapping families with children as they fled. The fire which hit Mati, 29 km (18 miles) east of the capital, ...
Arson suspected as over 90 wildfires rage in Greece, gutting homes, spurring evacuations
Firefighters battled more than 90 forest fires across Greece on Monday, an outbreak fed by dry winds and hot weather that saw blazes burning near Athens, in the Peloponnese, and on the Ionian islands of Zakynthos and Kefalonia. The fire near Athens was burning unchecked ...
Gun woman used in foiled copter skyjacking tied to Greek anarchists
Greece's anti-terrorism squad is investigating the attempted hijacking of a helicopter by a woman armed with a gun that police have linked to a domestic militant anarchist group. Police say the pilot wrestled with the woman and — although she fired three shots — safely ...
Greece starts moving stranded, north border-barred migrants to Athens
Greek police rounded up some 2,300 migrants who had been stranded for three weeks at the border with Macedonia and transported them to Athens on Wednesday, dashing their hopes of seeking asylum in Northern Europe. Scuffles broke out but not on the scale of recent ...
Authorities begin moving migrants from Athens park into container dwellings
Greek authorities said Sunday they have started resettling migrants living in tents in a park in Athens — but many were wary and had moved out ahead of the operation. Fire brigade buses moved the migrants, most of them from Afghanistan, to a settlement of ...
Anti-bailout Syriza party is favorite as Greeks vote in early general election
Greece voted Sunday in an early general election that could alter the course of the country's battle against crippling debts, with a radical left party favored to win by promising to rewrite the terms of its international bailout. The Syriza party, led by Alexis Tsipras, ...
