Greece
Three more bodies found after Greece storm, raising toll to 14
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek rescue teams recovered the bodies of three more people in central Greece on Sunday, raising the death toll…
Greek rescue teams move into worst-hit flood villages
ATHENS, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Rescue teams took people out of floodwaters in inflatable boats and in bulldozers on Saturday as they…
Boats, helicopters rescue hundreds after storm in Greece
By Stamos Prousalis and Lefteris Papadimas LARISSA, Greece, (Reuters) - Helicopters winched people from rooftops and military personnel used rubber boats to…
As deadly Greek rainstorm ebbs, trail of devastation emerges
By Angeliki Koutantou and Stamos Prousalis LARISSA, Greece, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Hundreds of people were stranded without food or water for…
Greece continues to bear the brunt of Storm Daniel
By Angeliki Koutantou and Louisa Gouliamaki ATHENS, (Reuters) - At least six people have died and more than six were still missing…
Two dead, three missing as rainstorm pounds Greece for second day
ATHENS, Sept 6 (Reuters) - At least two people died and three were missing on Wednesday after torrential rain flooded homes and…
Severe storms cause flooding in Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, killing 7
Fierce rainstorms have battered neighbouring Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria, triggering flooding that caused at least seven deaths, including those of two holidaymakers…
Greece wildfire destroys area bigger than New York City
By Stamos Prousalis and Karolina Tagaris EVROS, Greece/ATHENS (Reuters) - A wildfire burning in northeastern Greece for 11 days has destroyed an…
Greece battles Europe’s deadliest fire of the summer for 10th day
Hundreds of Greek firefighters were battling a huge blaze on Monday which has killed at least 20 people over the past ten…
Four migrants drown off Greece’s Lesbos island – coast guard
Four migrants drowned off the Greek island of Lesbos while trying to cross the sea from nearby Turkey, the coast guard said…
Eighteen burned bodies, possibly of migrants, found in Greece fires
Eighteen burned bodies, possibly of migrants, were found in a remote, rural area south of the village of Avantas in northern Greece…
Dozens of patients evacuated as Greece wildfires burn for fourth day
Dozens of hospital patients were evacuated onto a ferry in the Greek port city of Alexandroupolis early on Tuesday, the fire brigade…