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by Will Vassilopoulos Agence France Presse ATHENS, Greece (AFP) — Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Wednesday declared a state of mourning after a freak overnight downpour with the force of a “waterfall” flooded three towns near Athens, killing at least 15 people. “At this time, declaring a state of national mourning over this great tragedy is the least we can do,” Tsipras said in a televised address. “I pledge that we will stand next […]
by Lajla Veselica Agence France-Presse ZAGREB, Croatia (AFP) — Croatia will hope Real Madrid star Luka Modric can carry the nation to the World Cup finals as they go into the first leg of a tricky play-off with Greece on Thursday. The 32-year-old captain has faced a tumultuous year, with his shining reputation tarnished by a scandal in June over allegedly false testimony he gave at a major corruption trial. But anger from the fans appeared to […]
ATHENS, Greece (CCTV) — A wildfire broke out in the southern suburb of the Greek capital of Athens on Monday afternoon, prompting local authorities to dispatch dozens of firefighters to the scene. The blaze reportedly occurred around 18:00, about 13 kilometers from the Athens International Airport, and quickly spread through tinder-dry vegetation due to strong winds, which are blowing plumes of thick black smoke into the air. Around 70 firefighters, 30 fire trucks and five helicopters […]
by Veronique Dupont and Sonia Bakaric in Theologos BODRUM, Turkey (AFP) — At least two people were killed on the Greek island of Kos Friday when a magnitude-6.7 earthquake shook the popular summer resort holiday destinations of the Dodecanese Islands in Greece and the Aegean coast of Turkey. The epicenter of the quake was approximately 10.3 kilometers (6.4 miles) south of the major Turkish resort of Bodrum, a magnet for holidaymakers in the summer, and 16.2 kilometers east […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The International Monetary Fund late Thursday approved a new, $1.8 billion loan program for Greece but will not release any funds immediately, in a highly unusual compromise step. The IMF last month announced it would revive the seldom-used option of approving a loan “in principle,” in order to convince eurozone finance ministers to release desperately-needed new funds to Greece. The latest 8.5 billion euro disbursement from the eurozone loan program […]
by Catherine BOITARD Agence France Presse ATHENS, Greece (AFP) — More than 2,500 years ago, an Athenian nobleman named Cylon — the first recorded Olympic champion — tried to take over the city of Athens and install himself as its sole ruler. According to Thucydides and Herodotus, Athenian and Greek historians who wrote about the coup, Cylon enticed an army of followers to enter the city and lay siege to the Acropolis. They were defeated, […]
by Catherine Boitard Agence France-Presse ATHENS, Greece – As Greece’s government Friday welcomed a long-delayed bailout agreement, analysts warned the deal throws responsibility back on the struggling country to pull itself out of crisis. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said the agreement — hammered out by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and eurozone finance ministers — opens the way to a “final exit to the crisis.” Reached Thursday, the deal averted another summer of Greek […]
LESBOS, Greece (Reuters) – One woman was killed on the Greek island of Lesbos on Monday (June 12) after a powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the western coast of Turkey, rattling buildings from the Aegean Turkish province of Izmir to the Greek capital Athens. The epicenter of the quake was about 84 kilometers (52 miles) northwest of the Turkish coastal city of Izmir, in the sea south of Lesbos. The National Observatory of Athens put […]
ATHENS, Greece (Reuters) – Former Greek Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis, one of Greece’s most prominent veteran politicians, died early on Monday (May 29), his family said. He was 98. He was “surrounded by people whom he loved and loved him” when he passed away, his family said in a brief statement carried by the semi-official Athens News Agency. Mitsotakis, whose political career spanned more than half a century, was prime minister of Greece from 1990 […]
ATHENS, Greece (AFP) – Greek police on Friday sought to determine how a letter bomb wounded former prime minister Lucas Papademos despite security checks that were allegedly beefed up after a wave of similar attacks in March. “We want to determine whether security procedures were followed,” a police source told AFP, hours after Papademos and two guards were injured by the bomb that exploded as they rode in an armoured car in Athens. “The fact […]
ATHENS, Greece (Reuters) – Greek politicians including a former prime minister visited on Thursday (May 25) the hospital where former premier Lucas Papademos was taken after being injured when a booby-trapped package exploded in his car in central Athens, the worst act of violence targeting politicians in the crisis-hit country for several years. Papademos, who served a brief stint as caretaker prime minister in late 2011 to mid-2012, did not have life-threatening injuries, authorities said. […]
by Alex Pigman Agence France Presse BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — Eurozone finance ministers failed to reach a deal for fresh bailout cash for Greece on Monday, as a row with the International Monetary Fund over debt relief dragged on. After more than eight hours of talks in Brussels, ministers from the 19-member single currency bloc could not settle deep differences on debt relief pitting Germany, the eurozone’s most powerful member, against the IMF. “I think we […]
