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by Raziye AKKOC with Hélène COLLIOPOULOU in Athens Agence France Presse Rescuers dug through heavy blocks of concrete with their bare hands Saturday in a desperate search for survivors from a powerful earthquake that levelled buildings across Greece and Turkey, killing at least 26 people. The quake struck late Friday afternoon, causing a mini-tsunami on the Aegean island of Samos and a sea surge that turned streets into rushing rivers in a town on […]
by Gokan GUNES with Hélène COLLIOPOULOU in Athens Agence France Presse ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) — Rescuers dug through heavy blocks of concrete with their bare hands on Friday in a desperate search for survivors from a powerful earthquake that levelled buildings across Greece and Turkey, killing at least 14 people. The quake caused a mini-tsunami on the Aegean island of Samos and a sea surge that turned streets into rushing rivers in one town […]
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) — A major 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of western Turkey on Friday, the US Geological Survey said, with initial reports indicating damage to buildings but no immediate casualties. The quake, which was felt from Istanbul to Athens, hit close to the Turkish resort city of Izmir, which has around three million residents. “So far, we have received information about six collapsed buildings” in Izmir province, which incudes the […]
ATHENS, Greece (AFP) — Two moderate earthquakes of over 5.0 magnitude struck off the Greek island of Crete early Monday but there were no reports of casualties or damage. The Athens Geodynamic Institute said the first quake, with a 5.1 magnitude, hit at 4:11am local time (0111 GMT) about 47 kilometers (29 miles) northeast of the city of Sitia. A second quake, with a magnitude of 5.2, struck the same point exactly three hours later, […]
ATHENS, Greece (AFP) — A fire that broke out on Sunday at a reception centre for asylum-seekers on the Greek island of Samos was under control, police and the fire services said. The fire came after 12,000 people including entire families with elderly and newborns were left homeless earlier this month when fire broke out in the overcrowded and unsanitary Moria camp on Lesbos, another island in the Agean. Two or three containers at the […]
GREECE (AFP) — Police on the Greek island of Lesbos on Thursday began an operation to rehouse thousands of homeless migrants at a new site after their camp was destroyed by fire, an AFP journalist said. At around 7am (0400 GMT), officers were waking the migrants in their tents to take them to the temporary camp that was hastily set up after the fire last week. Quietly, with only the sounds of children crying, the […]
GREECE (AFP) — Roughly 800 of the thousands of asylum seekers who fled a fire that destroyed Europe’s biggest migrant camp have been housed at a temporary site on the island of Lesbos, Greece’s migration ministry said. Among them, 21 have tested positive for coronavirus, the ministry said late Monday. Thousands of people had been left wandering aimlessly since a blaze ripped through the overcrowded Moria camp on September 8. The fire forced its 12,000 […]
ANKARA, Turkey (AFP) — Turkey said on Monday that an energy exploration vessel that had pulled out of waters claimed by Greece was only undergoing routine maintenance and would return soon. The Oruc Reis seismic survey ship has been unsettling the strategic eastern Mediterranean region since Turkey sent it along with a small navy flotilla into disputed seas on August 10. Greece responded by staging navy drills with France and several EU allies near ones Turkey […]
by Will VASSILOPOULOS with John HADOULIS in Athens LESBOS, Greece (AFP) — Thousands of asylum-seekers were left homeless on Wednesday after a fire gutted Greece’s largest migrant camp on Lesbos, provoking an outpouring of sympathy from around Europe and calls for reform of the refugee system. A second fire on Wednesday evening aggravated the crisis on the island, where the authorities have declared a state of emergency. The first blaze, which began hours after 35 […]
ATHENS, Greece (AFP) — One of Greece’s most important archaeological sites escaped serious damage after firefighters tamed a wildfire that lashed the surrounding countryside, officials said on Monday. The fire erupted at noon on Sunday near the ruins of Mycenae, one of the centres of ancient Greek civilisation, about 120 kilometres (75 miles) south-west of Athens, prompting the evacuation of visitors and staff. “The damage caused to the archaeological site was the least possible, as […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Germany on Wednesday criticised naval exercises in the eastern Mediterranean as “not helpful” in easing tensions between Greece and Turkey, at odds over gas and maritime borders. “What we have to find is a starting point for us to enter once again into political discussions and negotiations,” German Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said after talks with her EU counterparts in Berlin. “The manoeuvres that took place today are certainly not helpful,” […]
by Hélène COLLIOPOULOU with Raziye AKKOC in Ankara ATHENS, Greece (AFP) — Greece and its EU allies held war games in the Mediterranean Wednesday while Turkey conducted drills with the US navy nearby, as the row between the two neighbours over gas and maritime borders ratcheted up another notch. The convergence of a growing number of warships on an energy-rich but disputed patch of sea between Cyprus and Crete came as NATO and a host […]
