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News Articles: Greece

Wrecked wagons and mangled pieces of metal are seen near the tracks after a train accident in the Tempi Valley near Larissa, Greece, March 1, 2023.

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  • World

2 years after Greece's deadliest train crash, victims and families await answers

On Feb. 28, 2023, a passenger train and freight train collided, leaving 57 dead. New evidence suggests many may not have been killed by the crash itself, but by a fire that followed.

February 27, 2025
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By:
  • Lydia Emmanouilidou
Trump has nominated Kimberly Guilfoyle, pictured speaking at the Republican National Convention in July, to be the U.S. ambassador to Greece.

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  • Politics

Kimberly Guilfoyle is the latest Trump family ally chosen for an ambassadorship

Kimberly Guilfoyle, who got engaged to Trump's son in 2020, is the latest appointee he's chosen from his family tree. There's a long and controversial history of presidents picking relatives for jobs.

December 11, 2024
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
A helicopter drops water near Varnava village during a wildfire, north of Athens, Greece, on Sunday, with many regions of the country on high alert due to high temperatures and wind speeds.

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  • Europe

Major wildfire rages out of control on the fringes of the Greek capital

Hundreds of firefighters backed by more than 30 water-dropping planes were battling a major forest fire raging out of control Monday on the northern fringes of Athens.

August 12, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis arrives to take part in a Ukraine peace summit near Lucerne, Switzerland, on June 15. Mitsotakis' administration says making six days of work mandatory is necessary due to a shrinking population and a shortage of skilled workers.

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  • Business

Greece's new 6-day workweek law takes effect, bucking a trend

An employee who must work on a sixth day would be paid 40% overtime, according to the new law.

July 05, 2024
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
Supporters of same-sex marriage bill take part in a rally at central Syntagma Square, in Athens, Greece, on Thursday.

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  • Europe

Greece legalizes same-sex marriage despite church opposition

Greece on Thursday became the first Orthodox Christian country to legalize same-sex civil marriage, despite opposition from the influential, socially conservative Greek Church.

February 15, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
Participants hold a giant rainbow flag in front of the Greek parliament during the Athens Pride parade in Athens on June 10, 2023.

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  • World

In Greece, same-sex couples await a landmark parliamentary vote on marriage equality

Greece's parliament is set to vote Thursday on same-sex marriage legislation that includes new parental rights for LGBTQ couples. The Greek Orthodox Church opposes same-sex marriage.

February 14, 2024
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By:
  • Moira Lavelle
Residents watch the wildfire in Avantas village, near Alexandroupolis, in the northeastern Evros region of Greece on Monday.

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  • World

Greek authorities find 18 bodies as they continue to combat raging wildfires

Firefighters have been battling blazes across the Mediterranean nation for weeks. Extreme weather and gale-force winds have worsened the fires, authorities said.

August 22, 2023
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez
July 19, 2023: Firefighters work to extinguish a wildfire in a forest near Nea Peramos, west of Athens.

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  • Europe

Wildfires in Greece prompt massive evacuations, leaving tourists in limbo

Tens of thousands of people, many of them British tourists, are scrambling to evacuate from Rhodes and Corfu as wildfires rage across the country. Temperatures are expected to climb again Tuesday.

July 24, 2023
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Syrian refugee Narmeen al-Zamel, 34, stands with her 3-year-old son Khaled in the lobby of the King Hussein Cancer Center in Amman, Jordan.

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  • World

He took one of the deadliest migrant routes, hoping to save his cancer-stricken son

NPR speaks to the family of a Syrian refugee who died along with possibly hundreds of other people in a shipwreck off the Greek coast in June.

June 30, 2023
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By:
  • Ruth Sherlock and
  • Jenan Nakshabndy
A group of men wait at the turnstiles and speak with survivors, mostly from Pakistan, of a deadly migrant boat sinking at a migrant camp in Malakasa north of Athens, on Monday, June 19, 2023.

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  • Europe

Greek court orders smuggling suspects held pending trial over migrant ship disaster

The Egyptian suspects face charges that include participation in a criminal organization, manslaughter and causing a shipwreck.

June 21, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
This undated handout image provided by Greece's coast guard on Wednesday, June14, 2023, shows scores of people covering practically every free stretch of deck on a battered fishing boat that later capsized and sank off southern Greece.

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  • Europe

Dozens are dead and hundreds feared missing from migrant ship sinking off Greece

Rescue workers transferred the bodies of dead migrants to refrigerated trucks as a major search continued Thursday for possible survivors of a sea disaster in southern Greece.

June 15, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Greece's Prime Minister and leader of New Democracy Kyriakos Mitsotakis, center, addresses supporters at the headquarters of his party in Athens, Greece, Sunday, May 21, 2023.

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  • Europe

Greece's ruling center-right party wins elections but still seeks a majority

Greece's center-right Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is expected Monday to seek a second national election within weeks, as he lacks the majority in Parliament to govern alone.

May 22, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press
High school classmates march in Athens, Greece, during a general strike in March, following a train collision that left 57 people dead, many of them young people. The students chanted, "The young generation will not forgive you."

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  • Europe

After Greece's worst train crash, young Greeks rally for change ahead of elections

Young people throughout Greece have staged large protests following last month's collision near the city of Larissa, which killed 57 people, many of them students.

March 22, 2023
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By:
  • Lydia Emmanouilidou
Emergency crews continue to search through the wreckage after a train accident in the Tempe Valley near Larissa, Greece on Tuesday evening. At least 43 people were killed.

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  • World

Greek prime minister says 'human error' caused a train collision that left 43 dead

A passenger train and a freight train were traveling down the same track when they crashed head-on, sending the first two passenger carriages flying into the air, twisting backwards and catching fire.

March 01, 2023
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By:
  • Emily Olson
A crane, firefighters and rescuers operate after a collision in Tempe near Larissa city, Greece, Wednesday, March 1, 2023.

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  • Europe

A fiery Greece train collision kills dozens and injures more than 80

The government has declared three days of national mourning after a head-on collision between a passenger train and a freight train killed at least three dozen people and injured some 85.

March 01, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
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