Greece

Search and rescue teams dug through heavy blocks of concrete desperately trying to find survivors after the catastrophic earthquake.

Greek prosecutors have questioned Nikos Mallios, 51, over the parasailing tragedy that killed two British teenagers Jessica Hayes, 15 and her cousin Michael Connelly, 13, in Rhodes on Wednesday.

Greece new negative record: 1,690 new coronavirus cases, authorities announced on Friday evening, and another 5 deaths in the past 24 hours. The number of intubations hit also a new negative record as their number increased to 128. Total cases reached 37,196 and death toll rose to 620. The new …

Two high-school children, a boy and a girl, both 17 years old, were killed during the earthquake that hit the island of Samos short before 2 o’ clock Friday noon. A third student, a 14-year-old boy is currently airlifted to a hospital in Athens. Firefighters and rescuers recovered the two …

Measures to tackle the coronavirus pandemic to be announced by PM tomorrow. Tomorrow, Saturday, October 31, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will make announcements about the coronavirus pandemic. The attack from Mother Nature on Samos postponed the intervention of the prime minister, scheduled for today, through a television message and so …

Coronavirus: 1,690 new cases, five deaths, 128 intubated. A new rapid increase in coronavirus cases, even more worrying is the increase in intubated cases in ICUs Another negative record is set by the coronavirus in our country. The new data on cases in our country are even more tragic, as …

Microbiology Professor and member of Greece’s coronavirus expert committee warned on Friday morning that given the  current rate of transmission, new infections could reach and pass the 2,000 mark this weekend. Speaking to Skai TV, Professor Alakiviadis Vatopoulos said that new daily infections appear to be doubling on a weekly …

A powerful earthquake struck with 6.7 Richter the island of Samos in the eastern Aegean Sea short before 2 o’ clock Friday noon. “There will be a tsunami warning by the Civil Protection,” Efthimios Lekkas, head of the Greek Earthquake Planning & Protection agency told Skai TV. Locals report that …

Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency said Friday’s earthquake was centered in the Aegean at a depth of 10.3 miles.

The 6.7 Richter earthquake off Samos caused great material damage to houses. According to information from residents of the island who spoke to iefimerida from the earthquake in Samos, the facades of buildings have fallen and the sea has come out of the port. A resident of the island, speaking …