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Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias said preliminary investigations have found that nearly half the dozens of fires sweeping Greece and its islands were arson,...

A fire broke out in the region of Agia Elesa on the island of Kythera and is burning hollies and shrubs. The fire expanded quickly...

A large fire that broke out July 21 in a remote spot on the island of Samos was said be contained by firefighters who...

The Greek coastguard yesterday mounted an operation including a helicopter to rescue a Spanish family of five stranded on a yacht amid gale-force winds...

Fires broke out during the night of May 28, in the Peloponnese and the Greek islands of Crete and Kefalonia. A blaze broke out around...

Mother nature did not bless the island of Santorini with rich soils from the very beginning, but the island's ecosystem started to flourish after...

According to the Greek daily newspaper Kathimerini, the body of a woman and two children were recovered on the eastern island of Lesvos on...

A small boat carrying migrants hoping to get to Greece sank near the eastern island of Lesvos early on Dec. 15, drowning 22 people,...

The plague of wildfires in Greece this summer has hit forested areas on the Greek islands of Hydra, Rhodes and Crete and in the...

A major blaze has been raging during the past three days on the island of Chios, scorching thousands of hectares of forest area and...