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Photographer Thanasis Voulgarakis captured the extent of the damage and human misery inflicted on thousands of refugees and migrants at the Moria camp at Lesvos, which was almost destroyed by fire early on Wednesday. People, including women with babies, children,...

The archaeological site and museum of Mycenae reopened on Tuesday following a fire on Sunday that reached the ancient ruins. On Monday, the Greek Culture ministry made known that the fire did not cause damage to the antiquities. The fire started...

The Lion Gate, the iconic stone archway that serves as the main entrance of the citadel of Mycenae in the Peloponnese, has not been damaged by the wildfire that broke out on Sunday, and there is no damage to...

Sections of the archaeological site of Mycenae, the bronze age kingdom of Agamemnon, were damaged by a wildfire on Sunday. Visitors and staff at the archaeological site were earlier evacuated as a precaution. In an announcement the Ministry of Culture attempts to...

A wildfire that broke out on Saturday afternoon in the forest area of ​​Lagada in Eastern Mani is still raging, forcing the residents of five communities to evacuate as a precaution. The fire is burning on two fronts, without threatening...

A 55-year old Greek sailor died and another member of the crew was injured during a fire on a Greek-flagged cargo ship on Wednesday in the Arabian Sea. The fire broke out on the vessel "Faneromeni", which was heading from...

Greek firefighters are struggling on Sunday to put out a fire in a plastics recycling factory that broke out the day before in northern Athens releasing dangerous toxic fumes in the atmosphere. With text messages in mobile phones, the Civil...

A column of thick black smoke has covered Athens as a large fire broke out at a plastics recycling facility on Saturday morning. The fire broke at a facility in Metamorfosi, near the main Athens to Thessaloniki highway at 7...

Firefighters are on the scene of a large fire that broke out in Chania, Crete on Wednesday. According to sources in the fire department, the blaze broke out in an agricultural and forested area in D.E. Pelekanos in the...

It has been two years since the devastating fires of July 23, 2018 in the seaside Athens suburb of Mati left horrifying images that the mind cannot erase. The fear and devastation of that day still continue to haunt...