floods

The President of the Republic of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades recently telephoned the Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci to express the Republic's readiness to provide help with  recent floods. Extreme weather has hit Cyprus this past week, particularly affecting the northern half...

A year after deadly floods hit the town of Mandra, in western Attica, residents are still waiting for the promised anti-flood works to be completed. On 15 November, 2017, at least 23 people lost their lives as fast-flowing torrents of...

The 27-year-old man who was missing after his car was carried away by fast-flowing waters on Greece's Evia after the island was severely hit by the Mediterranean cyclone Zorba, was found and rescued on Monday morning. A new video of the...

Greek emergency services have located one of the three people missing persons in the area of Mantoudi, on the island of Evia, following the floods caused by the powerful tropical-type storm that pounded the country over the weekend. The 27...

The governor of the prefecture of Attica, Rena Dourou, has been summoned by a prosecutor as a suspect for the floods west of Athens in 2017 that claimed the lives of 23 people. According to Kathimerini daily, other local officials...

The extreme weather conditions that Greece faces this summer seem to have no end. Today it was Naoussa's turn, a mountain town in Macedonia located 60 miles North-West of Thessaloniki. According to the National Observatory of Athens, the town had...

A heavy thunderstorm that hit Athens on Sunday afternoon left homes and roads flooded, and people trapped in vehicles, while authorities closed two Metro stations. The Fire Department has received 190 calls for road help, water pumping, and tree cutting,...

Greek authorities are assessing the damage caused by a weather front dubbed Nefeli that has caused widespread flooding in many parts of the country since Monday. Meteorologists say that the worst is over as the weather will gradually improve in...

The town of Mandra, west of Athens, where 24 people lost their lives last November during torrential rains and extreme flooding, was hard hit again. No loss of life was reported but numerous residents posted videos on Facebook that showed...

The authorities in Evros, northeastern Greece, have raised the alarm following extensive flooding of the river that marks the border with Turkey. Local officials have called upon the government to declare the region in a state of emergency after the river...