Rafina

Anguish, sadness and anger are the feelings of the relatives of the hundreds of missing persons after the devastating fires in East Attica. Residents and holidaymakers who were in Mati and Rafina to enjoy the sea and the sun can...

The list of victims of the devastating fires in Mati and Rafina is growing, as the fire department announced the discovery of three more dead bodies, raising the number of deaths to 80. According to a fire department official statement,...

At least two people were killed and dozens injured as wild fires tore through woodland and villages around Athens on Monday, Greek authorities said. President of Greece's Ekav emergency service Giorgos Mathiopoulos told SKAI private television that the the two...

At least five people were rescued by a ferry as it was approaching the port of Rafina, north-east of Athens. Speaking to private SKAI TV, the captain of the ferry said that the group of Athenians jumped into the sea...

As the Greek capital's firefighting force was doing battle with a large wildfire in Kineta, west of Athens, a separate blaze broke out on Mount Penteli in the northeast on Monday afternoon. The fire is raging out of control in...

The municipalities of Rafina - Pikermi, Markopoulo-Spata and Artemida appealed to the Council of State asking for the international airport Eleftherios Venizelos to pay retroactively from 2008 municipal fees and taxes. They argue that the tax exemption provided essentially by...

British ITV journalists Tom Bradby was shocked when he saw a Greek man at the port of Rafina, near Athens, drive his car off the harbor, on Sunday August 16. Bradby who happened to be in Greece on vacation...

A passenger vessel (Flying Cat) with a total of 253 people on board ran aground off Tinos island in the Aegean Sea on Sunday, the Greek Coast Guard said. No injuries or severe damage have been reported while an evacuation...

A boatload of 93 illegal migrants plus three suspected traffickers rescued on Thursday while adrift in a wooden craft near Rafina, Greece, will be temporarily housed in an indoor basketball court, authorities announced. According to information from Greek Coast Guard...

One death and two injuries have been recorded in Greece due to deteriorating weather conditions in the eastern island of Lesvos when their car was crushed by an uprooted poplar in the road connecting the island's capital town Mytilene and...