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Greece announced on Wednesday urgent safety upgrades to the rail network following the train disaster last week at Tempi that claimed the lives of at least 57 people. "No train will set off again, if we have not secured safety...

Turkey is releasing the jailed father of a train driver killed in the Greek rail disaster so that he can attend his son's funeral. According to sources, this was the topic of a discussion on the phone between Foreign Minister...

The EU's European Railway Agency (ERA) has been warning successive governments in Greece since at least 2014 about safety gaps in the Greek railway system, it emerged on Tuesday. ERA head Josef Doppelbauer, speaking to Kathimerini newspaper, said that the...

Two doctors were suspended pending a disciplinary inquiry after it emerged that they granted 30 days of sick leave to the supervisor of the station master at Larissa just hours after the deadly train collision. The doctors at a hospital...

Hundreds of thousands of protestors have gathered across major cities and communities in Greece to call for answers and justice in the wake of the train disaster that has plunged the country into sorrow and anger. In Athens alone, tens...

The Greek stationmaster has been jailed pending trial on Sunday over the train crash at Tempi, near Larissa that killed at least 57 people. The 59-year-old man, who cannot be named under Greek law, was the stationmaster at Larissa that...

Police and demonstrators clashed in Athens on Sunday during a rally in Syntagma Square over the deadly rail disaster at Tempi last week that killed at least 57 people. Some demonstrators set fire to rubbish bins and threw petrol bombs....

Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis took to social media on Sunday to apologize for the train tragedy at Tempi that resulted in the deaths of at least 57 people. Mitsotakis who is facing a general election this spring as prime minister,...

Players of the football club Trabzonspor in Turkey wore shirts bearing a message of solidarity with Greece after the train disaster that claimed the lives of at least 57 people. A message displayed by the Turkish and Greek flags said...

The only survivor from the first carriage of the Greek passenger train that collided with a freight train on Tuesday is fighting for his life in an Intensive Care Unit in Larissa. 20-year-old Gerasimos-Iason Georgiadis is in critical condition, doctors...