Athens

Floods and pollutants now pose a threat to Athens, experts say, with the scent of Greece’s deadliest wildfire of the year still permeating its suburbs. Earlier this month, a large fire raced out of control for...

Firefighters reported on Monday that the forest fires that erupted near Athens over the weekend have been contained, but new fires have started in other areas as officials have cautioned of a challenging fire season to...

The first birth at the Attica Zoological Park in Athens in 2024 brought great joy to conservationists as a rare and endangered potamus joined a Greek hippo family. Pygmy hippos are classified as an endangered species...

Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, recently celebrated 40 years of direct operations between the Kingdom of Bahrain and the Hellenic Republic, as Athens International Airport organized two events in Athens in...

Hundreds of people living in a woodland region north of Athens were forced to flee their houses as a wildfire spread through the city, fueled by Greece’s worst heatwave in decades. On Tuesday, a fire in...

Wildfires sweeping through a Greek resort town have killed at least 74 people including families with children found clasped in a last embrace as they tried to flee the flames. The inferno was Greece’s deadliest since...

The phorminx, the kitharis, the krotala and the aulos – string and wind instruments reconstructed by musical group Lyravlos – echoed among marble stat ues in Athens’s National Archaeological Museum as part of World Music Day...

News Hour: Documenta, one of Europe’s most important modern art exhibitions, opens in Athens on Saturday, the first time in its history it is being held outside the German city of Kassel. Documenta 14 – “Learning...

News Hour: Assailants on a motorcycle threw a grenade at the French embassy in Athens on Thursday, slighting wounding a police officer on duty outside, police said. Greece’s anti-terrorism police are investigating the attack, which happened...