Hundreds of firefighters and volunteers in southern Greece battled a wildfire for a third day that has killed two people and devastated a large forested area, prompting pledges of assistance from ...

Separately, another coastguard vessel rescued 78 people from a wooden boat in distress traveling south of the far-southern Greek island of Gavdos, the coast guard said. There were no reports of ...

The flames were fanned on by strong winds blowing through forests left tinder-dry by a warm spring and hot summer. Two people died overnight in a large wildfire burning through forestland near a ...

The coast guard said the migrants — 31 people from Bangladesh ... Sea crossing from the north African coast to the southern tip of Greece. The 66 reported on Thursday were in addition to ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP ... wooden boat carrying 100 migrants sank south of the small southern Greek island of Gavdos. A total of 97 people were rescued by a passing cargo ship and were being ...

using larger boats to transport people from the northern coast of Africa to southern Greece. Last year, more than 54,000 people used what has become known as the eastern Mediterranean route ...

Rhodes has been hit by a mega 6.2-scale earthquake this morning, while Turkey was also rocked by a 5.8 quake that caused 70 ...

Tourists in western Turkey and the Greek islands were shaken awake on Monday night as a 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck near ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A fishing boat carrying nearly 300 migrants to Europe has safely reached a southern Greek island ... Typically, people from the Middle East, Africa and Asia seeking a ...

ATHENS, Greece — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.2 struck off the southern Greek resort island ... a magnitude-5.9 quake near Athens killed 143 people.