At least 79 people have died and dozens are feared missing off the coast of southern Greece after a fishing boat carrying migrants capsized and sank, authorities said Wednesday. A large search and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...