A 33-year-old paragliding instructor was killed in a crash after taking off from the area of Mandra, in the region of western Thrace, northern Greece, on Wednesday afternoon. 

A 48-year-old municipal garbage collector was arrested in Piraeus on Thursday after he was accused of rape by a 44-year-old colleague.

Greek authorities on the island of Rhodes are searching for a British tourist who went missing on Wednesday after going for a swim. 

An 18-year-old was arrested after his vehicle crashed into the motorcycle of two police officers in east Attica on Wednesday night. 

Max Bergmann, the director of the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program and the Stuart Center in Euro-Atlantic and Northern European Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), joins Thanos Davelis to look at why this year's 75th anniversary of NATO is an opportunity for the US to lead the way in plotting a new course for NATO and European defense. 

Twelve people have died from the West Nile virus since the beginning of the year until August 21, according to an epidemiological report of the National Organization for Public Health (EODY) published Thursday.

The approval for the creation of a large-scale tourist village with villas and hotels on Astypalaia, which will exceed the island’s two largest settlements, by the Central Urban Planning Council has drawn the opposition of the local council.

Calls are growing for a change in the legal framework to address the increased safety risks for passengers due to aging ports, the insufficient number of port authority personnel and the pressure on ships to keep up with demanding schedules.

The Ministry of Civil Protection on Friday declared a state of emergency in the city of Ioannina, northwestern Greece, until September 18, following a severe storm last Sunday that pummelled the area.

Soaring summer temperatures and very low rainfall levels have made forests much more combustible, multiple studies on the impact of climate change have shown, with forests on the outskirts of towns and cities being particularly vulnerable, just as they are particularly valuable.

The Fire Service arrested on Thursday two Italian tourists who lit a fire on a beach on the Ionian island of Antipaxi, western Greece. 

A 4.2-magnitude earthquake shook part of the island of Rhodes, in the southeastern Aegean, on Thursday. No injuries or damages were immediately reported.

The processes for developing a new framework for the cruise industry are nearing completion, and the government is likely to make appropriate statements shortly.

A further rise in the minimum invested amount required for foreigners to obtain a so-called Golden Visa has boosted house sales, especially in Piraeus, the capital Athens’ port.

Greek-Turkish relations have been in a state of calm for some two years now. Turkey, however, has violated the Athens Declaration.

On a recent morning in eastern Ukraine, Karina Yatsina, a mine worker, was busy operating a conveyor belt in a dim, 1,200-foot-deep tunnel. Lights flickered at the end of the shaft, illuminating miners carving out the coal seams.

A total of 27 countries will be represented by exhibitors in the 88th Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF), running September 7-15 in the northern port city’s HELEXPO Exhibition & Congress Center.

Greek stocks returned to gains Wednesday after Tuesday’s slight correction.

Laxity in following the rules has been part of our culture for decades – and in some cases we pay dearly for it. We saw it in the train collision at Tempe, in Tuesday’s accident at an amusement park, on city sidewalks that have become motorcycle tracks, on ferries carrying people in chaotic disorder, and in many other instances.