Tag: Greece

Since its setting up and operationalisation six months ago, the third European Union (EU) naval task force in African waters – Operation Aspides -...

Global aerospace and defence company Paramount is putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and...

Greek state-owned company Hellenic Defence Systems is partnering with global aerospace and technology company Paramount to produce the N-Raven long range loitering munition as...

Greece is testing drone delivery of medicines to isolated places in an environmentally friendly way, sending the unmanned aircraft to a 200-person village. The red...

Hensoldt’s Argos II HD electro-optical system will be deployed on two tethered aerostats and deliver extensive security surveillance over Greek islands as part of...

Israel and Greece have signed their biggest ever defence procurement deal, which Israel said on Sunday would strengthen political and economic ties between the...

Israel will lease drones to Greece to defend its borders in the first military deal between the countries including an option to buy the...

Greece quarantined a second migrant facility on its mainland after a 53-year-old man tested positive for the new coronavirus, the migration ministry said. The Afghan...

Greece quarantined a migrant camp after 20 asylum seekers tested positive for coronavirus, the migration ministry said. Tests on 63 people were conducted after a...

Greece repulsed 35 000 migrants trying to cross into its territory illegally since Turkey opened its border a week ago, government sources said, as...

European Union countries offered further funding for border policing in Greece and humanitarian aid in Idlib, Syria, but are in a bind over Turkey...

Greece wants to install a floating barrier in the Aegean Sea to deter migrants arriving at its islands’ shores through Turkey, government officials said...

At least twelve people drowned when their boat sank off a western Greece island, Greek authorities said, marking the deadliest toll in months in...

Greece lodged objections with the UN over an accord between Libya and Turkey mapping out maritime boundaries as a violation of international law, the...

Greece expelled the Libyan ambassador, angered by an accord between Libya and Turkey mapping out a sea boundary between the two countries close to...

Over a dozen migrant boats landed on Greece’s Lesbos island within minutes of each other on Thursday in the first such mass arrival from...

Turkish authorities stopped 330 migrants attempting to cross to the Greek island Lesbos officials said. The coastguard in the Kucukkuyu area of western Canakkale...

Two children, four women and a man drowned when a boat overturned off the Greek island of Lesbos, the coast guard said, the deadliest...

Greece is using drones to buzz over boats running day trips on the Aegean at the start of a new effort aimed...

Sixteen people, including five children, drowned when the small boat they were on capsized in the Aegean Sea, Greek coast guard officials...

Greek authorities seized a Tanzanian-flagged ship heading for Libya carrying materials used to make explosives, the coastguard said. The vessel was detected sailing...

At least 16 people, including two children, drowned when an inflatable boat carrying refugees and migrants sank off Greece's Lesbos Island, authorities...

Thousands of people fled a migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos on Monday night after fire ripped through tents and...

Greece on Thursday rescued 70 migrants at sea, the largest single influx from neighbouring Turkey since a failed coup there last month,...

The Greek coastguard said on Saturday that the migrants who survived had told authorities their boat set sail from Egypt with about...

Hundreds of migrants were rescued from a sinking ship on Friday in a massive operation in the southern Mediterranean off the island...

Nearly half a million irregular migrants arrived in Greece in the last three months of 2015, most of whom then moved north...

Twelve migrants drowned when their boat sank off a Greek island close to Turkey, the Greek coastguard said on Thursday, as people...

At least 43 people, including 17 children, drowned when their boats capsized off two Greek islands near the Turkish coast on Friday,...

The United Nations has approved the delivery of eight Streit Group Typhoons and several other armoured vehicles to Libya, after they were...

Eight migrants drowned and at least another three were missing after their inflatable boat sank off the Greek island of Kos early...

Eleven migrants including six infants drowned when their boat capsized off the Greek island of Samos, trapping most of them in the...

Greece rescued 138 refugees and recovered the bodies of 19 after their boat capsized off the island of Kalymnos, the coastguard said...

Nearly 100 migrants are reported to have died in the Mediterranean off Libya since Sunday, the International Organization for Migration said on...

Hundreds of Syrians and other migrants thronged a small park in central Istanbul on Wednesday, hoping for a last chance to reach...

Greece's coastguard has rescued about 2,500 migrants and refugees off the country's eastern islands over the past three days, authorities said on...

A Greek frigate has towed a disabled cargo ship packed with 700 migrants to safety just off the island of Crete on...

Greece is sending a frigate and two other vessels to Libya to evacuate workers at its embassy in Tripoli as well as...

Greek authorities have detained a cargo ship carrying large quantities of weapons and ammunition, the country's coastguard said on Friday. The vessel was...

Germany is running out of patience with throwing money into the "bottomless pit" of Greece's debt crisis and any lingering sympathy in...

The German government proposed last week that a European commissioner be appointed to supplant the Greek government. While phrasing the German proposal...

Greek merchant ships will soon be able to carry armed guards to ward off pirate attacks, the Greek ministry of security has...

For self-made businessman Dimitrios, the threats began with a phone call from a man who said they knew where his daughter was. At...

Greece's new technocrat prime minister said he was confident fractious politicians would soon provide a written commitment to painful austerity measures as...

International lenders will press Greece's fractious political parties to give written guarantees that they will back austerity measures under a bailout deal...

Greece's conservatives vowed to reject any new austerity measures in return for the aid that is keeping Athens from bankruptcy, signalling a...

Greece's new cabinet may last a month or two longer than planned, a senior government official said but whatever happens Greeks should...

Italy moved closer to a national unity government following Greece's lead in seeking a respected veteran technocrat to pilot painful economic reforms...

Prime Minister George Papandreou's shock decision to call a referendum on Greece's bailout drew veiled threats from Germany and hammered market edgy...

UN chief Ban Ki-moon will attempt to revive flagging Cyprus peace talks on Sunday, convening a two-day meeting with rival leaders to...