ATHENS, Greece — Greece said this week it is temporarily suspending asylum applications for migrants arriving on the island of Crete following a spike in arrivals from Libya.

Greece says it is suspending asylum applications for migrants arriving on the island of Crete by sea. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced the decision in parliament on Wednesday, citing a ...

Greece says it is suspending asylum applications for migrants arriving on the island of Crete by sea. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced the decision in parliament on Wednesday, citing a ...

Firefighters struggled to gain control over a massive wildfire burning on the Greek island of Crete, as powerful winds fanned the flames.

ATHENS (Reuters) -Greece on Monday declared a state of emergency on Chios island, where hundreds of firefighters have been battling wildfires for a second day as winds further whipped up the blaze ...

Greece is sending 171 more firefighters to reinforce teams battling wildfires on the Greek island of Chios for a second day. Winds have further whipped up the blaze, bringing power cuts and ...

Greece evacuated parts of the east Aegean Sea island of Chios as firefighters struggled to contain a total of five blazes that broke out over the past two days.

Greece put the Mediterranean island of Chios under a state of emergency on Monday because of major fires that have raged since the weekend.

Firefighters attempted to battle a massive wildfire on Greece's Chios Island as strong winds fanned flames.

LESBOS, Greece, May 15 (Reuters) - Black-winged white stilts wade through a salt pan, plunging their beaks into the water in search for food at the Kalloni bay on the Greek island of Lesbos, as ...

An earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck off the island of Crete in Greece on Wednesday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said.

AMORGOS, Greece — For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in an island monastery carved into a seaside cliff that’s little changed since its ...