burns and was taken to hospital.... ( Reporting by George Georgiopoulos; Editing by Angus MacSwan)....

Bengaluru and George Georgiopoulos in Athens; Editing by Himani Sarkar)....

ATHENS( Reuters)-The driver of a car that was swept away by floods in northern Greece was found dead on Sunday after heavy storms pounded parts of the country on Saturday, causing flooding, police said. The body of the 55-year old woman was found near her car at the village of Skotina by the fire brigade.On Saturday heavy rainfall in western and northern Greece caused some rivers to swell, flooding villages and homes with the fire brigade receiving over 900 calls for assistance with fallen trees

ATHENS( Reuters)-Greek police on Wednesday arrested a 33-year-old mother who will be charged with intentionally killing her 9-year-old daughter in a case that has shocked the country. Georgina died in hospital and posthumous toxicology tests showed she had received ketamine, an anesthetic drug often used in animal surgeries, that had not been prescribed by her treating doctors. The family's two other young girls had also died in mysterious circumstances in the last three years, prompting the hom

Water-bombing aircraft struggled to operate because of the large plumes of smoke blanketing the area, authorities said." Those who lost homes and property will be compensated.... The burned areas will be reforested," Mitsotakis pledged. The government's relief measures will be detailed after a cabinet meeting on Tuesday. Mitsotakis said government services had to deal with 586 wildfires" in all corners of Greece" amid a heatwave.... He thanked countries that sent assistance and the many volunt

ATHENS( Reuters)-Greece fully supports Sweden's and Finland's plans to join NATO, its foreign minister said on Saturday." Greece has excellent relations with these two countries, which are also members of the European Union," Nikos Dendias said in Berlin where he will attend an informal NATO ministers meeting." The Greek side has a very clear stance( on the matter), we are ready to welcome Sweden and Finland to the NATO family, we believe they have much to offer," he said.A day after Russia's no

ATHENS( Reuters)-Composer Mikis Theodorakis, whose infectious, earthy score for the film"？... " Today we lost a part of Greece's soul.... " I'm not a communist or social democrat or anything else....

ATHENS( Reuters)-An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 shook Greece's largest island, Crete, on Monday morning, killing one person and injuring several, authorities said. The tremor sent people fleeing out of homes, schools and public buildings across the island.... The church was largely reduced to rubble. Civil protection authorities said nine people were injured in the quake, which damaged mainly old, unοccupied buildings in the wider Arkalochori region. Nevertheless many people in Heraklion

It sent the distress signal near the island of Crete with the coast guard quoting passengers as saying it had sailed from Turkey." The ship is sailing very slowly off Karpathos island, carrying mostly Afghan migrants.... It will dock at a Greek port which has not been decided yet," the official told Reuters, declining to be named. Karpathos is the second largest of the Dodecanese islands in the southeastern Aegean Sea.... Greece's migration minister had contacted Turkish authorities and the EU

ATHENS( Reuters)-Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis defended his government on Thursday as public anger grew over the response to wildfires that have ripped through thousands of hectares of forest over the past 10 days.On Evia, Greece's second-largest island, where some of the worst fires have occurred, rain provided some relief to exhausted firefighters.... But with the entire forest covering the northern part of the island destroyed, residents were bereft." Pain, sadness, rage, anger ar