Jan. 29, 2025 08:47 AM EST
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — An angry crowd gathered Wednesday outside a courthouse on the southern Greek island of Crete for the preliminary hearing of a couple accused of brutally abusing a 3-year-old child who is fighting for his life in a hospital.
Riot police were deployed at the...
Jan. 23, 2025 09:13 AM EST
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities said Thursday they had found 66 migrants in two locations on the southern Greek island of Crete who had sailed to the island from the Libyan coast in north Africa, a route increasingly used by smuggling rings.
The coast guard said the...
Jan. 22, 2025 09:40 AM EST
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say more than 170 migrants have been picked up from rickety boats in the past three days with most found off the southern tip of the country in a route that appears to be increasingly used by traffickers.
Greece’s coast guard said...
Jan. 13, 2025 08:52 AM EST
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s minister in charge of police said Monday that “all necessary sanctions” will be brought against officers on the island of Crete who failed to detain a driver found driving drunk and without a license who later was involved in a crash that killed a 22-year-old....
