Helena Smith
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‘People feel unprotected’: Greeks lose faith in state after Storm Daniel and a summer of wildfires
Before the catastrophe in Libya, the cyclone brought devastation to Thessaly – and there are fears the climate crisis will bring more → Read More
Greek PM under attack over handling of Storm Daniel disaster response
Kyriakos Mitsotakis faces biggest crisis yet as residents ask where money for ‘immediate’ flood relief has gone → Read More
Greek rescuers work through night to locate villagers trapped by flood
Death toll reaches 12 as hundreds still thought to be marooned after deadly downpours → Read More
Britons in Sudan have until midday on Saturday to fly out, ministers say
Government announces end to airlifts amid calls for NHS doctors without UK passports to be rescued → Read More
‘What I saw was terrifying’: Britons land in Cyprus after Sudan escape
Elation among evacuees airlifted to safety but also fury at disorganisation that has plagued UK’s rescue operation → Read More
UK evacuation of Sudan ‘could continue after ceasefire ends’
Military says emergency flights will operate as long as conditions are safe, as civilians arrive in Britain → Read More
Sudan: UK evacuates more than 300 people amid criticism of response
Further flights expected to leave airfield north of Khartoum on Wednesday, but proportion of British evacuees is unclear → Read More
‘Our credibility must be safeguarded’: Cyprus in turmoil after Russia sanctions
Island shuts 10,000 Russian bank accounts as US and UK put Cypriot lawyers and accountants under sanctions for enabling oligarchs including Roman Abramovich → Read More
Fame finally calls for British painter John Craxton, friend of Lucian Freud and lover of all things Greek
Shows in Athens and Istanbul have brought belated recognition for an artist long championed by David Attenborough. But why, 14 years after his death, is London still immune to his talents? → Read More
‘It’s worrying’: Greek election ban on extremist party may be too little, too late
Crackdown on Hellenes and its Golden Dawn leader Ilias Kasidiaris could cause more problems than it solves → Read More
Father of woman killed by husband in Greece to look after granddaughter ‘far away’
David Crouch to raise daughter of murdered Caroline Crouch in the Philippines, where her grandmother has relocated → Read More
‘An attack on culture’: Athens film fans fight threat to historic cinemas
Directors such as Yorgos Lanthimos have joined campaign to save the Astor and Ideal from hotel and office developments → Read More
Violence in Greece over efforts to preserve ancient heritage of Mykonos
Attack on archaeologist in Athens is thought to be linked to developers’ ‘out-of-control’ clamour to exploit island → Read More
Pope Francis returns three fragments of Parthenon to Greece
Carved heads of a boy, a horse and a bearded man, formerly in Vatican Museums, unveiled in Athens → Read More
Further three people charged over Greek train crash
Police estimate tens of thousands of people joined protests across Greece called by labour unions and student groups → Read More
‘Greece has derailed’: tens of thousands of protesters ‘rage’ over train disaster
Demonstrators voice fury after revelations of staff shortages and substandard equipment revealed state of rail network → Read More
Greek PM ‘sorry’ over fatal train crash as station master detained pending trial
Rail employee, who was in post for only four days before the accident, addressed court for seven hours over disaster in which 57 people died → Read More
‘Furious grief’ and demands for answers as Greece train crash funerals begin
Efforts to pin blame for disaster on human error rather than a failed system are set to backfire after union warnings on safety → Read More
Greek train crash: effort to find bodies expected to end as anger grows
Operation to locate missing passengers likely to be concluded three days after crash near Larissa that killed at least 57 → Read More
Greek train crash: anger grows as officials admit rail network problems
Government says rail projects beset by ‘chronic public sector ills’, as death toll from crash rises to 57 → Read More