カテゴリー: Greece
Christos Flessas detained in case seen as exposing Beijing’s strategy of infiltrating western military and security servicesA Greek air force officer arrested on suspicion of spying for China has been detained pending trial after appearing before a mil…
Coastguard reports rescue of 39 survivors from boat that set out from Libya, but hopes fade for other passengersA mammoth rescue operation was launched in Greece on Saturday to locate dozens of migrants reported missing after their boat capsized en rou…
Six people dead, thousands evacuated and transport disrupted after at least 20 floods in major rivers China has been experiencing heavy and widespread rainfall since the start of the rainy season, which runs from May to September. It has resulted in at…
Greek court says it has no jurisdiction to hear case as disaster happened in international watersA Greek court has thrown out charges against nine Egyptian men accused of causing one of the Mediterranean’s deadliest shipwrecks, ruling it has no jurisdi…
Temperatures reached as high as 53.3C in the US and flooding hit South Korea and India A remote township in the north-western region of Xinjiang set a Chinese record of 52.2C (125.9F) on Sunday – in a country that was battling -50C weather six months a…
Alerts issued in Italy and China as wildfires rage in Greece, and temperature in California’s Death Valley nears global recordExtreme heatwave – latest news updatesTemperatures continued to reach extreme highs across many parts of the northern hemisphe…
Research into loss of trawler with hundreds of deaths strongly contradicts official accounts – while finding a failure to mobilise help and evidence that survivor statements were tampered withAttempts by the Greek coastguard to tow a fishing trawler ca…
Disparity between rescue responses has sparked debate in Pakistan about double standardsAnees Majeed, who lost five relatives in the boat that sank off Greece on 14 June, watched in disbelief and growing anger as a frantic, multimillion-dollar rescue e…
Men’s remains recovered in open water on sixth day of search since boat carrying up to 750 people sankGreek authorities have retrieved a further three bodies in open waters near the spot where a fishing trawler packed with Europe-bound migrants sank la…
Families of missing desperately search for information about their loved ones after maritime disasterSix days have elapsed since a fishing trawler piloted by people smugglers sank with unimaginable loss of life off Greece and yet they still come: relat…
Poverty drove young men from small Kashmir town to board ill-fated fishing trawler, say familiesThe last time Mohammed Yousaf talked to his son, Sajid Yousaf, on 8 June, the 28-year-old was waiting anxiously in Libya for smugglers to pack him and hundr…
Tracking data indicates two vessels stood by or circled around stationary refugee boat for several hoursTracking data suggests an overcrowded fishing boat that sank off the Greek coast last week with the feared loss of hundreds of lives had not moved f…
Suspected people smugglers to appear in court in Kalamata, as police in Kashmir announce 10 arrestsNine suspected people smugglers are to appear before a Greek court accused of piloting the fishing trawler that sank off the coast of Greece last week le…
Witnesses say some groups were forced into the most hazardous part of the vessel that sank, leaving hundreds feared deadPakistani nationals appear to have been singled out on the trawler that sank off Greece last Wednesday with hundreds of passengers f…
Horrors at sea will continue until the west faces up to its responsibilities and recognises its part in the plight of refugeesThe nationalities of the several hundred people assumed to have drowned in the latest, terrible migrant boat tragedy in the Me…