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Centre-left entrepreneur wins 56.69% of vote in stunning and unprecedented rise ‘from nowhere’Stefanos Kasselakis, an outsider with no previous experience of politics in Greece, has emerged the victor of an electric race to lead the leftwing Syriza, th…
Newcomer Stefanos Kasselakis beat former minister Efi Achtsioglou in first round of vote to become new head of leftwing partyStefanos Kasselakis: the political outsider hoping to revive the Greek leftThe unexpectedly electric quest to elect a new leade…
Report says climate change made rainfall heavier but human factors turned extreme weather into humanitarian disasterCarbon pollution led to heavier rains and stronger floods in Greece and Libya this month but other human factors were responsible for “t…
After a summer of intense heat, raging fires and catastrophic floods, a term for pervading dread about climate change and other environmental crises is having its moment.
Country hit by record rainfall that followed Mediterranean storm with similarities to tropical cycloneAfter battering Greece last week, Storm Daniel caused further devastating floods, this time affecting Libya. As the storm moved across the Sahara, it …
One crewmember accused of homicide with possible intent and two more with complicity over drowning of Antonis KargiotisA Greek prosecutor has brought criminal charges against an island ferry captain and three of his crew over the death of a passenger w…
Recordings of conversations appear to reveal racist attitudes among crew in connection with death of Antonis KaryotisOutrage over the drowning of a passenger who was pushed from the ramp of a Greek ferry has mounted after leaked recordings of radio con…
Kyriakos Mitsotakis faces biggest crisis yet as residents ask where money for ‘immediate’ flood relief has goneThe Greek prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, is facing his biggest crisis yet as – less than a week after rainstorms left vast tracts of th…
Miltiadis Varvitsiotis caused outrage by appearing to express sympathy for accused crew membersGreece’s merchant marine minister has resigned over the death of a ferry passenger who was allegedly forcefully pushed into the sea last week.Miltiadis Varvi…
Death toll reaches 12 as hundreds still thought to be marooned after deadly downpoursRescuers in central Greece were working through the night to locate people trapped in villages deluged by flood waters as the death toll from rainstorms rose to at lea…