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President Donald Trump delivers remarks for a Greek Independence Day celebration at the White House on Monday, March 24.

A United States defense official shot down a report claiming that President Donald Trump is shutting down a United States military base in Alexandroupolis, Greece.

Authorities in Greece said Tuesday they detained 107 migrants in two separate operations near the island of Crete, as an official attributed an increase in people trying to cross the eastern Mediterranean to conflicts in the Middle East.

President Donald Trump’s return as leader of the free world is stoking excitement among Mediterranean officials about possibilities for peace and economic agreements in the Mediterranean and Middle East.

The president of Cyprus Nikos Christodoulides told Breitbart News exclusively on Sunday that he is appointing a new “Special Representative” of his government for religious freedoms to focus on protecting Christians and other religious minorities throughout the Middle East.

Greece says migrant arrivals have increased by up to 35 per cent since fall 2023 amid rising numbers setting sail from the Libyan coast.

President-elect Donald Trump announced the nomination of Kimberly Guilfoyle as the Ambassador to Greece on Tuesday.

Greek police said on Friday that an explosion in an Athens apartment that killed a man appears to have been caused by an improvised bomb.

Search off Greek island of Samos recovers bodies of two people reported missing overnight after a boat carrying 24 migrants ran into trouble.

A group of 75 migrants crossing to Europe from North Africa has been rescued from a crippled boat south of the island of Crete.

Greece’s coast guard says three people died and another five were rescued after a boat carrying migrants ran into trouble off the coast of the eastern Aegean island of Samos.

The Houthis published a video they claimed showed their members boarding the Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion and planting bombs.

Smugglers ferrying migrants from Turkey to Greece’s eastern islands have in two cases adopted the new and dangerous tactic of knocking some passengers off their speedboats into the sea to avoid capture by pursuing coast guards, Greek authorities say.

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield condemned the Houthis for creating an ecological disaster by attacking an oil tanker.

The crew of a Greek coast guard vessel opened fire on a speedboat smuggling migrants that rammed into a patrol boat.

The Greek-flagged oil tanker MV Sounion was left adrift and burning in the Red Sea after attacks from the Houthi terrorists of Yemen.

A Greek oil tanker traveling through the Red Sea came under repeated attacks, leaving the vessel “not under command” and drifting ablaze.

Authorities on the Greek island of Crete detained 76 migrants early Tuesday after they arrived on three boats as smugglers seek new routes.

Wildfire raged across the northern suburbs of Athens on Monday, leaving at least one person dead and triggering multiple evacuations.

A pod of killer whales sank a yacht in the Mediterranean Sea in a “terrifying” attack that lasted for two hours.

Persistently high inflation under the policies of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is decimating the Turkish tourism industry, as both foreign visitors and locals decide to save money by nipping over to Greece for holiday getaways.

A Greek border guard was shot while patrolling an area of the Greek-Turkish border where undocumented migrants seek to enter the EU.

Israel’s flag carrier El Al said Turkish officials refused to refuel an aircraft that made an emergency medical landing in Turkey.

Greek police officer guarding the house of a top judge was hospitalized with burns after a gasoline bomb attack in Athens.

A team from the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower carrier strike group rescued the crew of a Greek-owned ship that Houthis attacked.

Police said that a body believed to be that of missing British TV presenter Michael Mosley was found on a Greek island Sunday morning.

Denmark, Greece, Pakistan, Panama, and Somalia were elected by the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday to serve two-year terms on the U.N. Security Council (UNSC), taking over five rotating “non-permanent” membership slots from Ecuador, Japan, Malta, Switzerland, and Mozambique.

The government of Greece said on Sunday it will deport nine Europeans who participated in disruptive anti-Israel protests at the University of Athens School of Law in May.

Over 500 thought to have died on people smuggler boat but case against nine Egyptians collapses because sinking was in international waters.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said more than one thousand Hamas terrorists received medical treatment in hospitals across Turkey.

Old foes Turkey and Greece will test a five-month-old friendship initiative Monday when Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visits Ankara.

The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents resume terrorist attacks against Red Sea shipping after a two-week pause.

A police officer in Greece was arrested on drugs charges for allegedly using his service car to smuggle marijuana.

A large explosion reverberated around Odesa as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Greece’s prime minister ended a tour of the war-ravaged city.

A second Ukrainian basketball player has succumbed to his wounds and died after a knife attack, allegedly at the hand of a migrant gang. 

Scores of tractors were parked outside Greece’s parliament Tuesday, horns blaring, as thousands of farmers make their anger heard.