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Seeking asylum in Europe? You may end up in jail
Fp Staff •Greece has passed a controversial new law that makes rejected asylum seekers liable for prison terms if they remain in the country, one of the harshest measures yet in Europe’s tightening migration regime.
Massive wildfires engulf northern suburb of Athens as Greece reels through horrors of climate change
Fp Staff •A massive wildfire burned through a northern suburb of Athens, Greece, on Saturday, prompting authorities to order an evacuation.
We are not what you think: How Greece made a case for diaspora to return
Fp Staff •Roughly 600,000 Greeks, mostly young, skilled and university-educated, left the country between 2010 and 2021 due to the economic meltdown. Athens is now making effort to reverse the brain drain
Cruel summer: Why temperatures in Europe are soaring past 40°C
Fp Explainers •Europe is sweltering under a record-breaking heatwave with temperatures in Spain touching 46 degrees Celsius. Other countries like Italy, Greece and France are also batttling with a severe summer. The mercury is only expected to surge in coming days. Is it the heat dome or climate change?
As Turkey looms, Greece signs deal with France to buy 16 Exocet anti-ship missiles
Fp Staff •Greece’s Defense Minister Nikos Dendias signed the agreement for the 16 Exocet missiles with his French counterpart Sébastien Lecornu, who was on a one-day visit to Athens.
History Today: When the United States joined World War I
Fp Explainers •It was on April 6 in 1917, that the United States abandoned its stance of neutrality and officially joined the Allied powers in World War I, declaring war against imperial Germany. It was also this day in 1986, when the Olympic Games made a historic return to its birthplace in Athens, Greece, after a 1,500-year hiatus. The day also marks the beginning of the first-ever round-the-world flight in 1924
'World's changing at unpredictable pace': Greece unveils $27 bn defence boost plan
Fp Staff •The new plan aims to modernise Greece's armed forces as the country emerges from a decade-long financial crisis and seeks to match the defence advancements of Turkey, its historical rival, according to a report
Why the Greece ‘golden visa’ is one of the world’s most popular
Gauri Ghadi And Isha Mehrotra •Donald Trump’s ‘gold card’ has once again put ‘golden visas’ in the spotlight. Greece’s golden visa programme has secured the top spot on the 2025 Global Residence Program Index. But why are there so many takers for the European nation’s ‘residence by investment’ scheme?
Thousands of earthquakes in past week, how long Santorini seismic swarm can go on?
Fp Staff •After the emergency was declared on the Greek island, more than 11,000 people have been evacuated. The authorities are now reporting earthquakes in minute-by-minute intervals
Thousands fleeing Greece’s ‘Instagram island’ of Santorini after quake spree
Fp Staff •The Greek island of Santorini has faced over 200 quakes of magnitude three or more since Friday, triggering panic among the masses and an exodus towards Athens. PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis has urged calm and said the region was experiencing a “very intense” geological phenomenon