Greece
The victory by party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis grants him a comfortable parliamentary majority to form a government for a second four-year term.
Voters are headed to the polls again this Sunday after conservatives failed to win an outright majority in the first round, despite outperforming expectations.
A Greek news web site has published excerpts from the depositions of two survivors of Wednesday's deadly shipwreck off southwestern Greece.
A sweeping search and rescue operation has failed to find any more survivors after a fishing boat sank off the coast of southern Greece.
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It was unclear how many passengers might remain missing at sea after the bodies were recovered, the Greek coastguard said.
A wiretapping scandal and anger over a rail disaster wasn't enough to keep the party of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis from leading in elections.
A man accused of causing Greece’s deadliest train disaster has been charged with negligent homicide and jailed pending trial.
Rail workers went on strike to protest years of underfunding they say has left the country’s train system in a dangerous state.
Kostas Karamanlis said he felt it was his “duty” to step down “as a basic indication of respect for the memory of the people who died so unfairly.”
Fire officials say 29 people were killed and at least 85 injured when a passenger train collided with an oncoming freight train in northern Greece early Wednesday.