Only lawyers registered in a dedicated professional register will now be permitted to provide free legal guidance to asylum seekers during the first stage of the administrative process. An additional payment of €250 will also be available where, following the information session, an applicant chooses voluntary departure and their return is successfully completed.

More than 40 days after a Chinese property manager vanished without a trace en route to collect rent in central Athens, investigators are still piecing together her final movements, with chilling details from her abandoned home only deepening the mystery.

Greek counter-terrorism police have launched a massive manhunt after a coordinated triple arson attack on ruling New Democracy officials in Thessaloniki left a politician's elderly mother dead and five others hospitalised in a chilling pre-dawn strike.

A fast-moving wildfire in northern Greece has claimed at least two lives — a retired professor and, in a development feared by authorities, a missing child — as the country's summer fire season delivers its most devastating blow yet.