Pirates have released a Greek-owned chemical tanker which was hijacked in September and the crew is safe, Greece’s Merchant Marine Ministry said today.

A tourist boat with 280 people on board ran aground off the coast an island near Athens today.

Greek authorities have arrested 48 illegal immigrants from three boats trying to reach the country’s eastern islands, port officials said today.

A swimmer swept out to sea by strong currents has been rescued alive in southern Greece after three days in the water.

The captain of a cruise ship that sank in the Aegean Sea has been charged with negligence.

A LISTING cruise ship carrying nearly 1,600 people — most of them Americans — was being evacuated off the Greek island of Santorini yesterday after striking rocks in a lagoon, authorities said.

A cruise ship carrying nearly 1,200 passengers and some 400 crew was being evacuated off the Greek island of Santorini today, after issuing a distress signal, authorities said.

A British frigate taking part in a Nato patrol helped rescue Romanian sailors today from a cargo ship stranded in as storm south of the Greek island of Carpathos, authorities said.

Survivors from a 40-member group of illegal migrants have accused Greece of throwing them into the sea off the Turkish coast, Turkey’s coastguard said today.

Firefighters raced today to exploit a lull in winds fanning a wildfire that ravaged holiday resorts in northern Greece, leaving a German tourist dead and dozens of people injured.

A cargo ship collided with a tanker and sank off an island near the Greek capital, leaving an unknown number of seamen missing, authorities said today.

One man drowned and 19 were rescued today after a boat carrying illegal immigrants capsized and sank near the eastern Aegean Sea island of Lesbos.

Two sailors were killed and five others were missing today after a North Korean flagged cargo ship sank in a storm in the eastern Aegean Sea, authorities said.

COAST guard officers detained about 120 illegal immigrants in southern Greece yesterday.

The Greek government forced its air force's chief to resign today, blaming him for authorities’ slow response to a military helicopter crash that killed 17 people, including a top Greek Orthodox cleric.

Rescue crews evacuated 25 passengers from a sinking boat on the Ionian Sea today, Greek officials said.

Greek coast guards were questioning the crew of a ship found carrying 680 tons of explosives today to see if they have any links to terrorists or criminal gangs.

About 300 illegal immigrants, most of them Iraqi Kurds, were believed to have come ashore on a Greek island today after being smuggled across the Aegean Sea aboard a small cargo ship, the Merchant Marine Ministry said.