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Helena Smith

Helena Smith is the Guardian's correspondent in Greece, Turkey and Cyprus

December 2024

  • Women and children gather at a refugee camp, standing before a line of tents

    Greece facing refugee ‘children’s emergency’ as arrivals double in 2024

  • A defaced Assad poster in Damascus

    Middle East crisis live
    Middle East crisis: Syrians dismiss Assad’s claim that he wanted to stay and fight – as it happened

  • A Greek coastguard ship and an escorting vessel taking part in a search and rescue operation last month.

    At least five dead as migrant boat capsizes in Greek waters

  • Visitors to the British Museum in London look at some of the priceless marble sculptures removed from Athens by Lord Elgin

    Talks over return of Parthenon marbles to Athens are ‘well advanced’

November 2024

  • Ancient antiquities are displayed at the newly built Agias Sofias metro station in Thessaloniki, northern Greece.

    ‘A blend of ancient and modern’: inside Thessaloniki’s new €3bn metro system

  • An Atacms missile being fired from a US army rocket launch system.

    Ukraine war live
    Russia preparing to retaliate after it says Ukraine hit it with US-made missiles – as it happened

  • Firefighters working amid flames

    Power cuts in Ukraine after Russia’s biggest drone attack yet

  • Vasillis Panayiotaropoulos in class at night school

    ‘Best in the class’: Greek man in his 80s starts night school after life of toil

  • Greece faces general strike as workers protest cost of living squeeze

  • Greece’s Syriza could lose status as main opposition as Kasselakis launches new party

  • US politics live with Chris Stein
    Donald Trump says ‘we made history’ as he closes in on victory with win in Pennsylvania – as it happened

  • ‘A shrine’: Turkish visitors throng to Atatürk’s birthplace in Thessaloniki

  • Eighty years after thousands of Greek Jews were murdered, Thessaloniki’s Holocaust museum is finally set to open

October 2024

  • An Italian police officer in front of high walls

    More EU leaders expected to back calls for offshore asylum centres

  • A woman interviewed in the UNHCR’s temporary refugee camp in the buffer zone between Cyprus’s partitioned north and south.

    ECHR ruling for Cyprus asylum seekers may embolden refugees in buffer zone

  • George Baldock

    George Baldock drowned in pool at his apartment in Greece, family says

  • Standing Figure: Knife Edge, 1961. In Athens, with the Acropolis in the background.

    ‘He saw how architecture and sculpture could coexist’: why Greece fell in love with Henry Moore

September 2024

  • Fire sweeps through an apartment building hit by an Israeli airstrike in Beirut's Kola district, in Lebanon’s capital. Follow live for latest updates.

    Middle East crisis live
    Strike on central Beirut as Lebanon death toll passes 100 – as it happened

    This live blog has closed
  • Turtle swimming in shallow waters

    ‘It’s hugely moving’: sea turtle nests in Greece reach record numbers

    Conservationists celebrate as efforts to save the Caretta caretta sea turtle, which has existed for 100m years, pay off
  • Boilers and solar panels on flat roofs, with the sea in the distance

    The alternatives
    ‘You basically have free hot water’: how Cyprus became a world leader in solar heating

    The country, which has more 300 days of sunshine a year, has embraced rooftop systems that harness the sun’s energy
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