Police in Athens on May 2 stopped a group from the far-right Golden Dawn party from giving out free food to residents on Syntagma Square, where the Greek Parliament is located, the BBC reported.

Thousands of demonstrators gathered across Europe on May Day to protest austerity measures, Reuters reported May 1.

A bomb exploded near the Acropolis in central Athens on March 27, Greek police said, AP reported.

Gazprom head Alexei Miller is holding talks in Athens on March 12 with Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras over a potential bid for DEPA, Greece's national natural gas company, the Capital.gr website reported.

Nigeria-based Islamist group Ansaru killed seven foreign hostages March 9, SITE Monitoring Service said, Reuters reported.

Roughly 40 masked individuals attacked a disputed gold mining project in the Skouries area of the Halkidiki peninsula on Feb. 17, police said, Reuters reported.

Unknown gunmen fired shots at the headquarters of Greece's conservative New Democracy party early Jan. 14, causing minor damage to the building but no injuries, police said, Reuters reported.