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A crowd of people gather to mourn the loss of Laken Riley during a vigil for the Augusta University College of Nursing student at the Tate Plaza on the University of Georgia campus in Athens, Ga., Monday, Feb. 26, 2024. Riley, a nursing student at Augusta University's Athens campus, was found dead Thursday, Feb. 22, after a roommate reported she didn't return from a morning run in a wooded area of the UGA campus near its intramural fields. Students also gathered to pay tribute to a UGA student who committed suicide last week. (Joshua L. Jones/Athens Banner-Herald via AP)

The killing of a Georgia nursing student is now at the center of the U.S. immigration debate

By Jeff Amy and Elliot Spagat and Will Weissert - Associated Press

This undated image provided by Augusta University shows Laken Hope Riley. Police said Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, that they are questioning a “person of interest” in the death of Riley, a nursing student whose body was found on the University of Georgia campus in Athens, Ga., after not returning from a run. (Augusta University via AP)

Police questioning ‘person of interest’ in death of Georgia nursing student

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Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis speaks during a debate in Parliament on same-sex marriage in Athens, Greece, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. Mitsotakis' center-right government is poised to make Greece the first Orthodox Christian-majority country to approve marriage equality legislation. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas)

Greek Parliament to vote on legalizing same-sex marriage in first for an Orthodox Christian country

By Nicholas Paphitis - Associated Press

Riot police detain dozens of fans outside the Melina Merkouri indoor stadium, in western Athens, early Friday, Dec. 8, 2023. A Greek policeman has been severely injured as a mob of volleyball fans poured out of an Athens arena and attacked riot police. A flare shot by a fan severed an artery in the thigh of the 30-year-old officer Thursday night. (Yorgos Matthaios/Eurokinissi Sports via AP)

In latest crackdown on violence, Greece bans fans at all top-flight matches for two months

By Derek Gatopoulos - Associated Press

A bedbug is displayed at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, March 30, 2011. Greece’s health ministry is seeking police help against hoaxers who tried to scare foreign tourists out of several Athens short-term rental flats by inventing a bedbug crisis. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

A bedbug hoax is targeting foreign visitors in Athens. Now the Greek police have been called in

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The ancient Greek vase from 420 BC – the Meidias Hydria – on loan from the British Museum, is on display during a media tour ahead of the Greece's Acropolis Museum officially launched of the exhibition, 'Meanings' Personifications and Allegories From Antiquity to Today, in Athens, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023. The loan coincides with a spat between the two countries over Greek demands for the return of sculptures from the Parthenon temple on the Acropolis that are housed in the British Museum. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

British Museum loan to Greece coincides with dispute over demand to return Parthenon Marbles

By Thanassis Stavrakis and Derek Gatopoulos - Associated Press

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak departs 10 Downing Street, London, to attend Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, on Wednesday Nov. 29, 2023. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP)

U.K. Prime Minister Sunak ramps up criticism of Greek prime minister in Parthenon Marbles spat

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

The moon rises in the sky behind the 5th century B.C. Parthenon temple at the ancient Acropolis hill, in Athens, July 31, 2023. The Parthenon Sculptures have been displayed in London for more than 200 years. But Greece vocally wants them back. Diplomacy failed when U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak abruptly called off a London meeting scheduled for Tuesday Nov. 28, 2023 with Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)

Diplomacy fails as Parthenon Sculptures spark a dispute between Greece and the U.K.

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FILE - Women stand by a marble statue of a naked youth thought to represent Greek god Dionysos, center, from the east pediment of the Parthenon, on display during a media photo opportunity to promote a forthcoming exhibition on the human body in ancient Greek art at the British Museum in London, on Jan. 8, 2015. Greek officials said Tuesday Nov. 28, 2023 that they will continue talks with the British Museum on bringing the Parthenon Marbles back to Athens, despite U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak cancelling a meeting with his Greek counterpart where the contested antiquities were due to be discussed. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

Greek officials angry and puzzled after U.K.’s Sunak scraps leaders’ meeting over Parthenon Marbles

By Jill Lawless and Derek Gatopoulos - Associated Press

Kenya's Edwin Kiptoo crosses the finish line to win the 40th Athens Marathon, in Athens, Greece, Sunday, Nov. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas)

Kenya’s Edwin Kiptoo wins Athens Marathon in a course record of 2:10:34

By Demetris Nellas - Associated Press

International President of MSF Christos Christou, left, speaks next to Greek journalist Panos Charitos, during a news conference organised by the Doctors Without Borders, in Athens, on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. A leading international medical charity says it has received scores of testimonies over the past two years from migrants that point to a "recurring practice" of alleged secret, illegal and often brutal deportations back to Turkey from two eastern Greek islands. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Charity says migrant testimonies point to a recurring practice of illegal deportations from Greece

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Floodwaters cover houses and farms after the country's record rainstorm in the village of Kastro, near Larissa, Thessaly region, central Greece, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023. The death toll from severe rainstorms that lashed parts of Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria increased after rescue teams in the three neighboring countries recovered more bodies. (AP Photo/Vaggelis Kousioras)

More than 800 people rescued from floodwaters in Greece after severe rainstorms

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Firetrucks are seen on a road in burned forest near the Fyli suburb, northwest Athens, Greece, Friday, Aug. 25, 2023. Authorities battling a major wildfire in northeastern Greece that has been described as the European Union's largest single fire recorded have recovered another body, the fire department says, bringing the total death toll of wildfires in Greece this week to 21. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas)

Greek fire officials arrest 2 for arson as multiple wildfires continue to burn across the country

By Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

Flames burn a forest during wildfires near the village of Sykorrahi, near Alexandroupolis town, in the northeastern Evros region, Greece, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. Advancing flames are devouring forests and homes in Greece as wildfires that have killed 20 people are raging. (AP Photo/Achilleas Chiras)

Firefighters in Greece discover another body, bringing this week’s death toll from wildfires to 21

By Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, left, welcomes his Croatian counterpart Andrej Plenkovic before their meeting at Maximou mansion, in Athens, on Monday, Aug. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greece hosts meeting of several Balkan leaders; reports that Ukraine’s Zelenskyy will also attend

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Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, left, welcomes Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Maximos Mansion in Athens, Greece, Monday, Aug. 21, 2023. Zelenskyy flew to Greece Monday for talks with the country's leadership and to attend an informal meeting of Balkan leaders with top European Union officials. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy visits Athens to attend meeting of Balkan leaders with top EU officials

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Soccer fans covering their faces, most of them from Croatia, are escorted by police as they leave the Athens Police Headquarters, Greece, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023. Ninety-four fans of Croatia's Dinamo Zagreb are appearing in court this morning for a preliminary hearing over Monday night's fan violence that left a fan of Greece's AEK dead and another eight people injured. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Funeral held for fan killed in Athens attack. UEFA President Ceferin to meet Greek PM

By Derek Gatopoulos and Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

Soccer fans covering their faces, most of them from Croatia, are escorted by police as they leave the Athens Police Headquarters, Greece, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023. Ninety-four fans of Croatia's Dinamo Zagreb are appearing in court this morning for a preliminary hearing over Monday night's fan violence that left a fan of Greece's AEK dead and another eight people injured. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Nearly 100 Croatian soccer fans face murder, gang-related charges in Greece after deadly violence

By Derek Gatopoulos and Lefteris Pitarakis - Associated Press

An AEK Athens team flag is at half staff outside OPAP Arena as an ambulance drives past, following overnight clashes between rival supporters in Nea Philadelphia suburb, in Athens, Greece, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023. European governing soccer body UEFA says it has postponed a Champions League qualifying game between AEK Athens and Croatia's Dinamo Zagreb scheduled for Tuesday because of the violence. Eight fans were injured while Greek police said Tuesday they had made 88 arrests, mostly of Croatian supporters. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Fan dies in Greece after clashes between rival supporters; UEFA postpones Champions League qualifier

By Derek Gatopoulos and Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

Ilias Kyriakou, 25, pulls an olive branch as a wildfire burns in Gennadi village, on the Aegean Sea island of Rhodes, southeastern Greece, on July 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greece’s government is planning tougher penalties for arson following a spate of wildfires

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