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Authorities: Georgia man found dead in burning van

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The full moon rises on the Athenian sky above the ancient Acropolis hill during cloudy night , on Monday, Nov. 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

IMF: Greek debt sustainable despite pandemic-linked spike

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Police stand guard outside the Athens Polytechnic in the Greek capital on Monday, Nov. 16, 2020. The government has banned an annual rally to mark the anniversary of Nov. 17, 1973 uprising by Polytechnic students against the military dictatorship that then ruled the country and collapsed the following year. Left-wing opposition parties have criticized the decision taken due to the pandemic and vowed to defy the ban. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Police fire tear gas to break up banned gatherings in Greece

By ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press

Muslims who live in Greece pray inside the first state-funded mosque in Athens on Friday, Nov. 6, 2020. Friday prayers have been held for the first time in the Greek capital's first state-sponsored mosque, which opened this week after years-long delays. The project to build a mosque in Athens has taken about 14 years and was dogged by protests, political controversy and delays in this heavily Christian Orthodox country. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Friday prayers held in newly opened Athens mosque

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France warns Turkey of EU sanctions over ‘provocations’

By SUZAN FRASER and FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press

Microsoft President Brad Smith, left, speaks with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis during a ceremony held in the Acropolis Museum, in the background is the ancient Parthenon temple, central Athens, on Monday, Oct. 5, 2020. Microsoft has announced plans to build three data centers in greater Athens, providing a badly needed investment of up to $1 billion to the Greek economy which has been hammered by the pandemic. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Microsoft plans $1 billion data center venture in Greece

By DEREK GATOPOULOS - Associated Press

A paramedic with a special outfit to protect against coronavirus, pushes a stretcher with a patient inside an ambulance after dozens of elderly people have been found positive in COVID-19 at a nursing home in Athens, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020. Nationwide, Greece has been experiencing a resurgence of the virus, with the number of new daily cases often topping 300, and both deaths and the number of those in intensive care units rising. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Greece: Violence at school rally, concern over nursing home

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Migrants pull their belongings as they walk on a road near Mytilene town, on the northeastern island of Lesbos, Greece, Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. Greece's prime minister demanded Sunday that the European Union take a greater responsibility for managing migration into the bloc, as Greek authorities promised that 12,000 migrants and asylum-seekers left homeless after fire gutted an overcrowded camp would be moved shortly to a new tent city. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greece wants the EU to help run its island migrant camps

By PETROS GIANNAKOURIS and DEREK GATOPOULOS - Associated Press

Refugees and migrants cook on makeshift fires near an abandoned factory in the island of Lesbos, Greece, Friday, Sept. 11, 2020. Some thousands of refugees and migrants have spent a third night in the open on the Greek island of Lesbos after two consecutive nights of fires in the notoriously overcrowded Moria camp left them homeless. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Thousands left homeless by Greek refugee camp fire protest

By ILIANA MIER and ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press

Migrants sleep on the roadside on the northeastern island of Lesbos, Greece, Friday, Sept. 11, 2020. The Greek government says thousands of migrants left homeless after fires gutted a sprawling refugee camp on the island of Lesbos will not be allowed to travel to mainland Greece. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greece seeks shelter for thousands after refugee camp fire

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS and VANGELIS PAPANTONIS - Associated Press

New wildfire under control in seaside resort near Athens

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Flames burn behind the mountain as people walk next to the sea during a wildfire in Kalyvia, southeast of Athens, on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. Greek firefighters, backed by water-dropping aircraft, were battling a string of wildfires near Athens and in other parts of the country Wednesday with efforts hampered by strong winds that whipped on the flames. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

Major wildfire in Greece abates, several homes damaged

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University of Georgia undergraduate students move into Brumby Hall one week before the start of the fall semester during the coronavirus pandemic on Friday, Aug. 14, 2020. (Joshua L. Jones/Athens Banner-Herald via AP)

COVID-19 infections leap again at University of Georgia

By JEFF AMY - Associated Press

Turkey's Defense Minister Hulusi Akar sits inside an F-16 jet fighter at a military air base in western city of Eskisehir, Turkey, Wednesday, Sep. 2, 2020, during a training flight over Turkish Monument in Gallipoli peninsula. Akar said Thursday that Washington's lifting the arms embargo against Greek Cypriot-administered Cyprus will lead to a deadlock. &quot;If you lift the embargo and try to disrupt the balance in this way, this will bring conflict, not peace,&quot; he said.(Turkish Defense Ministry via AP, Pool)

NATO: Turkey, Greece agree to talks about tensions at sea

By SUZAN FRASER and MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Greek Defense Ministry, warships take part in a military exercise in Eastern Mediterranean sea, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. Turkey is accusing France of stoking tensions in the eastern Mediterranean, where NATO allies Turkey and Greece are locked in a stiff standoff over competing claims over offshore energy exploration rights. The accusation came as European Union foreign ministers are set to meet on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020 to persuade the two to pull back from the brink of a conflict. (Greek Defense Ministry via AP)

Turkey accuses Greece of ‘piracy’ over eastern Mediterranean

By SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Greek Defense Ministry, warships take part in a military exercise in Eastern Mediterranean sea, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. Turkey is accusing France of stoking tensions in the eastern Mediterranean, where NATO allies Turkey and Greece are locked in a stiff standoff over competing claims over offshore energy exploration rights. The accusation came as European Union foreign ministers are set to meet on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020 to persuade the two to pull back from the brink of a conflict. (Greek Defense Ministry via AP)

Germany calls for end to east Mediterranean military drills

By SUZAN FRASER and GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this photo provided by the Turkish Defense Ministry on Aug 10, 2020, Turkey's research vessel, Oruc Reis, in red and white, is surrounded by Turkish navy vessels as it was heading in the west of Antalya on the Mediterranean, Turkey, Monday, . Greece says it will conduct a navy and air force exercise in an area of the eastern Mediterranean where Turkey is prospecting for oil and gas in an area as the neighboring countries remain locked in a dispute over offshore energy rights. (Turkish Defense Ministry via AP, Pool)

German FM: A ‘spark could lead to disaster’ in eastern Med

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2004, file photo, the Olympic Rings are shown in flames in a pool of water during the Opening Ceremony of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)

Olympics return to antiquity at the 2004 Athens Games

By CHRIS LEHOURITES - Associated Press

This photo provided Friday Aug.14, 2020 by the French Defense Ministry shows the French Tonnerre helicopter carrier, center, escorted by Greek and French military vessels during a maritime exercise in the Eastern Mediterranean, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020. Greece's prime minister warmly thanked France Thursday for boosting its military presence in the eastern Mediterranean, where Greek and Turkish warships are closely shadowing each other over a Turkish energy exploration bid in waters Athens claims as its own. (French Defense Ministry via AP)

EU holding urgent talks on Greece-Turkey energy dispute

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS and SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

Last call in Georgia city now at 11:30 p.m. under settlement

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