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Migrants from Bangladesh push a trolley with collected plastic items as they pass in front the Bank of Greece headquarters in Athens, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Creditors start checkup as Greece seeks lower budget targets

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Libyan Gen. Khalifa Hifter, center, shakes hands with the Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias, left, as they surrounded by security in Athens, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2019. Greece will block any European peace deal on Libya unless an agreement between the internationally-recognized government in Tripoli and Turkey on maritime borders is scrapped, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis warned Thursday. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas)

Libya’s rival military commander seeks support in Greece

By ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press

Greek PM says IMF to close its Athens offices within months

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Hooded teenagers take part in a rally in Athens, Friday, Dec. 6, 2019. Authorities are closing off main roads and have tightened security in the Greek capital, on the anniversary of the police's fatal shooting of a teenage boy that caused extensive rioting in 2008. The white banner reads &quot;From the spontaneous uprising to the constant struggle.&quot; (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greece: Clashes at rally to mark police shooting anniversary

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Greek Culture Minister Lina Mendoni stands behind an ancient Greek drinking cup decorated with runners, which was one of the awards presented to Spyros Louis, the Greek winner of the Marathon in the 1896 first modern Olympic Games, at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019. Greece's Culture Ministry said Wednesday the ancient vase has been returned to Athens by the University of Muenster in Germany where it had ended up.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Ancient cup given to 1st marathon victor returned to Greece

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China's President Xi Jinping, centre and his Greek counterpart Prokopis Pavlopoulos, left, inspect the guard of honor by Evzones, the Greek Presidential guards, outside the Presidential palace in Athens, Monday, Nov. 11, 2019. Xi Jinping is in Greece on a two-day official visit. (AP Photos/Thanassis Stavrakis)

China’s Xi on investment drive in EU member Greece

By ELENA BECATOROS and DEREK GATOPOULOS - Associated Press

In this undated photo provide by the Greek Culture Ministry on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2019, a copper double-headed axe found buried in the Mycenaean citadel of Glas in Greece is seen. Archaeologists excavating a vast 3,300-year-old fortress northwest of Athens are hoping to shed light on one of the most impressive engineering feats of ancient Greece. The Culture Ministry says the results of work at Glas, a low, flat hill commanding a sprawling plain, have been “particularly encouraging,” revealing meticulously-planned building complexes. (Greek Culture Ministry via AP)

Greece: New bid to understand prehistoric engineering feat

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS - Associated Press

Refugees and migrants take part in a protest outside an overcrowded refugee camp on the Greek island of Samos, on Friday, Oct. 18, 2019. Overcrowding at island camps has continued to worsen despite an effort by the Greek government to move more asylum seekers to the mainland. (AP Photo/Michael Svarnias)

Legal opinion: Poland, Hungary, Czechs broke EU migrant law

By LORNE COOK and SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

A man looks at a pile of garbage in the central Koukaki neighborhood of Athens, on Monday, Oct. 21, 2019. Local government unions have announced stoppages and strikes this week to protest government plans to expand private sector involvement in municipal services. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greece: Garbage piles up in Athens amid strikes

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Arkansas State cornerback Jerry Jacobs, right, breaks up a pass intended for Georgia wide receiver George Pickens, left, in the first half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019, in Athens, Ga. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

No. 3 Georgia romps to another win, 55-0 over Arkansas State

By PAUL NEWBERRY - Associated Press

A supertanker hosting an Iranian flag is seen on the water in the British territory of Gibraltar, Sunday, Aug. 18, 2019. Authorities in Gibraltar on Sunday rejected the United States' latest request not to release a seized Iranian supertanker, clearing the way for the vessel to set sail after being detained last month for allegedly attempting to breach European Union sanctions on Syria. (AP Photo/Marcos Moreno)

Greece says it won’t assist Iranian tanker sought by U.S.

By Nicholas Paphitis - Associated Press

In this Sunday, July 7, 2019 photo, the fence of a renovated building and part of the wall are defaced with graffiti in Monastiraki district, central Athens. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Kilroy was here: Athens walls awash in painted squiggles

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East Texas inventor concentrating on wind power technology

By BETTY WATERS - Associated Press

An airplane drops water over a wildfire near Halkida town on the Greek island of Evia, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019. More than a thousand firefighters battled wildfires Tuesday in Greece, with the largest burning out of control through a nature reserve on the island of Evia north of Athens causing four villages and a monastery to be evacuated. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas)

Firefighters battle blaze in Greek island nature reserve

By SRDJAN NEDELJKOVIC and ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press

A huge cloud of smoke rise from a forest fire at Psachna village on the island of Evia, northeast of Athens, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019. Dozens of firefighters backed by water-dropping aircraft are battling a wildfire on an island north of Athens that has left the Greek capital blanketed in smoke. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

Fire rages out of control in Greek island nature reserve

By ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press

More than 170 firefighters battle large wildfire in Greece

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Tourist hug each other in Syntagma square after a strong earthquake hit near the Greek capital of Athens, Friday, July 19, 2019. The Athens Institute of Geodynamics gave the earthquake a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 but the U.S. Geological Survey gave it a preliminary magnitude of 5.3. The Athens Institute says the quake struck at 2:38 p.m. local time (1113 GMT) about 26 kilometers (13.7 miles) north of Athens. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Strong quake hits near Greek capital of Athens, sparks fear

By Derek Gatopoulos and Costas Kantouris - Associated Press

Greek opposition New Democracy conservative party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis waves to his supporters after win in parliamentary elections at the New Democracy headquarters in Athens, on Sunday, July 7, 2019. Official results from nearly 60% of ballots counted showed the conservative New Democracy party of Kyriakos Mitsotakis winning comfortably with 39.7% compared to Tsipras' Syriza party with 31.5%. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Kyriako Mitsotakis sworn in as Greek prime minister after big win

By Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

An elderly man casts his ballot at a polling station in Athens, on Sunday, July 7, 2019. Greeks are voting in the first parliamentary election since their country emerged from three successive international bailouts but is still struggling to emerge from a crippling nearly decade-long financial crisis. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

Greece elections ballot box stolen in Athens

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Greece: Wildfire contained near arms factory

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