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Greek forensic experts search at the scene after an explosion outside the Orthodox church of Agios Dionysios in the upscale Kolonaki area of Athens, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2018. A Greek police officer and a church caretaker were injured in an explosion as they investigated a suspicious package outside a church in central Athens early Thursday. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Bomb at Greek church injures 2 after no warning given

By Derek Gatopoulos and Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

Hooded youths throw petrol bombs at riot police in the Athens neighborhood of Exarchia, a haven for extreme leftists and anarchists, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018 after a rally commemorating the killing of a 15-year old student back in 2008. Demonstrators in Greece threw firebombs and pelted police with rocks Thursday as marches on the 10th anniversary of the fatal police shooting of a teenager degenerated into violence. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

Greece: More than 100 people detained during rioting

Associated Press

Hooded youths gesture at riot police in Athens, on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018 during a rally commemorating the killing of a 15-year old student back in 2008. Hundreds of school and university students march through the streets of the Greek capital to mark the tenth anniversary of a fatal police shooting of a teenager in Athens that sparked the worst rioting Greece had seen in decades. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Riots sweep Athens on anniversary of teen’s shooting death

By ELENA BECATOROS and COSTAS KANTOURIS - Associated Press

Ashley Lange is interviewed by USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin's reporter Mitch Skurzewki Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018, at her house in Wausau, Wis. (T'xer Zhon Kha/The Post-Crescent via AP)/The Post-Crescent via AP)

Wisconsin woman discusses alcohol addiction, recovery

By MITCHELL A. SKURZEWSKI - Associated Press

Man killed in shootout with police in Albania

By LLAZAR SEMINI - Associated Press

Damages are seen at the port of the western island of Zakynthos, Greece, Friday, Oct. 26, 2018. A strong pre-dawn earthquake with magnitude 6.8 has struck off the western Greek tourist island of Zakynthos in the Ionian Sea, and was felt as far away as Athens, but authorities say there have been no immediate reports of major damage or injuries.(imerazante.gr via AP)

Schools closed on quake-hit Greek island; damage surveyed

By Nicholas Paphitis - Associated Press

Greece: Molotov cocktails injure 4 police officers

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Waves crash on rocks near the port town of Lavrio about 75 kilometers (48miles) south of Athens, on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018. Greece's civil protection services went on alert Thursday as the country braced for the threat of a cyclone, forest fires prompted evacuations on an island and an earthquake rattled the south of the country.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Powerful storm in Mediterranean brings heavy rain to Greece

By DEMETRIS NELLAS and DEREK GATOPOULOS - Associated Press

A woman rides a bicycle next to a poster &quot;For European Macedonia&quot;, on a street in Skopje, Macedonia, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018. Macedonians will vote Sunday in a referendum on whether to change the country's name to &quot;North Macedonia&quot;, a move which would allow the Balkan country to qualify for NATO membership and also pave its way toward the European Union. The banner also reads in Macedonian &quot;It is time for decision&quot; and &quot;A secure future for our children&quot;. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

Macedonia or North Macedonia? Vote tests a nation’s identity

By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDES - Associated Press

A car drives through seawater from crashing waves on the road during bad weather at the port of Rafina, east of Athens, on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018. Severe weather warnings remain in effect around Greece, halting ferry services and prompting school closures. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Storm Zorba bears down on Greece, Athens area also alerted

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Two men try to secure boats due to bad weather at the port of Rafina, east of Athens, on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018. Severe weather warnings remain in effect around Greece, halting ferry services and prompting school closures. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Cyclone warning as gale-force winds batter Greece

By Elena Becatoros and Derek Gatopoulos - Associated Press

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is attacking members of the military, teachers, lawyers, doctors, and even Supreme Court justices and prosecutors. (Associated Press/File)

Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s crackdown pushes Turkish dissidents to Greece

By By Nikolia Apostolou - Special to The Washington Times - The Washington Times

Greece wants new talks with Britain on Parthenon Sculptures

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In this Saturday Aug. 11, 2018 photo Paraskevi Kolliabi, 62, who lives on a widow's pension, poses at her son's silver workshop in Monastiraki district of Athens. Kolliabi said. &quot;I have never in my life gone through such (financial) hardship as during the past two years. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greeks see little cause for joy as 8-year bailout era ends

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS - Associated Press

People swim at a beach in Rafina, east of Athens, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018, ten days after the the wildfire. The bodies of 76 people killed by Greece's deadliest wildfire in decades have been identified, authorities said Tuesday, as forensic experts kept working to identify more remains recovered from the charred resort area. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

The Latest: Another Greek fire victim dies of her injuries

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Flowers are placed on a burnt tree in Mati, east of Athens, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018, ten days after the wildfire. The bodies of 76 people killed by Greece's deadliest wildfire in decades have been identified, authorities said Tuesday, as forensic experts kept working to identify more remains recovered from the charred resort area. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Fire victims’ relatives sue Greek officials for negligence

By FANIS KARABATSAKIS - Associated Press

People gather outside the Greek Parliament in Athens, Monday, July 30, 2018 in memory of victims of a deadly wildfire a week ago. The date of July 23 is marked with candles. More than 90 people died in the fire that gutted resorts east of Athens, the deadliest Greek fire in recent history. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Bodies of 76 killed in deadly Greek wildfires identified

By ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press

Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, left, visits the burnt area of Mati, east of Athens, Monday, July 30, 2018. Fire officials in Greece raised the death toll from a wildfire that raged through the Mati coastal area east of Athens to 91 and reported that 25 people were still missing Sunday. (Greek Prime Minister's Office via AP)

Greece: Divers recover body offshore of where wildfire raged

By ELENA BECATOROS and DEREK GATOPOULOS - Associated Press

Orthodox faithful attend a memorial service for the victims of a forest fire, inside a church at Mati village, east of Athens, Sunday, July 29, 2018. Hundreds of worshippers attended a memorial service in Mati for the dozens who perished in a wildfire that devastated the seaside resort. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

Death toll from Greek wildfire reaches 91 as village grieves

By COSTAS KANTOURIS and DEMETRIS NELLAS - Associated Press

A worker transports a burnt car following a wildfire in Neos Voutzas, east of Athens, Friday, July 27, 2018. Greek authorities said Thursday there were serious indications that a deadly wildfire that gutted a vacation resort near Athens was started deliberately, while experts warned that the devastated coastal town had been built like a &quot;fire trap,&quot; with poor safety standards and few escape routes. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Heartbreak: Funerals begin for Greece’s wildfire victims

By COSTAS KANTOURIS and MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS - Associated Press