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FILE - In this Saturday, Aug. 29, 2020 file photo, Milwaukee Bucks' Giannis Antetokounmpo (34) celebrates after a dunk against Orlando during the first half of an NBA basketball first round playoff game in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Giannis Antetokounmpo praised the “amazing” moves the Bucks have made to improve their team, but the two-time reigning MVP didn’t indicate whether he would sign their supermax contract extension offer. Right now I’m not focusing on that,” Antetokounmpo said Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File)

Antetokounmpo features in Greek pandemic safety ad

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FILE - In this Thursday, Sept.10, 2020 file photo, water is sprayed on a French-made Rafale fighter jet during its induction ceremony at the Indian Air Force Station in Ambala, India. Greece on Tuesday, Dec. 15 said it will take delivery of 18 French-made Rafale fighter jets next year, as part of a major drive to modernize its armed forces amid tension with neighbor Turkey. Annual spending in defense is being hiked by more than a third in 2021 to 5.4 billion euros ($6.56 billion) despite a steep recession triggered by the pandemic this year. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, file)

Greece to boost military, get French Rafale jets in 2021

By DEREK GATOPOULOS - Associated Press

A man uses a mobile phone to take a photo of the city of Athens with the illuminated ancient Acropolis hill, after rainfall, on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020. The government said it will maintain core lockdown measures through the Christmas holidays, acknowledging that monthlong restrictions have not reduced COVID-19 cases to the extent it had hoped for. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greeks face lockdown Christmas, but with books and tidy hair

By ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press

A Santa Claus stands outside a Christmas decoration shop, in central Athens, on Monday, Dec. 7, 2020. Despite a significant drop in cases over the past week, authorities have extended the countrywide lockdown to Dec. 14, but have allowed certain shops, including those selling Christmas-related merchandise, to open from Monday. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

In Greece, political spat over lockdown turns personal

By DEREK GATOPOULOS - Associated Press

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks, in Istanbul, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2020. Erdogan has criticised France for supporting illegally Armenia in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, a day after he renewed his vitriolic attacks on French President Emmanuel Macron, saying he hopes France will get rid of him soon. (Turkish Presidency via AP, Pool)

Erdogan calls for energy talks as EU considers Med sanctions

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Italian police break up migrant trafficking ring, arrest 19

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias talks to the media during a press conference after a meeting with his Cyprus counterpart Nicos Christodoulides at the foreign ministry house in divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Dec. 4, 2020. Dendias and Christodoulides were meeting to coordinate their course of action ahead of a summit of European Union leaders next week to decide on a Turkish hydrocarbons search in waters where Cyprus and Greece claim exclusive rights and which EU officials have called &quot; provocative&quot;and &quot;unlawful.&quot; (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, Pool)

Greek FM: Turkey’s moves to ease tensions ‘unconvincing’

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS - Associated Press

A child look at Christmas decoration at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, in Athens, on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020. Greece is on lockdown through Dec. 7 but government officials say it is too early to say when schools and businesses will reopen due to continued pressure on the state-run health service, with intensive care wards near capacity in parts of the country. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greek city to use Christmas money for more ICU beds

By COSTAS KANTOURIS - Associated Press

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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Medical personnel transfer a COVID-19 patient from a state to a private clinic which has been appropriated, in the northern city of Thessaloniki, Greece, Sunday, Nov. 29, 2020. Greece's Health ministry has forcibly appropriated two clinics and their staff in the country's second populated city, where the outbreak is the most severe. (AP Photo/Achilleas Chiras)

Greece: Critics warn virus test price caps may slash testing

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FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2020 file photo, Turkey's research vessel Oruc Reis is anchored off the coast of Antalya on the Mediterranean Sea in Turkey. In a tweet Monday, Nov. 30, 2020, Turkey’s energy ministry said the Oruc Reis had returned to port in Antalya after completing two-dimensional seismic research in the Demre field. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici, File)

Turkish research ship in port after Mediterranean survey

By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY - Associated Press

Greece sets price limit on COVID-19 tests at private clinics

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A seagull flies as other stand on the rope of a docked ferry at the port of Piraeus, near Athens during a 24-hour strike on Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020. Ferries to the islands were halted and the Athens metro system and tram were shut for Thursday's strike, although buses continued to run in the capital. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greece extends coronavirus lockdown by a week

By ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2016, file photo, Belarus guard Lindsey Harding (12) controls the rebound next to teammate Yelena Leuchanka, center, and Australia center Liz Cambage, rear, during the second half of a women's basketball game at the Youth Center at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It has been a difficult last few months for former Belarus star basketball player Leuchanka. She spent 15 days in jail in October after peacefully protesting against President Alexander Lukashenko's disputed re-election and then contracted the coronavirus earlier this month while she has been in Greece. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Ex-WNBA player reflects on jail time after Belarus protest

By DOUG FEINBERG - Associated Press

A man wearing a face mask against the spread of coronavirus, stands at the entrance of Athens Academy in the Greek capital on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020. Greece is set to extend its lockdown measures beyond the end of November given the spread of COVID-19 and the pressure on hospitals, the country's health minister warned Monday. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Greece strike to disrupt public transport

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Medical staff conducts a rapid COVID test on an elderly woman in Athens, Monday, Nov. 23, 2020. Greece has seen a major resurgence of the virus after the summer, leading to dozens of deaths each day and thousands of new infections. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Greece faces renewed lockdown as pressure on hospitals rises

By COSTAS KANTOURIS - Associated Press

Firefighters retrieve the body of a migrant from the beach after a shipwreck on the island of Rhodes, southeastern Greece, Monday, Nov. 23, 2020. Greece's coast guard says a speedboat that appeared to have been smuggling migrants to the island of Rhodes from nearby Turkey partially sank before reaching land Monday, leaving one person dead. (Argyris Mantikos/Eurokinissi via AP)

Speedboat taking migrants to Greece partially sinks; 1 dead

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A paramedic wearing a suit to protect against coronavirus, closes the door of an ambulance at Evangelismos hospital in Athens, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020. Greece has imposed a nationwide nightly curfew as the number of COVID-19 cases in the country continues to surge despite a lockdown. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Greece: 2 private clinics appropriated to treat COVID-19

By COSTAS KANTOURIS and ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press

The Parthenon temple is illuminated atop of the Acropolis hill as a ferry approaches the port of Piraeus as another one departs in Athens, Monday, Oct. 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Barely out of crisis, Greek economy hammered by new lockdown

By DEREK GATOPOULOS - Associated Press

Alleged IS executioner arrested at Greek refugee camp

By COSTAS KANTOURIS and DEREK GATOPOULOS - Associated Press