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Greece calls Turkey’s oil-and-gas plan a ‘provocation’

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A worker wearing a protective mask sprays disinfectant inside a classroom of a kindergarten in the suburb of Halandri, northern Athens, Friday, May 29, 2020. Greece will reopen preschools, kindergartens and primary schools on Monday in the latest round of easing coronavirus pandemic restrictions imposed in late March. Classes will have no more than 15 children while the academic year will end on Friday, June 26. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Greece lifts its lockdown on hotels, pools, golf courses

By DEREK GATOPOULOS - Associated Press

Indians wearing masks travel in a ferry during the coronavirus pandemic in Kochi, Kerala state, India, Friday, May 29, 2020. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is preparing a new set of guidelines to be issued this weekend, possibly extending the lockdown in worst-hit areas while promoting economic activity elsewhere, with unemployment surging to 25%. (AP Photo/R S Iyer)

The Latest: South Korea reports 27 new virus cases

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In this photo taken on Thursday, May 9, 2020, Vicky Economopoulou, left, and Eva Kexagia, who run a vegan bistro, checks their laptop in Athens. Greece plans to rapidly expand government digital services in 2020 to try and slim down its notoriously slow-moving bureaucracy and help the country exit its pandemic recession more quickly. More than 500 services are available through a new online portal, gov.gr, launched on March 21 during lockdown measures.(AP Photo/Derek Gatopoulos)

Back in recession, Greece puts faith in digital overhaul

By DEREK GATOPOULOS - Associated Press

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, listens during a teleconference with his cabinet in Istanbul, Monday, May 11, 2020. Erdogan announced a new four-day curfew to stem infections, that includes the weekend and a public holiday on May 19. The country has opted to impose short weekend curfews, instead of full lockdowns, fearing their possible negative effects on the already troubled economy.(Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool)

Turkey accuses five nations of forming ‘alliance of evil’

By SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

Greece: Locals stop migrants from camps reaching new housing

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People gather inside Rome's Villa Pamphili park as it reopened after several weeks of closure, part of nationwide limited easing of some lockdown restrictions, on Monday, May 4, 2020. Italy began stirring again Monday after a two-month coronavirus shutdown, with 4.4 million Italians able to return to work and restrictions on movement eased in the first European country to lock down in a bid to stem COVID-19 infections. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Italy eases virus lockdown, and gets first reckoning of toll

By NICOLE WINFIELD and COLLEEN BARRY AND FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Planned offshore energy reforms trigger protests in Greece

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Greece says Turkish fighter jets buzzed Greek chopper

By ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press

In this undated photo provided by Shane Cowbrough, is Cowbrough and his daughter Sub-Lt. Abbigail Cowbrough, right, of Nova Scotia, who was killed in a military helicopter crash. One person is dead and five are missing after a military helicopter operating off a Canadian frigate during a NATO exercise crashed into the sea between Greece and Italy, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday, April 30, 2020. Gen. Jonathan Vance, Canada's top military official, said the ship lost contact with the aircrew on Wednesday evening and that flares were spotted from the water minutes later. He confirmed the body of Abbigail Cowbrough, 23, has been recovered. (Shane Cowbrough via AP)

1 dead, 5 missing in crash of Canadian chopper off Greece

By ROB GILLIES - Associated Press

Finland to take 130 refugees, mostly children, from Greece

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A man wearing a mask to protect against the spread of the coronavirus walks by shuttered shop in Monastiraki, central Athens during lockdown measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Wednesday, April 22, 2020.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Agencies lower outlook of Greece’s credit rating to stable

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Unaccompanied migrant minors wearing face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus, wave as they board an airplane to Germany at the Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport in Athens, on Saturday, April 18, 2020. Fifty asylum-seeking minors were relocated to Hanover as part of a migrant relocation plan agreed by a group of European Union countries. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

47 children from Greek refugee camps arrive in Germany

By FRANK JORDANS and DEMETRIS NELLAS - Associated Press

In this Monday, April 13, 2020, photo a priest takes part in a Holy Monday ceremony held without worshippers at the Athens Cathedral, in Greece, during a lockdown order by the government to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. For Orthodox Christians, this is normally a time of reflection and communal mourning followed by joyful release, of centuries-old ceremonies steeped in symbolism and tradition. But this year, Easter - by far the most significant religious holiday for the world's roughly 300 million Orthodox - has essentially been cancelled. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Coronavirus pandemic lockdown weighs heavily on Orthodox Christians during Easter

By Elena Becatoros and Daria Litvinova - Associated Press

A elderly man wearing a face mask to protect from coronavirus pulls his shopping trolley at Varvakios meat market in Athens, on Tuesday, April 14, 2020. Eating lamb, usually roasted whole on a spit, is traditional for Greek Easter, which is by far the most important religious holiday of the year in this predominantly Orthodox country. Due to lockdown measures taken to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 this year, the government has said traditional family gatherings cannot be held this Easter on Sunday, April 19. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Amid pandemic, Greece raises 2 billion euros in 7-year bond

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A food delivery rider passes by a banner reading ' Stronger together, all together we will make it ', in Milan, Italy, Sunday, April 5, 2020. The government is demanding Italians stay home and not take the leveling off of new coronavirus infections as a sign the emergency is over, following evidence that more and more Italians are relaxing restrictions the west’s first and most extreme nationwide lockdown and production shutdown. (Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP)

Cracks in Europe’s shared currency reappear in virus crisis

By DAVID McHUGH - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, April 1, 2020 photo, an aerial view of the Athens University headquarters building and a deserted Panepistimiou street, in Athens. Deserted squares, padlocked parks, empty avenues where cars were once jammed bumper-to-bumper in heavy traffic. The Greek capital, like so many cities across the world, has seen its streets empty as part of a lockdown designed to stem the spread of the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

AP PHOTOS: Greek capital’s streets deserted during lockdown

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Police block the Athens' main Syntagma square during an operation on Tuesday, March 31, 2020. Police in Greece have cordoned off an area near the country's parliament after workers found what is believed to be a decades-old mortar shell during maintenance on the water mains. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

Athens roads shut after machine part mistaken for WWII shell

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Migrants stand outside container houses in Moria refugee camp on the northeastern Aegean island of Lesbos, Greece, Monday, March 16, 2020. The Fire Service said a migrant, who was not further identified, was found dead inside Moria camp after the fire broke out Monday. (AP Photo/Panagiotis Balaskas)

Greek police use tear gas on migrants at Turkish border

By COSTAS KANTOURIS - Associated Press

Greece: 1 dead in refugee camp blaze

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