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Firefighters try to extinguish the fire as a firefighting helicopter drops water in Koropi suburb, eastern part of Athens, on Wednesday, June 19, 2024. Scores of Greek firefighters and water-bombing aircraft were trying to contain a large wildfire on the fringes of Athens that forced authorities to issue evacuation orders Wednesday for two nearby settlements. (AP Photos/Petros Giannakouris)

A wildfire on the fringes of the Greek capital triggers evacuation alerts

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An ambulance drives through the entrance of a state-run hospital on the island of Rhodes, where the body of British TV presenter Michael Mosley was taken following his death while on vacation on the nearby island of Symi, on Monday, June 10, 2024. Family members have traveled to Rhodes to receive the results of an autopsy to establish the cause of death of the 67-year-old presenter.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Dutch tourist found dead on Greek island and 4 other foreign tourists are missing on 3 islands

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FILE - In this undated photo provided by Greece's coast guard on Wednesday, June 14, 2023, scores of people sit on a battered fishing boat that later capsized and sank off southern Greece. The sinking of the Adriana a year ago in international waters 75 kilometers (45 miles) off southern Greece was one of the worst of its kind in the Mediterranean Sea. Only 82 bodies were recovered, so hundreds of families still lack even the grim satisfaction of certitude that their relatives are dead. (Hellenic Coast Guard via AP, File)

U.N. agencies urge Greece to shed light on migrant shipwreck that killed hundreds one year ago

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One of nine Egyptians, who was on trial for migrant smuggling, waves to the media persons as he leaves the court in Kalamata, southwestern Greece, on Tuesday, May 21, 2024. A Greek judge dismissed charges against nine Egyptian men accused of causing a shipwreck that killed hundreds of migrants last year and sent shockwaves through the European Union's border protection and asylum operations, after a prosecutor told the court Greece lacked jurisdiction. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Greek judge dismisses case against Egyptians accused in shipwreck that killed hundreds of migrants

By Derek Gatopoulos - Associated Press

FILE - In this undated handout provided by Greece's coast guard on Wednesday, June 14, 2023, scores of people sit on a battered fishing boat that later capsized and sank off southern Greece. The legal defense team for nine Egyptian men due to go on trial in southern Greece next week accused of causing one of the Mediterranean's deadliest shipwrecks said Thursday they will argue Greece has no jurisdiction in the case, and insisted their clients were innocent survivors who have been unjustly prosecuted. (Hellenic Coast Guard via AP, File)

Greek defense team says 9 Egyptians accused of causing deadly shipwreck were misidentified as crew

By Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, left, welcomes the Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan before their meeting at Maximos Mansion in Athens, Greece, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023. Old foes Turkey and Greece will test a five-month-old friendship initiative on Monday, May 13, 2024 when Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visits Ankara. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)

Greece’s prime minister in Turkey for talks as the regional rivals seek to improve relations

By Andrew Wilks - Associated Press

Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, left, welcomes the Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan before their meeting at Maximos Mansion in Athens, Greece, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023. Old foes Turkey and Greece will test a five-month-old friendship initiative on Monday, May 13, 2024 when Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visits Ankara. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)

Wary of wars in Gaza and Ukraine, old foes Turkey and Greece test a friendship initiative

By Suzan Fraser and Derek Gatopoulos - Associated Press

Gordana Siljanovska Davkova, the new President of North Macedonia poses for the cameras at the entrance of the presidential palace in Skopje, North Macedonia, on Sunday, May 12, 2024. Siljanovska Davkova was sworn as first female president in North Macedonia on Sunday after her triumph in a presidential runoff earlier this week over the leftist incumbent president. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

North Macedonia’s new president reignites a spat with Greece at her inauguration ceremony

By Konstantin Testorides - Associated Press

A Muslim cleric walks along a former Byzantine church which formally opened as a mosque, in Istanbul, Turkey, Monday, May 6, 2024. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan formally opened a former Byzantine church in Istanbul as a mosque on Monday, four years after his government had designated it a Muslim house of prayer, despite criticism from neighboring Greece. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Turkey formally opens another former Byzantine-era church as a mosque

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FILE - Nikos Michaloliakos, the leader of the extreme far-right Golden Dawn political party speaks during a pre-election rally, in Athens, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015. The head of Greece's extreme far-right Golden Dawn party was granted conditional early release Thursday, May 2, 2024, from prison, after serving part of his sentence for running a criminal organization blamed for numerous violent hate crimes. A council of judges accepted the request by Michaloliakos, 66, who had served the minimal legal requirement for conditional release, which also took into consideration his age. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

Head of Greek extreme far-right Golden Dawn party is granted early release from prison

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Firefighters of the 1st Wildfire Special Operation Unit, take part in a drill near Villia village some 60 kilometers (37 miles) northwest of Athens, Greece, Friday, April 19, 2024. Greece's fire season officially starts on May 1 but dozens of fires have already been put out over the past month after temperatures began hitting 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) in late March. This year, Greece is doubling the number of firefighters in specialized units to some 1,300, adopting tactics from the United States to try and outflank fires with airborne units scrambled to build breaks in the predicted path of the flames. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Greece boosts special firefighting units to cope with its growing heat risk

By Derek Gatopoulos - Associated Press

FILE - People stand amid the charred remains of burned-out cars in Mati east of Athens, Greece, Tuesday, July 24, 2018. A court on Monday, April 29, 2024, has convicted five former Fire Service and disaster response officials over a 2018 wildfire outside Athens that killed more than 100 people. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)

5 former officials are convicted over Greece’s deadliest wildfire but are freed after being fined

By Derek Gatopoulos and Costas Kantouris - Associated Press

The two-time FIFA Player of the Year Carli Lloyd watches the training of young migrants at Olympiacos Training Center in Athens, Monday, April 22, 2024. Elite American athletes and coaches, including the former US soccer players Carli Lloyd and Cobi Jones, take part in the 2024 spring roster of U.S. Soccer Sports Envoys organized by the U.S. Department of State. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Carli Lloyd turns diplomat, takes U.S. message to kids in Greece

By Eddie Pells - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, file photo, Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, right, and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan leave after their statements at Maximos Mansion in Athens, Greece. Delegations from Greece and Turkey were meeting in Athens, on Monday, April 22, 2024 as part of long-standing efforts to improve often tense relations between the two neighbors, days after Turkey voiced objections over Greece's plans to create marine nature reserves in the Ionian and Aegean seas. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas, File)

Greek and Turkish delegations meet in Athens as part of efforts to improve often strained ties

By Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

Performers, who will take part in the flame-lighting ceremony for the Paris Olympics, enter the Olympic Velodrome ahead of a practice in Athens, Greece, Saturday, March 30, 2024. Every two years, a countdown to the Olympic games is launched from its ancient birthplace with a flame-lighting ceremony in southern Greece at Ancient Olympia. The event is marked with a performance by dancers who assume the role of priestesses and male companions, their movement inspired by scenes from millennia-old artwork. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

At birthplace of Olympics, performers at flame-lighting ceremony feel a pull of the ancient past

By Theodora Tongas and Derek Gatopoulos - Associated Press

A sheet of Greek stamps showing Baron Pierre de Coubertin and his memorial in Olympia are seen in the Philatelic and Postal Museum , Ministry of Digital Governance in Athens, on Thursday, April 11, 2024. The Greek stamps showing the French Baron were issued in 1971, for the 75th anniversary of the first modern Olympic games in Athens in 1896.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

The French connection: Paris flame to make first stop in Greece at heart of modern games’ founder

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A firefighter sprays water at a fire on the mount of Penteli, in northern Athens, Greece on July 19, 2022. Greek authorities presented a new action plan on Thursday, March 21, 2024 for tackling wildfires which often ravage the country during its hot, dry summers.(AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)

Greek authorities overhaul wildfire response plans ahead of summer fire season

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Greek Fighter Jets F-16, fly over Tanagra air force base about 74 kilometres (46 miles) north of Athens, Greece on Sept. 12, 2022. Greek authorities say on Wednesday, March 20, 2024, an F-16 fighter jet crashed in the Aegean Sea during a training flight. The pilot ejected from the aircraft and was later rescued. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)

A Greek F-16 crashes during a training mission, but the pilot is rescued

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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)

9 jailed pending trial over allegedly harassing, threatening 2 transgender people in Greece

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Greek author Petros Hadjopoulos, who uses the pen name Auguste Corteau, hugs his husband, lawyer Anastasios Samouilidis, before their wedding at Athens City Hall, Greece, on Thursday, March 7, 2024. A Greek novelist and his partner on Thursday became the first male couple to be married in Athens' city hall following the legalization of same-sex marriage in Orthodox Christian Greece. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas)

In rights landmark, Greek novelist and lawyer are the first same-sex couple wed at Athens city hall

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