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From left to right, United Nation Working group staff on Arbitrary Detention , Setondji Ronald Advovi, Leigh Toomey, and Jose Antonio Guevara Bermudez take part in a news conference in Athens, Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. A preliminary report issued by the working group after a visit to Greece found that although some improvements had been made, Greece was still violation of certain international obligations concerning detention, both in the criminal justice system and concerning migration. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

UN: Greece still in violation of some norms for detention

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Greek foreign Minister Nikos Dendias arrive for a meeting to brief political party representatives on developments for the maritime boundary deal between Turkey and Libya in Athens, on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019. Greece has sent two letters to the United Nations explaining its objections to the deal and asking for the matter to be taken up by the U.N. Security Council, the government spokesman said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greece sends letters to UN over Turkey-Libya deal

By ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018 file photo Mohamed Younis A.B. Menfi Ambassador of Libya in Greece attends a ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Athens. Greece's foreign minister says on Friday, Dec. 6, 2019, his country is expelling the Libyan ambassador in the latest escalation of a dispute over a controversial deal between Libya's UN-supported government and Turkey on maritime boundaries in the Mediterranean. (John Liakos/InTime News via AP, File)

Greece expels Libyan ambassador in dispute with Turkey

By ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis arrives for a meeting with Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte at Chigi Palace premier's office, in Rome, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Greece to ask for NATO’s support in dispute with Turkey

By DEMETRIS NELLAS - Associated Press

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias answers a journalist's question during a news conference with his North Macedonia's counterpart Nikola Dimitrov, after their meeting in Skopje, North Macedonia, on Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2019. Dendias arrived Tuesday in Skopje to discuss the bilateral relations and to express Greek support to the Balkan country's bid to open the membership talks with European Union. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

Greek minister heads to Cairo for talks over sea dispute

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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis arrives for a meeting with Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte at Chigi Palace premier's office, in Rome, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Powerful quake rattles Greek island of Crete

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A man walks on a trestle bridge as high water floods Venice, northern Italy, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2019. The high water reached peak of 135cm (4.42ft) early Sunday. (Andrea Merola/ANSA via AP)

At least 9 dead as heavy rain hits France, Italy, Greece

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Helped by market rates, Greece repays IMF early

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In this Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019 photo Syrians stand inside their makeshift tent near the refugee and migrant camp at the Greek island of Samos. Greece's conservative government announced Wednesday Nov. 20, 2019, plans to overhaul the country's migration management system, and replacing existing camps on the islands with detention facilities and moving and 20,000 asylum seekers to the mainland over the next few weeks. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greece: EU ignored request to help refugee children

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In this Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019 photo Syrians stand inside their makeshift tent near the refugee and migrant camp at the Greek island of Samos. Greece's conservative government announced Wednesday Nov. 20, 2019, plans to overhaul the country's migration management system, and replacing existing camps on the islands with detention facilities and moving and 20,000 asylum seekers to the mainland over the next few weeks. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greece announces major overhaul of migrant camp system

By DEREK GATOPOULOS - Associated Press

Nikos Michaloliakos, the leader of the extreme far-right Golden Dawn political party delivers his speech during a pre-election rally, in Athens, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015. Golden Dawn, founded as a neo-Nazi party three decades ago, is on course for third place in Greece's snap general election on Sept. 20, 2015. The stridently anti-austerity and anti-immigrant party could attract voters angry with the prospect of continued austerity under the third bailout, despite the party&#237;s leadership and dozens of its members being on trial for a slew of offences. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Golden Dawn, Greece far-right party, in ‘trial of the century’

By Nikolia Apostolou and Marina Rigou - Special to The Washington Times

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 Thursday Nov. 6, 2019, A Turkish flag is seen through a fence that divided the Greek Cypriot south to the Turkish Cypriots north in divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus. As the world commemorates 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the bullet-riddled sandstone walls of abandoned, crumbling homes and concrete machine gun nests dotting in Cyprus' no-man's land are a reminder of Europe's last divided country. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

30 years after the Berlin Wall, Cyprus’ division endures

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS - 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

Greece: 41 men found in refrigerated truck

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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

Standard & Poor’s upgrades Greece’s rating by 1 notch to BB-

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In this early Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019 photo, an Iraqi girl is wrapped in a thermal blanket after being transferred from a dinghy onto a Greek coast guard patrol boat during a rescue operation near the eastern Aegean Sea island of Samos. The 23 people from Syria, Iraq, Palestine and Iran had set out in the dinghy from nearby Turkey. They were taken to a camp on Samos. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

AP PHOTOS: Migrant surge overwhelms Greek islands

By PETROS GIANNAKOURIS - Associated Press

Vehicle crammed with migrants crashes in Greece, 3 dead

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