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Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis speaks during a debate in Parliament on same-sex marriage in Athens, Greece, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. Mitsotakis' center-right government is poised to make Greece the first Orthodox Christian-majority country to approve marriage equality legislation. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas)

Greek Parliament to vote on legalizing same-sex marriage in first for an Orthodox Christian country

By Nicholas Paphitis - Associated Press

A protester raises a crucifix during a rally against same-sex marriage, at central Syntagma square, in Athens, Greece, Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024. More than 1,500 protesters have gathered in central Athens to oppose legislation that would legalize same-sex marriage in Greece. The bill is set for a vote in parliament in days. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

Hundreds of protesters opposed to bill allowing same-sex marriage rally in Greek capital

By Derek Gatopoulos and Demetris Nellas - Associated Press

FILE - Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis talks to the photographers as he waits for his Bulgarian counterpart Nikolai Denkov at Maximos Mansion in Athens, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024. Greece's center-right government will soon submit a draft law allowing same-sex civil marriages, despite reservations from its own lawmakers and the country's powerful church, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Wednesday, Jan. 10. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)

Greek prime minister says legislation allowing same-sex marriage will be presented soon

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European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Ylva Johansson, speaks at a panel discussion on migration in Athens, Greece, on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. Johansson and Greek officials discussed details of a preliminary EU agreement on migration management reached last month following years of tough negotiations. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas)

The EU loses about a million workers per year due to aging. Migration official urges legal options

By Lefteris Pitarakis and Derek Gatopoulos - Associated Press

A bedbug is displayed at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, March 30, 2011. Greece’s health ministry is seeking police help against hoaxers who tried to scare foreign tourists out of several Athens short-term rental flats by inventing a bedbug crisis. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

A bedbug hoax is targeting foreign visitors in Athens. Now the Greek police have been called in

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King Charles III draws attention by wearing a Greek flag tie after London-Athens diplomatic spat

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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak departs 10 Downing Street, London, to attend Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, on Wednesday Nov. 29, 2023. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP)

U.K. Prime Minister Sunak ramps up criticism of Greek prime minister in Parthenon Marbles spat

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

FILE - Women stand by a marble statue of a naked youth thought to represent Greek god Dionysos, center, from the east pediment of the Parthenon, on display during a media photo opportunity to promote a forthcoming exhibition on the human body in ancient Greek art at the British Museum in London, on Jan. 8, 2015. Greek officials said Tuesday Nov. 28, 2023 that they will continue talks with the British Museum on bringing the Parthenon Marbles back to Athens, despite U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak cancelling a meeting with his Greek counterpart where the contested antiquities were due to be discussed. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

Greek officials angry and puzzled after U.K.’s Sunak scraps leaders’ meeting over Parthenon Marbles

By Jill Lawless and Derek Gatopoulos - Associated Press

The moon rises in the sky behind the 5th century B.C. Parthenon temple at the ancient Acropolis hill, in Athens, July 31, 2023. The Parthenon Sculptures have been displayed in London for more than 200 years. But Greece vocally wants them back. Diplomacy failed when U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak abruptly called off a London meeting scheduled for Tuesday Nov. 28, 2023 with Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)

Diplomacy fails as Parthenon Sculptures spark a dispute between Greece and the U.K.

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Prime Minister of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis, center, arrives at BBC Broadcasting House to appear on the BBC One current affairs programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, in London, Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023. (Jordan Pettitt/PA via AP)

Diplomatic spat over the Parthenon Marbles scuttles meeting of British and Greek leaders

By Jill Lawless and Nicholas Paphitis - Associated Press

Pro Palestinian protesters take part in a rally in Athens, Friday, Nov. 17, 2023. Thousands of people are marching through central Athens to mark the 50th anniversary of a pro-democracy student uprising that was violently put down by the military dictatorship ruling Greece in 1973. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas)

Thousands march through Athens to mark 50 years since a student uprising was crushed by dictatorship

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International President of MSF Christos Christou, left, speaks next to Greek journalist Panos Charitos, during a news conference organised by the Doctors Without Borders, in Athens, on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. A leading international medical charity says it has received scores of testimonies over the past two years from migrants that point to a "recurring practice" of alleged secret, illegal and often brutal deportations back to Turkey from two eastern Greek islands. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Charity says migrant testimonies point to a recurring practice of illegal deportations from Greece

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Cyprus' military helicopters fly over a military parade marking the 63th anniversary of Cyprus' independence from British colonial rule, with a Turkish Cypriots breakaway paint giant flag on a mountain in Nicosia in the divided island of Cyprus, on Sunday, Oct. 1 2023. Cyprus gained independence from Britain in 1960 but was split along ethnic lines 14 years later when Turkey invaded following a coup aimed at uniting the island with Greece. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

‘The Biden administration is not God’: Turkish Cypriot minister eyes progress on recognition

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Members of the Frontex, European Border Protection Agency, from Portugal patrol as the sun rises near the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos, on Dec. 8, 2015. Dozens of migrants were rescued from a small boat in difficulty off of an eastern Aegean Sea island and a search was underway for one more person, Greek authorities said Thursday, as arrivals to the southeastern European country increase. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios, File)

Greece wants European Union to sanction countries that refuse deported migrants, minister says

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Stefanos Kasselakis, newly elected leader of main opposition party Syriza, speaks to supporters outside the party's headquarters in Athens, Greece, Monday, Sept. 25, 2023, after a runoff election for the left-wing bloc. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

New Greek opposition leader says he will take a break from politics to do his military service

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Migrants sit outside an ambulance after a rescue operation by a Greek coast vessel, at the port of Mytilene, on the northeastern Aegean Sea island of Lesbos, Greece, Monday, Aug. 28, 2023. Greek authorities say four people died and 18 were rescued Monday after a boat carrying migrants apparently sank northeast of the Greek island of Lesbos, which lies near the Turkish coast. (AP Photo/Panagiotis Balaskas)

Greece is planning a major regularization program for migrants to cope with labor crunch

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Dead animals lie on the mud after heavy rains in Volos, central Greece, on Sept. 6, 2023. The storms flooded 720 square kilometers (72,000 hectares), mostly prime farmland, totally destroying crops. They also swamped hundreds of buildings, broke the country's railway backbone, savaged local roads and bridges and killed tens of thousands of livestock. Thessaly accounts for about 5% of national economic output, and a much larger proportion of agricultural produce. (AP Photo/Thodoris Nikolaou, File)

The cost of damage from the record floods in Greece’s breadbasket is estimated to be in the billions

By Costas Kantouris - Associated Press

This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows flooding areas near the town of Palamas, Thessaly region, central Greece, Sunday, Sept. 10, 2023. The number of confirmed deaths from recent flooding in central Greece rose to 15 after the bodies of four people previously considered missing were found on Sunday, authorities said. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

European Union to rush more than $2 billion to disaster-hit Greece, using untapped funds

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Members of the Frontex, European Border Protection Agency, from Portugal patrol as the sun rises near the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos, on Dec. 8, 2015. Dozens of migrants were rescued from a small boat in difficulty off of an eastern Aegean Sea island and a search was underway for one more person, Greek authorities said Thursday, as arrivals to the southeastern European country increase. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios, File)

Dozens of migrants rescued off Greek island of Lesbos. Search is under way for woman feared missing

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Floodwaters cover houses and farms after the country's record rainstorm in the village of Kastro, near Larissa, Thessaly region, central Greece, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023. The death toll from severe rainstorms that lashed parts of Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria increased after rescue teams in the three neighboring countries recovered more bodies. (AP Photo/Vaggelis Kousioras)

More than 800 people rescued from floodwaters in Greece after severe rainstorms

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