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A cafe setting is littered with rubble following a strong earthquake on the Greek island of Kos early Friday, July 21, 2017. A powerful earthquake struck Turkey's Aegean coast and nearby Greek islands, sending frightened residents running out of buildings they feared would collapse and into the streets. (Sander van Deventer via AP)

Greece: Quake kills two, sends island tourists into panic

By Michael Probst, Derek Gatopoulos and Ayse Wieting - Associated Press

Boats that crashed on top of each other in the harbor in Bodrum, Turkey, in the overnight earthquake are seen, Friday, July 21, 2017. A powerful earthquake sent a building crashing down on tourists at a bar on the Greek holiday island of Kos and struck panic on the nearby shores of Turkey early Friday, killing people and injuring some 200 people. (Yasar Anter/DHA-Depo Photos via AP)

The Latest: 2 dead, 500 hurt as 6.7 quake rocks Aegean Sea

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The broken quay wall is raised by several inches in the harbor after an earthquake in Kos on the island of Kos, Greece Friday, July 21, 2017. Greek authorities said two tourists killed in the overnight quake are from Turkey and Sweden.(AP Photo/Michael Probst)

The Latest: Swede confirmed as one of those killed in quake

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Greek iconographer shares religious art knowledge in Kansas

By KATHERINE BURGESS - Associated Press

People sit at a square after an earthquake on the Greek island of Kos early Friday, July 21, 2017. A powerful earthquake struck Greek islands and Turkey's Aegean coast early Friday morning, damaging buildings and a port and killing at least two people, authorities said. (Kostoday.gr via AP)

The Latest: 2 tourists killed in quake from Turkey, Sweden

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The Latest: Funeral held for Texan fatally beaten in Greece

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In this Saturday, July 8, 2017 photo , policeman lead suspects as they enter the court, in Zakynthos island, Greece. Eight suspects charged with involvement in the beating to death of a 22-year-old American tourist on a Greek island were granted brief delays in court appearances Tuesday to allow their lawyers to prepare their cases, while authorities have arrested a ninth man. The hearings for six Serbs, a British citizen of Serb origin and a Greek were postponed for Wednesday and Thursday. (imerazande.gr via AP)

Greece: Suspects in tourist’s fatal beating held for trial

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In this Friday, July 7, 2017 photo, a woman recites hymns as she takes part in a torch-lit procession at the northern Greek village of Litohoro. Devotees of ancient Greece's religion and culture gather each July at the foot of Mount Olympus to hold a series of events, ceremonies and seminars. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)

Meet the Greeks who call Mount Olympus spiritual home

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and COSTAS KANTOURIS - Associated Press

Bunches of mountain tea are on sale in a shop in Athens, on Saturday, July 1, 2017. Greek authorities and conservationists say bands of impoverished Albanians make regular forays over the border, illegally harvesting donkey loads of wild herbs and medicinal plants such as mountain tea, also called ironwort, hawthorn and primrose, but also eradicating rare or endangered species. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

Looters strip Greek mountains of wild tea, rare plants

By COSTAS KANTOURIS - Associated Press

A man looks on a pile of trash as he walks behind a flower pot in Kaminia neighborhood of Piraeus, near Athens Tuesday, June 27, 2017. Striking garbage collectors are on the 11-day of protest that left huge piles of trash around Athens. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greek garbage collectors reject compromise as trash piles up

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A woman walks past a pile of garbage outside a Pet shop, in Piraeus, near Athens, on Monday, June 26, 2017. Municipality workers have been on strike for almost a week, hindering trash collection across the country. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Garbage crisis hits Greek capital over job freeze

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The Latest: Portable dams to control Lake Ontario flooding

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Belgium's Dries Mertens celebrates after scoring a goal during the World Cup Group H qualifying match between Estonia and Belgium at the A. Le Coq Arena in Tallinn, Estonia, Friday, June 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Marko Mumm)

Mertens leads Belgium to 2-0 win over Estonia

By RAF CASERT - Associated Press

Greek police experts search for evidence at the scene of an explosion site in Athens, on Thursday, May 25, 2017.An explosion inside a car in Greece's capital wounded former Prime Minister Lucas Papademos on Thursday, police said. His injuries were not considered to be life-threatening. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

Lucas Papademos, former Greek PM, injured by car blast

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Diagnostic equipment thieves hit 3 more hospitals in Greece

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In this photo taken on Saturday, April 29, 2017, a candle is lit in a roadside shrine as the sun sets across a nearby lake of Pineia in the village of Souli, in the Peloponnese region of southern Greece. Made of iron sheeting, stone, wood, concrete or marble, tens of thousands of such shrines punctuate Greece’s roadside scenery, a common sight in a country that has one of the European Union’s worst road fatality rates. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

AP PHOTOS: Shrines mark tragedy on Greece’s deadly roads

By PETROS GIANNAKOURIS - Associated Press

Greek court rejects new extradition bid for 3 Turks

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Three of the eight Turkish military officers are transferred in a police convoy to a court in Athens, Tuesday, April 25, 2017. Turkish servicemen who fled to Greece after last year's coup go back to court after Turkey submitted new evidence and re-issued their request for the servicemen's extradition. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Greece rejects new Turkish extradition bid for servicemen

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Puyol meets refugees in Greece ahead of ‘clasico’

By COSTAS KANTOURIS - Associated Press

FILE - A Friday, Jan. 27, 2017 file photo of Greece's Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos at a round table meeting of EU finance ministers at the EU Council building in Brussels. Greece’s finance minister says he’d like to take a break from arduous negotiations with bailout creditors for a drink with Scarlett Johansson, but isn’t keeping his hopes high. Tsakalotos tried to lighten the mood at a parliamentary briefing on the bailout talks Thursday, March 16, 2017, describing the main opposition party’s economic program as highly optimistic_ like his chances of a date with the U.S. actress. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)

Greek finance chief dreams of drinks with Scarlett Johansson

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