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Snow covers a tree in central Athens with the ancient Parthenon temple on the Acropolis hill seen in the background, in Athens, on Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. A cold snap sweeping across southern Greece has caused blackouts, highway closures, and service disruptions. Schools were closed in Athens, along with court houses and multiple services. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Greece: Snow reaches Acropolis, halts services

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Police border guards patrol along a border wall near the town of Feres, along the Evros River which forms the frontier between Greece and Turkey on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2022. Greece prevented some 260,000 migrants from entering illegally in 2022 and arrested 1,500 traffickers, Greece's minister in charge of the security told ambassadors from other European Union countries plus Switzerland and the United Kingdom Saturday, Jan. 21, 2023, as he guided them to a still expanding border wall in the country's northeast. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)

Greece expanding border wall, calls for EU help on migration

By Costas Kantouris - Associated Press

Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Prime Minister of Greece, speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023. The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum is taking place in Davos from Jan. 16 until Jan. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Greek PM Mitsotakis: ‘We will not go to war with Turkey’

By Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

Prince Philippos, left, Prince Pavlos, center, and Prince Pavlos, right, sons of former king of Greece Constantine II walk behind their father coffin as they arrive at the Metropolitan cathedral for his funeral in Athens, Monday, Jan. 16, 2023. Constantine died in a hospital late Tuesday at the age of 82 as Greece's monarchy was definitively abolished in a referendum in December 1974. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Thousands turn out to bid farewell to Greece’s former king

By Elena Becatoros and Theodora Tongas - Associated Press

Former King Constantine II of Greece arrives for the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Feb. 7, 2014. Constantine, the former and last king of Greece, has died his doctors announced late Tuesday Jan. 10, 2023. He was 82. (AP Photo/Lionel Bonaventure, Pool, File)

Greece’s former king to be buried as a private citizen

By Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

Former King Constantine II of Greece arrives at the Yacht Club of Greece in Piraeus, near Athens, Sept. 18, 2014. Constantine, the former and last king of Greece, has died at a private hospital in Athens, his doctors announced late Tuesday Jan. 10, 2023. He was 82. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)

Constantine, the former and last king of Greece, dies at 82

By Demetris Nellas - Associated Press

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, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015. The British Museum has pledged not to dismantle its collection following a report that the institution’s chairman has held secret talks with Greece’s prime minister over the return of the Parthenon Sculptures, also known as the Elgin Marbles. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

British Museum reportedly in talks on Parthenon Sculptures

By Danica Kirka - Associated Press

This undated photo made available by Nabeel Hashmi shows Liberian-flagged oil tanker Pacific Zircon, operated by Singapore-based Eastern Pacific Shipping in Jebel Ali port, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Aug. 16, 2015. An oil tanker associated with an Israeli billionaire has been struck by a bomb-carrying drone off the coast of Oman amid heightened tensions with Iran. (AP Photo/Nabeel Hashmi)

Drone hits Israeli-linked tanker; Iran frees 2 Greek tankers

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

A man fishes as a ferry is docked during a 24-hour strike at the port of Rafina, east of Athens, Greece, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022. A 24-hour general strike called by Greece's private and public sector unions is set to shut down most services around the country Wednesday. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Inflation strikes disrupt trains, flights in Greece, Belgium

By Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

A 2700 years BC marble female figurine is displayed during an exhibition entitled Homecoming in the museum of Cycladic art, in Athens, on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. For decades, an important part of Greece's cultural heritage sparkled for the very few in a U.S. billionaire's private collection, until a groundbreaking deal for its gradual return to Athens. Now 15 of the prehistoric masterpieces have gone on public view for the first time in a temporary display in Athens, ahead of their final return, together with the remaining 146 works, by 2048. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greek museum displays 1st batch of artworks recouped from US

By Nicholas Paphitis - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Greek Coast Guard, some of the nine men who survived a shipwreck and were found on an uninhabited islet are covered with a thermal blankets as they sit aboard a Greek Coast guard vessel, in the Aegean Sea, Greece, on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. A major search and rescue operation was underway Tuesday for dozens of people missing after the boat they were on capsized and sank in stormy weather overnight off the coast of an island near the Greek capital. The coast guard said nine survivors, all men, had been found on an uninhabited islet south of the island of Evia and had been picked up by a coast guard vessel. (Greek Coast Guard via AP)

Greece: 5 children among 22 dead in migrant boat sinking

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In this photo provided by the Greek Coast Guard, some of the nine men who survived a shipwreck and were found on an uninhabited islet are covered with a thermal blankets as they sit aboard a Greek Coast guard vessel, in the Aegean Sea, Greece, on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. A major search and rescue operation was underway Tuesday for dozens of people missing after the boat they were on capsized and sank in stormy weather overnight off the coast of an island near the Greek capital. The coast guard said nine survivors, all men, had been found on an uninhabited islet south of the island of Evia and had been picked up by a coast guard vessel. (Greek Coast Guard via AP)

Greece: Dozens missing after boat carrying migrants sinks

By Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

Tourists visit the Acropolis hill with the 2,500-year-old Parthenon temple on the left, and the ancient Erechtheion temple on the right, in Athens , on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022. Greece is on course to beat its annual record for tourism revenue as southern European Union members made a surprise recovery following a two-year travel slump caused by the pandemic. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Ahead of harsh winter, tourism roars back in Mediterranean

By Derek Gatopoulos - Associated Press

Migrants arrive with a dinghy accompanied by a Frontex vessel at the village of Skala Sikaminias, on the Greek island of Lesbos, after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey, on Feb. 28, 2020. A much-anticipated report made public Thursday Oct. 13, 2022 by the European Union's anti-fraud watchdog into the alleged involvement of the EU border agency Frontex in the illegal pushbacks of migrants from Greece to Turkey has concluded that agency employees were involved in covering up such incidents in violation of peoples' &quot;fundamental rights.&quot; (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas, File)

Turkey calls Greek claims on migrant mistreatment fake news

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Flames are seen at the site of a plane crash, a few miles away from the city of Kavala, in northern Greece, Saturday, July 16, 2022. An Antonov cargo plane operated by a Ukraine-based air carrier crashed Saturday near the city of Kavala in northern Greece, authorities said. Greek Civil Aviation authorities say the flight was heading from Serbia to Jordan, but have not been able to confirm how many people were on board or what the plane's cargo was. (Ilias Kotsireas/InTime News via AP)

Cargo plane operated by Ukraine carrier crashes in Greece

By Costas Kantouris and Demetris Nellas - Associated Press

Firefighters operate during a wildfire in Voula suburb, in southern Athens, Greece, Saturday, June 4, 2022. A combination of hot, dry weather and strong winds makes Greece vulnerable to wildfire outbreaks every summer. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

Greek firefighters battle blaze near Athens for second day

By Demetris Nellas and Theodora Tongas - Associated Press

Composer Vangelis Papathanassiou, right, answers a question during a press conference in Athens, June 27, 2001. Vangelis, the Greece-born electronic composer who wrote the Academy Award-winning score for the film &quot;Chariots of Fire&quot; and music for dozens of other movies, documentaries and TV series, has died. He was 79. (AP Photo/Aris Messinis, File) **FILE**

Vangelis, the Greek ‘Chariots of Fire’ composer, dies at 79

By Nicholas Paphitis - Associated Press

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis calls for support for Ukraine, during a speech to a joint meeting of Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, May 17, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Greek prime minister urges American support for Ukraine, defense of democracy

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

Buses with Ukrainian servicemen evacuated from the besieged Mariupol's Azovstal steel plant travel accompany Russian APC's to a prison in Olyonivka, territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, Tuesday, May 17, 2022. More than 260 fighters, some severely wounded, were pulled from a steel plant on Monday that is the last redoubt of Ukrainian fighters in the city and transported to two towns controlled by separatists, officials on both sides said. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)

Defenders’ fate uncertain as Ukraine abandons Mariupol fortress

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A farmer sits on a tractor with a Greek flag during a protest outside of the Agriculture Ministry in Athens, Greece, on Friday, March 18, 2022. Greek farmers are protesting higher production costs, pressing the center-right government to reduce electricity bills and fuel tax and increase subsidies for animal farms. They gathered outside the ministry of agriculture and were planning to march from there to parliament in central Athens. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

High energy costs trigger unrest in parts of Europe

By Barry Hatton - Associated Press