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A man cleans with a water hose outside a traditional restaurant in front of the Roman Agora Gate, in Plaka, district of Athens, Friday, April 30, 2021. COVID-19 restrictions will be relaxed in Greece for Orthodox Easter on Sunday, allowing cafe and restaurant owners to serve customers outdoors. Tourism related services are expected to start operating on May 15. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Cafes, restaurants reopen in Greece for outdoor service

By ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press

A consumer wearing a protective face mask carries a lamb at the main meat market of Athens, during Orthodox Holy Week, Thursday, April 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greece keeps lid on Orthodox Easter events, readies tourism

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36 year-old Vasilis Tsipiras receives his first dose of the of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, at a vaccination center in Piraeus, near Athens, Thursday, April 29, 2021. Greece’s health minister says any adult who wants to be vaccinated against COVID-19 will be able to do so by the end of June, as the country ramps up its vaccination drive. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greece: All adults can receive COVID-19 vaccines before July

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Policemen check the drivers for valid documents at a roadblock in Elefsina toll stations, west of Athens, Wednesday, April 28, 2021. Greek police set up checkpoints along highways leading out of the Greek capital to enforce a travel ban tightened for Orthodox Easter on May 2. Easter holidays are often celebrated with relatives outside Athens and other cities, but the government said COVID-19 infection levels remain too high to allow free travel. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Greek PM: Vaccine hesitancy driving high death rate

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Greece coast guard divers seize cocaine from cargo ship

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An abandoned Turkish military guard post, at top background in the north Turkish occupied area, and a blocked road with barrels in the Greek Cypriot south, in the divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Monday, April 26, 2021. U.N. chief Antonio Guterres will host an informal gathering this week in Geneva for the rival Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders. The foreign ministers of ethnically split Cyprus' ‘guarantors’ — Greece, Turkey and former colonial ruler Britain — will also be there in hopes of getting the two sides to embark on a fresh round of formal reunification talks. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

UN chief launches Cyprus talks, joined by Greece, Turkey, UK

By JAMEY KEATEN and MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS - Associated Press

A Greek Cypriot protestor waves a banner, during a peace protest in divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Saturday, April 24, 2021. Guterres will host an informal gathering of the rival Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders in Geneva, as well as the foreign ministers of ethnically split Cyprus' ‘guarantors’ - Greece, Turkey and former colonial ruler Britain - in hopes of getting the two sides to embark on a fresh round of formal reunification talks. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

UN faces tough task to get Cyprus peace talks restarted

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS - Associated Press

Student nurse Soraya Ngin Tun, left, Dr. Atanas Sabahov, center left, nurse Rim Omrani, center right, and student nurse Landry Nzoyem, right, rest at Bichat Hospital, AP-HP, in Paris, Thursday, April 22, 2021. France still had nearly 6,000 critically ill patients in ICUs this week as the government embarked on the perilous process of gingerly easing the country out of its latest lockdown, too prematurely for those on pandemic frontlines in hospitals. President Emmanuel Macron's decision to reopen elementary schools on Monday and allow people to move about more freely again in May, even though ICU numbers have remained stubbornly higher than at any point since the pandemic's catastrophic first wave, marks another shift in multiple European capitals away from prioritizing hospitals. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly)

Europe reopens but virus patients still overwhelm ICU teams

By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

Two women sit on life-guard post, in Alimos beach, a seaside suburb of Athens, on Friday April 23, 2021. Easter holidays are often celebrated with relatives outside Athens and other cities, but the government has said COVID-19 infection levels remain too high to allow free travel.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greece closer to investment grade with ratings upgrade

By DEREK GATOPOULOS - Associated Press

Greece lifts quarantine requirement for US, EU, others

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Greece OKs Venezuelan Embassy assets seizure in legal case

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, centre, and EU Council President Charles Michel arrive for a joint news conference after talks with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, April 6, 2021. Top European Union officials met with Erdogan in Ankara on Tuesday, weeks after EU leaders agreed to boost trade and improve cooperation on migration following conciliatory steps from Turkey. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

EU officials tell Turkey human rights are key to better ties

By SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

A woman adjusts items inside a shop, at Glyfada suburb west of Athens, Saturday, April 3, 2021. Greece has relaxed some coronavirus restrictions despite surging COVID-19 cases that are straining hospitals to their limits, with retail stores to reopen and people allowed to drive outside their home municipalities for exercise on weekends. AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

Stores in Greece open amid virus surge to help save economy

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and COSTAS KANTOURIS - Associated Press

Iron tables stand in front of a decorated fence outside a shuttered traditional restaurant in Plaka, district of Athens, on Tuesday, March 16, 2021. Restaurants, bars and cafes, whose nature it is to gather groups of people closely together, have remained shut since November when the Greek government imposed a second lockdown to curb the spread of COVID-19 infections. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

AP PHOTOS: Greek cafes still shuttered by COVID-19 measures

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In this photo provided by the Hellenic Coast Guard and taken from a vessel shows a dinghy with migrants, left, with Turkish ships in the background, in the narrow stretch of water between the eastern Greek island of Lesbos and the Turkish coast on Friday, April 2, 2021. Greece is reporting a series of incidents with the Turkish coast guard in the narrow stretch of water between the eastern Greek island of Lesbos and the Turkish coast, at a time of generally testy relations between the two neighbors and NATO allies. The Greek coast guard said three incidents occurred Friday morning northeast of Lesbos, an island on the main migrant smuggling route from Turkey to Greece. It said two involved Turkish coast guard vessels escorting or pushing dinghies carrying migrants toward Greek territorial waters. There was no immediate reaction from Turkish authorities. Turkey and Greece have long traded accusations over the migration issue. (Hellenic Coast Guard via AP)

Greece accuses Turkey of escorting migrant smuggling boats

By ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press

A woman wearing a face mask to protect against the spread of the coronavirus, passes next to a tourist info kiosk of Athens municipality, Wednesday, March 31, 2021. Despite five months of lockdown measures, COVID-19 infections on Tuesday hit a new record in Greece. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Greece relaxes some lockdown measures, despite virus surge

By ELENA BECATOROS and COSTAS KANTOURIS - Associated Press

A Greek flag on a makeshift tent outside the perimeter of the overcrowded refugee camp at the port of Vathy on the eastern Aegean island of Samos, Greece, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. On a hill above a small island village, the sparkling blue of the Aegean just visible through the pine trees, lies a boy’s grave. His first ever boat ride was to be his last - the sea claimed him before his sixth birthday. His 25-year-old father, like so many before him, had hoped for a better life in Europe, far from the violence of his native Afghanistan. But his dreams were dashed on the rocks of Samos, a picturesque Greek island almost touching the Turkish coast. Still devastated from losing his only child, the father has now found himself charged with a felony count of child endangerment. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

EU commissioner stresses need for solidarity on migration

By ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press

Spain's players celebrates after scoring his side's second goal during the World Cup 2022 group B qualifying soccer match between Georgia and Spain at Boris Paichadze Dinamo Arena in Tbilisi, Georgia, Sunday, March 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Zurab Tsertsvadze)

Spain rallies to top Georgia, Ibrahimovic helps Sweden again

By TALES AZZONI - Associated Press

Greece's Tasos Basaketas, right, scores his side's first goal during a World Cup 2022 group B qualifying soccer match between Spain and Greece at the Los Carmenes stadium in Granada, Spain, Thursday, March 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Fermin Rodriguez)

Spain held by Greece; Ibrahimovic returns with Sweden

By TALES AZZONI - Associated Press

Members of the Presidential Guard walk in front of the Parthenon temple atop of Acropolis Hill before the Greek flag raising ceremony in Athens, Thursday, March 25, 2021. Greece celebrates the bicentenary of the start of the country's war of independence against the Ottoman Empire. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, Pool)

Greek Independence Day events culminate in military parade

By ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press