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Egyptian shipwreck survivors enter a police station to be processed following their release from prison, in the town of Nafplio, about 136 kilometers (85 miles) southwest of Athens, Greece, Wednesday, May 22, 2024. A Greek court Monday dismissed a case against nine Egyptian defendants accused of causing a shipwreck off the southern coast of Greece last June that killed several hundred migrants travelling from Libya to Italy. The suspects had spent 11 months in pre-trial prison detention. (AP Photo/Derek Gatopoulos)

Lawyers say Egyptians cleared in Greece over migrant shipwreck remain unfairly detained

Lawyers for nine Egyptian men cleared by a Greek court of involvement in a migrant shipwreck disaster say they remain unfairly held in administrative detention days after being freed from jail.
 
Egyptian shipwreck survivors enter a police station to be processed following their release from prison, in the town of Nafplio, about 136 kilometers (85 miles) southwest of Athens, Greece, Wednesday, May 22, 2024. A Greek court Monday dismissed a case against nine Egyptian defendants accused of causing a shipwreck off the southern coast of Greece last June that killed several hundred migrants travelling from Libya to Italy. The suspects had spent 11 months in pre-trial prison detention. (AP Photo/Elena Becatoros)

Egyptians held nearly a year over deadly shipwreck are released from Greek jail after case dismissed

 
One of nine Egyptians, who was on trial for migrant smuggling, waves to the media persons as he leaves the court in Kalamata, southwestern Greece, on Tuesday, May 21, 2024. A Greek judge dismissed charges against nine Egyptian men accused of causing a shipwreck that killed hundreds of migrants last year and sent shockwaves through the European Union's border protection and asylum operations, after a prosecutor told the court Greece lacked jurisdiction. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Greek judge dismisses case against Egyptians accused in shipwreck that killed hundreds of migrants

 
FILE - Panathinaikos' head coach Fatih Terim instructs his players during a Greek super League soccer match against AEK Athens, at OPAP Arena stadium, in Athens, Greece, Jan. 14, 2024. Turkish coach Fatih Terim on Friday, May 17, 2024, has announced his departure from Greek club Panathinaikos, one game before the end of the season. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis, File)

Former Turkey coach Fatih Terim leaves Greek club Panathinaikos after three-game losing streak

 
FILE - In this undated handout provided by Greece's coast guard on Wednesday, June 14, 2023, scores of people sit on a battered fishing boat that later capsized and sank off southern Greece. The legal defense team for nine Egyptian men due to go on trial in southern Greece next week accused of causing one of the Mediterranean's deadliest shipwrecks said Thursday they will argue Greece has no jurisdiction in the case, and insisted their clients were innocent survivors who have been unjustly prosecuted. (Hellenic Coast Guard via AP, File)

Greek defense team says 9 Egyptians accused of causing deadly shipwreck were misidentified as crew

 

Protesters clash in Greece as judge dismisses case against 9 Egyptians accused of causing a deadly shipwreck

A Greek judge dismissed charges against nine Egyptian men accused of causing a shipwreck that killed hundreds of migrants last year and sent shockwaves through the European Union’s border protection and asylum operations, after a prosecutor told the court Greece lacked jurisdiction. More than 500 people are believed to have gone down with the fishing trawler, which had been traveling from Libya to Italy. Following the sinking, 104 people were rescued — mostly migrants from Syria, Pakistan and Egypt — and 82 bodies were recovered. (AP video by Petros Giannakouris and Derek Gatopoulos)
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Nearly 140 migrants reach Greece after dangerous sea voyages. One man drowned

Greek authorities say nearly 140 migrants have reached Greek shores over the past 24 hours. One man drowned off the southern island of Crete while making the dangerous crossing from North Africa.
 
FILE - Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, left, welcomes the Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan before their meeting at Maximos Mansion in Athens, Greece, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023. Old foes Turkey and Greece will test a five-month-old friendship initiative on Monday, May 13, 2024 when Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visits Ankara. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)

Greek and Turkish leaders seek to stress thawing relations but tensions remain under the surface

The leaders of Greece and Turkey have met for talks that were supposed to underline their efforts to put aside decades-old disputes but also revealed deep divisions between them.
 
Gordana Siljanovska Davkova, the new President of North Macedonia poses for the cameras at the entrance of the presidential palace in Skopje, North Macedonia, on Sunday, May 12, 2024. Siljanovska Davkova was sworn as first female president in North Macedonia on Sunday after her triumph in a presidential runoff earlier this week over the leftist incumbent president. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

North Macedonia’s new president reignites a spat with Greece at her inauguration ceremony

Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova has been sworn as the first female president of North Macedonia and has immediately reignited a diplomatic spat with neighboring Greece.
 
Fireworks explode over the Venetian port after the procession of "Epitaphios", the bier that carries the body of Jesus Christ to his grave, in Nafpaktos town, western Greece, on Good Friday, May 3, 2024. The solemn processions in Greece, with the flower-adorned biers followed by the clergy and the faithful, are often spectacular, especially in places where bier processions from each parish converge into a central square. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Greek Orthodox mark Good Friday with solemn bier processions

NAFPAKTOS, Greece (AP) — The procession of “Epitaphios,” symbolizing the bier that carried the body of Jesus to his grave, took place across Greece on Friday, which was Good Friday in the Orthodox Christian calendar.
 
FILE - Nikos Michaloliakos, the leader of the extreme far-right Golden Dawn political party speaks during a pre-election rally, in Athens, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015. The head of Greece's extreme far-right Golden Dawn party was granted conditional early release Thursday, May 2, 2024, from prison, after serving part of his sentence for running a criminal organization blamed for numerous violent hate crimes. A council of judges accepted the request by Michaloliakos, 66, who had served the minimal legal requirement for conditional release, which also took into consideration his age. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

Head of Greek extreme far-right Golden Dawn party is granted early release from prison

The head of Greece’s extreme far-right Golden Dawn party has been granted conditional early release from prison.
 
Firefighters of the 1st Wildfire Special Operation Unit, take part in a drill near Villia village some 60 kilometers (37 miles) northwest of Athens, Greece, Friday, April 19, 2024. Greece's fire season officially starts on May 1 but dozens of fires have already been put out over the past month after temperatures began hitting 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) in late March. This year, Greece is doubling the number of firefighters in specialized units to some 1,300, adopting tactics from the United States to try and outflank fires with airborne units scrambled to build breaks in the predicted path of the flames. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Greece boosts special firefighting units to cope with its growing heat risk

Under pressure to cope with the impact of rising temperatures, Greece’s emergency response planners are shifting tactics this summer.
 

1 migrant dies and 25 are rescued from a sinking dinghy in eastern Greece

Authorities on the Greek island of Samos say a migrant died and 25 others were rescued from a sinking dinghy that had left the nearby coast of Turkey.
 
Far-right Greek lawmaker Constantinos Floros leaves the debate chamber moments prior to allegedly assaulting a colleague inside the Greek Parliament in Athens, Wednesday, April 24, 2024, on the sidelines of a parliamentary debate. (Michalis Karayiannis/ Eurokinissi via AP)

A Greek lawmaker faces a criminal charge for allegedly punching a colleague

A far-right Greek lawmaker has been charged with criminal assault for allegedly punching a colleague on the sidelines of a parliamentary debate.
 
Tourists walk at the Lycabettus hill as the city of Athens with the ancient Acropolis hill is seen at the background, on Tuesday, April 23, 2024. The Acropolis and other Athens landmarks took on Martian hues Tuesday as stifling dust clouds blown across the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa engulfed the Greek capital. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Martian skies over Athens? Greece’s capital turns an orange hue with dust clouds from North Africa

Skies over southern Greece have turned an orange hue as dust clouds blown across the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa engulfed the Acropolis and other Athens landmarks.
 
FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, file photo, Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, right, and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan leave after their statements at Maximos Mansion in Athens, Greece. Delegations from Greece and Turkey were meeting in Athens, on Monday, April 22, 2024 as part of long-standing efforts to improve often tense relations between the two neighbors, days after Turkey voiced objections over Greece's plans to create marine nature reserves in the Ionian and Aegean seas. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas, File)

Greek and Turkish delegations meet in Athens as part of efforts to improve often strained ties

Delegations from Greece and Turkey are meeting in Athens as part of long-standing efforts to improve often tense relations between the two neighbors, days after Turkey voiced objections over Greece’s plans to create marine nature reserves in the Ionian and Aegean seas.
 
A cemetery is seen from above at Kato Tritos village on the northeastern Aegean Sea island of Lesbos, Greece, on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. After years of neglect, a primitive burial ground for refugees who died trying to reach Greece's island of Lesbos has been cleaned up and redesigned to provide a dignified resting place for the dead. (AP Photo/Panagiotis Balaskas)

A neglected burial ground for migrants on Greek island of Lesbos has been given a drastic overhaul

A makeshift burial ground for migrants on the Greek island of Lesbos has been cleaned up and redesigned after years of neglect.
 
FILE - The multihued waters of the Aegean Sea sparkle by the islet of Kounoupa off the island of Astypalea, Greece, on Aug. 30, 2021. Greece aims to create two large marine parks as part of a 780 million euro program to protect biodiversity and marine ecosystems, with the plans to be formally announced at an international oceans conference starting in Athens Tuesday. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto, File)

Greek minister says 2 major new marine parks will be created by the end of this year

Greece’s environment and energy minister says his country will be able to create two new major marine parks in the Ionian Sea and the Aegean Sea by the end of this year.
 
Protesters hold banners during a rally in Athens, Greece, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. A 24-hour strike called by Greece's largest labor union have halted ferries and public transport services in the Greek capital and other cities, to press for a return of collective bargaining rights axed more than a decade ago during a severe financial crisis. Writing on banner with red line across the face of Greece’s Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, reads in Greek; “Killer Government / We Will Overturn It”. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Unions in Greece call widespread strikes, seeking a return to bargaining rights axed during bailouts

Strikes called by Greece’s largest labor union have halted ferries, disrupted public transport services and left some state-run hospitals running on emergency staffing levels in Athens and elsewhere.
 

Greece names a convicted politician from Albania’s ethnic Greek minority as candidate in EU election

Greece’s governing conservative party has added a convicted politician from Albania’s ethnic Greek minority to its list of candidates for the upcoming European Parliament election, adding to the already existing tension between the two countries.
 
FILE - The multihued waters of the Aegean Sea sparkle by the islet of Kounoupa off the island of Astypalea, Greece, on Aug. 30, 2021. Greece aims to create two large marine parks as part of a 780 million euro program to protect biodiversity and marine ecosystems, with the plans to be formally announced at an international oceans conference starting in Athens Tuesday. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto, File)

Greece plans 2 marine protected areas. But rival Turkey and environmental groups aren’t impressed

Greece aims to create two large marine parks as part of an $830 million program to protect biodiversity and marine ecosystems.
 
A sheet of Greek stamps showing Baron Pierre de Coubertin and his memorial in Olympia are seen in the Philatelic and Postal Museum , Ministry of Digital Governance in Athens, on Thursday, April 11, 2024. The Greek stamps showing the French Baron were issued in 1971, for the 75th anniversary of the first modern Olympic games in Athens in 1896.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

The French connection: Paris flame to make first stop in Greece at heart of modern games’ founder

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — Just outside the site of the ancient Olympic Games, hooting owls break the nighttime silence at a white marble monument containing what’s left of a singular Frenchman’s heart.
 
FILE - In this Sunday, Dec. 17, 2023, file photo, Greek police secure an entrance of a stadium during a Greek super League soccer match between Atromitos and Panathinaikos, at Peristeri stadium, in Athens, Greece. Greek authorities on Tuesday, April 9, 2024, have launched a ban on paper tickets at all top flight soccer matches as part of an effort to crack down on violence that has plagued the sport for decades. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis, File)

After police officer’s death, Greek soccer fans will need a state-issued QR code to attend games

Greek authorities have launched a ban on paper tickets at all league soccer matches as part of an effort to crack down on the violence that has plagued the sport for decades.
 

Greece will set up a national shelter network in response to woman’s slaying outside police station

Greece’s minister in charge of police has announced plans to set up a nationwide network of domestic violence shelters, days after the fatal stabbing of a woman outside a police station.
 
A firefighter leaves the area after lighting a smoke flare during a preparedness drill at Glyka Nera, in northeastern Athens on Thursday, April 4, 2024. Authorities have stepped up exercises ahead of the official start of the fire season on May 1. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

As fire season fast approaches, Greece’s planners look for an edge in response time

Authorities in Greece are stepping up multi-agency fire drills in an attempt to reduce response times ahead of the summer fire season that officially starts May 1.
 

A woman was killed just after asking police for protection from an ex-partner. Greece is asking why

Greek authorities have ordered an urgent investigation into a woman’s fatal stabbing outside an Athens police precinct where she had just requested protection from an ex-boyfriend.
 
FILE - Tourists enjoy the beach and the sea in Lindos, on the Aegean Sea island of Rhodes, southeastern Greece, on Thursday, July 27, 2023. Officials on the Greek island of Rhodes opened a new vacation visa terminal for Turkish visitors Monday, April 1, 2024 as part of a diplomatic effort to ease long-standing tensions between the two countries. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)

Greek islands launch special visa program for Turkish visitors in diplomatic effort to calm region

Officials on the Greek island of Rhodes have opened a vacation visa terminal for Turkish visitors as part of a diplomatic effort to ease long-standing tensions between the two countries.
 

Greece’s coast guard says 74 migrants have been found in a wooden boat on the Mediterranean Sea

Greek authorities say dozens of migrants found in a wooden boat on the Mediterranean Sea between northern Africa and southern Europe have been transported to the Greek island of Crete.
 

A moderately strong earthquake has struck southern Greece. No injuries are reported

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck southern Greece off the coast of the western Peloponnese. Minor damage but no injuries were reported from the quake, which was also felt in the Greek capital and as far away as the southern island of Crete.
 
Prime Minister of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis speaks at an event hosted by the Hellenic community in Toronto on Monday, March 25, 2024. (Arlyn McAdorey/The Canadian Press via AP)

Greek opposition party seeks to bring down the government over its handling of a 2023 rail disaster

A Greek opposition party has submitted a motion of no-confidence in the government over its handling of a deadly railway disaster last year.
 
FILE - Greece's head coach Gus Poyet gives instruction from inside the box team area during the international friendly soccer match between Romania and Greece at the National Arena stadium in Bucharest, Romania, Friday, March 25, 2022. Greece advancing into a European Championship with a foreign coach is a soccer tradition Gus Poyet aims to build on. (AP Photo/Alexandru Dobre, File)

Poyet tries to mark 20th anniversary of Greece’s European title by leading team back to tournament

Gus Poyet is aiming to build on a tradition as he tries to become the latest foreign coach to lead Greece into a European Championship.
 
FILE - A firefighter sprays water at a fire on the mount of Penteli, in northern Athens, Greece on July 19, 2022. Greek authorities presented a new action plan on Thursday, March 21, 2024 for tackling wildfires which often ravage the country during its hot, dry summers.(AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)

Greek authorities overhaul wildfire response plans ahead of summer fire season

Greek authorities have presented new plans for tackling wildfires which often ravage the country during its hot, dry summers, including changes in the deployment of firefighting aircraft and increased staffing in specialized units.
 

Greek opposition leader briefly sets aside politics for light version of mandatory military service

Greece’s left-wing opposition leader has briefly stepped away from politics for a mandatory stint in the military.
 

A Greek police officer with 225 pounds of marijuana in his patrol car is arrested after a chase

Authorities say a police officer on patrol duty in northwestern Greece has been arrested on drugs charges for allegedly using his service car to smuggle 102 kilograms (225 pounds) of marijuana.
 

Dozens more migrants reach a Greek island south of Crete as smugglers seek new routes

A boat carrying 91 migrants has reached a small island south of Crete that is seeing a spike in the arrival of people attempting the long and dangerous crossing from Africa, A Greek coast guard statement said the migrants, who were found on a beach on Gavdos island Tuesday, were being taken to recep
 

9 jailed pending trial over allegedly harassing, threatening 2 transgender persons in Greece

Nine people have been jailed and will be tried Monday over accusations of harassing and threatening two 21-year-old transgender persons in the northern city of Thessaloniki.
 
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