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Migrant amateur teams in Greece get into World Cup spirit before new EU border measures take effect

Migrant and refugee teams in Greece’s capital took part in a grassroots soccer tournament before the World Cup in North America.

 

Before his return to the Oscars, Yorgos Lanthimos finds a still moment in Athens

Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos has opened a photography exhibition in Athens days before he is due to attend the Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles.

 

Greece’s Epiphany events marking Christ’s baptism highlight concerns about water scarcity

Orthodox Christians attended Epiphany ceremonies on Tuesday, highlighting water scarcity concerns in Greece. Officials used the occasion to draw attention to the issue.

 

Olympic flame-lighting ceremony in photos

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — The Olympic flame began its journey Wednesday to the Milan Cortina Winter Games — missing a little of its usual magic.

 

As clouds threaten ceremony, Greece prepares a backup flame for the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — Even the gods need a backup plan.

Organizers in Ancient Olympia held an emergency rehearsal Monday to light the flame for the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Games, seizing on a brief break in Greece’s stormy weather.

 

As NATO pushes for faster innovation, drones flood a test battlefield in Greece

Greece has showcased a wide range of domestically developed drones and counter-drone tools during a military exercise that highlighted a NATO-wide push to modernize the armed forces and lean on startup driven innovation.

 

Through the smoke and fire, an AP photographer captures a man on a motorcycle carrying a sheep

The photo was taken during an assignment covering the major wildfires in Patras, the third largest city of Greece.

 

Photos of last season at Athens’ Odeon of Herod Atticus theater before it closes for restoration

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The Greek National Opera opened this season’s festival with Giacomo Puccini’s opera Turandot as Athens’ ancient theater hosts its final festival season before it shuts down for at least three years for restoration and maintenance.

 

Photos: On Greece’s Mount Athos, a cliffside monastery transcends country-based branches of Orthodoxy

The Monastery of Simonos Petra clings almost impossibly to a sheer cliff above the Aegean Sea in northern Greece.

 

An ancient bronze griffin head is returned to Greece from New York in a major repatriation move

An ancient bronze griffin head, stolen nearly a century ago, has been returned to the Archaeological Museum of Olympia.

 

Protests turn violent as Greece’s government battles censure motion over deadly train crash

Protesters have launched gasoline bombs and fireworks in clashes with police outside Greece’s parliament.

 

A Greek village leans into faith in its fight against demographic collapse

In the remote mountains of central Greece lies Fourna, a village in danger of disappearing due to its aging population.

 

As summers get hotter, Greece’s seasonal firefighters protest for permanent jobs

Angry seasonal firefighters have clashed with police in Greece’s Civil Protection Ministry, during a protest to demand permanent positions as their contracts expire following a grueling wildfire season.

 

AP PHOTOS: A ferocious blaze scars the land outside Greece’s capital

MARATHON, Greece (AP) — In the blackened remains of his workshop, sculptor Vangelis Ilias stacks what little is left of years of his efforts.

 

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.

 

British Museum loan to Greece coincides with dispute over demand to return Parthenon Marbles

Greece’s Acropolis Museum has launched an exhibition that includes a renowned ancient Greek water jug from 420 B.C. on loan from the British Museum.

 

Fire crews lose control of blaze near Athens as southern Europe heat wave keeps communities on alert

Evening winds have caused a major wildfire burning west of Greece’s capital to flare up again. Authorities had declared the huge blaze outside Athens contained overnight and Greece’s Fire Service intensified water drops with the help of extra firefighting aircraft deployed from France and Italy.

 

Wildfires in Greece close highways and threaten an oil refinery, as the EU sends firefighting planes

Fast-moving fires outside Athens forced authorities in Greece to close highways and cancel vacations for firefighters and evacuations were expanded and weather conditions continued to worsen.

 

AP PHOTOS: Greeks revel in Carnival after pandemic pause

NAXOS, Greece (AP) — Throngs of revelers across Greece attended end-of-Carnival celebrations this weekend for the first time in four years.

 

Greeks revel in Carnival celebrations after pandemic pause

NAXOS, Greece (AP) — Throngs of revelers across Greece attended end-of-Carnival celebrations this weekend for the first time in four years.

 

Greece: Gales stall efforts to find missing migrants

Officials say strong winds are hampering efforts around two Greek islands to find at least 10 migrants believed to be missing after back-to-back shipwrecks left 23 people dead.

 

Harrowing rescues save migrants off Greece; at least 22 die

Bodies floated off two Greek islands as the death toll from the sinking of two migrant boats reached 22, with about a dozen still missing.

 

Survivors tell grim tale of southern Greek migrant shipwreck

Survivors from a migrant boat that hit rocks and smashed to pieces off a southern Greek island say the omens for their journey were bad from the offset in Turkey.

 

At least 15 dead as 2 migrant boats sink in Greek waters

At least 15 people have died after two boats carrying migrants sank in Greek waters in separate incidents. Rescuers are looking for dozens still missing.

 

AP PHOTOS: Spiritual, material mix at Greek mid-August feast

KEA, Greece (AP) — Blending the spiritual with the material, mid-August marks the high point of Greece’s summer season that attracts crowds of city-dwellers back to their ancestral villages.

 

Greece: Hundreds evacuated as fire nears mountain suburbs

DRAFI, Greece (AP) — Hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes late Tuesday as a wildfire threatened mountainside suburbs northeast of Athens.

 

COVID-themed candles on sale in Greece for Orthodox Easter

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Inside Greece’s Orthodox churches, candles are a symbol of faith and simplicity, slender and traditionally made of beeswax, and placed in large candleholders filled with sand.

 

In Greece, taxis help with race to deliver booster shots

Public health authorities in Greece have stepped up a campaign to deliver booster shots to seniors and people with mobility difficulties at home, with some agencies using taxi companies to take healthcare workers to where the vaccinations are needed.

 

Greece’s tavernas, coffee shops close for pandemic protest

Associations representing restaurants and catering businesses in Greece are holding strikes and protests across the country while demanding renewed financial relief from the government due to the effects of the surging coronavirus pandemic.

 

Protestors disrupt flame lighting for Beijing Winter Games

Three activists protesting human rights abuses in China have sneaked into the archaeological site where the flame lighting ceremony for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is being held and ran toward the Temple of Hera holding a Tibetan flag and a banner that read “No genocide games.”

 

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