Greece
Greece recovers Picasso stolen in 2012: police
'Head of a Woman', gifted by Pablo Picasso to Greece in 1949, was recovered in the rural area of Keratea, some 45 kilometres (28 miles) southeast of Athens,...
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Greek firefighters begin to control forest fire near Athens
No injuries have been reported so far in Greece's first big forest fire of the summer, but around a dozen houses have been destroyed or damaged and villages and hamlets evacuated.
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Greek villages evacuated as forest fire rages
Six villages and two monasteries were evacuated after the fire broke out on Wednesday evening near the village of Schinos on the Gulf of Corinth, some 90 kilometres (56 miles) west of Athens, a spokesman told AFP.
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Greece reopens shops despite high infection rate
Customers must pre-book appointments before visiting shops, and up to 20 people will be allowed inside at a time.
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Greece to reopen shops despite high COVID-19 rate
Civil protection deputy minister Nikos Hardalias said all retail outlets except department stores and malls would reopen from Monday.
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Greek government under fire after #MeToo shock arrest
It is the latest in a series of scandals involving allegations of sexual abuse in the fields of arts, sport and education that have rocked the country in recent weeks.
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Lebanon returns two stolen 18th-century icons to Greece
The paintings were stolen from an exhibition in Athens in 2016, and Greece put out an international notice calling for their return.
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Greece shuts down all schools as hospitals are overwhelmed
Most European countries have kept schools open during the second waves of cases that have hit the continent since September, unlike in March and April when they were shuttered during the first lockdowns.
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WHO warns of 'explosion' of virus cases in Europe
"We do see an explosion.... in the sense it only takes a couple of days to have over the European region an increase of one million cases," WHO's regional director for Europe Hans Kluge said.
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Greece latest to renew virus lockdown, England may follow
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis declared a partial coronavirus lockdown in a televised address Saturday.
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Greece races to shelter migrants after Lesbos camp fire
The migration ministry on Thursday said a ferry had been sent to temporarily accommodate hundreds of people, ahead of the expected arrival of European Commission vice-president Margaritis Schinas to inspect conditions on the island.
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Thousands homeless as blaze guts Greece's main migrant camp
Over 12,000 men, women and children had overnight fled in panic out of their containers and tents into nearby olive groves and fields as the fire destroyed most of the overcrowded, squalid camp.
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Greece delays school reopening to 14 September
Masks will be compulsory in class and on-board school buses, in addition to outdoors in congested areas, and will be provided for free.
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Greek PM reshuffles cabinet, retains key ministers
The conservative premier wants to make the government scheme more efficient as the country tackles the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic that has hurt its fragile economy emerging from a decade-long debt crisis.
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Churches reopen in Greece with communion
As part of the gradual deconfinement started on May 4, churches were permitted to reopen their doors from May 17, so long as they respected a series of measures, in particular social distancing.
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S&P downgrades Greece outlook on coronavirus fears
S&P forecast the Greek economy would contract by around 9% in 2020 on 'uncertainty about the duration of the [coronavirus] pandemic and resulting economic crisis'.
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Greece blocks 35,000 migrants, plans to deport arrivals after 1 March
Greek border guards rebuffed nearly 7,000 attempts in the last 24 hours alone, taking the total since 29 February to 34,778 and the number of arrests of those who got through to 244, the Greek government sources said.
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Parliament to elect Greece's first woman president
The candidacy of Ekaterini Sakellaropoulou has already won cross-party support and been welcomed by some commentators as a consensus candidate during a difficult time for Greek foreign policy.
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Greece 'wants a say' in Libya peace process - PM
Libya has become another diplomatic front for Greece and Turkey as the traditional rivals jostle over Mediterranean maritime rights and the competing camps in the North African country's conflict.
