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A student looks for his document stating a negative COVID-19 self-test as a teacher waits at the entrance of the school in Athens, Monday, May 10, 2021. More than 1.1 million pupils and 127,300 teachers returned to school on Monday as primary and junior high school reopened its doors with mandatory home self-tests. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas)

Greece welcomes young students back to school; courts reopen

By Elena Becatoros May. 10, 2021 07:37 AM EDT

Protesters take part in rally in the northern city of Thessaloniki, Greece, Thursday, April 15, 2021. Clashes between small groups of demonstrators and police broke out in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki at the end of a march to protest a new law allowing the policing of university campuses. (AP Photo/Achilleas Chiras)

Clashes break out at student protest in northern Greek city

Apr. 15, 2021 11:07 AM EDT

A woman wearing a hat and a protective face mask walk in central Athens, on Monday, April 5, 2021. Retail stores across most of Greece have been allowed to reopen despite an ongoing surge in COVID-19 infections, as the country battled to emerge from deep recession.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Stores in Greece open amid virus surge to help save economy

By Derek Gatopoulos And Costas Kantouris Apr. 05, 2021 06:05 AM EDT

Craig Rawls, an Army National Guardsman, right, speaks with his wife Chris Rawls, with only a face mask as a protective garment at the Mississippi State Veterans Home in Collins, Miss., as part of Operation "Family Reunion," Thursday, April 1, 2021. Due to the relaxation of protocols designed to slow the spread of coronavirus, the veterans home allowed indoor, in-person visits between veterans and two family members without the use of PPE for the first time since March of 2020. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

The Latest: Navajo Nation reports 4 new virus deaths

By The Associated Press Apr. 03, 2021 06:19 AM EDT

Medical staff gather during a rally to protest over a dispute with Evangelismos state hospital administration in Athens, 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 Mar. 31, 2021 09:06 AM EDT

Protesters chant slogans at the University of Thessaloniki in northern Greece, on Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. Police clashed with protesters and detained more than 30 people in Greece's second-largest city Monday during a demonstration against a new campus security law. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)

Thousands of students rally in Greece against new police law

Feb. 23, 2021 07:34 AM EST

Greek tax officer dies 7 months after axe attack in office

By Costas Kantouris Feb. 14, 2021 05:03 AM EST
THESSALONIKI (AP) — A tax office employee who had been attacked with an axe in his workplace nearly seven months ago has died, a Greek hospital administrator...

This image provided from Cyprus' press and information office, Greece's Prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is seen during a press conference after a meeting with Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades at the presidential palace in capital Nicosia, Cyprus, on Monday, Feb. 8, 2021. Mitsotakis is in Cyprus for one-day official visit. (Stavros Ioannides, PIO via AP)

Greek PM accused of flouting lockdown rules

Feb. 08, 2021 08:42 AM EST

University students wearing face masks to protect against coronavirus, chant slogans as they take part in a rally against education reforms in Athens, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. Thousands of protesters in Greece have held demonstrations in the Greek capital and the second largest city of Thessaloniki against plans by the government to police university campuses. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greek students, teachers protest planned education reform

Feb. 04, 2021 11:17 AM EST

A university student holds a banner during a rally against education reforms in Athens, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. Thousands of protesters in Greece have held demonstrations in the Greek capital and the second largest city of Thessaloniki against proposed education reforms, defying a weeklong public ban on protests imposed as part of measures to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Greek students, teachers defy weeklong ban on protests

Jan. 28, 2021 07:26 AM EST

An aerial view of graves in a cemetery set up for victims of COVID-19, in the northern city of Thessaloniki, Greece, Saturday, Dec. 26, 2020. In Greece's second-largest city, Thessaloniki, victims of the pandemic are buried in quarantined sections of two cemeteries, angering many relatives already heartbroken that their loved ones died with no or little family contact. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)

In Greek city, segregated graves extend COVID-19 isolation

By Costas Kantouris Jan. 12, 2021 02:28 AM EST

Metropolitan of Piraeus Seraphim immerses a cross into the water during the service for the feast of the Epiphany in the Church of the Holy Trinity in Piraeus, the port of Athens, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. The Greek government relented and allowed limited attendance at churches celebrating the feast of the Epiphany on Wednesday, reversing a ban on attendance designed to limit the spread of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Greek churches open on Epiphany feast despite tight lockdown

By Demetris Nellas Jan. 06, 2021 05:23 AM EST

In this Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020 photo, Gabriel Tachtatzoglou poses at his house in Agios Athanassios, outside Thessaloniki city, northern Greece. Tachtatzoglou has worked as an ICU nurse in northern Greece for 20-years but when the pandemic struck his city in the fall, COVID-19 wards were quickly overwhelmed. He saw little choice other than to treat sick members of his family at home, setting up a treatment site with borrowed and rented medical machinery and using a hat stand to hold IV bags. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)

Greek nurse erects ICU at home to treat relatives with virus

By Costas Kantouris Dec. 30, 2020 03:21 AM EST

A child look at Christmas decoration at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, in Athens, on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020. Greece is on lockdown through Dec. 7 but government officials say it is too early to say when schools and businesses will reopen due to continued pressure on the state-run health service, with intensive care wards near capacity in parts of the country. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greek city to use Christmas money for more ICU beds

By Costas Kantouris Dec. 03, 2020 07:40 AM EST

A man walks next the shuttered entrance of a metro station in the Egaleo suburb of Athens during a 24-hour strike, on Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020. Civil servants in Greece have walked off the job in a 24-hour strike expected to disrupt public transport and services, on a variety of demands, including better workplace protections against the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greece extends coronavirus lockdown by a week

By Elena Becatoros Nov. 26, 2020 03:49 AM EST

Medical staff conducts a rapid COVID test on an elderly woman in Athens, Monday, Nov. 23, 2020. Greece has seen a major resurgence of the virus after the summer, leading to dozens of deaths each day and thousands of new infections. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Greece faces renewed lockdown as pressure on hospitals rises

By Costas Kantouris Nov. 23, 2020 09:03 AM EST

Health workers wearing face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus, take part in a protest at Evangelismos hospital in Athens, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020. State health workers' union staged protests at several hospitals around the country to demand more hiring. Greece has imposed a nationwide nightly curfew as the number of COVID-19 cases in the country continues to surge despite a lockdown. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Greece: 2 private clinics appropriated to treat COVID-19

By Costas Kantouris And Elena Becatoros Nov. 20, 2020 02:37 AM EST

Riot police walk next a water cannon vehicle kin central Omonoia square central Athens, on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020. Police have detained several people and fired tear gas during scuffles in Athens as hundreds of protesters defied a ban on gatherings of more than three people to mark the anniversary of the crushing of a 1973 student uprising against the military junta then ruling Greece. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Police fire tear gas to break up banned gatherings in Greece

By Elena Becatoros Nov. 17, 2020 05:48 AM EST

File – In this Aug. 20, 2015 file photo, Mexican Director Fernanda Valadez speaks during an interview at the Mexico City Film School. Valadez’s film, a drama about a mother’s harrowing journey through Mexico to find her teenage son who went missing while trying to reach the United States has won the top prize at Greece’s Thessaloniki Film Festival on Monday, Nov. 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)

Mexican border drama wins Greece's top film prize

Nov. 16, 2020 06:12 PM EST

Priests wearing face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus, attend the funeral of senior clergyman Ioannis of Lagadas after he died of COVID-19, in Greece's Orthodox Church, in the northern city of Thessaloniki, Greece, Monday, Nov. 16, 2020. Metropolitan Bishop Ioannis of Lagadas, 62, was an outspoken advocate of maintaining communion ceremonies _ at which worshipers are given bread as well as wine with a shared spoon _ during the pandemic, arguing that there was no risk of transmission. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)

Greece: Bishop's death revives debate on communion safety

By Costas Kantouris And Derek Gatopoulos Nov. 16, 2020 10:46 AM EST