Greek public and private sector workers have walked off the job in a 24-hour general strike that is disrupting services across the country, with public transport in the capital suspended for several hours and ferries that connect the islands to the mainland tied up in port.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis says Greece is set to make an early repayment of 5 billion euros or $5.3 billion in bailout-era debt in 2025.

The United Nations' annual climate conference continued Wednesday with brief speeches by nations big and small.

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The foreign ministers of Greece and Turkey say that recent efforts to smooth the frequently volatile ties between the neighboring countries and regional rivals are bearing fruit, although significant differences remain, notably over maritime boundaries in the Aegean.

Renowned Greek musician and composer Mimis Plessas has died just a week before his 100th birthday.

Preliminary results show Albania's governing Socialist Party candidate Vangjel Tavo has won the mayoral election in the southwestern town of Himara.

Firefighters battled wildfires that broke out on the eastern Aegean islands of Chios and Kos and injured five people, as Greece’s prime minister warned of a dangerous summer ahead.

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.

Old foes Turkey and Greece are set to test a five-month-old friendship initiative when Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visits Ankara.

Greece aims to create two large marine parks as part of an $830 million program to protect biodiversity and marine ecosystems.

The sound of a large explosion reverberated around the Ukrainian port of Odesa as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Greece’s prime minister ended a tour of the war-ravaged southern city Wednesday.

Greece has formally agreed to participate in and lead a European Union maritime security operation in the Red Sea to protect commercial shipping from attacks by Houthi militants in Yemen.

Scores of tractors have been parked outside Greece’s parliament as thousands of farmers angry at high production costs shifted their protests to Athens.

Greece has become the first majority-Orthodox Christian nation to legalize same-sex marriage.

Greece has become the first Orthodox Christian country to legalize same-sex civil marriage, despite opposition from Church officials.

Lawmakers in Greece have begun a debate on a landmark bill to legalize same-sex marriage.

Years before starting a family of her own, Stella Belia was already waging a tireless campaign for legal recognition.

Police and student protesters have clashed in the center of the Greek capital after a demonstration against government plans to allow private universities.

Greece’s center-right government is speeding up its timetable to legalize same-sex marriage despite growing opposition from the powerful Orthodox Church.

The European Union’s top official for migration says member states will have to confront tough policy challenges to cope with the continent’s aging population.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has used a speech on human rights to accuse the West of “barbarism” for its stance on the Israel-Hamas war and what he alleged was its toleration of Islamophobia.

Longtime regional rivals Greece and Turkey have made a significant step in mending ties during a visit to Athens by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

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.

Britain's King Charles III has caused some raised eyebrows by wearing a tie adorned with a pattern of Greek flags to the COP28 climate summit in Dubai.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has escalated his war of words with the leader of Greece.

Britain and Greece were able to differ for decades over the world’s toughest cultural heritage dispute.

Greek officials say they will continue talks with the British Museum on bringing the Parthenon Marbles back to Athens.

Greece’s main left-wing opposition party, Syriza, has suffered a damaging setback as nine lawmakers quit the party in protest against its newly elected leadership.

The death toll from severe flooding in central Greece has increased to 10 people, while another four remain missing, Greece’s climate crisis and civil protection minister says, as rescue crews in helicopters and boats are ferrying hundreds of people from inundated villages to safety.

A Greek prosecutor has brought criminal charges against an island ferry captain and three of his crew over the death of a tardy passenger who was pushed by a crew member into the sea as he tried to board the departing vessel.

Fierce rainstorms are battering neighboring Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria, causing at least seven deaths.

Israel’s prime minister is floating the idea of building infrastructure projects such as a fiber optic cable linking countries in Asia and the Arabian Peninsula with Europe through Israel and Cyprus.

Greek firefighters have rescued a group of 25 migrants trapped in a forest in northeastern Greece as flames from a massive wildfire burning for two weeks approached.

Greek authorities have sent 100 extra firefighters to the country’s northeast where a massive blaze in its 13th day has flared up again.

A massive wildfire is burning unabated in northeastern Greece for the 11th day despite the efforts of hundreds of firefighters and a fleet of water-dropping aircraft.

All 105 soccer fans suspected of being involved in extensive clashes in the Greek capital that ended in the death of a 29-year-old AEK Athens supporter have been ordered to be detained pending their trial.

Greece’s prime minister says his country wants to take full advantage of a more positive climate with neighboring Turkey in order to improve bilateral relations despite a string of decades-old disputes.

A firefighting plane has crashed in southern Greece, killing both crew members, as authorities are battling fires across the country amid a return of heat wave temperatures.

Evening winds have caused a major wildfire burning west of Greece’s capital to flare up again.

Greece’s prime minister says his country is ready to “reset” relations with neighbor Turkey in an effort to bypass decades-old disputes between the two NATO members.

Greece’s conservative government has won a vote of confidence in Parliament to start its second four-year term.

Greece’s newly appointed defense minister has welcomed a de-escalation of tensions in the eastern Mediterranean.

Greece’s newly-appointed foreign minister says his country is ready to start talks with Turkey to resolve a long-standing dispute over maritime borders that has repeatedly brought the two neighbors to the brink of armed conflict.

Greece’s new migration minister is promising to continue a “strict but fair” policy toward migration and attempts at illegal entry into the country.

Greece’s center-right leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has been sworn in as prime minister for a second consecutive term.

Far-right parties have made a comeback in Greek parliamentary elections, including the Spartans party backed by a jailed former lawmaker from an organization linked to violent street attacks against migrants and left-wing activists.

Greece’s conservative New Democracy party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has vowed to speed up reforms following his landslide victory in the country’s second election in five weeks.

Greeks heading to the polls Sunday for a second general election in five weeks, with conservative leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis expected to win reelection by a large margin.

Authorities continued to search for victims and survivors of a trawler that sank off the coast of Greece with as many as 750 migrants on board.

Newly elected Greek lawmakers were sworn in Sunday but the Parliament in which they sit may be dissolved as early as Monday, ahead of fresh elections on June 25.

Greece’s outgoing prime minister says he has ordered a probe into a report that authorities illegally deported back to Turkey a group of migrants, allegedly leaving them on a raft at sea for Turkish authorities to pick up.

Senior judge Ioannis Sarmas has been named as Greece's caretaker prime minister after a general election failed to produce a new government.

Greece is heading toward a new general election two days after Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ center-right New Democracy party won a landslide victory in a national vote but failed to clinch a majority in parliament.

Greece faces new national elections as early as June 25, after Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis confirmed he wouldn't try to build a coalition government — despite having dominated the ballot hours earlier by the most decisive margin in half a century.

The conservative party of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has won a landslide election victory Sunday but without enough parliamentary seats to form a government outright.

Sunday’s Greek parliamentary election looks likely to be a dress rehearsal for a new round of voting in the busy summer tourist season.

Greeks will head to the polls on Sunday to elect a leader who will have more control over the country’s economy for the first time in over a decade.

Greece's prime minister says his government is exploring a “win-win” solution to one of the world’s most intractable cultural heritage disputes: The fate of the Parthenon Sculptures currently in the British Museum.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has told The Associated Press in a wide-ranging interview that he will extend “a hand of friendship” to the winner of the upcoming Turkish election and try to build on the momentum of recently reduced tensions.

Greece’s Supreme Court has agreed to ban the far-right Greeks Party from participating in the country’s upcoming general election.

The campaign for Greece’s May 21 national election has officially opened with the dissolution of the parliament that was elected in July 2019.

Greece’s prime minister has promised to extend an existing wall across all of the country’s land border with Turkey.

Greece’s center-right prime minister has called a May 21 general election Tuesday as his party’s long-standing lead in opinion polls has declined in the aftermath of the country’s worst train disaster.

Train services in Greece resumed Wednesday for the first time since a deadly rail disaster three weeks ago.

Greece has announced an increase in the minimum wage that will restore pay to levels existing before sweeping cuts were imposed more than a decade ago during an international bailout.

Three more Greek rail officials have been charged in connection with a train crash that killed 57 people, as protests continued and the government promised to overhaul rail safety.

Recovery crews in northern Greece have cleared the final sections of wreckage from a deadly train collision from the tracks, as protests and political fallout from the country’s worst ever rail disaster continue.

A stationmaster accused of causing Greece’s deadliest train disaster has been charged with negligent homicide and jailed pending trial.

Emergency workers are searching late into the night for survivors and bodies after a passenger train and a freight train crashed head-on in central Greece.

Disappointment has set in two years after the election of U.S. President Joe Biden was supposed to reset trans-Atlantic relations with the European Union.

Lawmakers in Greece have approved legislation banning commercial spyware and reforming rules for legally-sanctioned wiretaps following allegations that senior government officials and journalists had been targeted by shadowy surveillance software.

The British Museum has pledged not to dismantle its collection following a report that the institution’s chairman has held secret talks with Greece’s prime minister over the return of the Parthenon Sculptures, also known as the Elgin Marbles.

Greece's prime minister says U.S. energy giant Exxon Mobil is poised to start a delayed gas prospecting project off southwestern Greece.

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.

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.

Google says it plans to expand its cloud services infrastructure to Greece, promising to create nearly 20,000 jobs through direct investment and partnerships by the end of the decade.

The White House has announced that French President Emmanuel Macron will travel to Washington in early December for the first state visit of President Joe Biden's tenure.

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced a national debate meant to broaden end-of-life options.

Greece’s prime minister says he cannot imagine that tensions with neighboring NATO ally Turkey could ever escalate into armed conflict.

Greek lawmakers have voted for a parliamentary investigation into the surveillance by the country’s secret service of an opposition party leader’s phone.

Greece’s prime minister says he was unaware that the country’s intelligence service had been bugging the mobile phone of an opposition politician for three months.

The head of Greece’s intelligence service and the general secretary of the prime minister’s office have resigned amid a scandal involving the targeting of the head of an opposition party and a journalist with spyware.

Germany's foreign minister has criticized Turkey for disputing the sovereignty of Greek islands near its coastline.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is visiting Greece on his first trip to a European Union country since the killing in 2018 of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

The leaders of Greece and Bulgaria have marked the completion of a new pipeline that will supply natural gas from Azerbaijan to Bulgaria.

Greece's prime minister says Russia's war in Ukraine is a “turning point” in the course of Europe.

Greece's prime minister says his country has sent a letter of request to the United States to buy a squadron of F-35 fighter jets.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he will cease talking to Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and cancel a key meeting between their two countries.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told the U.S. Congress their shared belief in “democracy over authoritarianism” is being tested with Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

President Joe Biden is thanking Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for his country’s “moral leadership” in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Italian Premier Mario Draghi has hosted leaders from three fellow Mediterranean countries to push for a common European response to the energy crisis that has been worsened by Russia's war in Ukraine.

Greece’s prime minister says he has tested positive for COVID-19 and will be self-isolating at home, a day after meeting in Istanbul with Turkey’s President Recep Tayip Erdogan and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, considered the spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians.

Greece’s prime minister has met with Turkey’s president over lunch in Istanbul in a rare meeting between the neighbors.

Greece’s government has secured parliamentary approval for a 3 billion euro ($3.4 billion) agreement for three new French-made warships.

Greek farmers say they are determined to shut down all the country’s major highways to protest rising energy costs.

A censure motion brought by the main opposition party against the Greek government over its handling of a severe snowstorm last Monday has been rejected after a three-day debate.

Army and municipal crews have removed hundreds of vehicles stranded in snow for three days along a tollway linking Athens to the capital’s international airport.

Italy has sent to Athens a small 2,500-year-old marble fragment of the Parthenon Sculptures.

Greece says residents over 60 will have to undergo mandatory vaccinations against COVID-19 or face monthly 100-euro ($114) fine beginning next year.