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A protester holds a portrait of Iranian Mahsa Amini during a demonstration by Iranians living in Greece in central Athens

Molotov cocktail attack against Iran embassy in Athens
ATHENS: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu (left) speaks with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (center) and Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias before their meeting yesterday. — AFP

Turkey, Greece smooth relations after Ankara spat
ATHENS: Local residents look at a forest fire near the village of Pefkaneas, west of Athens.—AFPn

Greek firefighters control forest fire near Athens
MAVROLIMNI, GREECE: A firefighting airplane sprays water to extinguish a wild fire on Mount Geraneia, west of Athens yesterday.-AFP n

'Ecological disaster' feared as Greece battles forest fire
ATHENS: People walk down Athens main commercial street on the first day of the reopening of retail stores yesterday amid the coronavirus pandemic. – AFPn

Greece reopens shops despite high infections
ATHENS: (From left), Prince of Wales, Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall Camilla, Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou and her partner Pavlos Kotsonis pose for a photograph in Athens, Greece yesterday as Greece celebrates 200th anniversary of 1821 revolution and war of independence. - AFPn

Greece celebrates revolution bicentennial with pomp, allies
ATHENS: In this file photo, Greek scientist Nefeli Lagopati works on samples at a laboratory in Athens. Some 500,000 people moved abroad during the Greek crisis. - AFPnn

In pandemic e-work, Greece sees a chance to reverse brain drain
Muslim worshippers pray in the first official mosque in the Greek capital Athens, a day after its opening on November 3, 2020. - The first official mosque in Athens, delayed for more than a decade, opened its doors to a few faithful owing to the coronavirus, the capital's Muslim community said November 3, 2020. The project to open a state-sanctioned mosque in Athens, the only European capital without one, was launched in 2007. Some 650,000 Muslims live in Greece, the majority in Athens. Most are migrants who arrived in the country over the last 20 years. (Photo by LOUISA GOULIAMAKI / AFP)

Athens' first official mosque opens its doors
Locals and tourists walk by a kiosk at Monastiraki square, an area popular with tourists, in Athens, on October 9, 2020. - Only about half of Greece's little kiosks across the country survived the economic crisis. At the end of September, because of the spike in the number of Covid-19 cases, the government ordered the closure of the kiosks from midnight to five o'clock in the morning to discourage after-hours bar crowds from gathering on squares. (Photo by LOUISA GOULIAMAKI / AFP)

Coronavirus-hit Athens kiosk owners fear for their future
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Indian designer Rohit Bal (center) poses with models during the grand finale of the Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) summer resort 2012 in Mumbai on March 6, 2012.—AFP photos
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First responders battle flames following a Zionist airstrike that targeted the industrial zone in the southern Lebanese village of Abbasiyeh near Tyre on October 30, 2024. -- AFP
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