Greece coach Rick Pitino plans ahead without Giannis Antetokounmpo
Greece coach Rick Pitino is planning on trying to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics without Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo. Pitino officially took over as coach of the Greek national basketball team on Monday. He said he would leave a roster place open for ...
Olympic champion Mizuki Noguchi named first Japanese runner in Tokyo 2020 torch relay
Athens Olympic women's marathon gold medalist Mizuki Noguchi will be the first runner from Japan to carry the flame on its journey to next year's Summer Games, the Tokyo organizing committee said Monday. Noguchi will be the second runner to take part in the Greek ...
Pirates seize four aboard freighter off Togo as search continues for nine in Benin case
Pirates seized four crew members from a Greek-flagged ship off the coast of Togo on Monday while authorities in neighboring Benin searched for nine people who were kidnapped from a Norwegian-flagged ship. The incidents mark an escalation of pirate attacks in the Gulf of Guinea, ...
Three ancient shipwrecks, one dating back 2,300 years, found off Aegean island of Kasos
Greece's Culture Ministry says three shipwrecks from ancient and medieval times and large sections of their cargoes have been discovered off the small Aegean island of Kasos. A statement Monday said an underwater survey that ended last month also located cannons and other scattered finds ...
In fading ritual, Greek WWII rescuer, 92, reunites with Jews she saved, now ready to 'die quietly'
One by one, the 40 descendants of a group of Israeli siblings leaned down and hugged the elderly Greek woman to whom they owe their very existence, as she sat in her wheelchair and wiped away tears streaking down her wrinkled face. Clutching the hands ...
Brazil says Greek-flagged tanker is top suspect in oil spills
A Greek-flagged tanker is the main suspect in oil spills that have been appearing along the coast of Brazil for two months, the defense ministry said Friday, finally lifting some of the suspense over this "environmental catastrophe." The oil began appearing in early September and ...
Olympic icons Tadahiro Nomura, Saori Yoshida to unveil Tokyo 2020 flame in March
Three-time Olympic gold medalists Tadahiro Nomura and Saori Yoshida will deliver the 2020 Olympic flame from Greece and unveil it in Japan at a ceremony in March, the organizing committee of the Tokyo Games said Friday. Nomura, a former judoka who captured his first of ...
'Death better than this': Greece's Moria camp refugees decry conditions
Jan Ali Razaiem said he made the long journey from his home in Afghanistan to Greece for a better future for his two sons. Instead, he has been forced to settle for the squalor of Moria, a filthy overcrowded migrant camp on the island of ...
Hundreds of migrants protest conditions on Greek isle of Lesbos
Around a thousand migrants staged a fresh protest Tuesday in Europe's largest migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, two days after a deadly fire at the vastly overcrowded facility. The demonstrators, mainly women and children with some elderly people, left the Moria camp ...
Greece wants to return 10,000 migrants to Turkey after deadly refugee camp fire on island of Lesbos
Greece said Monday it wanted to start sending back thousands of migrants to Turkey, a day after a deadly fire sparked riots at an overcrowded camp on the island of Lesbos. The decision, taken at an emergency Cabinet meeting, came as officials in Greece and ...
Crowded migrant camp on Greek island of Lesbos erupts into clashes as container fire rages
A fire broke out on Sunday at a container inside a crowded refugee camp on the eastern Greek island of Lesbos close to Turkey and then the refugees clashed with police, the emergency services said. Thick smoke could be seen rising over the Moria camp, ...
Migrants posing as basketball team and heading to Switzerland thwarted by Greek police
Ten migrants posing as a basketball team were arrested at Athens' international airport trying to travel with illegally obtained passports, Greek police said Sunday. Police said the migrants, who had entered Greece without legal documents, arrived at the Eleftherios Venizelos Airport on Saturday posing as ...
