Czech Republic, U.S. complete quarterfinal field at FIBA World Cup
The Czech Republic and the United States completed the field on Monday for the quarterfinals of FIBA World Cup. The Czech's did it the hard way. Despite losing to Greece 84-77 in the second-round group game, the Czech Republic (3-2) advanced after the United States defeated ...
Humanitarian groups SOS Mediterranee and Doctors Without Borders rescued 50 migrants on Sunday from a rubber dinghy off Libya's coast and brought them aboard their charity ship, Ocean Viking. An AP journalist aboard the Norwegian-flagged Ocean Viking witnessed the rescue of a pregnant woman, 12 ...
Hundreds of migrants moved from 'hell' of overcrowded Greek isle of Lesbos
Greek officials and U.N. workers evacuated the first group of what will be hundreds of migrants from the Greek island of Lesbos on Monday, where overcrowding and a crushing heat have made conditions unbearable. A first group of 635 Afghans at the Moria camp were ...
Greece will not provide assistance in delivering oil to Syria to an Iranian tanker now sailing eastward through the Mediterranean, Deputy Foreign Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis said on Wednesday. "We have sent a clear message that we would not want to facilitate the trafficking of this ...
A tourist camp and nearby houses on the southern Greek island of Elafonisos were evacuated Sunday for the second day in a row as a wildfire at a nearby landfill intensified because of strong winds. Authorities had pronounced the fire "under control" Saturday night but ...
Rubber refugee boats given new life as bags, some with emotional baggage, in Berlin
Leaning over his sewing machine in the workshop of the small Berlin-based company called mimycri, Khaldoun Alhussain concentrates as he stitches a piece of gray rubber. A border of yellow thread takes shape on the material that he works with an expert hand. The gray material ...
On Albania border patrol, EU's Frontex helps tackle migrant flow
Patrolling dirt paths on sun-baked hills bordering Greece, a European police team is helping Albania intercept more of the migrants trying to reach European Union states to the north. The EU border and coast guard police Frontex deployed 50 officers with night vision cameras and ...
Turkey will drill for gas until Greek Cypriots accept plan: minister
Turkey will continue drilling for gas in waters off Cyprus if the internationally recognized Greek Cypriot government does not accept a cooperation proposal put forward by Turkish Cypriots, Ankara's foreign minister said on Sunday. Mevlut Cavusoglu said a proposal by Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci ...
Corpse found on Crete believed to be of missing American scientist died by 'criminal act'
A state coroner on the Greek island of Crete who examined the body of a woman believed to be of a missing American scientist said she had died as a result of a "criminal act." Antonis Papadomanolakis told The Associated Press Wednesday that final confirmation ...
'Oldest remains' outside Africa reset human migration clock 150,000 years earlier
A 210,000-year-old skull has been identified as the earliest modern human remains found outside Africa, putting the clock back on mankind's arrival in Europe by more than 150,000 years, researchers said Wednesday. In a startling discovery that changes our understanding of how modern man populated ...
Leftist Alexis Tsipras' days in power appear numbered as Greeks hold snap election
Greeks began voting on Sunday in the first general election since Greece emerged from international bailouts, with runoff polls predicting conservatives will come to power and end four years of leftist rule blamed for saddling the country with more debt. The snap election is largely ...
Aegean farmers replaced hunter-gatherers of ancient Britain 6,000 years ago: study
A wave of migrants from what is now Greece and Turkey arrived in Britain some 6,000 years ago and virtually replaced the existing hunter-gatherer population, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature. Scientists examining samples of ancient remains dating as far back ...
