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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Giannis Antetokounmpo will play for Greece at the FIBA World Cup in China, saying on Friday he can play any position. The NBA MVP said he hasn't "talked to the coach about which position I'll be playing . . . the important thing is to ...

A boat carrying migrants to Greece sank off the Turkish coast on Monday, leaving at least 12 migrants dead, Turkey's coast guard said. The coast guard said 31 other migrants were rescued after the boat capsized in the Aegean Sea, off the coast of Bodrum. ...

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 ...

Dozens of refugees and migrants stuck in Greece gathered in a field near the country's northern border on Thursday, seeking to travel onward to Northern Europe. Small groups of people including children arrived at the field next to the migrant camp of Diavata near the ...

A German migrant rescue ship that operates in the Mediterranean was renamed Sunday after Alan Kurdi, a 3-year-old Syrian refugee boy whose body washed up on a Turkish beach at the height of the migrant crisis, sparking global outrage Alan's father, Abdullah Kurdi, and aunt, ...

After holding up its admission for years, Greece became the first nation on Friday to ratify Macedonia's membership of NATO after the two states resolved a decades-old name dispute last month. NATO members signed the accord with Macedonia earlier in the week, days after the ...

Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido stepped up efforts Wednesday to win recognition from EU holdout states and insisted the armed forces allow desperately needed humanitarian aid to enter the country. "Today we talked with representatives of the EU to consolidate their support for the democratic ...