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This undated photo provided by her family shows Suzanne Eaton, a 59-year-old molecular biologist. (AP Photo)

July 16, 2019, 3:02 pm

Greek police to charge suspect in US scientist’s slaying

Crete police chief says man in custody has confessed to murdering Suzanne Eaton; suspected accomplice detained for questioning

By Agencies

American 59-year-old molecular biologist Suzanne Eaton in an undated photo provided by her family. (AP Photo)

July 16, 2019, 4:20 am

Suspect arrested over death of US scientist in Crete

27-year-old man suspected of murdering Suzanne Eaton in Greece earlier this month; police say motive appears to be ‘sexual abuse’

By AFP

A supporter of the Greek ultra-nationalist party Golden Dawn raises his fist during a preelection rally in Athens on May 23, 2014. (AFP/Aris Messinis)

July 14, 2019, 1:09 am

Greek neo-Nazi in EU parliament defects from Golden Dawn party

Yiannis Lagos, on trial over murder of rapper, says he disagrees with party policy, in latest blow to ultra-nationalist faction that has seen political fortunes plummet

By AFP

New Transport and Infrastructure Minister Makis Voridis, member of the right-wing party LAOS, arrives at the Presidential Palace holding his son in Athens on November 11, 2011. (Dimitri Messini/AP)

July 13, 2019, 5:12 pm

New Greek minister denies ‘dark’ anti-Semitic past

After criticism by prominent Greek Jewish official, Makis Voridis admits that as a ‘nationalist,’ he once coexisted with those who had such ‘unacceptable ideas’

By AFP

July 11, 2019, 12:59 pm

Greek police say US scientist found dead on Crete was asphyxiated

Authorities say foul play suspected after body of 59-year-old molecular biologist Suzanne Eaton found at abandoned WWII bunker, a week after she was last seen

By AFP

Supporters of Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party at a rally in Athens, February 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

July 8, 2019, 4:05 am

Far-right Greek party with neo-Nazi roots crashes out of Parliament

After Sunday election, Golden Dawn leader says ‘fight for nationalism continues’; faction had been Greece’s third-largest during country’s economic crisis

By DEMETRIS NELLAS

Greek opposition New Democracy conservative party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis waves his supporters after casts his ballot at a polling station in Athens, on Sunday, July 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

July 7, 2019, 10:15 pm

Polls show opposition conservatives on path to victory in Greek elections

Sharp drop in support for neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party in first vote since end of the country’s international bailout; results unlikely to affect strong ties with Israel

By Elena Becatoros

Greece's opposition party New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis (C) greets supporters as he leaves a polling station after casting his vote during general elections in Athens on July 7, 2019. (Aris MESSINIS / AFP)

July 7, 2019, 1:32 pm

Greeks vote in 1st parliamentary election since bailout end

Conservative opposition party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis a clear favorite to win

By Elena Becatoros

Players from Tel Aviv's Tichon Hadash high school basketball team celebrating after winning the world championship on April 19, 2019. (Screen capture: YouTube)

April 21, 2019, 1:39 am

TA high school basketball team wins world championship with 3-pointer at buzzer

Tichon Hadash finishes undefeated run at international tourney in Greece by stunning home crowd with last-second basket

By TOI staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, his Greek counterpart Alexis Tsipras, right, and Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades attend the 5th Israel-Greece-Cyprus summit, to sign trilateral agreements in cyber and innovation, in Beersheba, Israel, December 20, 2018. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

March 29, 2019, 6:18 pm

Cyprus, Greece, Israel alliance serves US interests

Growing cooperation on counter-terrorism, search-and-rescue, and maritime security among these Mediterranean countries makes the whole region safer

By Endy Zemenides and David Harris

People hold a banner and balloons reading 'Never Again' as they walk toward the old railway station to mark the departure of the first train from Thessaloniki to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland on March 15, 1943, during a silent march in memory of Holocaust victims in Thessaloniki, on March 17, 2019. (Sakis MITROLIDIS / AFP)

March 17, 2019, 9:28 pm

Thessaloniki march held to mark anniversary of first Auschwitz deportation

Participants walk through Greek city from which 46,000 Jews were deported and killed in Nazi death camps

By Vassilis Kyriakoulis

Participants of a conference organized by the Germany-based foundation European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative (EJCI) watch a drone take off over a Jewish cemetery near the village of Reca, Slovakia, February 26, 2019. (Petr David Josek/AP)

February 27, 2019, 6:20 pm

Drones launched to help preserve Europe’s Jewish cemeteries

Nonprofit organization plans to map boundaries of 1,500 endangered burial grounds in Slovakia, Greece, Moldova, Lithuania and Ukraine so they can be properly enclosed

By Karel Janicek

An illustrative photo of a Holocaust memorial in the northern Greek city of Kastoria. (CC BY-SA 3.0, David Shai, Wikipedia)

December 27, 2018, 12:18 am

Memorial to Greek Jews sent to death camps by Nazis vandalized

Commemorative marble slab in Kastoria found covered in black spray paint, weeks after memorial in Thessaloniki vandalized for fourth time this year

By Marcy Oster

December 20, 2018, 9:44 pm

Israel, Greece, Cyprus to ink natural gas pipeline deal next year, PM says

US ambassador says project will provide ‘stability and prosperity’ to Middle East and Europe, urges all countries in the region to ensure it succeeds

By AFP and TOI staff

Illustrative: Israeli natural gas rigs in the Mediterranean Sea, September 2, 2015. (Flash90)

November 24, 2018, 10:03 pm

Israel, Cyprus, Greece and Italy agree on $7b. East Med gas pipeline to Europe

Energy minister says deal could help moderate Arab influence in Europe; agreement reportedly reached after EU agreed to invest $100 million in a feasibility study

By TOI staff