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The Greek Health ministry approves booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine for people over the age of 60 years and people with a compromised immune system.
2021-09-13

The European Parliament votes to lift the immunity of far-right MEP Ioannis Lagos, who was sentenced to 13 years in prison in 2020 for being a leader of Golden Dawn, a party linked to acts of racist and political violence. Belgian police arrest Lagos ahead of his likely extradition to Greece.
2021-04-27

The daughter of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny calls on Russian authorities to allow doctors to check on her father, a day after doctors warned he could "die within days" from cardiac arrest or kidney failure. Navalny has been on a hunger strike since March in protest of prison medical conditions.
2021-04-18

Greece reports 78 deaths in the past 24 hours, which is the highest daily total this year, thereby bringing the nationwide death toll to 8,380.
2021-04-4

Eighty migrants cross to Aegean Islands Lesbos and Samos overnight after Turkey opens its border with Greece.
2020-02-29

Eurozone leaders agree on a bailout deal for Greece providing the Hellenic Parliament passes reforms into law by July 15.
2015-07-13

An Albanian hitman serving time in Greece takes six people hostage in an apparent escape attempt.
2013-03-17

2011–2012 Bahraini uprising: Authorities in Bahrain refuse to transfer jailed Shia political activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, who has been performing a hunger strike for two months, to Denmark.
2012-04-9

Shining Path leaders Abimael Guzmán and Elena Iparraguirre marry at a maximum-security prison near Lima; they fought for their right to marry by going on hunger strike earlier this year.
2010-08-20

Greece heads for a general strike after legislators raise the retirement age from 60 to 65.
2010-07-8