KANDANOS, Greece: German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Thursday asked for “forgiveness” for the crimes perpetrated by the Third Reich in Greece during a visit to a village in Crete razed by the Nazis.

Olympia, Greece: The sacred flame for the Paris 2024 Olympics is to be lit Tuesday in ancient Olympia, birthplace of the ancient Games, for an epic torch relay stretching from the Acropolis to the South Pacific.

ATHENS: A day after national elections failed to produce a single-party government, Greece on Monday was bracing for a new ballot which vote-winner Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ party is poised to seek in order to govern alone.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis, whose party scored a thumping win at Sunday's election, is a conservative political dynasty scion credited with putting the debt-ridden country back on the path of growth.

ATHENS: Pope Francis began a landmark trip to Greece on Saturday with the first visit to Athens by a pontiff in two decades, aiming to improve historically fraught relations with the country's Orthodox Church and highlight the plight of refugees.

OLYMPIA: Activists unfurled a Tibetan flag and a banner that said "no genocide" at the flame-lighting ceremony for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in Greece on Monday.

ATHENS: Greece handed over the Olympic flame to Tokyo 2020 organisers at a ceremony held behind closed doors amid calls for the Olympics to be postponed over the coronavirus pandemic.