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WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat down late last week with Breitbart News at the State Department in Washington for his first major exclusive long-form on-camera interview after delivering an address at the Acropolis in Athens, Greece.

President Donald Trump’s administration officials have asked Kimberly Guilfoyle, the U.S. Ambassador to Greece, to resign from her post.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned from the birthplace of Western civilization Wednesday that the West must rediscover the qualities that made it great or resign itself to “atrophy and servitude and decline,” declaring that the choices made over the next decade could determine its course for the next century.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will use an address in Athens, Greece, on Wednesday to renew his call for Americans and Europeans alike to join as one in a great renewal of the Western spirit, a common heritage stretching from the ancient Greek capital and Rome to Christendom and the founding of the landmark American Republic.

Four American tourists visiting Greece were among six people confirmed dead Saturday after a blast brought down the small Athens residential building they had been staying in near the Acropolis, officials said.<

A Greek air force jet crashed at an aerial show north of Athens, starting a fire that sent large plumes of black smoke into the air in front of several thousand spectators on Saturday.

Israel and Greece sealed a historic $3.5 billion defense agreement Monday that will see Jerusalem build Athens a complete multi-layered air defense network, significantly expanding the two countries’ strategic partnership amid growing security challenges in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Divers recently discovered a 2,400 year-old shipwreck off the coast of an island in Greece’s Cyclades, according to Greece’s Ministry of Culture.

WASHINGTON — North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski told Breitbart News exclusively that his country’s government is “strongly” supportive of American President Donald Trump’s government and policies on a number of fronts, from foreign policy to energy to geopolitics and more.

ATHENS, Greece — Greece’s Migration Minister Thanos Plevris sat with Breitbart News exclusively for a lengthy interview last week explaining how the Hellenic Republic controls the flow of migration into this country, and how President Donald Trump’s 2024 victory in the United States set off a global movement that has led to stricter migration policies worldwide.

ATHENS, Greece — President Donald Trump has a historic opportunity to cement his place as the leader of western civilization for thousands of years by helping Greek officials broker an agreement with the British to bring back the parts of the Parthenon atop the Acropolis that a British lord “stole” hundreds of years ago, a top Greek government official tells Breitbart News exclusively.

The 26-year-old Afghan man who confessed to dumping the remains of a dead British woman in Greece has been identified as boxer and migrant Sharif Ahmadzai.

French authorities have arrested nearly 400 people in connection with this summer’s devastating wildfires, further undercutting the legacy media narrative of climate change being chiefly responsible for the annual occurrences.

Greek police officers detained a 26 year-old Afghan national after he confessed to dumping the body of a dead British woman at an abandoned building in Athens, outlets reported on Sunday.

ATHENS, Greece — Top U.S. and European officials convened earlier this year here to chart a path forward on key defense objectives in a world filled with growing threats to western civilization at the Athens Defense Summit.

World War II’s D-Day landing beaches in northern France and the iconic Mount Olympus in Greece were among the sites added to the World Heritage List on Sunday at a U.N. committee meeting in South Korea reviewing dozens of nominations.

Christopher Nolan’s box office smash ‘The Odyssey’ has inspired members of Gen Z to download editions of the audiobook in record numbers.

WASHINGTON — The top energy official in the Cyprus government told Breitbart News exclusively that President Donald Trump’s engagement on “energy security” is “vital” to the future of the west.

A man stabbed and wounded two tourists Tuesday morning near the ancient Acropolis in Athens, Greece’s top tourist attraction, police said.

Greek anti-terrorist police arrested three people Friday in connection with a series of firebomb attacks against conservative politicians.

A fast-moving wildfire broke out Saturday evening near the suburbs of Thessaloniki, Greece’s second largest city, the country’s fire service said, and residents of three small suburbs north of the city were told to evacuate.

Three pre-dawn firebomb attacks apparently targeting the residences of members of Greece’s governing conservative New Democracy party have left five people hospitalized, authorities said Wednesday.

Police on the Greek island of Crete on Sunday arrested a 37-year-old Palestinian man on suspicion of planning “terrorist” attacks and belonging to the militant group Hamas.

A Greek national was set to appear in court on charges that he helped the intelligence service of a foreign country target a journalist.

HHollywood director Christopher Nolan is being ripped by a Greek-interest publication for not having any Greek actors in his adaptation of The Odyssey.

Giotopoulos was serving 17 life sentences . He was convicted in 2003 for orchestrating multiple murders, bombings and robberies.

DELPHI, Greece — Greek Minister of Environment and Energy Stavros Papastavrou told Breitbart News exclusively here in April that President Donald Trump’s “trademark move” as the leader of the West is to use energy deals to advance American interests with both friends and foes on the world stage.

The glitteriest night of the year in Eurasia and Australia will soon be upon us: the Eurovision Song Contest, a now 70-year-old music extravaganza beloved around the world for its shameless embrace of feather boas, sequins, pyrotechnics, and all brands of kitsch.

Interior Secretary and Chairman of the National Energy Dominance Council Doug Burgum said Monday that American natural gas could move through Europe’s vertical corridor to help allies reduce their dependence on Russian energy and change the geopolitics of the region.

DELPHI, Greece — Qubad Talabani, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq, told Breitbart News exclusively here last month that President Donald Trump can secure a massive deal with Iran that creates a worldwide economic boom and is good for both the United States and Iran in the aftermath of the war between the two countries.

The Greek government has warned that there are over half a million migrants waiting in Libya to cross the Mediterranean and land in Europe, sparking concerns of another migrant crisis.

Greek police said on Tuesday that an 89-year-old man has been taken into custody for a mass shooting in Athens that injured five people.

President Donald Trump praised Greece as a “terrific” ally and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis as a “terrific guy” upon learning that Mitsotakis told Breitbart News he is rooting for him to secure a deal in the Iran war.

Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle defended the United States and President Donald Trump at the Delphi Economic Forum in Greece.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a designated terrorist organization, on Thursday released a video that purportedly showed its forces seizing a civilian ship in the Strait of Hormuz.

DELPHI, Greece — Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told Breitbart News he is pulling for U.S. President Donald Trump to secure a deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran to end hostilities in the Middle East and restore stability to the region, opening the Strait of Hormuz and helping the world’s energy markets recover from the last couple months of “economic fallout.”