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Culture Minister Lina Mendoni was lightly injured in a car accident on Monday morning, state-run news agency ANA-MPA reported.

The accident happened at the corner of Mihalakopoulou and Kerasoundos streets in central Athens, when a vehicle crushed into the minister's car, injuring her and another passenger.

Trade unions that are members of Greece's umbrella private sector union GSEE on Thursday announced that special cleanup crews have been sent to remove posters and other material linked to Wednesday's rally in central Athens, state-run news agency ANA-MPA said.

The unions had participated in a 24-hour strike and rally held on Wednesday at GSEE's recommendation.

A 48-year-old man reportedly confessed to killing a 33-year-old man outside the metro station of Ampelokipi on Monday morning, state-run news agency ANA-MPA reported, citing police sources.

The suspect, identified as a drug user, went to the local police station after the killing and claimed he had been robbed, without providing further details.

A day after one woman was killed and her child was injured in a fire that broke out inside the Moria migrant camp on Lesvos, about 200 women with their children held a sitting protest outside the overcrowded identification center on Monday afternoon.

The visiting heads of institutions' missions agreed after a preliminary look at the Greek state budget that "in general, there is no fiscal gap for 2019," according to sources of the Greek team after the two sides met on Monday.

A large police operation to evacuate a building in downtown Athens squatted mostly by migrant families got underway on Thursday morning, state-run news agency ANA-MPA reported.

Officers entered the building, located at the junction of Sourmeli, Acharnon and Mayer, near Vathi square, shortly after 6 a.m. 

A meeting between Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and US President Donald Trump has been set for September 24, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, state-run news agency ANA-MPA reported on Monday, citing sources.

The governor of the overcrowded reception and identification center in Moria, Lesvos, resigned on Wednesday saying he is "tired," state-run news agency ANA-MPA reported.
Yiannis Balbakakis, who run the overcrowded camp for about three years, is credited with creating "safe zones" to protect unaccompanied underage refugees, women and single-parent families.

A four-year-old girl drowned on the northern Aegean island of Thassos on Wednesday, state-run news agency ANA-MPA reported.

Greek authorities evacuated two villages in southern Corfu on Tuesday, as a wildfire was approaching houses, state-run news agency ANA-MPA reported.